From: Ryan Tarpine <rtarpine@...>
Date: 2001-08-16T05:12:47+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19835] Re: Ruby GUI

avdi@avdi.org wrote:

> toolkit, etc, etc... Anyone on this list who has followed the technology
> for awhile care to fill us in on the required reading for an aspiring GUI
> toolkit designer?

After hearing about him on the BeOS boards recently, I checked out Jef 
Raskin (http://www.jefraskin.com).  He was the designer of the Macintosh, 
and now he's complaining we haven't gone any further since then (can one 
not agree? :) and talking about what needs to be done in his new book "The 
Humane Interface."  I coincidentally bought it a few days ago, but I 
haven't gone too far yet.  What I can say is that it will give ideas for 
features that should be present in a GUI, but also what you should leave 
out.  It actually delves into the human conscious and unconscious and uses 
this to explain problems with user habit-formation for producing better 
GUIs.  And that's chapter 2!  I cannot say whether this book will be 
extremely helpful, but it is an interesting read and can't hurt.

-- 
Ryan Tarpine, rtarpine@hotmail.com
"Technology is a queer thing.  It brings you great gifts in one hand, and 
it stabs you in the back with the other."
         -- C.P. Snow