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Can anyone recommend good readings on the principles (and perhaps practices) of good interface design?
My students are creating a single-screen web interface made of photos and text; users click on what appeals and are taken to that content. They then are presented with another interface that lets them make subsequent selections.
I'd like to give them something shorter than a book, although I'd be interested in book recs, too.
I'd appreciate any suggestions -- thanks!
Jeremy Boggs
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User Interface Engineering has some great articles on UX design. Jared Spool runs this firm. You might also check A List Apart and Boxes and Arrows; both are good places to find articles on UX.
I've got a Zotero collection on Usability in the Digital Humanities that might have some useful stuff. Some books I'd recommend include:
I think Bruce Tognazzini provides a useful checklist here:
http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html
For books, a few classics on interface design are:
Mullet, Kevin and Darrell Sano. Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication oriented techniques. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: SunSoft Press (Prentice Hall), 1995.
Shneiderman, B. and C. Plaisant. Designing the User Interface (4th Edition), Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, 2004.
Raskin, Jef. The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems. NY: Addison-Wesley, 2000.
Sharp, Helen, Yvonne Rogers, and Jenny Preece. Interaction Design: Beyond Human-computer Interaction. 2nd Edition. NY: John Wiley and Sons, 2007.
I also really like the first half of:
Winograd, T. and Flores, F. Understanding computers and cognition: a new foundation for design. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Pub. Corp, 1986.
As the risk of being crazy self serving, I would recommend my co-authored (with Jeff Siarto) Head First Web Design (O'Reilly 2008). It is a "true" web design book - focusing on principles of design and usability, as opposed to just HTML & CSS markup (though, there is a little markup in the book, just not the focus). Maybe not strictly an "interface design" book per se....but still relevant
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