Topics

Topics

1. Accessibility & Internationalisation

   • accessibility?
     • is the measure of how effectifily all pople with disibilites can access and use a web pages
   • screen magnifiers
     • software which zooms in one small area of the screen
   • Functional cognitive disability

2. 9-design patterns

   • Flow
     • a mental state of heightened productivity
   • excise
     • the effort that is required to be able to do the work
   • patterns
     • pre-bulit interface solutions to a wide range of common interface problems
   • visual flow
     • the movement of the users eyes over the page
   • visual framework
     • all pages has same laout and style and handle different content

3. -8 mobile dev

   • context
     • any information that characterize the situation of an entity
   • context-aware
     • application observe the who, where , when, what of entitiy
   • vertical stack
     • order the mobile pages' content in a vertical colimn with minimal use of side elemnts
   • filmstrip
     • top level pages are side by side and the user swipes between them

4. 7-behaviour and anaylyics

   • usability studies - user testing
     • Measured observation of users' behaviour as they engage with your application
     • goal: measure the effectivness of a feature set in application
     • formal usability lab
       • facility design
       • system design
     • Guerrilla user testing
       • the art of pouncing on long poeple in cafes and public spaces, and quickly filming them while they use a website for a coupl of minuts

5. 6-Design Framework and Protoyping

   • context scenarios
     • brainstorm
     • write contect scenarios
     • data and functional needs
     • user experience requierments
   • data needs
     • basic unit of data
   • functional needs
     • basic units of functionality
   • posture
     • the attitude the application presents to the user
   • fidelity
     • low fidelity
       • more like sketch missing details
     • hight fidelity
       • similar to finsighed product
   • horizontal prototypes
     • prototype across a breadth of features
   • vertical prototypes
     • exploring a specific feature in detail
   • storyboard
     • set of drawing about what your interface does and how it is used to accomplish tasks in real usage scenario
   • mental models
     • mental representation of how something works in real life

6. 4-Observation and Feedback

   • formative-qualitative
     • usabiliti ttesting is at the start of the design phase, test with paper-prototype and similar
   • quantitative-summative
     • usability testing during latter half of the development phase, testing with actuly working prototypes
   • ethnography
     • ethnography developed as a way to explore the everyday realities of pople l
     • holistic
       • tiny details into big picture context
     • natural settings:
       • directlly observe in the things that you are tying to study
     • descriptive
       • focus on recording behaviour

7. 3- Usability guidelines

   • nielsen's principles
     • visibility of system status
     • match between systems and real world
     • user control and freedom
     • consistency and standards
     • error prevention
     • recongination rather than recal
     • flexibility and efficenecy of use
     • aethetic and minimalist design
     • help users recogonize, and recover from errors
     • help documentation
   • design principles
     • proximity
     • visibility and visual feedback
       • prominence
         • bring items that are important to the fore.
       • opacity
         • bring items into focus
       • typeface
         • Guide attention
       • colour/contrast
         • Higher contrast or brighter colours will draw more attention.
   • Hick’s law
     • a mathematical formula describing how long it will take users to choose the item from a set of items
   • Fitts’ law
     • A mathematical formula that models how accurate users will be when moving the cursor between objects

8. 2-Users and ethics

9. 1- intro to usability

   • ISO usability
     • the range which a product can be used py users to acheve goals with effecteviness,effeciency, and satisfaction
   • Jakob Nielsen’s definition of usability
     • quality attribute that helps how a user interface are to use/ also methods for improving ease-ofuse