Visual Design in User Interfaces

The Robin Good article below is packed with good ideas for using visual elements in a functional way in user interface design. Lots of illustrations!

Interface Design: Usability And Visual Innovation Key Future Success Factors. Increasing numbers of websites are developing new types of user interface design, taking advantage of users' increasing levels of Internet-sophistication and faster connections. These new interfaces often allow users to view and manipulate large quantities of data. The Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus interface, one of the earliest and most innovative user interfaces online This article will have a look at some of the more interesting user interface design ideas we've come across recently: Slider-based filtering Fisheye menus Treemaps Drag-and-drop The point of this article is not to promote any of these user interface designs, but rather to offer them for the purposes of interest and inspiration. Although we have yet to run any large-scale usability testing on them, we consider each... [Robin Good's Latest News]