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Meet the pro: Pat Neeman
Interesting titles from Pat’s career guide. Today’s virtual guest was Pat Neeman (twitter). Please take a look at his comprehensive UX career guide and check out Pat’s newest project, Audience...
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Lecture summary: Excise
We discussed excise and examples of excise in class today. Please bring more – they make wonderful show and tells! We’re so used to excise that we barely notice it anymore, so it’s good to draw...
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Lecture summary: Heuristic evaluation
In addition to the slides, please take a look at the Apple OS X Interface Guidelines; iOS Interface Guidelines and most of all the general usability guidelines on usability.gov. Many other companies...
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Lecture summary: Usability evaluation
Today we talked about why and how to conduct usability evaluation. We identified several types, ranging from informal interviews, focus groups, cognitive walkthroughs, to formal usability testing....
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Lecture summary: Usability reporting
Please remember the 5 point homework for Wed April 10: Review the syllabus and the blog to refresh your perspective of what we’ve learned so far in CGT 256. Then, write on a piece of paper 1-3 items...
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Final project resources from students
I noticed several students tweeted links to resources that can be helpful for your final project. I suspect that the people who might need these resources might not be on Twitter. I’ve asked students...
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Lecture summary: Client communication
We discussed that client communication can be the hardest part of the job – both for freelance web designers and UX practitioners. It is important to put effort into educating stakeholders (clients,...
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Persona – when?
One of the most common questions in the small homework about confusing points was when to use personas. Please see this Twitter conversation on the topic. What do you get out of it? What answer do you...
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Best interface: NO interface
You MUST read this article from Cooper journal – The best interface is no interface. It helps you think about many important things we’ve learned in this course. Principle 1 illustrates how use cases...
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Final project description
Please see below (and on Blackboard) the instructions for the final projects. Please ask questions in the comments below. View this document on Scribd Filed under: Author: Dr. V, Class Assignments...
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Lecture summary: Cross-channel UX
Today we thought about cross-channel user experience design. We defined the term, and came up with some guidelines of our own before reviewing the guidelines from the book Pervasive Information...
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Lecture summary: User-centered design process at a glance
We also looked at the entire process and discussed that: You do not always do all the steps. The more complex the project, the more of these steps and tools you need. It can take 2 weeks or 5 years. We...
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Lecture summary: Mobile usability
Today we discussed the debate between Nielsen and Clark briefly summarized as: Nielsen: mobile should be separate from desktop and offer a customized experience with fewer options than desktop Clark:...
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Affordances explained
In this brief video (under 2 min.) Donald Norman, who brought the concept of “affordances” into HCI, explains it: Please let me know in the comments if this helps your understanding of this concept....
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Show & Tell: OK
Screen shot from… can you guess the product? I like to critique interfaces by referring to the usability principles they apply well or violate, but this case is so absurd, I’m SPEECHLESS. (No, this is...
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Telling your portfolio’s story
Here is a very simple example of how you could lay out the steps you took to develop your final project. The screen shot below is from the same website. This is a more creative way of showing the...
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Review for final exam
The final exam will cover concepts discussed since the midterm, but also the user-centered design process in its entirety. Click the Lecture Summary tag or category name on the right to see all of Dr....
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Excise example: Papers2
One of the ways to avoid excise is to allow information entry where information is displayed. Asking the user to click a button to enter EDITING mode is excise – it makes the user work to fit the...
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March 27 Class: Typography and Color
Learning Objectives: Define “style tile” and “mood board” and explain the difference between the two Integrate color and typography insights into creating a style tile Two very important concepts we...
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April 1 Class: Responsive Web Design and Accessibility
Learning Objectives: Explain the basics of what CSS is and what can be done with CSS. Define responsive design Explain the main things to take into consideration when designing responsive UX: layout...
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