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Simplicity Principle in User Interfaces

by Vishal Mehta February 26, 2011 Web Design

SIMPLICITY. We saw few examples and points on one of the principles of user interfaces – structure. This features focuses on Simplicity. Why do you need your site to be simple? Site visitors will rarely visit your site to “enjoy” the design. The design should be very transparent and complementary to the content. From the [...]

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Principles of User Interface Design

by Vishal Mehta November 10, 2010 Usability

from the theory of Larry Constantine and Lucy Lockwood in their usage-centered design, the principles are: Structure Principle organize the user interface purposefully make it meaningful and useful based on clear, consistent models apparent and recognizable to users put related things together; separate unrelated things differentiate dissimilar things, make similar things resemble one another Simplicity [...]

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UI a better world.

by Vishal Mehta May 5, 2010 Usability Characteristics

User interface. Imagine if everything in this world were as intuitive as a calculator or an ATM. Training departments and organizations would surely go out of business! Jokes aside, let’s try and extend the concept of UI to other things, by drawing parallels with the principles that UI (good one) uses. Whether “concepts of UI” [...]

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