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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote] [b]Petskull said:[/b] I just found out that back in 2000, Joel Spolsky wrote a book out on the history and elements of UI design. User Interface Design For Programmers (The whole book) [/quote] This book is sitting on my desk as we (rather I) speak - the 4 hours it took me to read were one of my most well-spent work time for a very long time. The link you provided is interesting too -- well, it will be interesting to see which ones of those devices/interfaces really take off. I think the main lesson to take out of this all is that every single of these examples are a huge effort towards making the computer model match the user model -- which is the only way to make a good user interface (a concept that is so well introduced and described in Joel's first and second chapter). This is probably the single most important rule I had never really grasped, and certainly the most useful to me in my process of learning about UIs and UX. Now [quote] [b]Petskull said:[/b] As long as I'm talking to myself here- [/quote] This may apply to me too, but if you want to go on with the discussion, I would be more than happy to do so. Loading...
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