From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 30 09:22:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA26361 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:22:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pluto.plutotech.com (mail.plutotech.com [206.168.67.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA26349 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:22:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kelly@plutotech.com) Received: from plutotech.com (tampopo.plutotech.com [206.168.67.161]) by pluto.plutotech.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA29752; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:21:48 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <36125A97.85379AD3@plutotech.com> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:21:43 -0600 From: Sean Kelly Organization: Pluto Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wes Peters CC: Nicholas Charles Brawn , freebsd chat Subject: Re: gui design References: <36124FD3.B31D9303@softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wes Peters wrote: > The second book, if your program crunches numbers or statistical > data in any way, is "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" > by Edward R. Tufte. An excellent recommendation. Tufte's second book, "Envisioning Information," actually has some material on computer/user interface design: see chapter 5, "Color and Information." Whereas his first book, "Visual Display..." gave advice on how to depict numeric data, "Envisioning Information" tells how to effectively display nonnumerics. Finally, I cannot over-recommend the wonderful Interface Hall of Shame: http://www.iarchitect.com/mshame.htm I won't say more about the site ... just take a look! --Sean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message