Rift: Customizing Your UI and Controls UPDATED

The online Rift manual has a section about the UI (pp. 12-24) that explains your action bars, the various panels (character, guild, raid panels, etc.) and more.
http://www.riftgame.com/en/docs/RIFT_Manual_EN.pdf

However, the best overall UI explanation I've found is on This Is Not A Rift's website as it covers clearly how to customize your UI.
http://thisisnotarift.blogspot.com/2011/02/ui-how-to-change-it-what-you-can-change_16.html

This article covers camera controls, movement, interacting with objects, describes the maps, and goes into great detail about various  combat actions that are exclusive to various classes.
http://rift.zam.com/wiki/Rift_101-_Gameplay_%28Rift%29

RiftLift.com is a site dedicated to customized UIs in the game.
http://riftlift.com/

They will allow folks registered on their site to submit their UIs to the site so others (you may have to register to download but this is not clear) can download it to a character. I believe Rift makes it easy to copy the UI you have set up for one character to your other characters.
http://riftlift.com/how-to/54-installing-one-of-our-ui

UPDATE:  Rift Junkies has posted a critique of the game interface.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/2011/03/14/from-the-foundation-up-an-examination-of-rifts-interface/

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Geist, the Addon that Creates Action Bars

A explanation of how Geist works to create a 25 button action bar under your mouse pointer when you click a button to bring it up.  Here is how it works.  Note the recommendation that you also download ButtonFacade to work with Geist.
http://www.wow.com/2010/06/10/addon-spotlight-geist/

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Keybinding Across Alts

If you play several alts, you've run into the same problem Bear Flank has.  You'll find yourself trying to use the wrong spell or whatever because you temporarily forgot which character you are playing.  Here's how Sarah worked out a common action bar layout for all her characters.
http://thebearflank.blogspot.com/2009/11/action-bar-unification.htmlhttp://thebearflank.blogspot.com/2009/11/action-bar-unification.html

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