ITX3000 – Le8 (20Mar2016)

1. Content: <Design Guidelines – Week 6>
   1. User acceptance: usability, user handling the system;
   2. User experience: reuse of users’ experience;
   3. Interface design principles:
      1. Nielsen’s 10 usability heuristics
      2. Shneiderman’s 8 golden rules
      3. Norman’s principles
   4. Common principles
      1. Consistency: Save button of Microsoft product;
      2. Affordances: push / pull
      3. Feedback of actions to users: passwords / status; frequent / infrequent;
      4. Visibility: progress / speed;
      5. Constraints: buttons
      6. Mappings: Left to right
      7. Error: eg. error alert “invalid input” vs suggestion of spelling tip, necessary field;
      8. Flexibility and efficiency use: eg. hot keys; eg. give level of users; templates & themes;
      9. Aestetic and minimalist design: Google sign;
      10. Help and documentation: tool tips;
2. References
3. Follow-ups
   1. Nielsen’s 10 usability heuristics
   2. Shneiderman’s 8 golden rules
   3. Norman’s principles
   4. Trello account for pairs work

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