Chapter 1 controlling your environment makes you happy most of the hard core c programmers i know hate user interface programming this surprises me because i find ui programming to be quintessentially easy straightforward and fun its easy because you usually dont need algorithms more sophisticated than how to center one rectangle in another. In a fun and entertaining way spolky makes user interface design easy for programmers to grasp after reading user interface design for programmers youll know how to design interfaces with the user in mind youll learn the important principles that underlie all good ui design and youll learn how to perform usability testing that works. Most programmers fear of user interface ui programming comes from their fear of doing ui design they think that ui design is like graphic design the mysterious process by which creative latte drinking all black wearing people produce cool looking artistic pieces most programmers see themselves as analytic logical thinkers instead strong at reasoning weak on artistic judgment and incapable of doing ui design. User interface design for programmers by joel spolsky isbn1893115941 apress c 2001 144 pages the author of this book proposes simple logical rules that can be applied without any artistic talent to improve any user interface from traditional gui applications to web sites to consumer electronics table of contents