I found a link to an eBook on User Interface Design while on the redhat fedora project site (http://fedora.redhat.com I believe). It is by Joel Spolsky and from what I've read so far, is very amusing and very relevant.

It's rather long (it is a book, you know) so I won't copy and paste the article here (also, I doubt that would conform to copywrite laws), but I strongly urge any programmerwho has to write any sort of user interface to read at least the first couple of chapters.

I hope this hasn't already been posted, but if it has please accept my apologies (I did search the forums and also used the "Has my topic been posted before?" link).

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook...000000057.html

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