"good interface design techniques"

Howdy y'all.

Well, I was browsing away as per usual, another mundane evening in the Chief home, when i came across this little beauty. Its a massive site, with loads of examples of what to do, and what not to do.

If nothing else, some of the design mess-ups in here are hilarious. I laughed out loud several times, and we can all stand to learn something from it i reckon (except hand of course...... images/icons/wink.gif)

http://www.iarchitect.com/

Chief

Great site! They've got my mantra down pretty well.

"Novelty for novelty's sake is never a good thing."

and now, something that is sure to make some people mad:

"Scrollable forms are a sure sign of inexperience in graphical user interface design."

I think I'm going to have to bookmark that page and quote it from time to time when people ask me how to make their user interfaces uglier images/icons/wink.gif

scrollable forms are bad? i wouldn't know as i'm not a true expert images/icons/wink.gif, nor do i use them. but i was reading a readme by a coder that worked where i do before me, and she made use of scrollable forms claiming that it was the best way to handle this particular app. the app was one designed as a legal form for lawyers. would you mind sharing some info/attitude on why they're not good?

too bad this site doesn't provide some sample coding... especialy with the hall of fame

<font color=orange>LOL</font color=orange>

The tabbed dialog hall cracks me up every time.
How can these ppl think that their interfaces are even nearly usable?

Ah well.....

Chief

And some of the examples were pulled from Microsoft or other *professional* products..... LOL