August 16, 2004

When is a UI well-designed?

Now, I know I've talked about this before, but I ran across the link today while searching for something else. It's chapter 1 of a book by Joel Spolsky, called User Interface Design for Programmers. In this book, he sums up perfectly how to measure success with any user interface. (Or any web-application, etc... This axiom has broad-reaching powers.)

A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.

It's just a perfect axiom.

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