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Details That Make Interfaces Feel Better

A collection of details that make your interfaces feel better.

Interface Experimentation | Projects

This page indexes the files currently present in interface-experiments.

Web Interface Guidelines

Guidelines for building great interfaces on the web. Covers interactions, animations, layout, content, forms, performance & design.

QuickRef.ME - Quick Reference Cheat Sheet

Share quick reference and cheat sheet for developers

userinterface.wiki

A living manual for better interfaces. Learn design principles, motion, typography, and more.

GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface gallery

GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface gallery

Let’s invent new interfaces, not new products

Posted on Thursday 25 Feb 2021. 507 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.

Web Interface Guidelines

A non-exhaustive list of details that make a good web interface.

Interfaces › Design Engineering Magazine

Interfaces is a design engineering magazine about building great interfaces that covers topics such as animation, typography, layout and color.

Open M8 Tips Tricks and Findings

Open M8 Tips Tricks and Findings Various things we’ve discovered, or really handy info pulled from the meetup videos, web forums, etc, that aren't necessarily documented in the manual. I’d like to keep this document focused on useful, utilitarian tricks you can use when working specifically w...

Sikuli: using GUI screenshots for search and automation

Usability is one of the factors that determines the success of a software system. Aiming to improve it’s usability, it is necessary to evaluate the interfaces using scientific evaluation methods, like questionnaires. Often the results of these ...

10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design

Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design. They are called "heuristics" because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines.

Docs as Code: The Best Guide for Technical Writers

Recently, my work has involved writing a lot of documentation and. Doing this has introduced me to...

Steven Vandevelde (@tokono.ma)

So cool that I can just generate this interface without interfering with the rest of the software.

Is paper safer? The role of paper flight strips in air traffic control

Air traffic control is a complex, safety-critical activity, with well-established and successful work practices. Yet many attempts to automate the existing system have failed because controllers remain attached to a key work artifact: the paper flight strip. This article describes a four-month intensive study of a team of Paris en-route controllers in order to understand their use of paper flight strips. The article also describes a comparison study of eight different control rooms in France and the Netherlands. Our observations have convinced us that we do not know enough to simply get rid of paper strips, nor can we easily replace the physical interaction between controllers and paper strips.These observationshighlight the benefits of strips, including qualities difficult to quantify and replicate in new computer systems. Current thinking offers two basic alternatives: maintaining the existing strips without computer support and bearing the financial cost of limiting the air traffic, or replacing the strips with automated versions, which offer potential benefits in terms of increased efficiency through automation, but unknown risks through radical change of work practices. We conclude with a suggestion for a third alternative: to maintain the physical strips, but turn them into the interface to the computer. This would allow controllers to build directly upon their existing, safe work practices with paper strips, while offering them a gradual path for incorporating new computer-based functions. Augmented paper flight strips allow us to take advantage of uniquely human skills in the physical world, and allows us to leave the user interface and its subsequent evolution in the hands of the people most responsible, the air traffic controllers themselves.