Interface Design Tenets for Beautiful Design

1. Juhan’s Weight vs Freq of Sex

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

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

5. Data Let data scream Reality Bites 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 • • • • • • • • • • • • • INTERFACE DESIGN TENETS

6. Let data scream

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

8. Clear, data-dense display NYTimes

10. 38%

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

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

13. What interface?

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

15. Repeat customers ROCK

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

18. Bitch! Loud and often Rescue Time

19. Health Open source Energy Voting

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

22. Data Let data scream Reality Bites 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 • • • • • • • • • • • • • INTERFACE DESIGN TENETS

23. interfacedesigntenets.wikia.org Juhan Sonin [email_address] BE A CO-AUTHOR Chris Johnson Paul Kroft Mike Nosal Jenn Reed Harry Sleeper Juhan Sonin Brian Staats