Niall Murphy wrote an interesting article on embedded.com, discussing how the layout techniques employed by graphic designers can help developers build better user interfaces. While the article is targeted at embedded systems developers, it is also an interesting read for everyone else involved in user interface design. In my opinion, UI design should be left to specialists (and specialist does not necessarily mean graphic designer), but when no specialist is available, at least the developers doing the user interfaces should have some basic knowledge of design and layout techniques.
Posted by guenter at August 30, 2004 07:31 PM