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... to remember are:
1. Design for people who can't read.
2. Design for people who can't use a mouse.
3. Design for people who have such bad memories they would forget their own name ... This is a principle called design
for extremes. Don't design something that can only be read in daylight: design it to be read
in dim light, too. Don't design somethi...
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...
A user interface is well designed when the program model conforms to the
user model.
That's it. Almost all good user interface design comes down to bringing the program model
and the user ... the designers' responsibility to make these choices for them so that they
don't have to. It is the height of arrogance for a software designer to inflict a choice lik...
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... could get it to work.
Figure 5- 1: Windows' unloved briefcase
A metaphor badly chosen is worse than no metaphor at all. Unfortunately, desktop user
interface designers feel that they're ... dynamically. For example,
look closely at the Preferences dialog from Netscape Navigator shown in
Figure 4-8.
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Chapter 5: Broken Metaphors
Overview
Remember the briefcase fr...
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how hard we try, we're designing for who we think the user is, and that means, sadly, that
we're design...
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... back row. For an illustration of this, see
Figures 5- 8a through 5- 8d.
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Figure 5- 8
Those Pesky Navigation Tabs
Tabs seem to be pretty popular on Web pages, too. Look at Figure 5- 9, the ... numbers, but I believe it was something like one or
two programs for the average DOS user versus twelve programs for a Mac user. Because all
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In Chapter 4, I talked about ho...
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...
When you design user interfaces, it's a good idea to keep two principles in mind:
1. Users don't have the manual, and if they did, they wouldn't read it.
2. In fact, users can't ... things.
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Look closely at your program's user interface and give us all a break. Pretend that we are
gorillas or maybe smart orangutans and that we have trouble with the m...
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...
Imaginary Users
The best UI designers in the industry may bicker among themselves, but they all agree on
one thing: you have to invent and describe some imaginary users before you can design
your ...
Obviously, designing software for Pete is quite different from designing software for Patricia,
who, in turn, is quite different from Mike, a sixteen-year-old who runs Linux at home,...
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... set up the payroll for my new company. I have four
people to pay, and the payroll company has set me up with a Web-based interface in which I
enter payroll information. This interface has a suctionlike ... prepare a list of instructions for the user. For example, if you
were usability testing an Internet access provider, you might have an instruction to "sign up
for the s...
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... means which.
The general rule for how to use color was best stated by Web designer Diane Wilson:
" ;Design in black and white. Add color for emphasis, when your design is
complete."
Strange ... yellow, manila, and blue. I decided to use one color for clients,
one color for employees, one color for receipts, and the fourth color for everything else.
Outrageously s...
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... wipe up the tea before it ruins another keyboard. Frustrating, huh?
Most designers of email-on-the-Web interfaces are aware of this time lag, and they've
compensated for it by putting ... out for when you design for the Web:
time delay and the limitations of HTML.
On the Web, Nobody Knows You're on the Moon
One of the biggest restrictions in designing for the Web is...
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