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Posting Date: August 22, 2002
 

Tim's User Interface Guidelines -- "The following concepts have served me well in my job as an interaction designer/visual designer. While this is a short, general list, if you understand and can articulate these concepts to others through your information design, architecture and visual design efforts, the web could be a very different place than it is today." (Comments: These guidelines were originally posted in December, 1999. That gets me thinking. How immutable are the laws of usability? Are they immutable at all? Technology changes all the time, but humans don't. At least at their core, as a group. For example, one hundred and eighty-four years ago, people still had to poop. Oh wait, nevermind, there are no laws of usability.)

 

  

Reader Comments...
 

Learn the difference between the words intuitable and intuitive.
Amen to that Brother (See Also: Intuitive Equals Familiar)

We need to re-discover the same things over and over again in different contexts. Only then can we differentiate the 'truthful laws' from the flim flam.

Posted by: Mac on August 22, 2002 07:37 AM

 

This page violates rules 1, 23, and 147 of Jack's Usability Guidelines. #1 Unresizeable text. #23 No in-site navigation. #147 Bad use of flowers. Buy my reports for more information.

Posted by: Jack - Usability Daemon on August 22, 2002 11:17 AM

 

I liked Tim's use of the principles of gestalt psychology as a way of helping you organise an interface. This could be a useful new 'thought tool'.

Nice one, Tim.

Sherlock

Posted by: sherlock on August 23, 2002 04:03 AM

 

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