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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
Show Up, Suit Up, Shut Up, and Follow Directions
dan_at_riverofdata.com
Dan Lester, Boise, Idaho, USA
Received on Fri May 04 2007 - 14:09:05 EDT