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Product Management | Architecting Usability
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Category Archives: Product Management. Focus groups as a usability evaluation technique. September 11, 2012. A focus group brings together a group of users or other stakeholders to participate in a discussion of preprepared questions, led by a facilitator. A focus group could be used as an usability evaluation technique if the group is shown … Continue reading →. The impact of hardware devices on software ergonomics. August 19, 2012. Psychology for UX Design. Software requirements in a nutshell. Your app...
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Software requirements in a nutshell | Architecting Usability
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The impact of hardware devices on software ergonomics →. Software requirements in a nutshell. July 30, 2012. Are the features your product will have, in terms of the functions, actions, and behavior it will support. For example, some functional requirements for a word processor would be that it support bold and italic type, that it allow documents to be printed, and that it allows images to be embedded in documents. Of your product and project is defined by the set of requirements that need to be impleme...
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Author Archives: Kevin Matz. How to conduct heuristic inspections for evaluating software usability. January 1, 2013. Heuristics are “rule-of-thumb” design principles, rules, and characteristics that are stated in broad terms and are often difficult to specify precisely. Assessing whether a product exhibits the qualities embodied in a heuristic is thus a subjective affair. If you inspect … Continue reading →. Psychology for UX Design. Focus groups as a usability evaluation technique. September 11, 2012.
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How to build a visual hierarchy to express relationships between page elements | Architecting Usability
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Interaction design and usability for data persistence and transactions. Designing an interaction framework for your application’s tasks →. How to build a visual hierarchy to express relationships between page elements. July 15, 2012. The underlying structure of a page’s layout can be understood as a visual hierarchy. Take this page for example:. The navigation bar on the left-hand side of the page comes second in the visual hierarchy. When scanning the page, the viewer’s eye will tend to look first...
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Category Archives: Product Marketing. Software requirements in a nutshell. July 30, 2012. Requirements are statements of things that your product must achieve for it to be considered successful. If you are building a customized solution for a client, requirements express the wants and needs of your client. If you are building a … Continue reading →. End users vs. buyers. June 15, 2012. My book, Designing Usable Apps, is now available! Available in print and Kindle editions at Amazon.com. Interaction desi...
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The impact of hardware devices on software ergonomics | Architecting Usability
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Software requirements in a nutshell. Quantifying cognitive load and task efficiency →. The impact of hardware devices on software ergonomics. August 19, 2012. A product that is ergonomic. With a screen, keyboard, and a pointing device such as a mouse or trackpad, are comfortable for users sitting at a desk for a long period of time. And similar devices such as portable music players) are usually used for short bursts of activity while on the go. For more specialized applications, you might have a combina...
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Focus groups as a usability evaluation technique | Architecting Usability
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Analytics as a usability evaluation technique. How to conduct heuristic inspections for evaluating software usability →. Focus groups as a usability evaluation technique. September 11, 2012. Focus group discussions often tend to be dominated by one or two loud and opinionated participants, and the quieter participants often say little and go along with the group consensus. There is also the risk that the facilitator may consciously or unconsciously lead the discussion towards a particular outcome....
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How to conduct heuristic inspections for evaluating software usability | Architecting Usability
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Focus groups as a usability evaluation technique. How to conduct heuristic inspections for evaluating software usability. January 1, 2013. Are “rule-of-thumb” design principles, rules, and characteristics that are stated in broad terms and are often difficult to specify precisely. Assessing whether a product exhibits the qualities embodied in a heuristic is thus a subjective affair. To conduct a heuristic evaluation, you should choose several scenarios for various tasks that a user would perform. As ...
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What characteristics contribute to a positive user experience? | Architecting Usability
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How to design software to encourage flow states, concentration, focus, and productivity. What characteristics contribute to a negative user experience? What characteristics contribute to a positive user experience? July 5, 2012. There are many things that can cause users frustration and annoyance with software. The list of “don’ts” could become quite long, depending on how specific we get with particular problems. But we’d also like a list of “positive” characteristics associated with a...Is generally en...
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“Don’t make me think!”: Eliminating excise and reducing cognitive load | Architecting Usability
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Communicating your mental model to the user: Design models and the system image. Design techniques for reducing cognitive load →. 8220;Don’t make me think! 8221;: Eliminating excise and reducing cognitive load. July 3, 2012. Users interact with a software application by means of physical actions, such as:. Pressing individual keys or key combinations. Precisely aiming a pointing device (homing the mouse pointer onto a target). Clicking the mouse or touching and gesturing on the screen. Therefore, we shou...
