introduction
1. human
2. computer
3. interaction
4. paradigms
5. design basics
6. software process
7. design rules
8. implementation
9. evaluation
10. universal design
11. user support
12. cognitive models
13. socio-organizational
14. comm and collab
15. task models
16. dialogue
17. system models
18. rich interaction
19. groupware
20. ubicomp, VR, vis
21. hypertext and WWW
references

CHAPTER 5
interaction design basics

outline

links

resources

exercises

• Hawaii missile alert false alarm - when usability goes wrong (Washington Post); also shorter report in the Guardian (no paywall)
• Designing the use experience (PDF, 1.6Mb) - the User Professionals Association (UPA) poster showing key stages of design process as a 'snakes and ladders' game
• Design Council
• UX Myths - challenges misconceptions and popular myths about usability and user experience
• Trace Research and Development Center - universal design
• Boxes and Arrows: The Design behind the Design
• notes about design from paranoidfish.org
• Personas – introduction to personas at The Learning Design Grid
• Persona Card – pro-forma to help you make your own personas
• Scenarios - part of a suite of usability resources at Information & Design, Melbourne, Australia
• Dialogical techniques for the design of web sites - IJHCS paper by Erskine et al on their use of scenario-based design in the evaluation and redesign of a Web site
• Incorporating Navigation Research Into a Design Method - a UsabiltyNews article summarises this talk by Victor Lombardi. In particular he argues that more ssystematic navigation designis needed as opposed to current over-reliance on testing.
• e3 online! as others see - a brief introduction to colour blindness
• www.vischeck.com - colour blindness links, plus online tools and downloads to enable you to see how things look for colour blind users
• balsamiq for classrooms - this is a UX wireframe tool available free for educational use
• Zebra Tables - a nice article by David Miller about producing readable tables in CSS.