The Essential Guide to User Interface Design
An EPSS Interface that people can use
COMMON GROUND: A Pattern Language for Human-Computer Interface Design
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How can the HCI community help inexperienced designers move away from clumsy designs and labor-intensive processes towards this state of confidence and skill, without spending years learning it all the hard way? To begin with, we could start building a human-computer interface pattern language. A language of this sort is a set of interrelated patterns, which share similar assumptions, terminologies, and contexts. At its best, such a language would both aid individual interface designers in their day-to-day work (as the Design Patterns book clearly does for many software engineers), and also help the whole industry develop better tools and paradigms. (2001-08-19)
The link address is: http://www.mit.edu/~jtidwell/common_ground.html
