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http://design.canonical.com/2011/03/introducing-overlay-scrollbars-in-unity/ One of our goals in the Unity design effort is maximising immersion in content, and reducing the amount of chrome and clutter needed around that content. Today’s scrollbars are optimized for cursor driven UI but they became easily unnecessary and bulky on touchable and small screen devices. In those cases, optimization of the screen’s real-estate becomes essential.

Introducing Overlay Scrollbars in Unity « Canonical Design

Nielsen Norman Group: usability consulting, training & user research reports

Don Norman has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering . The citation reads "For development of design principles based on human cognition that enhance the interaction between people and technology." http://www.nngroup.com/

useit.com: Jakob Nielsen on Usability and Web Design

Share: Daily Telegraph Apple iPad apps need more consistency, says usability guru (includes 3-minute video where I demo some inconsistencies in iPad apps) BusinessWeek Hardware Is Meaningless. It's About the Apps (a debate about value in the mobile space — my position is that tight integration between hardware and software is what we need) Net@Night Why is Web design still often bad? http://www.useit.com/

Home Page Design Guidelines (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

Jakob Nielsen 's Alertbox, May 12, 2002 Summary: A company's homepage is its face to the world and the starting point for most user visits. Improving your homepage multiplies the entire website's business value, so following key guidelines for homepage usability is well worth the investment. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20020512.html
http://www.useit.com/homepageusability/guidelines.html

113 Design Guidelines for Homepage Usability (Nielsen Norman Group)

Summary: These design guidelines are excerpted from our book Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed which contains more details, including copiously annotated screenshots of 50 homepages. While many of these guidelines can apply to web design in general, they are especially critical to follow when designing your homepage, because the stakes are so high.
http://faculty.washington.edu/jtenenbg/courses/360/f04/sessions/schneidermanGoldenRules.html

Shneiderman's Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design

Shneiderman's "Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design" These rules were obtained from the text Designing the User Interface by Ben Shneiderman. Shneiderman proposed this collection of principles that are derived heuristically from experience and applicable in most interactive systems after being properly refined, extended, and interpreted [9] . To improve the usability of an application it is important to have a well designed interface.
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