Adducive: Articles about User Interface Design
Tips and articles on software user interface design, including handheld, speech recognition, desktop, and web-based software, with a focus on the software development process and issues in internationalization. The site also describes services offered and my approach to user interface design.
Krause, Brian R. Adducive.com (1998). Design>User Interface>Software
Designing Better HTML Authoring Tools
A collection of proposed new tools and features for adding structure to the Web.
Hoffman, Michael. Hypertext Navigation. Articles>Web Design>User Interface>Software
Four Strategies for Promoting Common UI Guidelines within Adobe 
It can be very challenging to create a consistent cross-product user experience.
Bachman, Bill, Frederick Aliaga, Dave Valiulis and Marissa Treinen. Adobe Magazine (2002). Design>User Interface>Software
Given Microsoft's track record, it would seem awfully foolish for me to bet against them and those who will follow their lead, and the idea does seem superficially reasonable. But despite this, I predict that the ASP aspects of .Net won't work nearly so well as Microsoft hopes and may even fail outright. The problem with Microsoft's ASP approach? The strategy is driven more strongly by economics and a fear of competition from smaller, more nimble ASPs than by customer needs and habits.
Hart, Geoffrey J.S. TECHWR-L (2001). Design>User Interface>Software
Online documentation and software messages are important elements of the end-to-end user experience. They have a direct impact on the productivity of users and affect the total cost of ownership. This article discusses designing and executing usability testing of these two important components of the overall product offering. Based on usability tests that were performed on the IBM DB2® Universal Database™ (DB2 UDB) and IBM® WebSphere® Commerce and software products, the combined experiences provide guidance for usability professionals and information developers who need to organize and run such tests for a first time.
Markov, Nikolay and Uliyana Markova. IBM (2004). Design>User Interface>Software>Help
Why Technical Writers Should Love Microsoft's Inductive User Interface 
In early 2001, Microsoft issued a technical article describing their Inductive User Interface guidelines. The guidelines should be of keen interest to all technical writers involved with documenting software applications. After a summary of the guidelines, I'll explain why.
Carlson, Janice L. Carlson Online Design (2001). Design>User Interface>Software>Technical Writing
Working XML: Use Eclipse to build a user interface for XM
Anyone familiar with XM -- the low-cost, open-source content management solution based on XSLT -- knows that for all its good points, it still lacks a decent user interface. In this article, columnist Benoï¿t Marchal uses the Eclipse platform's open universal framework to build a user interface for XM.
Marchal, Benoit. IBM (2002). Design>User Interface>Software>XML
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