{"id":38,"date":"2004-09-22T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-22T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/?p=38"},"modified":"2006-09-06T18:13:38","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T22:13:38","slug":"brief-review-of-the-book-user-interface-design-for-programmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/2004\/09\/22\/38\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief review of the book &#8220;User Interface Design for Programmers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Spolsky&#8217;s book <em>User Interface Design for Programmers<\/em> is fun to read. Kinda expensive though \ud83d\ude2e I don&#8217;t know why he opted to go full color because most stuff inside can be printed in nice and affordable B&#038;W.<\/p>\n<p>Summary of this book: (well, IMHO)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Users don&#8217;t read manual, nor dialogs.<\/li>\n<li>Users can&#8217;t use mouse.<\/li>\n<li>Users ain&#8217;t stupid, it&#8217;s just not their fault. You have to make UI easy for them to use.<\/li>\n<li>Long and elegant writing is shit. KISS style writing rules.<\/li>\n<li>Imaginary user sucks. Take your mockup to the mess hall and grab 5 people to review it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Spolsky&#8217;s book User Interface Design for Programmers is fun to read. Kinda expensive though \ud83d\ude2e I don&#8217;t know why he opted to go full color because most stuff inside can be printed in nice and affordable B&#038;W. Summary of this book: (well, IMHO) Users don&#8217;t read manual, nor dialogs. Users can&#8217;t use mouse. Users [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}