Archive for June, 2010

Jun
25

Principles of good design

Friday, June 25th, 2010
The design of the user interface of a website or software application is of great importance for the success of delivering the product. Listed below are some principles for creating functional user interfaces. For more information, check out Steve Krug’s book “Don’t Make Me Think”. It is an excellent guide to creating effective graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
  • Visual Design
  • Praxis (helpful)
  • User Centered Design

Apple’s User Interface Guidelines

Conceptual and task-oriented information. Guides include overviews, tutorials, programming guides, server administration guides, and, for developer tools, user guides.

Jun
25

HCI Online Resources

Friday, June 25th, 2010

Human-Computer Interaction Index of sources on the WEB – This collection of pages points you to many different resources on Human-Computer-Interaction on the Internet including bibliographies, conferences, publications, reviews, groups and organizations.

Human-Computer Interaction Resources – site with links to jobs, in-progress thesis, conferences, labs, organizations, companies, and other resources for HCI researchers and practitioners.

Human Interface Technology Lab Home Page - The Human Interface Technology Laboratory is a research and development lab in virtual interface technology. It was established to transform virtual environment concepts and early research into practical, market-driven products and processes. HITL research strengths include interface hardware, virtual environments software, and human factors.

Task-Centered User Interface Design: A Practical Introduction Shareware book by Clayton Lewis and John Rieman–the entire book online.

Wearable Computing – Wearable computing facilitates a new form of human–computer interaction comprising a small body–worn computer (e.g. user–programmable device) that is always on and always ready and accessible.

Jun
23

Helping hand to web developer as well as Web designer

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

These links will help all web developer and who all works in the web.

  1. PHP 5 Online Cheat Sheet v1.3
  2. PHP cheat sheet version 1
  3. List of all the documented PHP functions
  4. PHP Functions to Work With MySQL
  5. PHP Application Security Checklist
  6. Handy Cheat-Sheet of MySQL Commands
  7. Download MySQL cheat sheet-v1
  8. HTML Colors Cheat Sheet
  9. Web Safe Colour Chart
  10. Browser Safe Colour Chart
  11. Approximate Conversion from Points to Pixels
  12. Web-safe-font-cheat-sheet-v-2-including-google-font-api
  13. 25?point Website Usability Checklist
  14. Will the browser apply the rule(s)?
  15. When can I use? Compatibility tables (html5, css3 + +)
  16. The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet