The AskTog Bug House: Ten Most Wanted Design Bugs

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What makes a bug a “design bug”? Coding bugs arise strictly from error in the sequencing of computer commands. Design bugs are born either before coding begins or are former coding errors that became design bugs by either being ignored over time or being carefully documented in the manual. Once a coding bug has been acknowledged or purposefully ignored, it becomes part of the official design.

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Maximizing Human Performance

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Increases in machine performance typically produce roughly equal increases in human performance, but exceptions do exist. First, the entire “machine” must improve, not just one layer. We have had the strange situation over the last 20 years of computing power going up more than 1000-fold, while the eventual user experience has, in some cases, actually slowed down due to bloated operating systems and applications. Second, a tension can exist between the need for user-performan…

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First Principles of Interaction Design

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The following principles are fundamental to the design and implementation of effective interfaces, whether for traditional GUI environments or the web. Of late, many web applications have reflected a lack of understanding of many of these principles of interaction design, to their great detriment. Because an application or service appears on the web, the principles do not change. If anything, applying these principles become even more important.

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Bruce Tognazzini is a recognized leader in human/computer interaction design. As Chief Designer at Healtheon/WebMD, he helped establish WebMD as the premiere healthcare website. Before that, he was Distinguished Engineer for Strategic Technology at Sun where he led the Starfire Project that predicted the rise of the World Wide Web. During his 14 years at Apple Computer, he founded the Apple Human Interface Group and acted as Apple`s Human Interface Evangelist. He has rejoined his long-tim…

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