Timeline for Where can I find inspiration for a good user interface?
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| Nov 22, 2011 at 15:20 | comment | added | TMN | @BryanOakley: Agreed, I was hoping to address the "inspiration" side of the question. Tufte's book doesn't offer much concrete advice for UI design, except for the exhortation to avoid "chartjunk" and "ducks". | |
| Nov 22, 2011 at 13:55 | comment | added | Bryan Oakley | All right then... If I could chang my original comment I would change it to "... good book for someone without many UI design skills....?". Maybe that's still too harsh, but my point is that, in my opinion, Tufte is a bit heavy for someone looking for practical advice about GUI design. | |
| Nov 22, 2011 at 13:27 | comment | added | Michael Riley - AKA Gunny | @TMN - Thank you, I agree with you, I do not want to just stick labels and text boxes on a screen. The proof of concept phase has come and gone, I know it works. Now, it's time to take the UI to the next level. | |
| Nov 22, 2011 at 13:27 | comment | added | Michael Riley - AKA Gunny | @Bryan - My product is 20 years old, has gone from DOS to Windows. It still sells but is outdated. | |
| Nov 22, 2011 at 2:21 | comment | added | TMN | @BryanOakley: He said he first designed the screen for a screen resolution of 640x480, that has to be several years ago, so I doubt he's a beginner. And he gave no indication that the UI was simple (or that it wasn't). I was just relating some resources that helped me when I started really designing UIs, instead of just sticking a bunch of text boxes and labels on the screen. | |
| Nov 22, 2011 at 2:15 | comment | added | TMN | @CapeCodGunny: The things that really stick with me are his deconstruction of typical presentation styles, reducing them to the barest essentials (ch. 6) and the section on "graphical integrity". | |
| Nov 22, 2011 at 1:21 | comment | added | Bryan Oakley | Do you honestly think that's a good book for a beginner to come up with a simple UI design? I don't. It's a valuable book, but it's a bit like suggesting they learn about opening a restaurant when all they want to do is bake a batch of cookies. | |
| Nov 22, 2011 at 0:34 | comment | added | Michael Riley - AKA Gunny | What is one of the most useful things you discovered from Tufte's book? How did it change your thinking? | |
| Nov 21, 2011 at 19:21 | history | answered | TMN | CC BY-SA 3.0 |