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Graphical user interface and web conventions

By Steve Monas - Last updated: Monday, June 14, 2010

Visual interfaces were attempts to recreate accepted behavior patterns from daily life on the screen. Designers used these familiar patterns to attract casual surfers to interact with web pages. In due course, imitation led to the creation of a number of websites that followed similar patterns, and these evolved into simple, informal rules that were [...]