UI Design

[seth_matheson]

Originally published at Ted the Penguin. Please leave any comments there.

So you’re thinking about designing a program, product, or… anything? Remember
three simple rules.

• Users don’t read stuff
• Users aren’t coordinated
• Users can’t remember anything

Joel makes good arguments for these and I think he hits them spot on.  The above links are meant for computer programmers, but the same gist can be applied to any product.

I make a few mistakes here on Ted, but I make the assumption that out of the 20 people who view this a day, 19 of them don’t care and the other is me.