clipped from: en.wikipedia.org In computing, Ben Shneiderman's Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design are user interface design rules described in Designing the User Interface. Shneiderman proposed this collection of principles that are derived heuristically from experience and applicable in most interactive systems after being properly refined, extended, and interpreted.
To improve the usability of an application it is important to have a well designed interface and these "Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design" are claimed to be a guide to good interaction design.