“Starting from the position that nothing helps clarify good UI design better than examining bad UI design, we’re launching suspect device as a place to do just that — with the caveat that nobody involved has any professional background in industrial design, interface design, or anything of the sort. What we are, quite simply, is people who use stuff.”
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“Andy King, editor of this fine newsletter, contacted me [Louis Rosenfeld] recently with what he thought was a reasonable question. Knowing me as an information architect with librarian roots, he wondered if I could help him find a basic vocabulary of Internet and technology-related terms. He was hoping to use these terms to better organize and label WebReference’s content. Andy had looked at both Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal subject headings (remember them from your library’s card catalogs?) and found them wanting for his purposes. So he asked me if I could recommend a quick-and-dirty alternative. What happens when you ask an information architect a simple question? You get a long and complicated answer.”
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“Starting from the position that nothing helps clarify good UI design better than examining bad UI design, we’re launching suspect device as a place to do just that — with the caveat that nobody involved has any professional background in industrial design, interface design, or anything of the sort. What we are, quite simply, is people who use stuff.”
“Generating ideas for graphical user interfaces isn’t like anything else in software design or development. There are no simple, foolproof guidelines; neither are there any structuring paradigms that lead to any sort of true enlightenment. It requires a disparate set of skills, including software engineering, graphic design, and psychology, but the mere assemblage of the necessary talent and skill (not likely to occur in one person) is insufficient for success.”
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