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[udig-devel] Good books on usability
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I'd like to share the following titles of excellent books on usability:
* Envisioning Information [Edward Tufte]. A beautiful book (with pop-ups!)
* About Face [Alan Cooper]. Mostly about what's wrong with Windows,
but there are some gems.
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 20:28:22 -0400, cholmes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<cholmes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > Quoting Jonathan Aquino <jonathan.aquino@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > "uDig ... will ... make viewing, editing, and printing data ...
> > simple
> > for ordinary computer users." [uDig Requirements]
> >
> >
> > Call me a dreamer, but wouldn't it be great if the uDig GUI were as
> > polished and friendly as PhotoShop? Editing data could be ... fun!
> > (http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/overview.html)
> >
> > May its user interface not become like the very user unfriendly GIMP
> > (aptly named) (http://www.wpdfd.com/editorial/wpd0504review.htm)
>
> I think if that's a serious goal then you really need to hire a
> full-time user interface designer from the start. My friend is a UI
> designer at Adobe, he was lead UI on Album and he's moving to co-lead
> UI on Photoshop right now. Photoshop employs 4 people full time just
> to _think_ about the UI, and a large engineering team that's committed
> to implemented exactly what they come up with.
>
> There's a decent blog on open source problems with user interface
> design:
> http://daringfireball.net/2004/04/spray_on_usability
>
> He basically says that open source UI suffers because for the most part
> it's an after thought, to be really good it needs to be designed for at
> the start, indeed it needs to drive development.
>
> Chris
>
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