A short session (~30 minutes) for Carsonified's FOWA Tour. Application design is about the experience: allowing users to perform specific tasks quickly and easily. When this is done correctly, the interface becomes transparent — users only notice your application's interface when it gets in their way. By taking cues from the world of product design, and testing with real people throughout the design process, we can create interfaces that users never even notice.

1. Making Your
Interface Invisible
Leeds, May 2009
Dan Rubin
Sidebar Creative

2. Making Your Interface Invisible Leeds, May 2009
Hi!
Dan Rubin
superfluousbanter.org
@danrubin
Me, according to nGen works @ http://happywebbies.com/
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Web
Standards
Creativity
by Dan Rubin
(and 9
other guys)
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Pro CSS
Techniques
by Jeff Croft
Ian Lloyd
Dan Rubin
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What is an
invisible
interface?
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“Invisible”
doesn’t mean
“not there.”
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“The better the
design, the more
invisible It
becomes.”
— Jared M. Spool
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“What makes a
design visible is
the frustration it
brings.”
— Jared M. Spool
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Designing for
Intuition.
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Focus on the
Experience.
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Mimic
physical
interfaces.
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Photo: Pascal Montsma (http://www.sxc.hu/photo/230015)
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Photo: Ivaylo Georgiev (http://www.sxc.hu/photo/426359)
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If your
interface needs
instructions...
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Redesign it.
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Intuitive
interfaces are
invisible.
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Learn from
the desktop.
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vs.
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Be consistent.
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Be Consistent:
Navigational
elements.
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Be Consistent:
Button style
and placement.
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Be Consistent:
Cursor
treatments.
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26. Making Your Interface Invisible Leeds, May 2009
Resources
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Virtual
Great Designs Should Be Experienced and Not Seen –
Jared M. Spool
http://www.uie.com/articles/experiencedesign/
Physical
Don’t Make Me Think – Steve Krug
The Design of Everyday Things – Donald Norman
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28. Making Your Interface Invisible Leeds, May 2009
fin.
slideshare.net/danrubin
twitter: @danrubin
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