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> Many technological innovations rely upon User Interface Design to elevate
> their technical complexity to a usable product. Technology alone may not[/color]
win[color=blue]
> user acceptance and subsequent marketability. The User Experience, or how
> the user experiences the end product, is the key to acceptance. And that[/color]
is[color=blue]
> where User Interface Design enters the design process. While product
> engineers focus on the technology, usability specialists focus on the user
> interface. For greatest efficiency and cost effectiveness, this working
> relationship should be maintained from the start of a project to its
> rollout.
>
> When applied to computer software, User Interface Design is also known as
> Human-Computer Interface or HCI. While people often think of Interface
> Design in terms of computers, it also refers to many products where the[/color]
user[color=blue]
> interacts with controls or displays. Military aircraft, vehicles,[/color]
airports,[color=blue]
> audio equipment, and computer peripherals, are a few products that
> extensively apply User Interface Design.
>
> Optimized User Interface Design requires a systematic approach to the[/color]
design[color=blue]
> process. But, to ensure optimum performance, Usability Testing is[/color]
required.[color=blue]
> This empirical testing permits na?ve users to provide data about what does
> work as anticipated and what does not work. Only after the resulting[/color]
repairs[color=blue]
> are made can a product be deemed to have a user optimized interface.
>
> The importance of good User Interface Design can be the difference between
> product acceptance and rejection in the marketplace. If end-users feel it[/color]
is[color=blue]
> not easy to learn, not easy to use, or too cumbersome, an otherwise
> excellent product could fail. Good User Interface Design can make a[/color]
product[color=blue]
> easy to understand and use, which results in greater user acceptance.
>
> Follow is some resources about UI Design:
>
> HelloUI
>
http://www.qwerks.com/product.asp?ProductID=6873
>
>
http://www.uidesign.net
>
http://www.uiweb.com
>
http://www.uiforum.com
>
> others
>
> Education In HCI And HCI Curriculum
>
http://www.ipo.tue.nl/ifip-wg13.1/
>
> HCI And The Web
>
http://www.ironclad.net.au/lists/web...ory/links.html
>
> New Directions In HCI Education, Research and Practice
>
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/community/hci/directions/
>
> Lecture Topics In HCI
>
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~saul/hci_topics/
>
> HCI And Artificial Intelligence
>
http://www.academon.com/lib/paper/7950.html
>
> What Is User Experience Design
>
http://www-3.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/Publish/10
>
> HCI In Brazil
>
http://www-di.inf.puc-rio.br/~clarisse/ifip/
>
> A Personal Dictionary Of HCI
>
http://jupiter.informatik.umu.se/~mjson/hcipd/main.html
>
> User Interface Engineering
>
http://world.std.com/~uieweb/
>
> W3C The User Interface Domain
>
http://www.w3.org/UI/
>
> User Interface Software Tools
>
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.e...toolnames.html
>
> Microsoft User Interface Group
>
http://research.microsoft.com/ui/
>
> User Interface
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com
>
> User Interface: Introduction
>
http://cne.gmu.edu/itcore/userinterface/
>
> The Science Of User Interface
> http://maddog.weblogs.com/stories/storyReader$174
>
> Group For User Interface Research (GUIR)
>
http://guir.berkeley.edu/
>
> GUI Gallery
>
http://toastytech.com/guis/
>
> User Interface Design For Programmers
>
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook...000000057.html
>
> Graphical User Interface Timeline
>
http://toastytech.com/guis/guitimeline.html
>
> Yahoo Directory: User Interface
>
http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Compute...ser_Interface/
>
> GLUI User Interface Library Version2.1
>
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/hci/glui/
>
> Creating A User Interface (AWT Only)
>
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/ui/
>
> UIST''02 User Interface Software & Technology
>
http://www.acm.org/uist/
>
> User Interface Programming
>
http://home.online.no/~pethesse/
>
> UI Designs
>
http://www.uidesigns.com/
>
> User Interface Graphics
>
http://www.kare.com/
>
> GLADE GTK+ User Interface Builder
>
http://www.kare.com/
>
> User Interface Research (UIR)@PARC
>
http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/uir/
>
> Designing The User Interface: Strategies For Effective Human-Computer
> Interaction 3/e (Book) 1997
>
http://www.awprofessional.com
>
> Understanding UI
>
http://www.mackido.com/Interface/
>
> Ten Usability Heuristics
>
http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristi...stic_list.html
>
> User Interface Design
>
http://cfg.cit.cornell.edu/cfg/design/contents.html
>
> Task-Centered User Interface Design
>
http://www.hcibib.org/tcuid/
>
> User Interface Design Tips
>
http://www.ambysoft.com/userInterfaceDesign.html
>
> User Interface Strategies (UIS)
>
http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/uis/
>
> User Interface Pattern Language For UI Design
>
http://c2.com/ppr/ui.html
>
> Graphical User Interface
>
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/G/Grap...rface_GUI.html
>
> A Summary Of Principles For User Interface Design
>
http://www.sylvantech.com/~talin/pro...ui_design.html
>
> User Interface Design Page
>
http://www.chesco.com/~cmarion/Design/UIDesign.html
>
> The Voice User Interface Company
>
http://www.wrolandi.com/
>
> A User Interface Framework For Text Searches
>
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january97/r...neiderman.html
>
> SunWeb: User Interface Design For SUN Microsystem''s Internal Web
>[/color]
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT9...en/sunweb.html[color=blue]
>
> User Interface Management Systems (UIMS)
>
>[/color]
http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hambu...lim-intro.html[color=blue]
>
> User Interface Design And Usability
>
http://www.isii.com/ui_design.html
>
> How To Attach A User Interface To A Jini Service
>
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/j...jiniology.html
>
> The Rise Of Graphical User Interface (GUI)
>
http://www.rit.edu/~easi/itd/itdv02n4/article3.html
>
> Web Services User Interface (WSUI) Initiative
>
http://wsui.org/
>
> User Interface Projects
>
http://projects.netlabs.org/?category_id=11
>
> Experiences - A Pattern Language For User Interface Design
>
http://www.maplefish.com/todd/papers...periences.html
>
> User Interface Design For Programmers
>
http://static.userland.com/gems/joel/uibookcomplete.htm
>
> GNOME User Interface Improvement Project
>
http://developer.gnome.org/gnome-ui/
>
> User Interface Stability
>
http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/stab...interface.html
>
> Principles Of Educational Multimedia User Interface Design
>
http://wearables.gatech.edu/papers/larry.html
>
> Willow Technical Report: User Interface
>
http://www.washington.edu/willow/interface.html
>
> Java Technology: Java 2 User Interface
>
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-j2int/
>
> An Introduction To The High Level User Interface APIs
>
http://wireless.java.sun.com/midp/ttips/uiapi/
>
> Pen Input
>
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/courses/CS179/lect10/sld043.htm
>
> Pen Input For Your PC
>
http://www.byte.com/art/9401/sec13/art4.htm
>
> Human Computer Interaction (Journal)
>
http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/HCI/
>
> HCI Bibliography: Human Computer Interaction Resources
>
http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Misc/HCI/
>
http://www.hcibib.org/
>
> HCI Webliography
>
http://www.hcibib.org/hci-sites/
>
> HCI Resources On The Net
>
http://www.ida.liu.se/labs/aslab/groups/um/hci/
>
> HCI Index
>
http://is.twi.tudelft.nl/hci/
>
http://www.hci.uu.se/
>
http://degraaff.org/hci/
>
> HCI Links
>
http://www.carleton.ca/hotlab/Indivi...hci_links.html
>
> HCI Resources
>
http://www.usabilityfirst.com/MOCHI/resources.html
>
> British HCI Group
>
http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/
>
> HCI Lab.
>
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/
>
http://hci.usask.ca/index.xml
>
http://hci.ucsd.edu/lab/
>
http://psychology.wichita.edu/hci/
>
http://hci.yonsei.ac.kr/
>
> HCI At Stanford
>
http://hci.stanford.edu/
>
> CMU HCI Institute (HCII)
>
http://www.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/
>
> HCI Group At Cornell
>
http://www.hci.cornell.edu/
>
> HCI At Virginia Tech
>
http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/~rreaux/hci/
>
> HCI At NSU Online Learning Environment
>
http://www.scis.nova.edu/nova/hci/top.html
>
> HCI At USC
>
http://www.usc.edu/dept/cs/hci.htm
>
> HCI Research
>
http://csce.unl.edu/~scotth/CHI-research.html
>
> HCI At Tufts
>
http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~jacob/hci/
>
> HCI At RSC
>
http://hci.rsc.rockwell.com/
>
> HCI Research Center
>
http://www.hud.ac.uk/schools/comp+ma...HCIcentre.html
>
> HCI Research At Tampere
>
http://www.uta.fi/~kjr/HCI/HCI.html
>
> HCI At The University Of Tokyo
>
http://www.sanpo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ut-chi.html
>
> HCI At OCLC
>
http://www.oclc.org/usability/about/
>
> Yahoo Directory: HCI
>
>[/color]
http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Compute...raction__HCI_/[color=blue]
> Usernomics User Interface Design
>
http://www.usernomics.com/hci.html
>
> HCI Training Custom e-Learning Solutions
>
http://www.hcitrains.com/
>
> HCIRN - HCI Resource Network
>
http://www.hcirn.com/
>
> HCI Group Online
>
http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/hci/
>
> HCI International 2003
>
http://hcii2003.ics.forth.gr/
>
> HCI 2003 Designing For Society
>
http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/hci2003/
>
> Links To HCI Resources
>
http://www.ifip-hci.org/
>
> Interaction Design: Beyond Human Computer Interaction (Book)
>
http://www.id-book.com/
>
> Just How Far Beyond HCI Is Interaction Design ?
>
http://www.boxesandarrows.com
>
> Human Computer Interaction And Your Site
>
http://www.webmasterbase.com/article/606
>
> HCI Design Home Page
>
http://hcidesign.com/
>
> Human Computer Interaction 2/e (Book) 1998
>
http://www.hcibook.com/
>
> Ergoworld HCI & Usability
>
http://www.interface-analysis.com/ergoworld/hci.htm
>
> The Center For HCI Design
>
http://www-hcid.soi.city.ac.uk/
>
> Human Computer Interface Design
>
http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/~knapp/hci.html
>
> HCI Links & Resources
>
http://www.brint.com/HCI.htm
>
> PERQ/HCI Research
>
http://www.perqhciresearch.com/
>
> HCI Space
>
http://www.tau-web.de/hci/space/
>
> HCI From FLODOC
>
http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?HCI
>
> Hand Gestures In HCI
>
http://www.cs.sfu.ca
>
> Designing The User Interface
>
http://www.awl.com/DTUI/
>
> HCI And System Development Group
>
http://www.idi.ntnu.no/grupper/hci/
>
> HCI Techniques
>
http://www.chiplace.org/techniques/index.jsp
>
> IBM Research HCI
>
http://www.research.ibm.com/compsci/hci/
>
> A Brief History Of HCI Technology
>
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~amulet/pape...istory.tr.html
>
> Explaining The Science Of HCI To The General Public
>
http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article731.asp
>
> HCI Education
>
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computin...hci-education/
>
> User Interface Fun
>
http://www.hci-fun.org.uk/
>
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