Peter said:

>The most important ideas afair are immediate user action feedback (optical
>or acoustical or both), continuous current state indication (unlike the vi
>editor ;-), and consistency in operation. Also that the most often used
>controls are reached first, unless there is a reason to group them
>otherwise.
>
>There are books written on proper gui and human/machine interface design.
>They mostly amount to the same ideas as expressed above (the two that I
>have read until now). You can probably find suitable titles from
>McGraw-Hill or Prentice-Hall.

   I second the recommendation of another list member who
   mentioned Donald Norman's "The Psychology of Everyday Things."
   It's especially valuable in helping you understand what NOT to do.

   Reg Neale

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