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Trevor,

Reference from the Apple GUI guide (first bullet, in fact):

"Users will learn your application faster if the interface looks and behaves like applications they're already familiar with."

Hmmm. Thank goodness Apple broke their own rule very early on. Otherwise we would be feeding punch cards into our personal computers.... It also begs the question: If this is the first principle of UI design, then shouldn't all applications look like MS Windows applications, since 95% (well, 93.62%) of the computing populace uses Windows? But I digress....

Seriously though, that sentence should read:

"Users will learn your application faster if the interface looks and behaves /similar to other interfaces/ they're already familiar with" (not necessarily other applications, since many applications are designed poorly). Think of a calendar "interface", or a checkbook "interface", they should mimic what the real world version looks like.

Actually, the "Introduction to Apple Human Interface Guidelines" has good stuff for making good UI happen. Thanks for that link. I have it bookmarked even though I think I am too right-brained to use it :-)

Pete


Trevor Perry wrote:
Pete,

Here is the interesting part of that equation. There are HTML monkeys who
know less about UI than our RPG community. HTML programming, itself, still
needs a designer. As you say, you " don't think a programmer should be
designing a UI in a web solution."

HTML is great for organizing text and images, but not that wonderful in
delivering a decent user experience - especially for a business application.
What we need is more "user experience" and "graphic DESIGN" qualified
people.

Or, buy a mac - you learn a lot that way :-)

Trevor



On 9/13/07 8:10 PM, "Pete Helgren" <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

And from IMHO a while back - System i evolution: The missing link is
still missing (Part 2):

"It was recommended very early on that we hire at least two "HTML
Monkeys" (as one programmer called them) to offload the UI to folks with
the proper orientation to UI. That recommendation was never followed but
would have saved countless hours of programmer time. I honestly don't
think a programmer should be designing a UI in a web solution. Period."

Yeah, we should know about it abut never do it.

Pete Helgren


Jon Paris wrote:
Our blog entry this week (http://ibmsystemsmag.blogs.com/idevelop/) was
intended to get try and get people to think about UI design from a different
perspective. A completely different perspective! Although not a million
miles from the kind of thinking that Trevor alluded to in his comments on
RFID tags.

Jon Paris
Partner400

www.Partner400.com





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