Dashboard-InfoCaptor Development
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Principles of User Interface Design
1. The principle of user profiling-- Know who your user is.
2. The principle of metaphor -- Borrow behaviors from systems familiar to your users.
3. The principle of feature exposure -- Let the user see clearly what functions are available
4. The principle of coherence-- The behavior of the program should be internally and externally consistent
5. The principle of state visualization -- Changes in behavior should be reflected in the appearance of the program
6. The principle of shortcuts-- Provide both concrete and abstract ways of getting a task done
7. The principle of focus-- Some aspects of the UI attract attention more than others do
9. The principle of help-- Understand the different kinds of help a user needs
10. The principle of safety-- Let the user develop confidence by providing a safety net
11. The principle of context-- Limit user activity to one well-defined context unless there's a good reason not to
12. The principle of aesthetics-- Create a program of beauty
13. The principle of user testing-- Recruit help in spotting the inevitable defects in your design
14. The principle of humility-- Listen to what ordinary people have to say
Read the complete article at http://www.sylvantech.com/~talin/projects/ui_design.html
Steps to create a brand
Another interesting article http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/edition6/wow_branding.asp
What is a brand ?
Here is an interesting survey of branding history.
http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/edition6/gw.asp
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Creating your Reality: New book by Anne
Anne, has released her book absolutley free of cost. Its a must read..
http://www.astralvoyage.com/page1.html
Heading towards finish line
In a long journey, some times all you can see is the finish line. Yes, developing InfoCaptor has been a long journey and as of now it seems to be very near to the finish line. Major features have been added since the last update. Now the vLets can be scrolled if the qLets go off the screen. Each column in the qLet can be customized based on color, font and width. Still custom formatting of Date and Number needs to be done. Still Drill to detail, output generation, testing, key generation, web site, bugs... oops the list is still pretty big.
