I have been re-reading Designing Interfaces. Good book for designing user interfaces as the name implies. The author had a lot of this info on the web, but the book has much, much more. Anyhow I was going over the ‘behavioral patterns’ and though they were woth mentiong here:

Safe Exploration “Let me explore without getting lost or getting into trouble.”

Instant Gratification “I want to accomplish something now, not later.”

Satisficing “This is good enough. I don’t want to spend more time learning to do it better.”

Changes in Midstream “I changed my mind about what I was doing.”

Deferred Choices “I don’t want to answer that now; just let me finish!”

Incremental Construction  “Let me change this. That doesn’t look right; let me change it again. That’s better.”

Habituation “That gesture works everywhere else; why doesn’t it work here, too?”

Spatial Memory “I swear that button was here a minute ago. Where did it go?”

Prospective Memory “I’m putting this here to remind myself to deal with it later.”

Streamlined Repetition “I have to repeat this how many times?”

Keyboard Only “Please don’t make me use the mouse.”

Other People’s Advice “What did everyone else say about this?”

 All great stuff. Most UIs are bad ! The section in this book on presenting complex data are excellent – I highly recommend it.

-Chris

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