Design: User interfaces

"I strongly believe that you can “begin anywhere” and don’t need to learn technologies in any particular order. But I also place great value in gaining expertise. Personally I’ve mostly been interested in creating user interfaces." says Dan Abramov

Patryk Kocielnik

Writing with the hope that a record of the random things people do around can save some duplication of effort -- except for fun.

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1 Oct 2022 • 1 min read

Thomas Green originally defined 14 cognitive dimensions:

Abstraction gradient,

Closeness of mapping,

Consistency,

Diffuseness / terseness,

Error-proneness,

Hard mental operations,

Hidden dependencies,

Juxtaposability,

Premature commitment,

Progressive evaluation,

Role-expressiveness,

Secondary notation and excape from formalism,

Viscosity, and

Visibility.

-- Cognitive dimensions of notations

I strongly believe that you can “begin anywhere” and don’t need to learn technologies in any particular order. But I also place great value in gaining expertise. Personally I’ve mostly been interested in creating user interfaces.

-- More on the topic from Dan Abramov, The Elements of UI Engineering.

Jakob Nielsen: UI Checklist.

Design: User interfaces

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