October 01, 2003

User Interface Design for Programmers

Useful Slashdot review:
ellenf contributes this review of User Interface Design for Programmers. "Aimed at programmers who don't know much about user interface design and think it is something to fear, Joel Spolsky provides a great primer, with some entertaining and informative examples of good and bad design implementations, including some of the thought process behind the decisions. Spolsky feels that programmers fear design because they consider it a creative process rather than a logical one; he shows that the basic principles of good user interface design are logical and not based on some mysterious, indefinable magic."
But as someone points out in discussion at Slashdot, one of the problems is that programmers often think they are good at interface design. Posted by johndan at October 1, 2003 04:38 PM | TrackBack