Category: User Experience and Interface
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Making an e-book of a richly visual, design-oriented book
Here’s my advice for Stephen Few, who is being urged to create e-books of his great books on information design. [ The urgings appear in comments on his blog post on publishing ] For e-book creation, an author of design-oriented content has to consider several major issues. (Several of these you’ve already mentioned, but I got into…
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Trends in gadget and appliance UI (BBC video)
Check out this BBC video on usability trends in designs of products. Five minute of voiceover, plus sound bites from manufacturers. I was especially interested in: “Nikon has added live animation to [the UI of] some of its newer cameras.” (timepoint 1:30) The Beeb’s text under the video uses extreme phrases to catch attention,…
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User interface humor
I wonder if other philosophical positions could be expressed in a dialog box? Found on Facebook
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Avoiding the “user guide” or “help system”
A primer on user assistance for startups. I think two design choices can help a user learn new software without requiring her to read “documents.” They are: Self-explanatory user interfaces. Video demonstrations. Self-Explanatory UI I see many software interfaces that a few minor tweaks could make more self-explanatory. For example: Carefully written labels. They might…