Ergonomie web illustrée user advocacy and human-centered design Published 1986 (re-issued 2002). 2013 revised edition. The Design of Everyday Things (DOET) was first published in 1988. The book is about how people interact with technology. The principles of interaction are mostly unchanged -- they still apply today. But the technology is very different. I did a thorough revision. The revised and expanded paperback will be available November 5. Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. Buy from Amazon.com Sample chapters and miscellany
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10 Heuristics for User Interface Design Download a free poster of Jakob’s 10 Usability Heuristics at the bottom of this article. #1: Visibility of system status The design should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within a reasonable amount of time. When users know the current system status, they learn the outcome of their prior interactions and determine next steps. Predictable interactions create trust in the product as well as the brand. #2: Match between system and the real world The design should speak the users' language. The way you should design depends very much on your specific users. When a design’s controls follow real-world conventions and correspond to desired outcomes (called natural mapping), it’s easier for users to learn and remember how the interface works. #3: User control and freedom Users often perform actions by mistake. When it's easy for people to back out of a process or undo an action, it fosters a sense of freedom and confidence. #4: Consistency and standards
Persuasive Navigation The web professional's online magazine of choice. In: Columns > IAnything Goes By Jeff Lash Published on December 17, 2002 Persuasive navigation is navigation that persuades a user to do something. Persuasive navigation is one aspect of a site built on persuasive architecture. Persuasive navigation vs. calls to action On many sites, regular navigation is supplemented by calls to action that will hopefully get the user to follow a particular navigation path. A call to action tells users to do something—Apply Now, Find Out More, Buy This, Sign Up Now—whereas persuasive navigation gives people a reason to do something. A call to action is generally considered outside of the navigation framework, since it is supplemental to the primary navigation. The phrase “call to action” implies that the site is placing a call to the users and that they need to answer it. Putting persuasion to use Once the power of persuasion is understood, it is time to put it to use. “ The easy answer: Money.
Basics and Implementation of Predictive Collision Detection Few days ago, I wrote a post about why time based animations are better than frame based animations. However, in animations done as a function of time, some serious problems could arise. One of them is that your regular collision detection techniques might fail if the frame rate is lower than acceptable. This problem occurs if you are using basic collision detection techniques like calculating the intersection of object’s bounds per frame. This problem can also be seen even with high frame rates combined with high object speeds. Ordinary Collision Detection If you are not sleepy yet, then let’s take a look on what is predictive collision detection. Pretty simple, the ball bounces back after hitting the platform. (Click on the refresh icon on the embed above if you missed the show.) Predictive Collision Detection (or Sweep Testing) Now this problem can be solved if we get to know about the future coordinates of the ball. Now the collision is perfecto! Share:
Is Information Visualization the Next Frontier for Design? | Can You've seen them. Those tag clouds in the right-hand column of Web sites with jumbled type of varying weight and size indicating the relative usage of words. Tag clouds may be the most common example of an emerging field known as "information visualization," an offshoot of graphic design devoted to the clear display of complex information. Visualization got a big boost during the political season from newspapers and networks. If we're going to live in a world driven by data, the thinking goes, we need a simple means of digesting it all. Visualization has been used prominently, and to dazzling effect, at The New York Time s , where a collaboration of art directors and programmers turns masses of data into intuitive displays, like the interactive map of the swine virus shown above. Another example: the Tokyo firm Information Architects created this Web Trend Map which presents the most popular Internet sites in the intelligible graphic language of a subway system.
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Carousels Carousels, image rotators, sliders, featured content modules, whatever the hell you want to call them — they’re everywhere on the web. There’s a 95% chance you’ve created one. But despite being so omnipresent, little is said about our splashy little auto-rotating frenemies. Last year in the Biodome at Breaking Development Conference, I was discussing (read: screaming about) carousels with Erik Runyon, web developer extraordinaire at Notre Dame University. So in the spirit of keeping the conversation going, here’s my thoughts and considerations around carousels. Carousel Considerations Make sure you actually need one I’ll go out on a limb and say that most carousels simply don’t need to exist. Carousels are organizational crutches INT. I suspect this is why a good number of carousels exist. It’s far harder to have an honest content strategy conversation and determine what truly deserves to be on the homepage. Carousels are complex Carousels introduce a level of complexity to an interface.