[openbeos] Re: Patch: Prettifying the default decorator
- From: "Curtis Wanner" <katisu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:18:32 -0500
>I'd be happy to help out and start up a UI think-tank. I think we may
>need to start up a new mailing list, since the openbeos-cdt one seems
>somewhat defunct - I don't even know if I'm part of it at the moment!
First of all, it needs to be clarified that UI Design is NOT graphical design.
When you posted to this list you said something about UI design, but change
colors here and there and creating graphical themes is NOT UI design. UI
design involves understanding the users goals and tasks and helping them
accomplish it in as transparent manner as possible. Graphical design only has
a small part to play, most of UI design involves layout design, hierarchy
considerations, user feedback considerations, etc.
Darkwyrm has some good books listed on his site to read on the matter.
http://darkwyrm.beemulated.net/usability.htm
I'm currently taking a second course on UI Design which uses the Cooper book.
Personally, I'd like to see several of his ideas adapted to Haiku and
applications built for it. A second book that we are using and I recommend is
"Practitioner's Handbook for User Interface Design and Development" by R.J.
Torres. This book covers how the UI Design process should be done.
Curtis
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