8 Golden Rules of Interface Design

Hello Guys,
Tonight i will give you information about Eight Golden Rules, Hmmmm what is that?

What ? Egg Golden Rolls ? That so yummy... but not that rolls ,guys! lol
I want to share the 8 rules that we must use it to build an interface for user (it can be a software, games etc).
I will make you more easy to remember that with my abstraction!
Here we go, lets read this 8 rules first and remember SCCUFETS!
Okay, Lets go for the first one!

1. Consistency. -C
"Success in a life is about our consistency in something we dedicated." Im always remember that statement, i dont know who said that, but that words really give me some motivation. hell yeah, Consistency really needed in every part, on iOS there is always the same on icon and another. And so in Windows it is always an option "OK" or "Cancel" etc, it all same and consistent that make it easy to use for users.

2. Shortcut. -S
How about some feature that make the user more easy to use our software or web? Yeah you need to make a shortcut. That shortcut really make something more simple and easy, it can be a shortcut to instant make something user mostly used and etc. Thats important guys!

3. Feedback. -F
We really need this one, feedback! let me ask you, if you want to login a social networking. but then when you think you enter a right username and password but it always error and there is no feedback like "wrong password" or "wrong username" and just 1 word, "ERROR". Then how can you know where the error was?

4. Give more Complicated Task. (Task) -T
You ever install some softwares right? It sure that when you install that, it will be a step by step that you need to completed before it installed. How about in that step, it only show some simple detail about how to install from one to one? For a noobs, it can be really hard to follow that step! So, we need more complicated task guys! to give more information step for users!

5. Offer Simple Error Handling. (Error) -E
Try to design software that not easy to make a critical error. If it ggoing to error, give a simple explanation where the error come from and how to clean that error. If there is no ERROR, It will make users more HAPPY! :D

6. Easy to Back Previous Time. (Undo) -U

Of course this is really important! You ever use this one right? Ctrl + Z. Yeah this is the popular one, used in mostly software. We can back to the previous time before, hell yeah this make user not afraid to explore more about that software because it can be undo.

7. Make the User feel the Control. (Control) -C
Expert user really bored with the simple design of some web or software. Make sure they can customize their own web and they can design with all of their imagination. It can improve the creativity of user.

8. Keep it Simple! (Simple) -S
Human have a limited short-term memory, so how about make something simple? It can make people to easy using that without needed tutorial again when they want to use it over and over again. Like an search engine Google, it only have a simple textbox. Of course anyone can easy understanding it.

Remember SCCUFETS guys!
10/19/12, iast