I know this is somewhat OT, but felt that many would enjoy an article I came across via a newsletter. It gave me much to think about and is a side of application development that a lot of the time is shrugged off with a "Well, if it happens to turn out that way or if you have a little spare time once you gotten it to work . . . ". It also has a couple of links to related articles.

Heuristics for User Interface Design by J. Nielsen

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein

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Re: App Dev and Heuristic Eval
by jryan (Vicar) on Oct 11, 2001 at 23:54 UTC
    Ah, so Jakob Nielsen has finally leaped from web interfaces and has gone to full blown apps. For those who don't know, Jakob Nielsen is the man who started the usability movement in web design. He writes a bi-weekly web usability column at http://www.useit.com . Nielsen's articles are great at showing things that may make sense to the designer, but not the user. He goes through each topic extremely thouroughly, and points out many details that you may not have thought of regularly. For anyone is in charge of managing/designing a web site, I STRONGLY recommend reading his column regularly; when I still did web design, I hardly missed an article in 2 years.
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