 What do I read to gain a better understanding of old-school properly-desktop UI design? By "properly-desktop" I mean multiple windows, primarily oriented at mice and keyboards. With power users in mind, pretty much the opposite of the modern "clean" stuff. I'm good at copying things and picking up patterns from other people's work, but I'd like to get better at designing my own desktop UIs from scratch. 5 comments
 @grishka “About Face” by Alan Cooper maybe? Haven't read it personally (remember it being referenced in a UI/UX course I took back in the days though) but the older editions seem to fit the bill, the 3rd one is from 2007:  @grishka kinda late to this but check out older versions of the Macintosh interface guidelines. Here's one from 1995 http://interface.free.fr/Archives/Apple_HIGuidelines.pdf but even some of the later ones are solid. https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/189487 @grishka also this one to balance out the Apple stuff https://rauterberg.employee.id.tue.nl/lecturenotes/MS-Official-GUI-2001.pdf |
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Is Jacob Nielsen's "Designing Web Usability" still relevant? It's certainly old-school!