UI Patterns and Techniques: Introduction Introduction There's nothing new here. If you've done any Web or UI design, or even thought about it much, you should say, "Oh, right, I know what that is" to most of these patterns. Each of these patterns (which are more general) and techniques (more specific) are intended to help you solve design problems. By the way, when I say "UI," I mean Web sites, desktop applications, and everything in between (Web forms, Flash, applets, etc.). These patterns are intended to be read by people who have some knowledge of UI design concepts and terminology: dialogs, selection, combo boxes, navigation bars, whitespace, branding, and so on. (Many of these patterns were originally written by other people in the field. If you're running short on ideas, or hung up on a difficult design quandary, read over these and see if any of them are applicable. If these are useful to you, please tell me. Jenifer Tidwell jtidwell @ alum.mit.edu
Heroku 22 Things You Don't Know About Your Customers | Internet Ma There are things you don’t know about your customers. It’s not you, it’s them. But you need to figure it out. Here are some hard lessons I’ve learned over the years – they apply to usability, pet peeves and other fun stuff. 1. The most basic principle of usability: It’s hard for folks to read online. 2. Oldest rule of marketing, from way back when we printed on paper and used mail and stuff: Write no more than 4-5 lines in a paragraph. to learn just how little the rules have changed. 3. Reading onscreen is hard. 4. Also know as ‘leading’, wide line spacing makes text easier to read. 5. We are trained to read dark text on a light background. 6. With those nifty mouse wheels, folks stopped getting unhappy about scrolling – it’s no longer a usability issue, unless you create a 5000 word page or some silliness. 7. You can write a list in a paragraph, so that colors look like red, green, blue. Red;Green;Blue. Your audience wants the latter. 8. 9. Seriously. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.
WWWpic2 - A web server in a PIC WWWpic2 is a web server in a Microchip PIC 16F84 . Contents Package The current release is 0.2 See the Changelog for what's changed since the last revision. Notes I recently discovered some non commercial linux 24Cxxx programming code which will shortly mean I can provide external 24C256 eeprom support for page data! Basic Setup Install any necessary tools. Hardware Just a quick disclaimer, you fry something (especially yourself) even if my design is wrong it is your problem! Currently the hardware part of this project has been built on breadboard twice and strip-board, I plan to create a PCB layout as soon as the circuit design is more stable (see future expansion for proposed additions). Parts list and guide prices This is a quick list of parts, it doesn't include the strip-board or PCB nor does it include any cable. Software Please see the package section for the package download of everything you need. The basic structure of the code can be broken down into the following sections Licence
10 Principles Of Effective Web Design | How-To Advertisement Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has become a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. We aren’t going to discuss the implementation details (e.g. where the search box should be placed) as it has already been done in a number of articles; instead we focus on the main principles, heuristics and approaches for effective web design — approaches which, used properly, can lead to more sophisticated design decisions and simplify the process of perceiving presented information. Please notice that you might be interested in the usability-related articles about 10 Usability Nightmares1 and 30 Usability Issues2 we’ve published before,we’ll cover more principles of effective design in our following posts. This article has been translated to Hebrew4. How do users think? 1. 2. 3.
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Good UI Design: Make It Easy, Show Me You Care - ReadWriteWeb When researching FuseCal this morning, one of the things that made it so appealing to try was the fact that you could just enter in a URL and see the service in action right away. No sign-up forms, no logins. This got us thinking about UI design as it applies to today’s web services. Trend #1: Try It Now! An excerpt from an upcoming book by Luke Wroblewski, “Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks,” posted on A List Apart helps to point out the issue with sign-up forms on the web. Instead of forcing users through a dreadful sign-up process when really they just wanted to take a look, he promotes the idea of “gradual engagement.” Luke uses a few examples to make his point: one, Geni, an online family tree creation tool lets users make a family tree as soon as they visit the web site. Geni’s “Sign Up” Process Another example of gradual engagement came from TripIt, a service which lets you plan your trips. Twiddla’s Buttons Trend #2: We Really Care WuFoo’s Support Form Conclusion
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Interface Homme-machine Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Les interactions homme-machine (IHM) définissent les moyens et outils mis en œuvre afin qu'un humain puisse contrôler et communiquer avec une machine. Les ingénieurs en ce domaine étudient la façon dont les humains interagissent avec les ordinateurs ou entre eux à l'aide d'ordinateurs, ainsi que la façon de concevoir des systèmes qui soient ergonomiques, efficaces, faciles à utiliser ou plus généralement adaptés à leur contexte d'utilisation. L'amélioration de l'ergonomie de l'interface homme-machine a notamment pour objectif d'optimiser l'aménagement du poste de travail et de limiter ainsi les risques du travail sur écran (troubles musculosquelettiques, fatigue oculaire, syndrome d'épuisement professionnel, stress, stress numérique...)[1]. Les différentes techniques[modifier | modifier le code] Une IHM ancienne : à chaque mécanisme son contrôle. Informatique[modifier | modifier le code] Organes d'entrée[modifier | modifier le code]
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