Designing interfaces

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1. hypertextheroDec 2023
   The following will give you a good understanding of UI design.

   Number 3, Designing Interfaces, has a coherent set of principles.

   1. [Don’t Make Me Think](https://sensible.com/dont-make-me-think/)

   2. [The Design of Everyday Things](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things)

   3. [Designing Interfaces, 3rd Edition](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-interfaces-3r...)

   4. [Nielsen Norman Group Interaction Design: 3-Day Course](https://www.nngroup.com/courses/interaction-design-3-day-cou...)

   5. [Apple Human Interface Guidelines](https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...)

   6. [A Dao of Web Design](https://alistapart.com/article/dao/)

   7. [Usability Testing](https://www.nngroup.com/courses/usability-testing/)

   It’s important to practice, not just read. The term is “dogfooding”.

   https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Getting_start...

   Finally, probably first of all, it’s worth thinking about whether your user interface is harmful to the people using it, and changing if so:

   https://www.deceptive.design/

   https://www.humanetech.com/key-issues

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2. danybittelMar 2021
   I've been designing a complex desktop application.. there's not that much info out there. I found these helpful:

   Designing the Win95: https://socket3.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/designing-windows-9...

   Also the final design guides: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/courses/ICS104/course-notes/M...

   A (really old) book: https://www.amazon.com/About-Face-Essentials-Interaction-Des...

   Another book: https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Interfaces-Patterns-Effecti...

   Oddly enough these are all ancient. There hasn't been much innovation in that space though. (apart from High Dpi and Dark Mode)

   Blender recently did a redesign of their UI, they have lot's of discussions about their rationale.

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3. shaki-doraDec 2018
   There’s a book specifically applying the “pattern pattern” to UX, namely Jennifer Tidwell’s Designing Interfaces (O’Reilly)

   It’s 10 years old or so by now, but has held up better than most technical books of its age.

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4. nateweissDec 2018
   I like "Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design" by Jenifer Tidwell. Less of an instruction book, more of a catalogue of how you might (or might not) present some given type of information. Good for browsing through when you're feeling you haven't hit the right organizational approach/metaphor for the task at hand.

   https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449379702

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5. matt4077May 2017
   Funny to see Jennifer Tidwell's Designing Interfaces mentioned here. It's an excellent resource–not just for its specific content, but also in the problem/pattern system is uses. (and it's an excellent antidote against the common believe that designers just care about making things 'pretty' and have no understanding of data or technology)
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6. sixdimensionalOct 2016
   It's a little dated (is it sad that 2006 is "dated"?), but I still find "Designing Interfaces" by Jenifer Tidwell (it's an O'Reilly book) helpful once in a while for basic UI/interaction thoughts.
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