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Source: The Geek Media

Dec 09, 2008

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Breathtaking and useful designs happen because the UI has been worked on tirelessly. It takes a real UI Master to understand how to make a terrific user experience on a website. Here are 10 extremely useful principles from some of the brightest minds in the User Interface field.

User interfaces (UI) are what separate top-notch websites from crappy websites. The absence of a useful UI can render an extremely useful web app useless. Why? Because the UI wasn’t thought out and thoroughly tested. If a user can’t easily navigate a website, she’ll skip happily along to another similar site that provides a better user experience.

1. Don’t Forget About the User - Jason Fried

Nearly every web developer has heard of 37 Signals. They are outspoken champions of agile development practices, but more importantly, they make some pretty awesome web applications. So awesome, in fact, that they are generally regarded as some of the smartest people when it comes to getting inside the user’s heads.

37 Signals CEO Jason Fried is a big proponent of spending less time on nit-picky detai

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