From Jakob Nielsen, usability guru. The user's experience should be similar to all other similar applications to minimize learning curve and maximize usability.
lecture notes for the course Programming Graphical User Interfaces (PGUI). The course belongs to the curriculum of the Department of Computer Science in the University of Tampere.
The Unified Modeling Language™ - UML - is OMG's most-used specification, and the way the world models not only application structure, behavior, and architecture, but also business process and data structure.
The Unified Modeling Language has quickly become the de-facto standard for building Object-Oriented software. This tutorial provides a technical overview of the 13 UML.
to research and develop software that contributes to compelling and effective social interactions, with a focus on user-centered design processes and rapid prototyping.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a fantastic tool to add layout to your websites. It can save you a lot of time and it enables you to design websites in a completely new way. CSS is a must for anyone working with web design.
Why is transforming furniture so alluring? What if you could simply reuse packaging as part of a product rather than sending away for disposal or recycling? Flat pack furniture is exactly what it sounds like: furniture that starts out entirely as sheets
MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab -- a low-cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and analog tools. It's a simple idea with powerful results:
How to create applications that look right, behave properly, and fit into the GNOME user interface as a whole, covers specific advice on making effective use of interface elements, and the philosophy and general design principles behind GNOME interface.
The Smileys(Emoticons) are used very often in the sentences of e-mails. They started in USA where the internet had also started of course. In Japan, the Smileys(Emoticons) grew in different manner from U.S.A. Now, there are several kinds of them.
First introduced by George Spafford in this article, the law states that the more the user is presented with false or erroneous alerts, the more they will ignore real alerts in the system.
Inspired by Phil Haack’s article 19 Eponymous Laws of Software Development, Joey deVilla decided to collect laws, axioms and rules pertaining to mainstream software development and put them in a nice, easy-to-read table.
by Jason - Color theory, "Four primary colors? Yes, why not? It’s the closest thing to the actual physiology without getting complex." (some pertinent info here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2166494)
Biomimicry & Taxonomy. "Nature's elegant solutions to building challenges include the Scots pine's adaptive growth, the thorny devil's passive water collection, and a leaf's on-site energy production. AskNature can help you solve your design challenges. "
