test please delete

[realityhack]

or better still, a quick search revealed this - keep your eye on it, it might prove useful

CM - where's your paddle?

[cailin maith]

CM - where's your paddle?

Here you go

[NickFitz]

They can barely afford me, so they definitely can't afford you.



PS - I need a shedload of links and book reccomendations re UI design pronto. Blagged my way into this as my escape route, need to blag my way through the first few months.

Joel Spolsky's User Interface Design for Programmers is good - originally aimed at desktop app developers, but it has the general principles of UI design right. There's an online version, but the dead tree version is about half as big again.

For some good thinking about human factors and usability, have a look at Michael Zuschlag's blog. Warning: there's some pretty deep stuff on there

Specifically on Web UI design: ALA has a number of good articles.

Roger Johansson has written some good stuff on usability - start with this one, then check out the usability category.

I'll post more as and when I remember them

[zeitghost]

<sigh>

It all started going wrong when they did away with toggling in bootstraps....

</sigh>

[DaveB]

Thanks for that.
There's a moderate modicum of murmurings out there on't'internet about UI design, hence seeking reccomendations for the best of 'em. Ta much loike.

I wasn't being quite that facitious

Google's home page is often cited as an excellent example of UI design.

It's clean and simple and immediately recognisable. Funtionality is obvious and intuative. Non-essential functions are clearly marked but do not obscure the core functionality.

Mind you, replacing the "OK" button with "I'm Feeling Lucky" might get you some strange looks

[NickFitz]

I'll post more as and when I remember them

Drew McLellan (next to whom I used to sit at Y! - here's the man himself underneath the PostIt space invader) has been running an Advent calendar for webby folk for the last three years - there's some good articles relating to usability, design and so forth on there.

[cailin maith]

I am surrounded by

[zeitghost]

I am surrounded by

How do you feel?

[NickFitz]

Google's home page is often cited as an excellent example of UI design.

It's clean and simple and immediately recognisable. Funtionality is obvious and intuative. Non-essential functions are clearly marked but do not obscure the core functionality.

They count the words, you know

[NickFitz]

I am surrounded by