Admin User Interface Design

Although I'm a code monkey, I'm obsessed with usability. Thats why I found this post on Admin Templates at Most Inspired rather interesting. Its not that they expounded theory, which I would have liked more, but they did show off several clean and functional admin interfaces. A lot of people seem to forget that the admin interface only has one purpose: help the admin manage the system. Give them easy navigation and give them a clean design that doesn't overshadow the content, and you're good to go.

 

Simplified User Interface

Ever wasted time trying to figure out how to do something in an application? I know I've sat and cursed at badly designed user interfaces, just as everyone else has, and thanks to an awesome book, Designing the Obvious by Robert Hoekman Jr., I've been thinking about user interface design nearly every day.

Whether we like to admit it or not, every page on the internet is at heart a user interface; a website's design really isn't anything other then a UI for that site's content. Sure its not an application, but hard to find buttons and links are just as annoying as hard to find settings and options.

 
Jon Hartmann, July 2011

I'm Jon Hartmann and I'm a Javascript fanatic, UX/UI evangelist and former ColdFusion master. I blog about mysterious error messages, user interface design questions, and all things baffling and irksome about programming for the web.

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