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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	As long as I'm talking to myself here- I just found out that back in 2000, Joel Spolsky wrote a book out on the history and elements of UI design. [url=http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/fog0000000249.html]User Interface Design For Programmers (The whole book)[/url] [url=http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000057.html]Chapter 1: Controlling Your Environment Makes You Happy[/url] [url=http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000058.html]Chapter 2: Figuring Out What They Expected[/url] [url=http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000059.html]Chapter 3: Choices[/url] [url=http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000060.html]Chapter 4: Affordances and Metaphors[/url] [url=http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000061.html]Chapter 5: Consistency and Other Hobgoblins[/url] [url=http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000062.html]Chapter 6: Designing for People Who Have Better Things To Do With Their Lives[/url] [url=http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000063.html]Chapter 7: Designing for People Who Have Better Things To Do With Their Lives, Part Two[/url] [url=http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000064.html]Chapter 8: Designing for People Who Have Better Things To Do With Their Lives, Part Three[/url] [url=http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000065.html]Chapter 9: The Process of Designing a Product[/url] I came across this link in the comments of the following Slashdot article: [url=http://slashdot.org/articles/07/11/27/1524224.shtml]The User Experiences Of The Future[/url] Patrick Griffin writes: "The way that we interact with technology is almost as important as what that technology does. Productivity has been improved greatly over the years as we've adapted ourselves and our tools to technological tasks. Just the same, the UI experience of most hardware and software often leaves novice users out in the cold. The site 'Smashing Magazine' has put together a presentation of 'some of the outstanding [url=http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/11/26/monday-inspiration-user-experience-of-the-future/]recent developments in the field of user experience design.[/url] Most techniques seem very futuristic, and are extremely impressive. Keep in mind: they might become ubiquitous over the next years.'" Loading...
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