E-Learning, Usability, Knowledge Management etc. Just finished reading Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler.
The greatness of the book is its simplicity. Most of the principles are so obvious that we tend to forget during learning design. I’ll blog some gems collected from the book in non-sequential format. Short-term Memory. AM09 Submission. Yu-Hui ChenUniversity at Albany, State University of New YorkUniversity Libraries, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222Email: ychen@uamail.albany.edu Carol Anne GermainUniversity at Albany, State University of New YorkUniversity Libraries, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222Email: cg219@albany.edu Abebe RorissaUniversity at Albany, State University of New YorkDepartment of Information Studies, Draper Hall, Room 113, 135 Western Avenue, Albany, NY 12222Email: arorissa@albany.edu Introduction.
Www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/peterson/psy430s2001/Miller GA Magical Seven Psych Review 1955.pdf. Jakob Nielsen's Ten Usability Heuristics. Methods table. 6 things you didn't know about Heuristic Evaluations. Usability Heuristics. 10 Heuristics for User Interface Design. Visibility of system status The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time.
(Read full article on visibility of system status.) Match between system and the real world The system should speak the users' language, with words, phrases and concepts familiar to the user, rather than system-oriented terms.