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Key function out of reach
Above is a screen shot from a list/task/project management service, Toodledo. I haven’t used it in a while, and when I came back to it earlier this semester, it took me a few long seconds to find the...
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How many hands do you need?
I don’t know if it’s because most unhealthy things are so easy to do, but I do appreciate the user-centered design of this type of soda dispensers. I was able to hold a sandwich and a heavy purse, get...
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Goal-centered user description
If you recall (and I hope you do) our readings from the Cooper book and our class discussion of personnae, you’ll remember that this framework for understanding users begins with very general personal...
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Scenarios and research participant recruitment
You read in the Cooper book about creating context scenarios, and I wonder what you thought about them: Helpful? Not helpful? Too much writing? Not relevant to me because I’ll NEVER create software/a...
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How do you minimize work in usability testing?
You’ve read in Cooper ch. 8 that one of the main goals of applying design principles to interfaces is to minimize work. This is, indeed, consistent with the assumptions about humans of information...
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Visualizing data
I know that one of the most difficult challenges of your final report and presentation is figuring out the most effective ways to communicate data. It takes scientific precision, artistic creativity,...
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Flip the scale!
Let’s assume you have a scale that measures a variable “hotness” on a scale of 1 to 5. According to most people’s intuition, 1 is less hot, and 5 is very hot. A shorter column in a graph means less...
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