Interface Design
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The Interface Hall of Shame is an irreverent collection of common interface design mistakes. Our hope is that by highlighting these problems, we can help developers avoid making similar mistakes. We are constantly searching for examples of design practices that are worthy of extinction, and those worthy of emulation (see the Interface Hall of Fame ). Submit your own nominations for potential entries into either hall to feedback@iarchitect.com , and we'll try to add it to the collection. Selecting the wrong control for a task or changing the way controls operate can often result in an inefficient and frustrating application. Nobody likes a stupid computer.
Interface Hall of Shame
When Microsoft's Visual Basic 5.0 first starts, it thoughtfully provides a tabbed dialog that quickly allows you to start a new project, open an existing project, or open a recently used project. The dialog provides a nice starting point for a new user, and is a welcome change from previous versions of the product that always started by loading a skeleton framework for a new project. This latter behavior entailed a considerable waste of time, since the user will most likely ignore the skeleton and work on an existing project (he or she would have to wait for two projects to load: the skeleton, and the desired, existing project). We do have one complaint about the dialog however: on the Recent tab, we would have preferred that the entire row be highlighted when selecting a project.
Interface Hall of Fame
Information Design Patterns
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Well-formed data » Elastic lists
It is a demonstration of the “elastic list” principle for browsing multi-facetted data structures. Click any number of list entries to query the database for a combination of the selected attributes. If you create an “impossible” configuration, your selection will be reduced until a match is possible. The example data is based on the Noble prize winners dataset used in the Flamenco facet browser . Elastic lists enhance traditional facet browsing approaches by • visualizing relative proportions (weights) of metadata values by size • visualizing unusualness of a metadata weight by brightness • and animated filtering transitions.UI-patterns.com
Written by toxboe on Dec 4, 2011 The profession of improving usability asks how we best help our users fulfill their goals. The goal and task orientation of usability is carved into stone in the ISO standard definition for what usability is. There is however a part of the usability profession that can’t be concerned with a clear goal.
The Designing Social Interfaces patterns wiki is a companion site to the book that Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone are currently writing for O'Reilly Media. We decided to share the patterns as we write the patterns and the book to get community feedback. We think that hearing a variety of opinions about these topics will make the material stronger and more representative of what's happening in social interfaces. As we complete sections of the book, we will be adding the patterns. If you choose to contribute, we ask that you don't delete sections out right, but rather add your information with attribution.
