Comments on: GUI Programming is Hard /2004/04/gui-programming-is-hard/ Sarah Allen's reflections on internet software and other topics Sun, 11 Apr 2004 02:12:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.1 By: Eric Hancock /2004/04/gui-programming-is-hard/#comment-165 Sun, 11 Apr 2004 02:12:54 +0000 /wordpress/?p=115#comment-165 I think the most difficult thing about GUI design is that too many people confuse “I don’t like it” with “it isn’t useable.” Well-designed GUI isn’t always immediately evident. Often, good GUI is highly adapted to the task at hand.

With GUI, learnable is often more important than intuitive.

Of course, this depends entirely on the task at hand.

]]> By: Victor Laszlo /2004/04/gui-programming-is-hard/#comment-164 Wed, 07 Apr 2004 16:35:12 +0000 /wordpress/?p=115#comment-164 Interesting topic, and one I’ve been thinking about a lot lately as I’ve been working on a project for a customer, which is mostly a snazzy user interface for some fairly simple functionality.

I think that the most difficult thing about GUI programming is that the ‘correctness’ of a GUI lies in the very minutiae of its details, but it’s not always easy to identify which details are the ones that aren’t right. In this way, GUI programming is a true art: you have to be able to step back from your work and look at it critically, and have to iterate quickly over alternatives.

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