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
