Category: User Experience

  • Kat.countiss skins2 View more PowerPoint from basementcat (Above: Presentation of screens. Flip through to see the task flow.) Post Critique: The theme I could extract from today’s critique was “hierarchy.” Despite my best efforts, it isn’t enough to show people where to click by color alone. All the buttons on this home page are the…

  • (Above: Pete’s shirt button– I think one day I’m going to make an interface where this is a button you must press. Where it goes, I cannot yet say.) Tim showed the class how to do stuff in Photoshop to make our interfaces more professional, but truly this stuff comes with years of practice and…

  • (Above) Before and (Below) After Critique My team is designing a campaign for SCCA’s Summer and Evening Program. Though I’ve had my two cents for the other designers on this project on their assignments (we divided the work so that one of us does poster/print ads/web design– I got web design) my work has come…

  • Design me a chair. What do you need or want from a chair? What is the average user of a chair? Size? Needs? Wants? Comfort? What is the maximum range of variety in these users? What can I design to fulfill most of their needs? This is user-centered design. Firstly, we are human. This means…

  • Jakob Nielsen is the hypocritical guru of usability. Go to his site (useit.com) and you’ll see a list of blue underlined links that relate to his usability genius. His bud Donald Newman created the “desktop” metaphor and continues to emphasize user-centered design, but this website still looks like the 90s. (Good content, though.) Let me…

  • Sa mapp presentation View more PowerPoint from basementcat (above: the slides for my presentation for Seattle Art Museum’s app development– what I have so far) I’m currently at the task flow stage, right up to the point where I start wireframing. I learned from Tim last thursday that Site Maps don’t have to show the…

  • Above: Google Analytics example (it’s free, sign up for your site!) It sounds intimidating, but metrics just refers to measuring stuff and getting that from your website just takes a little bit of code that you plant like a wire in an FBI agent’s jacket. Once inserted, it remains unnoticed by the user. (Google analytics…