---
title: "User Interface Design For Programmers"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/1/user-interface-design-for-programmers.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/1/user-interface-design-for-programmers.html"
published: "2003-07-01T19:02:00"
updated: "2003-07-01T19:02:00"
tags: ["Cool Articles", "Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Just discovered this gem on Joel's site: User Interface Design For Programmers It's a full book, and its very very good an entertaining. Recommended!"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# User Interface Design For Programmers

By Roy Osherove July 1, 2003 In [Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles), [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published July 1, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Just discovered this gem on Joel's site:

**[User Interface Design For Programmers](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/fog0000000249.html)**

It's a full book, and its very very good an entertaining. Recommended!

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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