Interacting with Information
- Design Essentials
- feedback
- essential information
- clear what has been achieved
- Standard symbol
- graphically?
- essential elements
- navigation
- link collection
- visibility
- clear what is for
- standard symbol?
- like car controls
- affordance
- how an element will be used
- like cup handle
- sign for unobvious
- eg. scroll bar
- eg shaded button
- simplicity
- subtasks
- structure
- meaningful
- group related
- consistency
- easy to learn/remember
- related grouped
- same across sign
- similar use similar look: OK and cancel
- meet expectations the same way
- tolerance
- reduce errors
- easier to recover from them
- eg. grey out impossibilities
- eg. variouis date imputs
- Recoverability
- backwards error recovery
- undo and try again
- forwards error recovery
- accepts error and tries for goal
- Designing for the Web
- use essentials here
- make important stand out
- fast loading
- focus
- on what user will want
- home page
- who
- about
- news
- navigation
- title
- interior pages
- consistency
- up-to-date
- links out
- correct spellings
- Important visible sans scrolling
- Data Visualisation
- text
- sans serif better for screen
- rewrite to improve line length
- numeric data
- decide type
- draw eye to comparison if app.
- title
- right scale to not be misleading
- data ink
- essential
- opp. non data ink = bell whistle
- chartjunk
- redundency
- avoid content free decoration
- selection
- knowing the target user can help
- representation
- colours etc.
- type of chart eg. gantt
- User Interface
- HCI - human computer interaction
- usability
- specified users
- effectiveness
- goals
- efficiency
- not too many resourses
- satisfaction
- comfort
- user centred design
- who are the users
- what is their experience
- what do they want
- their tasks?
- their expectations
- how currently achieved?
- will their goals be changed?