Re: user-centered design

From: Dan Lester <dan_at_nyob>
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 14:11:46 -0600
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
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  From: "Andrews, Mark J." <MarkAndrews_at_CREIGHTON.EDU>
  To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
  Received: 5/4/2007 8:39:42 AM
  Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] user-centered design


  >Well, yeah.  Stealing from the best, or at least the most successful,
  >have the folks doing usability testing at Google published or presented
  >about their work?

They "publish" the results of their work, they illustrate daily what is successful.  Do we really need any statistical research studies to confirm their results?

  >More importantly, are there examples of UI work where the designers
  >have, ahem, missed the point in too-obvious way?  What are some good BAD
  >examples of UI recently?

Personally, despite being almost a decade old, I still find this book to be a classic.  No, not just UI design, but the principles sure apply.

Main Author: Flanders, Vincent.
Title: Web pages that suck : learn good design by looking at bad design / Vincent Flanders, Michael Willis.

Publisher: San Francisco : Sybex, c1998.
Description: xviii, 266 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm. + 1 computer laser optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
Notes: Includes index.

dan

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Received on Fri May 04 2007 - 14:09:05 EDT