Posted by: niuse on: April 23, 2009
To begin with, What is usability? The simple answer is: Usability is a term used to measure the quality of users’ experience and ease of use with a given system. (We are limiting our scope of ’system’ to be that of a computer software system – either standalone or web based). Usability quantifies the extent [...]
Posted by: niuse on: January 13, 2009
by Stephen Turbek on 2006/09/19
How many times have you been asked, “So, is the new website going to be black and white too?” after presenting your wireframes to a client or a usability test subject?
This question is [...]
Posted by: niuse on: December 11, 2008
Web Application Form Design
by Luke Wroblewski
“Input elements should be organized in logical groups so that your brain can process the form layout in chunks of related fields.” –HTML: [...]
Posted by: niuse on: December 10, 2008
Norman, D. A. (2002). Emotion and design: Atrractive things work better. Interactions Magazine, ix (4), 36-42.
ABSTRACT
Advances in our understanding of emotion and affect have implications for the science of design. Affect changes the operating parameters of cognition: positive affect enhances creative, breadth-first thinking whereas negative affect focuses cognition, enhancing depth-first processing and minimizing distractions. Therefore, [...]
