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Article on UI Design

July 20th, 2006 - by Brett Derricott - Salt Lake City, Utah

Discovered a good article which discusses the trade-off and compromises required to create a great user interface.

From the article:

“Educated compromise across all UI decisions is essential to creating the best interface possible, and is, ironically, required if you are to avoid designing a compromised interface.”

Read the full article here.

User Interface Design Presentation

July 17th, 2006 - by Brett Derricott - Salt Lake City, Utah

The Utah PHP User Group will be meeting this Thursday, July 20th at 7 p.m. for a presentation and discussion on web user interface design and programming. It appears that the presentation will cover both designing and building great interfaces.

It seems like opportunity abounds for flat brochure-ware website designs but many designers don’t have much opportunity to design product (web application) interfaces, which requires more of a usability bent.