Good User Interface Design Tips
(If you want to whiz off your users)
General application user interface guidelines:
Always use cute icons, buttons, and graphics. Everyone loves big red hearts, pink bunnies, and yellow smiley faces.
Don't be afraid to experiment with colors!
Your application should play fun sounds while operating to keep the users entertained.
Never, ever, under any circumstance use the OS-native graphical controls or widgets. Users get bored of the same old buttons, text boxes, and stuff.
When possible, disable window management and use unusual, oddly placed graphics for the windowing functions such as the window close option.
When writing your own controls or widgets, make absolutely sure they look and feel nothing like the OS-native widgets or anything else the user might expect. Otherwise you might accidentally make the user think that your application is actually designed for their OS.
Use your own creative ideas on how a......
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