Invisible Details of Interaction Design
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Invisible Details of Interaction Design
But what makes an interface successful? Beyond speed of performance, cohesive information sequences and anticipation of the human context and need, designing an experience that hopes to create feeling can only be done with feeling. The difference between good and bad becomes a matter of who can bring to bear greater focus and knowhow within the pro... See more
The matter of taste — Callum Flack Design & Development
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Design is concerned with how things work, how they are controlled, and the nature of the interaction between people and technology. When done well, the results are brilliant, pleasurable products. When done badly, the products are unusable, leading to great frustration and irritation. Or they might be usable, but force us to behave the way the prod
... See moreDon Norman • The Design of Everyday Things
Wildenhaus’s description has stayed with me because it reflects how the best software products aren’t just assemblages of functionality ,exposed by particular formal elements (links, buttons, icons, menus). Rather, they organize and shape how you think, and they create or sustain a particular lifestyle:
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
As I noted earlier, the ideal instrumental interface for any task or problem is a magic button that can (1) read the user’s mind perfectly to understand the desired task, and (2) perform it instantly and completely to the desired specifications.
In absence of such a perfect button, you, the designer, must conceive of the closest possible approximati... See more
In absence of such a perfect button, you, the designer, must conceive of the closest possible approximati... See more
Instrumental interfaces, engaged interfaces | thesephist.com
“Two of the most important characteristics of good design are discoverability and understanding.”
― Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things
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Good design at its core is about understanding people and their needs in order to create the best possible tools for them.
Julie Zhuo • The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
the best software products aren’t just assemblages of functionality, exposed by particular formal elements (links, buttons, icons, menus). Rather, they organize and shape how you think, and they create or sustain a particular lifestyle