Matt Chisolm’s article What reading Tufte won’t teach you: Interface design guidelines provides a nice set of interface design guidelines that go beyond the presentation of information. As written by a despairing traveller. Really a must read.
I am curious about avoid notifying users of success - although I can understand that to mean if they already have feedback otherwise available. Matt makes good points in his explanation of this one. I’d change it to provide only unobtrusive feedback mechanisms to the user. But I get the sense we’re talking about the same thing anyway. And the main point being not to barrage the user with crap they either can’t deal with or won’t understand.
And my bugbear this year with uni students - design the interface before starting to code. Here, here Matt.
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