Yeah, okay, so it's not like the tablets from Sinai ;-) Hold on... gonna go find it...
Mullet, Kevin E. & Sano, Darrell K. "Applying Visual Design: Trade Secrets for Elegant Interfaces." CHI'94, pp. 353-354. <<--remember that I can't make decent citations to save my life!!! Better still is the slim volume they later produced "Designing Visual Interfaces (it has pretty pictures and expanded treatment of the topics). Basically, these are the three rules: *Reduction (reduce a design; KISS; if you can remove something and it still makes sense, by all means, REMOVE IT!) (think roadway signs, bathroom signs, handicap signs, etc.; basic icon and menu design). *Regularization (treat similar things similarly, dissimilar things dissimilarly -- via size, color, spatial orientation, style, font, line, etc.) (Think early Mac icon schemes). *Combination for Leverage (look for repeating/similar icons and replace under a single umbrella; kinda like tabs done right...etc.). The book does a better job than does the article methinks... Um, no, the treatments of the three rules are to be used in combination where applicable... Judy On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Erik Hansen wrote: > > what are the the 3 quick rules? _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution