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111. User Interface Design Terms Explained: Affinity Diagrams
November 16, 2010
The Affinity Diagram is a tool used within project management and other fields such as interface design (e.g. prior to creating wireframes or UI prototypes) to sort large amounts of ideas into groups for review and analysis. The affinity diagram methodology was created in the 1960s by Jiro Kawaki...
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112. Protecting your user interface design against the plague of common usability mistakes
November 16, 2010
There is a plethora of information available to web designers about how to create interface designs that are characterized by optimal usability. Yet web designers continue to make ...
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113. Contextual Design as a User Interface Design Method
November 08, 2010
What is Contextual Design?
Contextual Design is a User-Centered Design process that was developed by Hugh Beyer and Karen Holzblatt. It gathers information for the purposes of understanding how users work in order to create user interface designs (or other products) th...
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114. Usability Terms Explained: Contextual Design - Part II
October 23, 2010
What happens during Data Consolidation, Visioning, and Storyboarding? Data consolidation is the level at which individual interviews are analyzed. A good method of processing observations from a bottom-up design approach (piecing together systems to give rise to grander s...
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115. Usability Terms Explained: Contextual Design - Part I
October 23, 2010
What is Contextual Design? The Contextual Design methodology, developed by Hugh Beyer and Karen Holzblatt, is a User Centered Design process used to gather information and understand how users work in order to create |
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116. Usability Terms Explained: Ethnography and Its Role in User Interface Design
October 04, 2010
What is Ethnography and how does it relate to user interface design? Ethnography is a research methodology that is most commonly used in the social sciences, particularly in anthropology and sociology. Its purpose is to gather empirical data relative to humans and their ...
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117. Usability Terms Explained: How to conduct an ethnographical usability test?
October 04, 2010
How to conduct an ethnographical usability test James Hom’s Usability Methods Toolbox (usability.jameshom.com) provides a good example of how to carry out a usability test using the method of ethnography. Hom asserts that testers should take on the spirit of an a...
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118. User interface design terms explained: Gender HCI as a usability method
September 28, 2010
What is Gender HCI and what does it have to do with user interface design? Gender HCI is a subcategory of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). HCI concerns itself with the design and evaluation of interactive systems for human beings, such as
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119. User Interface Design Terms explained: Memorability and its effect on Usability
September 21, 2010
What is memorability? Within the context of usability and interface design, memorability refers to the user's ability to leave a program and then remember how to use it w...
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120. Desirability and Interface Design
September 21, 2010
“Companies that once obsessed over how to engineer new products must now also obsess over how to reverse–engineer the desires of their consumers. This is more than just a matter of market research. It is fundamental to every decision you make.” <...
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