Interesting notes on user interface design

[Updated Mar 5, 2017]

I've been bookmarking these notes on UX design. Some of them are worth reading over and over. Well, ideally they should be applied but I'm a server-side engineer. So, the most I can do is identify applications of these concepts in the tools and devices I use:

• 5 Interface Laws Every Software Designer Should Know 
• Fundamental Design Principles – For People Who Can't Design Good 
• Ten Laws to Design By 
• 14 Golden Eggs of Good UI Design 
• Design Principles 
• Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design 
• Class notes on The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
• iOS Human Interface Guidelines (Ahem.."The" UX bible) 
• 5 Secrets of Apple’s UX Design
• Principles of user interface design
• 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design - Jakob Nielsen

Some old notes I had made earlier (also read the links in the comments) - #1, #2.

Until next time!
Ashwin.

Definition: Weird - When you see Google presenters at Google IO touting Macbooks and talking about building and using Android.

Some books I read, mostly sci-fi and mostly average

Wireless by Charles Stross
Short stories. Some were good. Some too dry, felt like filler - meandering time travel stories with no plot.

Line War (Agent Cormac 5) by Neal L. Asher
Interesting. Some intrigue. Read like the Silver Surfer meets powerful AIs. Last book in the Ian Cormac saga.

The Fifth Head of Cerberus: Three Novellas by Gene Wolfe
Surreal, feverish, strange, slightly disjoint, even satisfying at first a but mildly disappointing ending.

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials) by Robert B. Cialdini
A brief distraction from Sci-Fi. I bought the book after watching his interview on Youtube. Not a bad read.

Marooned in Realtime (Peace War) by Vernor Vinge
Takes post apocalyptic novel to a new level. Pretty impressive time scales, although a bit sad and disappointing in the end.

Duplicate Effort: A Retrieval Artist Novel (Retrieval Artist Novels) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Average. Beginner writer. Starts off in a mildly interesting, vintage Asimov type of setting but the writer's inexperience shows.

Courtship Rite by Donald Kingsbury
Couldn't finish it. Waste of time.



Ashwin.