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Interaction Design Guest Lecture - UVA CS 3240
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Hinweis der Redaktion
I chose to title this Interaction Design because while it isn’t the broadest of the disciplines discussed here, it is broad enough without becoming vague or partially irrelevant. IxD is the closest match I can think of to the set of concerns most relevant to software engineering and development.
Ergo…
Technically, the Venn diagram should be a 3D tetrahedron. Technically, it should also have about seven or more disciplines and be some kind of crazy 3D shape I don’t know the word for. But if it was a tetrahedron…User-centric design: allUsability design: IA, CP, GDUser experience design: allUser interface design: CP, GD, IDInteraction design: allHuman factors engineering: CP, ID, IAErgonomics: CP, IDTake questions.
Also: game systems. Before this generation, what was the UX of any system?Wii is fastest-selling system in history
N-Gage: side-talkin’ was part of the user experience, and that user experience was to feel like an idiot every time you tried to use your phone.
* Kindle is probably about to get beat up and have its lunch money stolen, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t have a very good user experience. User satisfaction has been good, and it wrote the book on modern e-readers with the concept of an available-anywhere bookstore, long battery life, and eye-friendly screen.
Allow me to digress.Emotional affect, by way of Don Norman: Consider a plank resting on two cinder blocks. Walk down it.Now raise it 200 ft. off the ground. It’s a different game, but shouldn’t be.Happy people think breadth-first, depressed/frustrated people think depth-first.Breadth-first tends to solve problems more easily.Happy person -> fewer problems -> more gooder
Misapplying a design pattern will often do far more harm than good.
Google Wave scrollbars are awful.So how do we feel about it? Ready to talk about making it happen? Any questions?
Not really “doing usability” but “implementing a user-centered design process”
If you’re Netflix, for example, it’s better not to have your developers refer to a “MailableInventoryItem” when they could just call it a “DVD”
With the definition of “mental model”, the goal becomes somewhat self-evident.Mental model: how your user perceives the system to work.
Office 2007 ribbon was usability tested using Powerpoint. When a user stated he “really liked that the mouse wheel changed tabs in the ribbon,” the designers ended up adding that functionality.
Usability professionals are still a good idea, but reading Rocket Surgery Made Easy will help more than it hurts for most.
Educate everyone on the teamConsider UX early and often (always)Information/Architecture - Each affects the other (not a fan of this bit-- fix?)Information: the contentArchitecture: the system displaying the contentFresh perspectives whenever possibleInterviews and user researchMarket surveys-- what is everyone else doing?Usability tests (fast and cheap)Hallway interviews and testsStay up to date with the current state of the art through research, conferences, etc.Know your user and let them design for youAlways ALWAYS involve users or representatives of the users if possibleUse the terminology they would use, even in developmentGet as much user input as possible