Re: UKNM: Human Computer Interface

[Phil Barrett]

Hi, Dug.


There are some solid lsist of rules out there...


Jakob Nielsen's declarations of all that is right and good (perhaps)...

http://www.useit.com


There's also the slightly strange Brighton Patterns Collection

http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/cil/usability/patterns/


Or there's the entire list of anything anyone has ever said about

usability...

http://www.usableweb.com/


But you can make lists of do's and don'ts until you're blue in the face. The

only way you can really know if the particular combination of interface

elements and design elements and explanatory text is really going to give

you a world-class product is by sitting users down in front of it, watching

what they do and listening to what they say.


Would you launch a car without letting people test drive it? Would you write

code without letting the programmer run it to see if it does what it's meant

to?  'Course not!  So why launch a user interface without putting users in

front of it first?


--Phil Barrett--

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>

> Date: Fri,  1 Sep 2000 18:26:39 +0100

>

From: Dug Falby <dugpumpernickle [dot] net>

> Subject: Re: UKNM: Human Computer Interface

>

>

On 1/9/00 at 11:10, Terry [dot] Cawkwellnpbs [dot] co [dot] uk wrote:

> >

> > Our Head of IT came out with the remark ' You obviously didn't study

> > the Human Computer Interface', I did.

> >

> > I won't say what I thought.

> >

> > Can anyone on the list help with some useful sources of information of

> what

> > works best and are there any hard and fast rules?

> >

>

> Mmmmm...

>

> Is it just me, or isn't that a big part of what we do for a living ;-)

>

> squeezes,

> d



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