Description: Basic principles for designing the human interface to information systems, emphasizing computer-assisted systems. Major topics: users' conceptual models of systems, human information processing capabilities, styles of interfaces, and evaluation methods.
Textbook:
User Interface Design and Evaluation (2005)
Stone, Debbie, Caroline Jarrett, Mark Woodroffe, Shailey Minocha
Concepts:
- Introduction / Process of Design
- Learning about Users, their Tasks, and the Context of those Tasks
- Understanding the target audience
- Understanding the user's task
- Documenting the task: essential use cases, scenarios
- Errors in performing the task
- The user experience
- Task genres of special interest: searching, browsing, data entry
- The content/meaning associated with the task: information architecture
- Developing a Design
- From analysis to design requirements
- Making design decisions
- Documenting design decisions
- Specifying the Design in a Prototype
- Prototyping
- Documenting the design architecture
- Designing for the Web
- Interaction design
- Specific interaction styles
- Evaluating the Design
- Evaluation overview
- Usability inspection methods
- Planning a usability test: strategy & details
- Planning a usability test: conducting the test & analyzing the results
- Communicating the results of a usability test