20 Principles of User Interface Design
Being a UI designer is much more than pushing pretty pixels. You’ve huge responsibility on your shoulders to help your audience achieve their goals easily and completely. Just like graphic design, UI design has some principles too. Joshua Porter has compiled a list of 20 such principles, that I’m trying to remember by heart.
- Clarity is job #1
- Interfaces exist to enable interaction
- Conserve attention at all costs
- Keep users in control
- Direct manipulation is best
- One primary action per screen
- Keep secondary actions secondary
- Provide a natural next step
- Appearance follows behavior (aka form follows function)
- Consistency matters
- Strong visual hierarchies work best
- Smart organization reduces cognitive load
- Highlight, don’t determine, with color
- Progressive disclosure
- Help people inline
- A crucial moment: the zero state
- Existing problems are most valuable
- Great design is invisible
- Build on other design disciplines
- Interfaces exist to be used
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