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. A user interface is well designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would as hillel said everything else is commentary all the other rules of good ui design are just corollaries. 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. Book description 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