With these guidelines you get a very extensive and detailed reference library that you can base your own graphical user interface on.

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The Material Design framework offers a lot a basic design principles that tap deep into how humans can be supported in easily understanding graphical user interfaces and events in them.

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The illusion of life tells the story of how to recreate the basic visual properties that humans rely on to make sense of behaviour in the world. It took Disney and his teams careful exploration to learn this language. The animation principles are the cornerstone of how the iPhone makes sense even to very small children.

John Lasseter played a key role in bridging the Walt Disney Animation principles into the graphical user interfaces of the iPod and the iPhone thanks to his collaboration with Steve Jobs. This article shares his ideas on 3D animation principles.

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