This and the next article will deal with some of the theory behind quality user interfaces. This first article will cope with general concepts applicable to any interface, not only graphical ones. In the second article, we will see some details of ... Next article: The Theory Behind User Interface Design, Part Two;
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With the term GUI, we denote here any kind of user interface that makes use of graphics features. This is rather different from the academic meaning of the term. ... Previous article: The Theory Behind User Interface Design, Part One;
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If your development team suffers from the delusional peanut butter theory of user interface design, perhaps they should find time to read through Task-Centered User Interface Design, too.
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How do you make things easy to learn? ... This paper provides an overview to cognitive load theory and its role in guiding user interface design. Its purpose is to:
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Check out the archives of the 3DUI mailing list (1998-present), and join if you’re not a member.  Download course notes, or browse the contents of 3D User Interfaces: Theory and Practice. ... Devoted to the design and evaluation of three-dimensional user interface...
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Task-Centered User Interface Design is a 1993 book delivered in digital shareware form, and also available as a PDF. Although it's almost fifteen years old, it's still highly relevant-- a testament to the timelessness of studying human interface design principles.
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Developing Discourse-action Theory for User Interface Design ... The information and perceived affordances supplied by the user interface are seen as a vital contribution to usability in theories of display based cognition (Norman 1988, Kieras and Meyer 1997, Kitajima and Polson 1997), while research in distributed...
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THE THEORY BEHIND USER INTERFACE DESIGN ... Designing a user interface may seem a simple and side aspect of the whole application; in fact it is, perhaps, the most important part of the whole system. Despite our focus on software systems, many of the considerations exposed here can be applied to any human artifact intended...
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The article introduces a framework for users' design quality judgments based on Adaptive Decision Making theory. ... Marc Hassenzahl, The thing and I: understanding the relationship between user and product, Funology: from usability to enjoyment, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 2005...
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