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29225: Re: [MUD-Dev] MUD client popularity

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From: "Brent P. Newhall" <me@other-space.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:15:37 -0500 (EST)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Brian Hook <brianhook@pyrogon.com> wrote:

> In my experience, "UI specialists" generally, well, suck.

But this is Sturgeon's Law; "90% of anything is crap."

> If someone is serious about designing UI, they need to read:

>   "About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design" by Cooper
>   and Reimann

>   "User Interface Design for Programmers" by the aforementioned
>   Joel Spolsky (mostly a distilled version of About Face)

>   "The Design of Everyday Things" by Donald Norman, a classic

A good UI specialist will have read them, I think.

I write this because it seemed to me like your post dismissed UI
specialists.  I wouldn't dismiss all of them just because most of
them suck.

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Brent P. Newhall
http://brent.other-space.com/
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