04 Juhan Sonin -- igbos e_

Slide 1: Juhan’s Weight vs Freq of Sex

Slide 3: lots of books on design guidelines, apis, usability, forms, css...

Slide 4: We need an INTERFACE DESIGN field guide. for the craftsman less words, more visuals real examples free constantly evolving <100 pages

Slide 5: INTERFACE Data DESIGN • Let data scream • Reality Bites TENETS Feedback Prototype like crazy • Pixel Perfect • Bitch! Loud and often • Eat your own dog food • Date your users • Layout • Grid it • Type less + less type • Color carefully Interaction • What interface? • Repeat customers ROCK • Deja vu all over again

Slide 6: am e r sc ta a d t e L

Slide 7: Just say no. Ink and lines scream Data disappears Low data-to-ink ratio

Slide 8: Clear, data-dense display NYTimes

Slide 10: 38%

Slide 11: http://regex.info/i/LightroomIchigo.jpg

Slide 12: Fake data = fake design Use real data Ban Lorem Ipsum Text is Interface Don’t fake it

Slide 13: What interface?

Slide 14: What interface? Manipulate the data, not the interface Over time, you don’t notice the interface

Slide 15: Repeat customers ROCK

Slide 16: Make a service ROCK: 1 st for the repeat, more experienced user, 2 nd for the novice, and finally 3 rd for inexperienced users. you want experienced users to: • tell their friends about it • demand other services to hook into it • make their work products better • make users happy (by being efficient) • purchase upgrades, future products

Slide 17: Bitch! Loud and often Users’ voice is a part of Design ... whether you like it or not. Learn to bitch Learn to listen

Slide 18: Bitch! Loud and often

Slide 19: Health Voting Open source Energy

Slide 20: Interface to Energy Out of sight, out of mind photo by Adventure Ken

Slide 22: INTERFACE Data DESIGN • Let data scream • Reality Bites TENETS Feedback Prototype like crazy • Pixel Perfect • Bitch! Loud and often • Eat your own dog food • Date your users • Layout • Grid it • Type less + less type • Color carefully Interaction • What interface? • Repeat customers ROCK • Deja vu all over again

Slide 23: BE A CO-AUTHOR interfacedesigntenets.wikia.org Juhan Sonin Chris Johnson Paul Kroft juhan@limesurvey.org Mike Nosal Jenn Reed Harry Sleeper Juhan Sonin Brian Staats