[Gllug] HCI

[Richard Jones]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 10:47:33AM +0100, Mike Leigh wrote:
> I have been tasked with running a lunchtime brown bag session on HCI
> (Human Computer Interaction) at my workplace in the next two weeks.  I
> was wondering if anyone else has had experience with this or sat in on
> one of these and can point me to a reasonable source of information that
> will help me during the session.
>
> I am specifically looking for good case / bad case examples of GUI
> design and any video media that I can insert into the session.  A
> prominent talk by a Linux advocate could be of use here I think.

The key word here is "usability".  Often these days this is framed in
terms of web apps, but it of course applies to client side apps too.

I guess good places to start would be: http://useit.com/ and
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/

This book is also good:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/fog0000000249.html

Rich.

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