User Interface Links
From K-3D
External Documents
External documents on User Interface Design:
- http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html - 10 heuristics for a good UI.
- http://actsofvolition.com/archives/2004/april/theriseof - The Rise of Interface Elegance in Open Source Software.
- http://www.userinstinct.com/ - user centric ui web site
- ftp://ftp.cs.brown.edu/pub/papers/graphics/research/unicam.pdf - interesting paper on a user interaction style that works well with single-button input devices.
Examples Worth Looking At
- The GIMP - http://www.gimp.org/ - 2D paint using GTK2.
- QCAD - http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html - 2D CAD using Qt.
- RadialContext - http://www.radialthinking.de/radialcontext - Adds context-sensitive pie menus to Mozilla.
The following examples are different forks of the original Sodipodi, so they represent a neat resource - two apps with basically the same functionality, but different user interface designs.
- Sodipodi - http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net - 2D vector using GTK2.
- Inkscape - http://www.inkscape.org - 2D vector using GTK2.
Odds / Ends
- http://www.pixtur.de/text_maya_redesign.eng.html - a proposed redesign of the Maya UI
