突然发现，做网络产品设计成了一个比较时髦并且赚钱的工作。
因为很多人天天上网，网站不久这样嘛，页面设计和程序开发是后面的事情，设计个网站好像很简单。
真的那么简单吗？
其实，也天天用windows，用office，没有几个人觉得设计windows是个很简单的事情吧，说实话，能把写字板完整实现的大学毕业生估计不到10%。我想，大概软件设计还是一门传统意义上比较高深的事情，最容易的vb，学学变量设计，形参实参还比较闹心。网页不同了，dreamweaver拿来就能用，几个页面就出来了。不过如此。
真的不过如此吗？
内行的人知道当然不是，设计网站产品和设计一个传统意义上的软件一样，需要很多知识，在写创意纪主题的时候还提到了很多心理学知识，网页设计师能设计到什么程度，程序开发能开发什么功能，效率和稳定性如何，基础的服务器架构知识，项目管理，测试技巧，等等，也是一大堆。
不怪个人，怪互联网发展太快，还不是一门成熟的产业，于是大家可以热闹一下。浪淘尽，千古英雄人物。
个人还是比较喜欢网易科技频道的，版式比较简洁。信息反正门户都差不多，看一个就可以了，不会漏什么。
今天看到网易科技频道的首屏改版了，变成了两栏和三栏的混合模式。非常不习惯和不舒服，眼睛横着找东西看很累，网易的设计师怎么倒退了呢。原来就是喜欢简洁，现在这个风格一大堆信息堆砌在那里。但愿是中国互联网大会的专题报道而已，因为仔细看看原来的科技频道整体下移了。
从dos年代的简单(不得不简单)到windows下的花哨，又到浏览器中呈现内容的简单，然后又是浏览器中内容的繁复，现在又是google为代表的简洁，甚至包括容器-浏览器(chrome)的简洁。
我以为，界面的易用性和简介并不矛盾，有的界面我们还是需要复杂一些，漂亮一些，而有的则应该简单一些，清晰明了一些。个人从追求形式到追求用户体验走了很多弯路，还好，至少至少什么是不太对的。mind3项目实践中，也有这方面的探索。内容总是至上的。用户的行为流畅度和记忆则是其次。
看到这篇文章不错，暂时没有精力翻译成中文，大家凑合着读吧：
User interface design is my favorite part of the development process. The problems it poses are the most interesting, and thinking up solutions is a form of creative expression. Users consume our applications through the interface - one chance to either deliver a satisfying experience or fail miserably.
It is a topic I have very strong and passionate opinions of, and motivated by this beautiful prose by Jono over at Not the User’s Fault, these are my guidelines for user interaction design:
The first step in interaction design is to know who it will be interacting with. Users can be profiled on many criteria, such as age, technical orientation, vocation, cultural background and more. The user profiles created from segmentation of those criteria are called Personas.
While defining Personas is a common practice for designing user interactions, it might not be possible to engage in all the steps required to fully understand the needs and tendencies of the users they represent - such as interviews, surveys, focus groups etc.
This is especially true on the web, where projects have limited funds and are very quick from inception to implementation. In this case, experience and common sense rule the day - but it is still important to define the base Personas for which the interaction under design applies. Going through the process brings out some considerations that can influence design decisions.
Watching actual users go through an interaction is very important to learn about its effectiveness. Watching live users in action is the best learning experience in interaction design.
Knowing your users is the most basic step to interaction design. Yet, for each user type and interaction requirements there are as many possible implementations as there are interaction designers. At this point the interaction designer has to make choices for his users based on his experience, attitude and style.
It is sometimes hard to avoid designing an interaction for yourself rather than for your users. It is a natural tendency to try to solve interaction problems in a way that seems most natural to you, however that might not always be in the user’s best interest. Ideally, the interaction designer is a part of the target audience. When that is not the case, observing prospective users is very important to understanding their needs and deciding on the approach to solve their problems.
I believe that good UI design is more intuitive than science, and in that respect it is not so different from graphical design. However the two should never be confused - as I’ve argued in my post on common misconceptions in web development.
This old mantra is very much an integral part of a successful user interface. By keeping interactions as simple as possible you will:
A large part of the success of web-based services can be attributed to the simpler interfaces they provide compared to desktop solutions. Some of this is a result of technological limitations on the delivery software (ie, web browsers), but it’s hard to argue with the results.
There are several common ways to simplify interactions:
This is obviously a very partial list, but it’s a good start.
For me as a developer, the KISS principle is deeply ingrained in my thought process. Translating it into user interface design took some getting used to, but once it happened it became second nature.
In fact, many parallels can be drawn between UI design and software architecture design almost to the point you wonder why most developers aren’t interested in designing interactions (actually I know why - most developers resent users for constantly breaking their code. I know this since a couple years back I had the same mindset).
The tools available to us developers have evolved much in recent years, allowing us to create richer interfaces and interactions. With power comes responsibility - we need to apply discretion when using advanced techniques and tools, as to not confuse users. Breaking interface conventions by using new technologies where they are not needed is a mistake.
Conventions should only be broken when they result in a bad user experience or when the alternative is significantly better. The latter is very uncommon when the former does not apply, so be advised.
If you do design a unique interaction (or at least, one that isn’t in common use) - make it as obvious as possible for the user. A user can only begin to understand your new interaction when he realizes that something is different. Disguising buttons as links, hiding drop down menus in small target zones, making background changes to the document without notifying the user - all result in user confusion and a bad user experience.
The more you need to educate the user on how to complete an interaction - the less likely he will bother to. Good interactions are self explanatory.
Users interact with your application since they want to achieve a goal. That goal might be to complete an item purchase, to indulge a curiosity, to gather information and many others. There are several factors that affect the user’s motivation to complete an interaction:
Negative factors can be offset by a fourth one:
The fun factor in interactions is often ignored as they are considered strictly functional. It’s no coincidence the word functional begins with fun 
. The fun factor of an interaction increases motivation for completing it - it makes your application more unique and it increases the user’s tolerance for the interaction.
There are several ways to increase the fun factor of an interaction:
Making your interface prettier will have a positive effect on your users’ perception of it. It’s no secret that most of the illusion of Apple’s superior OS interface is made on the grounds of aesthetics.
Computer games have some of the best interfaces of any computer software, and it’s no coincidence. You can make your interactions more gamely by adding feedback, reward the user for completing steps and transmit the feeling that the interaction is a part of the user’s journey towards his goal, rather than a functional requirement that he must take care of.
The user’s time and patience are limited. Advance the interaction as much as you can with each user input. Make the user feel the interaction is smart and that it is working with him towards completion.
Those are my thoughts on user interaction design, born out of my experience in web development and of my introspection as a long-time user. If you are interested in user interface design, the GNOME Human Interface guidelines are as good as reference as you will find. My favorite web authors on the subject include Jono at Not the User’s Fault, Bill Scott at Looks Good Works Well and Aza at Aza’s Thoughts.
看来，wordpress 2.5是一个不错的升级，功能组织上比原来严禁和合理很多，后台中很多新的设计非常棒，url链接的直接修改，插件的自动升级很人性化。
但就blog功能来说，wp已经做的非常不错了，如何围绕用户体验将使用门槛降低，让常用操作更加便捷，wp的开发者给互联网产品设计人员提供了一个很好的榜样。
并且发现一直在safari下不能正常使用的visual编辑模式也比较正常了。
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