Anwenderorientierte Gestaltung
Da hat man sich die Mühe gemacht eine User Centered Design (UCD)-Studie (Usability Test, Befragung, Fokusgruppe, ...) zu organisieren, die Stichprobe sauber auszuwählen, entsprechende Anwender zu rekrutieren und zu befragen, die Daten auszuwerten und zu interpretieren ... und dann das: Die Ergebnisse treffen nicht die Erwartungshaltung bzw. die Selbsteinschätzung der... Weiterlesen
In diesem Video gibt Dr. Eric Schaffer (HFI) User Experience Tipps für die Geschäftsleitung von Unternehmen. Auch wenn es Werbung für die Dienstleistungen von Human Factors International ist, ist das Video sehr sehenswert: Siehe auchWhat Every CEO Needs to Know About UX... Weiterlesen
Das hier möchte ich Euch nicht vorenthalten: Ein sehr sehenswertes Video in dem zahlreiche UX Fachkollegen/-innen ihre Gedanken über die Verantwortung von UX Designern/-innen, die Herausforderungen und Möglichkeiten der digitalen vernetzten Welt, Designtrends, dem Internet der Dinge, Datenvisualierung und darüber, wie Design die Welt ein wenig besser machen kann, zum... Weiterlesen
Nachdem ich in meinem Artikel Personas sind kein Allheilmittel den "realistischen" Ansatz zur Erstellung von Personas nach Norman in den Vordergrund gestellt habe, möchte ich an dieser Stelle den Erstellungsprozess von "realistischen Personas" erläutern. Die Erstellung von "realistischen Personas" geschieht in der Regel in drei Schritten: 1. Sammlung und Grobbeschreibung,... Weiterlesen
In diesem sehenswerten Video erklärt Susan Weinschenk (Human Factors International), wie User Experience Design dazu beitragen kann, dass Software-Projekte erfolgreich werden. Unter anderem anhand dieses Zitats von Albert Einstein: Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage... Weiterlesen
Ich habe kürzlich in einem Interview mit Thorsten Wilhelm (eResult GmbH) über die aktuelle Entwicklung des "Insourcing" von Usability-Tests gesprochen. In der Tat klingt es erstmal aus Sicht eines unternehmensinternen Usability-Experten sehr verführerisch über ein eigenes Usability-Labor verfügen zu können. Ehrlich gesagt habe ich mir darüber auch schon öfter Gedanken... Weiterlesen
Thorsten Wilhelm (eResult) hat in seinem Vortrag auf dem heutigen UX Stammtisch Franken die Ergebnisse seiner eineinhalbjährigen Forschungsarbeit zur Messung von Emotionen mittels Hautleitwiderstand vorgestellt. Hintergrund für die Entwicklung dieses Verfahrens war der Bedarf von eCommerce-Anbieter zu erfahren, wie sich die Conversion Rate steigern lässt, ohne dabei Preismaßnahmen, wie z.B.... Weiterlesen
Wie lange haben sich Designer den Mund fusselig geredet, dass Design in Zeiten von reifer werdenden Märkten ein wichtiger Faktor zur Marktpositionierung, zur Differenzierung von Produkten und letztendlich für den Markterfolg ist. Diese Erkenntnis wird nun auch zunehmend von Analysten verbreitet. Beispielsweise haben die Analysten von Nucleus Research die Trends... Weiterlesen
User Experience ist ja an sich eine recht subjektive Sache. Wie gut bzw. wie schlecht diese ausfällt ist bekanntermaßen von den drei Faktoren: Anwender, Produkt und Nutzungskontext abhängig. Nun macht es das für interne Usability-Experten oder externe Usability-Dienstleister nicht leichter für die Verbesserung der User Experience eines Produktes zu werben.... Weiterlesen
3M stellt mit Visual Attention Service ein Produkt zur Ermittlung der Aufmerksamkeitsverteilung ohne Eyetracking vor. Der Dienst ermittelt automatisch die Gebiete eines Bildes, User Interfaces, usw. auf die das durchschnittliche Auge beim Erstkontakt blickt: 3M™ VAS 3.0 is the culmination of decades of cognitive and vision-science research. The technology behind... Weiterlesen
Ein schönes Zitat von Ken Pier, Xerox Parc zum Thema Erwartungshaltung und Innovation: I liken starting one's computing career with Unix, say as an undergraduate, to being born in East Africa. It is intolerably hot, your body is covered with lice and flies, you are malnourished and you suffer from... Weiterlesen
Diana Frank (büro für konzeption und gestaltung) hat sich in ihrem Vortrag mit dem Mythos von Einfachheit am Beispiel einer iPad-App für das Finanzwesen beschäftigt. Die iPad-App sollte externen Berater eines Unternehmens bei der Information und Beratung von Kunden unterstützen. Es sollte ein erster Prototyp entwickelt werden. Wichtiger Schritt in... Weiterlesen
Nick Finck (Blink Interactive) hat sich in seinem Vortrag mit Tools, Methoden und Strategie für die Gestaltung von mobilen User Interfaces beschäftigt und dabei ein paar knackige Definitionen für Sketching, Wireframes, Prototypes und Cross-Platform gebracht: Sketching is a low fidelity way to quickly iterate on design.Wireframes are simply a tool... Weiterlesen
Katrin Proschek (Georg-Simon-Ohm Hochschule Nürnberg) hat in ihrem Vortrag auf dem User Experience Stammtisch Franken (German UPA) ihre Erfahrungen mit Usability Testing in Äthiopien vorgestellt. In Äthiopien - ein Land mit einer Jahrtausende alten Geschichte - finden sich 80 Ethnien mit teilweise eigenen Sprachen sowie islamische und christliche Glaubensrichtungen. Außerdem... Weiterlesen
John Dirks (Research Director, Blink Interactive) hat ein paar interessante Details über eine UX Studie vorgestellt in der die Out of Box Experience der Xbox 360 getestet wurde. Die Studie umfasst ca. 200 Haushalte und wurde in 6 Ländern im Zeitraum von April 2010 und November 2011 durchgeführt. In der... Weiterlesen
Tolles Video vom World Usability Day über die Tücken von Usability Tests. Ich sag nur Liebe Testperson, finden Sie das Produkt nicht auch so toll wie ich?:... Weiterlesen
Dieses Video erklärt schön anschaulich die Tätigkeit des UX Designers: Siehe auchILUVUXDESIGN... Weiterlesen
Neil Hunt (Chief Product Officer von Netflix) hat folgendes Netflix Designprinzip benannt: Simple trumps complete.Nach der Interpretation von Jared Spool bedeutet es, dass eine Funktion, die von weniger als 5% der Anwender benutzt wird, eine Ablenkung für alle anderen Anwender darstellt und daher entfernt werden sollte. Ausgenommen sind Funktionen, die... Weiterlesen
Tom Krazit hat auf cnet.com einen sehr interessanten Artikel über User Research bei Google Instant und Google Buzz veröffentlicht. Hier ein paar spannende Details: Bevor Google Instant live gegangen ist, wurde die neue Suche sowohl von Google Mitarbeitern als auch im Usability Lab mit 160 Testpersonen getestet. Im Usability Labor... Weiterlesen
Christian Giordano hat auf seinem Blog über einen Prototypen für Ubuntu berichtet in dem neue Wege der Interaktion mit Fenstern ausprobiert wurden. Das ganze basiert auf der Idee, über die Sitzposition eines Anwenders die günstigste Einstellung für Anwendungsfenster automatisch auszuwählen. Dazu wird über die Webcam die Sitzposition aufgenommen und ausgewertet.... Weiterlesen
Daniel Meyer (Leiter Marktforschung Google Nord und Zentraleuropa) hat über Ansätze gesprochen, wie sich ein ein gutes Verständnis zum Nutzerverhalten im Web und dessen Auswirkungen, z.B. auf das Kaufverhalten, ermitteln lässt. Dies kann nach seiner Aussage nur schwer über Befragungen ermittelt werden, da sich die meisten Nutzer kaum erinnern, was... Weiterlesen
Inken Petersen und Rainer Gibbert (XING) haben in ihrem interessanten Vortrag über die Einführung von User Experience und der anwenderorientierten Entwicklung bei XING berichtet. Hier sind die aus meiner Sicht wichtigsten Stichpunkte: Bei XING wird User Centered Design mit agiler Softwareentwicklung verbunden. Dabei wird anstatt eines Sprint 0 die Anforderungsanalyse... Weiterlesen
37 verwertbare Rückmeldungen in 3 Tagen - echt großartig. Vielen Dank an alle, die den Fragebogen ausgefüllt haben. Hier sind nun die Ergebnisse der Online-Befragung zur Nutzung von Audio in deutschen Büros: Nutzung von Audio in deutschen Bueros FazitAuf Basis der Erkenntnisse kann folgende These abgeleitet werden: Für die Ausgestaltung... Weiterlesen
Daniel Markwig und Andreas Hauser (SAP) haben in ihrem spannenden Vortrag über den Entwicklungsprozess von Business ByDesign gesprochen. Hier sind ein paar Details und Erkenntnisse: SAP setzt bei Business ByDesign auf eine UI Pattern-basierte Bedienoberfläche. Diese besteht zu ca. 90% aus Screens, die mit UI Patterns gestaltet wurden und ca.... Weiterlesen
Wolfgang Bonhag, Martin Groß und ich haben in unserer Session - wie angekündigt - über den Einsatz von UI Patterns bzw. Normteilen bei der Gestaltung von Bedienoberflächen für Business-Software bei DATEV berichtet. Mir hat unser Vortrag viel Freude bereitet. Vor allem weil sich, trotz der nahenden Cocktail Party, ca. 70... Weiterlesen
Annett Hardt und Martin Schrepp (SAP) haben von ihren Erfahrungen bei der Umsetzung von Barrierefreiheit in Business-Software, insbesondere SAPs CRM Lösung, berichtet. Bei der Umsetzung der Regelungen und Empfehlungen für Barrierefreiheit (z.B. W3C) hat sich gezeigt, dass die aktuellen Richtlinien, welche sich meist auf Webseiten beziehen, nicht einfach auf Business-Software... Weiterlesen
Jhilmil Jain (Senior Lead UX bei HP Labs) hat ein Tool für die Durchführung von Tagebuchstudien vorgestellt. Für die, die Tagebuchstudien noch nicht kennen: Tagebuchstudien sind Studien bei denen Anwender ihre Erfahrungen und Interaktionen mit einem Produkt bzw. Service selbstständig mit Hilfe von Tagebüchern und anderen Hilfsmitteln aufzeichnen. Derartige Studien... Weiterlesen
Lene Nielsen hat in ihrem Vortrag die Ergebnisse aus 4 Studien aus den vergangenen Jahren vorgestellt, die sich mit der Nutzung von Personas und ähnlichen Ansätzen in interkulturellen Projekten beschäftigen. Dabei hat sie ein paar schöne Erkenntnisse zur Wahrnehmung angesprochen, die ich Euch nicht vorenthalten möchte: The participants connect persona... Weiterlesen
Gut gefallen hat mir der Vortrag von Theo Held, Martin Schrepp, Patrick Fischer (SAP) über den Einsatz von Skalierungsmethoden zur Entscheidungsfindung bezüglich der visuellen Gestaltung einer Bedienoberfläche (Farben, Formen, Bilder, etc.). Hintergrund die Session ist die Frage, wie man am besten zu guten Designentscheidungen kommt. Im Prinzip könnte man es... Weiterlesen
Thyra Rauch von IBM hat in ihrem Vortrag aufgezeigt, wie sie es bei IBM schafft sich als User Experience Professional erfolgreich in agilen Projekten einzubringen. Hier sind ein paar Ihrer Erkenntnisse: "Doing user work during Iteration 0 gives a bit of room to get it done, as does having non-GUI... Weiterlesen
Dieses Video gibt ein paar kleine Einblicke in die Art und Weise, wie Google Usability Tests veranstaltet. Ist zwar eher ein einführendes Video in das Thema Usability Test. Es enthält aber auch ein paar netten Details zur Durchführung bei Google. Siehe auchTake a tour of Google NYC Usability lab... Weiterlesen
Auf youtube gibt es einen Ausschnitt der Apple iPad Keynote zu sehen, in dem verschiedenen Multitouch-Gesten für Präsentation und Tabellenkalkulation auf Apples iPad vorgestellt werden:... Weiterlesen
Heute will ich mich mal wieder dem Thema "Schöne Produktgestaltung" widmen. Ich bin über einen sehr spannenden Artikel von Alain Breillatt gestolpert (danke an Lennart Hennigs). Darin schreibt er ... "We’re drowning in a sea of technological crap, because every product that is released to the market is a result... Weiterlesen
Heute möchte ich mich einer Herausforderung widmen, vor der häufig Teams stehen, die von einem klassischen Softwareentwicklungsprozess zur anwenderorientierten Entwicklung wechseln. Durch die umfangreiche Anforderungsanalyse des User Centered Design entsteht in den Teams oft das Gefühl, von der schieren Menge der identifizierten Anwendungsszenarien erschlagen zu werden. Wenn alle Fakten auf... Weiterlesen
Vor kurzem habe ich für einen Vortrag Beispiele für deutsche Business-Software gesucht, deren Bedienoberflächen auf dem gestalterischen Niveau von Apple, Google, Microsoft und Co. sind. Ich hab ziemlich viele Softwareprodukte angeschaut und nur sehr wenige gut gestaltete gefunden. Das hat mich sehr verwundert. Die deutsche Softwareentwicklung ist schließlich ein erwachsenes... Weiterlesen
Auf Golem.de gibt es ein interessantes Video-Interview mit Aza Raskin über die Entstehung des neuen User Interface für den Firefox: Video: Aza Raskin - Humane Interface-Design (english) (10:42) Mozillas Browser soll humaner werden, am besten soll das Interface ganz verschwinden. So beschreibt Aza Raskin, der seit Anfang 2008 "Head of User... Weiterlesen
Ich bin heute mal wieder über das unterschiedliche Begriffsverständnis von "Use Case" und "Anwendungsszenario" gestolpert. Nach einer intensiven Diskussion der unterschiedlichen Sichtweisen sind wir auf eine ganz brauchbare Begriffsdefinition gekommen: Ein Use Case bzw. ein Anwendungsfall beschreibt eine Interaktion zwischen Mensch und einem System. Ein Anwendungsfall beschreibt genau den Ablauf... Weiterlesen
Vor einigen Monaten habe ich mit Fachkollegen intensiv diskutiert, ob ein Interaction Designer seine Bedienoberflächen-Entwürfe selbst im Usability Labor testen kann. Damals sind wir in dieser Frage zu keiner eindeutigen Antwort gekommen: Einige Kollegen vertreten den Standpunkt, dass es eine Frage der Professionalität ist, ob ein Interaction Designer die eigenen... Weiterlesen
Tätigkeiten und Ergebnisse des User Experience Designs Passend zur aktuellen Arbeitsmarktsituation bin ich über einen schönen Artikel von Steve Psomas gestolpert. In diesem beschreibt er sehr anschaulich welche Fähigkeiten für gutes User Experience Design notwendig sind und welche Fragestellungen sich in den unterschiedlichen Tätigkeitsgebieten ergeben: Information ArchitectureWhen wearing the... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: goodgaze.com Herr Prof. König, Johannes Steger und Fabian Stelzer von der Universität Osnabrück haben auf der CeBIT ein Verfahren namens GoodGaze vorgestellt mit dem sich die Aufmerksamkeitsverteilung und die Blickbewegungen eines Anwenders beim Ersteindruck statistisch vorhersagen lassen. Das der GoodGaze-Technologie zugrunde liegende Computermodell umfasst das aktuelle Wissen der... Weiterlesen
Louis Rosenfeld hat auf seinem Blog einen sehr spannenden Artikel über die Gestaltung des "Finde-Erlebnisses" veröffentlicht. Er meint: Finding is arguably at the center of all user experiences. If nothing else, it's what has powered the growth of the web, thereby guaranteeing most of those reading this article some form... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: gc-upa.de Das German Chapter der UPA hat die ersten Ergebnisse des Branchenreports Usability veröffentlicht. Das erste Fazit des Branchenreports ist: Es sind etwa doppelt so viele Männer wie Frauen vertreten Psychologie ist das meist studierte und in Hinblick auf Usability-Kenntnisse am hilfreichsten beurteilte Studienfach Als Weiterbildungsmöglichkeiten werden häufig... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: boxesandarrows.com Adam Polansky stellt auf boxesandarrows.com einen Prozess namens "Faceted Feature Analysis" bzw. Facetten-Funktionsanalyse vor. Dabei beschreibt er 6 Schritte mit denen sich die Funktionen eines interaktiven Systems einfach und fast objektiv priorisieren lassen. Der Name bezieht sich auf die drei Sichten bzw. Facetten jedes Entwicklungsprojektes: Geschäftswert, Technischer... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: semanticstudios.com In letzter Zeit taucht immer wieder der Begriff User Experience Strategy auf. Aber was bedeutet er? Peter Morville hat in einem Artikel semanticstudios.com unterschiedliche Sichten auf die Themen User Experience Design und User Experience Strategy zusammengestellt. Die Bedeutung von User Experience Strategy beschreibt er wie folgt: The... Weiterlesen
Mike Huges berichtet in seinem lesenwerten Artikel auf uxmatters.com über seine Erfahrungen mit Walkthroughs bei Hilfesystemen. A walkthrough is a review of a user interface within a context in which a user might experience it.Er sieht die Vorteile von Walkthroughs wie folgt: let designers share the rationale for design decisions... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: uxmatters.com Wie integriert man am besten User Experience in interdisziplinäre Entwicklungsteams um erfolgreiche Produkte zu entwickeln? Diese Frage hat sich Pabini Gabriel-Petit in ihrem Artikel auf uxmatters.com gestellt. “Too many companies believe that all they must do is provide a ‘neat’ technology or some ‘cool’ product or, sometimes,... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: Screenshot aus dem Vortrag von Jesse James Garrett Jesse James Garrett hat in seinem Vortrag auf der MIX07 "Experience: A Star to Sail Your Ship By " ein sehr schönes Zitat von Steve Jobs verwendet. Dieser sagte 1984 auf die Frage Wie lautet die magische Formel für die... Weiterlesen
Gerry Gaffney hat eine Gespräch zwischen Alan Cooper und ihm zum Thema "Personas and Outrageous Software2" als Podcast veröffentlicht: I asked Alan Cooper (over a rather echoing connection) why he is outraged by bad software, and how he developed the concept of 'personas'.I was interested to hear the 'father of... Weiterlesen
(Screenshot: tria.de) Andreas Mauer gibt auf den Webseiten von TRIA IT-Solutions eine kurze Einführung in die neuen Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten der User Experience durch die Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF): Der neue Baustein, den die Industrie mit den Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) im .NET Framework 3.0 bekommt, soll auch dazu beitragen, dass... Weiterlesen
Scott McDowell hat auf boxesandarrows.com eine Übersicht zu aktuellen Software-Werkzeugen fürs Prototyping bzw. die Simulation von Bedienoberflächen veröffentlicht. Er stellt folgende Werkzeuge vor: Axure: RP4 Elegance Tech: LucidSpec iRise: Studio, Shared Server, Manager, iDoc Express Serena: Composer Simunication: Enterprise Simulator Sofea: Profesy Every decade, there’s a new technology that fundamentally... Weiterlesen
Der Arbeitskreis "Intuitive Use of User Interfaces" (IUUI) hat auf der diesjährigen Mensch und Computer eine brauchbare Definition des Begriffes "Intuitivität" im Bereich von technischen Systemen bzw. Bedienoberflächen veröffentlicht: Ein technisches System ist intuitiv benutzbar, wenn es durch nicht bewusste Anwendung von Vorwissen durch den Benutzer zu effektiver Interaktion führt.LiteraturverweisHurtienne,... Weiterlesen
Luke Wroblewski hat auf seinem Weblog eine Übersicht zu aktuellen Software-Werkzeugen für die anwenderorientierte Gestaltung zusammengestellt: The list of software tools available for user experience professionals continues to grow. From card-sorting applications for Information Architects to prototyping applications for Interface Designers, here are a few tools I’ve been exposed to... Weiterlesen
(Screenshot: honeybrown.ca) Anand Agarawala und Ravin Balakrishnan von der Universität Toronto haben einen Ansatz zur Verbesserung der virtuellen Schreibtisch-Metapher vorgestellt. Darin versuchen Sie durch den Einsatz von Mausgesten, der Imitation der Anwendungsmöglichkeiten von herkömmlichen Schreibtischen sowie einer dreidimensionalen Darstellung die Anwendungsmöglichkeiten des virtuellen Schreibtisches zu erweitern. Zur Verdeutlichung Ihrer... Weiterlesen
Thomas Baekdal hat sich in seinem Weblog Gedanken über die Unterschiede zwischen Usability und User-Experience gemacht. Für ihn sind die beiden Themen unabhängig voneinander zu sehen und schwer vereinbar. In seinem Beispiel über Strassen kommt er zu dem Schluss, dass die Autobahn die Strasse mit der höchsten Usability und die... Weiterlesen
James Robertson gibt in seinem Artikel "Nine ways to fix intranet search" einige nützliche Hinweise, wie sich die Qualität der Suchergebnisse in Intranets deutlich verbessern läßt: Search is often the greatest source of frustration on intranets. Irrelevant results, hard to read results pages and 'untitled document' entries plague many intranet... Weiterlesen
Michael Hatscher hat im AOL Usability-Newsletter eine nützliche Einführung in Werkzeuge für die Erstellung von Prototypen veröffentlicht: Spätestens mit interaktiveren Produkten à la Web2.0 wird auch eine neue Denke beim Prototypenbau notwendig – das Denken in statischen Seiten ist nicht mehr zielführend, weil Seiten oder auch nur Elemente von Seiten... Weiterlesen
Angela Colter, Kathryn Summers, Cheri Smith von der University of Baltimore haben eine Studie über die Verwendung von Brotkrummen-Navigation auf Internetseiten veröffentlicht: Breadcrumbs are a common Web site navigation element, yet little is known about whether users notice, use and understand what they are. We surveyed 4,775 sites to determine... Weiterlesen
In einer Artikelserie auf Function Form beschreiben James Reffell, Bill Scott, Jenifer Tidwell, Martijn van Welie und Luke Wroblewski was sie unter Design Patterns für die Gestaltung von Bedienoberflächen verstehen: In the Spring of 2006, a group of designers intimately familiar with the organization and development of design pattern resources... Weiterlesen
(Screenshot: bvmed.de) Der Bundesverband Medizintechnologie e.V. - BVMed berichtet über die Sonderveranstaltung "Förderung von Ideen aus der Medizin – Wie finden Innovationen den Weg in die Unternehmen der Medizintechnologie?" und die Relevanz von Anwenderrückmeldungen für die Medizintechnik: Der strukturierte Umgang mit den Ideen der Ärzte für neue Produkte und... Weiterlesen
(Screenshot: 456bereastreet.com) Roger Johansson hat unter 456bereastreet.com eine Serie von drei Artikeln zur Evaluation der Barrierefreiheit von Internetseiten veröffentlicht. In diesen geht er auf den Evaluationsprozess, nützliche Werkzeuge, Barrierefreiheits-Kriterien ein und gibt Hinweise zum Prüfen von Kriterien, die schwierig zu testen sind. "In more and more countries across the... Weiterlesen
(Screenshot: sapdesignguild.org) Gerd Waloszek vom SAP User Experience Team spricht in seinem Artikel auf sapdesignguild.org über eine verbesserte Nutzung des Bildschirmplatzes für die Darstellung von Webseiten auf großen Bildschirmen: "To sum up, what do users gain by buying large or wide screens? With respect to Websites, users gain more... Weiterlesen
(Screenshot: digital-web.com) At digital-web.com Donna Maurer published some tips for designing usable rich internet applications: "After struggling for years to design Internet applications around the limitations of HTML, I have been very excited by the recent release of a range of Internet applications with increased richness and interactivity. Rich... Weiterlesen
At Usability News A. Dawn Shaikh and Kelsi Lenz published the results of their study about User Expectations of Web Objects "In 2001, Bernard determined that users were able to form a schema for the location of web objects on informational websites. The current study investigates whether users' expectations have... Weiterlesen
(Screenshot: msdn.microsoft.com) At MSDN a preliminary version of the Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines is online available: "Microsoft Windows Vista introduces a significantly improved user experience, with new features and enhancements for both end users and developers. The following articles highlight important changes in existing UI platform components, changes... Weiterlesen
(Screenshot: boxesandarrows.com) At boxesandarrows Matt Queen published an article about user interaction-modeling techniques and some uim-examples: "The interaction-modeling technique provided here is useful in establishing usability success criteria and uncovers usability issues. The PIM acts as a testable hypothesis and the UIM establishes coded behavioral data. Major disparities observed... Weiterlesen
(Screenshot: justaddwater.dk) Jesper Rønn-Jensen published an article about the changes in how users search and the differences between live search and traditional search: "Live search will gradually replace traditional search in web applications. As mainstream programs such as Windows Vista matures up to release, and live search is deeply... Weiterlesen
Barbara S. Chaparro, A. Dawn Shaikh and Alex Chaparro compared the Legibility two new Microsoft ClearType fonts, Cambria and Constantia, to the traditional serif font Times New Roman: "This article introduces six new ClearType fonts developed by Microsoft. Legibility of two of the serif fonts, Cambria and Constantia, is compared... Weiterlesen
Gerd Waloszek published at sapdesignguild.org his opinion on wich usability problems annoy him most: "Returning to the starting point, we find that my two most severe usability problems are basically "technical problems" which typically lie beyond the scope of traditional usability efforts. It's a bit like the old wisdom that... Weiterlesen
(Screenshot: uxmatters.com) At uxmatters.com Dirk Knemeyer has published an article about the role of design in software products: "Design professionals often decry the lack of importance and investment their companies place on design. After all, most software projects revolve around a product’s engineering, to the ongoing detriment of its... Weiterlesen
In his latest article at adaptivepath.com Peter Merholz suggests usability experts to do more field research: "Increasingly, we find that our projects warrant getting out of our office and into our users’ lives. The generic term for this practice is “field research,” and that can mean talking to people in... Weiterlesen
Greg Nudelman published an article about how to create easy-to-use filtering and sorting controls with java: "Product search is the cornerstone of many Web applications. A user's ability to select what he or she is looking for among millions of search results can make or break the user experience. A... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: uxmatters.com At uxmatters.com Matteo Penzo presents his findings from eytracking tests of web forms and gives some guidelines on designing search forms: "In this article, I’ll present findings from eyetracking tests we did to evaluate the best solutions for label placement in Web forms. Today, forms are the... Weiterlesen
At digital-web.com Jonathan Snook published an article about the implementation of web design patterns: "Patterns play a part in Web application development, too. Design patterns are standard solutions to common problems in software design. Various patterns have been well-documented and allow us to learn and apply a proven methodology for... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: uie.com At uie.com Jared M. Spool published an article about the elements of a design pattern: "Design teams are discovering that a well-built design pattern library makes the user interface development process substantially easier. A quality library means team members have the information they need at their fingertips.... Weiterlesen
At UXmatters.com Matteo Penzo published a series of articles on eyetracking: "For some time, usability professionals have evangelized the term discount usability testing. Discount usability testing was a product of the early years of the Internet. Its techniques promised to provide a simple, fast, and relatively economical way of conducting... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: g2meyer.com Auf der Usable Help Website findet man interessante Artikel über das Thema „Onscreen help“. Onscreen Help ist die Bildschirmhilfe in der sich der Anwender entweder per Suchbegriff oder durch bereits vorgegebene Fragen/Kategorien einen Weg zu seiner benötigten Antwort bahnen kann. In einer umfangreichen Galerie kann man sich... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: cooper.com In his article at cooper.com Steve Calde described some reasons why some software products are shipped without a special design and gave some arguments for designing software products: "There's a dirty little secret that nobody in the design community wants you to know: it's actually possible to... Weiterlesen
Anthony P. M. Coxon and Joachim Harloff published an german/english paper about sorting investigations: "Classification is essential for human life. It enables the individuum to orient himself. Sorting is a natural way to classify. This presentation aims at presenting basic knowledge, or at least sources of knowledge about sorting as... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Brian Crescimanno published a checklist for designing forms: "With so many form elements to choose from, each with distinct advantages and disadvantages, it can be difficult to decide which elements to use in a given situation. Use radio buttons, checkboxes, and select boxes appropriately: for... Weiterlesen
Jensen Harris about the user of help systems: "One of the most interesting epiphanies I've had over the last few years seems on the surface like a paradox: "help" in Office is mostly used by experts and enthusiasts. How can this be? I think my biased assumption was that experts... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: blogs.msdn.com/jensenh Jensen Harris reported that Microsoft will use a new font in the user interface of Office 12 and Vista: "With the UI changes happening in Windows Vista and Office 12, we felt like it was time to commission a more modern UI font, designed specifically to take... Weiterlesen
In the latest issue of the journal of usability studies Alex Genov published a paper about the idea that the control systems theory may "highlight and frame" the value of iterative usability testing. "This paper argues that in the field of usability, debates about number of users, the use of... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: horserentals.com Ok/Cancel arranged the contest "The scariest interface" in October 2005. On November 11th they started "The scariest interface - part II". "Wow, we got some great entries for this contest. A quick recap is in order. The task was to submit the scariest interface you've every used.... Weiterlesen
At ok-cancel.com Jared Spool published an article about recruiting the right participants. "When putting together a design study, whether it is usability testing, field research, or focus group activity, it turns out that the most critical activity is recruiting the right participants. Over the past few years, we’ve interviewed several... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: billbuxton.com Clifton Forlines, Chia Shen and Bill Buxton published their paper about a model for multi-level input devices e.g. touch screens and pen-based computer that aims to support both creativity in design and exploration of data: "We describe a technique that supports the previewing of navigation, exploration, and... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: brain-tuning.de Roland Piquepaille posted an article about a Brain Computer Interfacing Project of the Oxford University at blogs.zdnet.com: "Researchers from Oxford University are developing a new asynchronous system to interface with the brain which will allow a more effective way to control wheelchairs or robotic arms with the... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: betterdesktop.org At the project-website of better desktop (a project dedicated to sharing usability data with Linux developers) you can find articles about usability basics and user test videos. "Over the past year, we have conducted many usability tests on different parts of the KDE and GNOME desktops. We... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: nytimes.com, Scalable Fabric, a program developed by Microsoft Research Labs, allows users of the Windows platform to minimize documents so they are out of the way but still in sight. Matt Linderman from 37signals published his thoughts about interruptions at work and the consequences: "Now researchers are looking... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: dissertation, frontpage At University of Art and Design Helsinki you can download Katja Battarbee dissertation about user experiences in social interaction: "User experience is a term that has become popular in user centred design in recent years. It off ers a holistic approach to understanding the relationship between... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: paper, fig. 2 usabilityviews.com displayed an old paper from Saul Greenberg (Department of Computer Science, University Calgary) about Interface toolkits: "Interface toolkits in ordinary application areas let average programmers rapidly develop software resembling other standard applications. In contrast, toolkits for novel and perhaps unfamiliar application areas enhance the... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: musiclens.de Nice and award-winning Interface for retrieving music-files: "With MusicLens, music-lovers can expand their own personal music repertoire with songs that they perhaps did not know about before, or with songs they previously could not describe in order to search for them. MusicLens enables users to find pieces... Weiterlesen
Hilary Browne Hutchinson, Benjamin B. Bederson and Allison Druin from Human-Computer Interaction Lab of the University of Maryland published an paper about Interface Design for Children’s Searching and Browsing. The analysed the usage of the International Children's Digital Library by schoolkids (age 6-11) and give some guidelines for designing search... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: cooper.com Daniel Kuo published an article about the history, state of the art and future of typography for user interfaces at cooper.com: "Addressing an audience of information designers, Edward Tufte once explained that the fundamental challenge with presenting information is that the world we live in is high-resolution... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: google.de Don Norman's truth about Google's so-called simplicity "True, but that's because you can only do one thing from their home page: search. Anybody can make a simple-looking interface if the system only does one thing. If you want to do one of the many other things Google... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users Kathy Sierra about "listening to users" and Pat Parelli: "Is "listening to users" really the most important way to keep them happy and -- if we're lucky -- passionate? Is giving users what they ask for the best way to help them kick ass? Or should you... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: psychology.wichita.edu Donna Maurer about the use of closed card sorting: "For years (literally) I have been trying to figure out what closed card sorting is good for, and today finally had an idea. (...) But, if you are testing a classification where the key task is to categorise... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: guidebookgallery.org Andrew Swartz recommends to use marketing as an usability tool: "Sometimes, to make a product easy to use, you have to reach beyond the screen and touch the hearts and minds of the user. When that happens, the Marketing Department can be a good friend. In academic... Weiterlesen
At Digital Web Magazine Christian Heilmann published an article about reasons why clients don't care about accessibility. "Working as an accessibility consultant in an IT company is a very frustrating job right now. Highly publicized lawsuits and deep-rooted accessibility myths leave us with a lot to explain when the final... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: freedomscientific.com, PAC Mate BNS Trenton Moss published an article about usability for screen reader users at dmeurope.com: "Simply ensuring your website is accessible to screen reader users is unfortunately not enough to ensure these users can find what they're looking for in a reasonably quick and efficient manner.... Weiterlesen
Donna Maurer described her actual perceptions of "people's mental model of search, and what they expect to happen." at her weblog: "It is better to put more than one word in as one word gives too much stuff. Adding an extra word gives fewer results (although most search engines give... Weiterlesen
Kath Straub and Dr. Eric Schaffer about the studies form Moss, Gunn and Kubacki on the effect of designer gender on Web site design: "If you have been anywhere near the popular media in the last few weeks, you have heard about of the studies by Moss, Gunn and Kubacki... Weiterlesen
At PMN Marek Pawlowski linked to a paper on small-screen usability: "The small screen sizes of mobile phones can create problems for users. There is a need for acceptable user interfaces that enable a better, more maximised use of the limited screen size while still providing high levels of usability.... Weiterlesen
At ergoweb.com you can find an article from Jennifer Anderson about some current issues in the ergonomicsreport about the usability of mobile phones: "Cell phone design recently received a failing grade from a prominent ergonomist, and reviews of the devices in technology magazines support his convictions. The consensus? Cell... Weiterlesen
Mark Hurst about Vodafone's attempt to make a simpler cell phone seen as brilliant example of customer experience driving change in an organization "Good Experience reader NH pointed me to a fascinating Wall Street Journal article about Vodafone's attempt to make a simpler cell phone (link is free for a... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: adducive.com Article by Brian Krause at adducive.com about Personas in Technology Product Design: "People react emotionally to technology. An enthusiastic reaction results in blockbuster success like the iPod; the knack that Steve Jobs has for drawing people to Apple's products explains his success. Unfortunately, reactions of frustration and... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: uigarden.net Gretchen Anderson published an article about "Making use of user research" at uigarden.net: "Designing or redesigning a product often feels like a risky proposition, especially in today's business climate. Those responsible for defining the product offering and marketing want reliable, measurable data to define success both incrementally... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: jdr.tudelft.nl Marco C. Rozendaal and David V. Keyson published a paper about designing user interfaces with gestures and sound at The Journal of Design Research abstract:"This paper explores the use of sound and gestures within a tangible user interface, towards influencing the performance and appeal of browsing through... Weiterlesen
Shiva Naidu published at usability news a paper about Evaluating the Usability of Educational Websites for Children "This study examined the usability of educational websites for children. Children ages 7 - 11 performed seven search tasks with one of three websites. Overall, participants, especially those less than 10 years of... Weiterlesen
At Boxes and Arrows Parrish Hanna published a report "how the Arc Worldwide’s Experience Planning group uses storytelling and multidimensional customer-based stories to provide relevance, direction, and resonance in today’s business planning landscape." This report is about the evolution of personas and scenarios: "As most of us know by now,... Weiterlesen
Vicki L. Hanson / John T. Richards, IBM Accessibility Center: "Web accessibility is an important goal. However, most approaches to its attainment are based on unrealistic economic models in which Web content developers spend too much and receive too little. We believe this situation is due, in part, to the... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: sitepoint.com Trenton Moss gives you 7 tips to improve a site's usability for screen reader users. (More tips can be found in the comments of his article.) "We've explored a number of relatively simple, painless steps that can be taken to improve a site's usability for screen reader... Weiterlesen
Don Norman about "Human-Centered Design Considered Harmful". "Human-Centered Design has become such a dominant theme in design that it is now accepted by interface and application designers automatically, without thought, let alone criticism. That’s a dangerous state — when things are treated as accepted wisdom. The purpose of this essay... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: guuui.com Henrik Olsen from guui.com about choosing the right level of graphic detail, interactivity, breadth and depth of Prototpyes. "Many web development teams build prototypes that are too resource-demanding. The Q3 2005 issue of GUUUI takes a look at how to make the right trade-off between graphic detail,... Weiterlesen
Luke Wroblewski about Interaction Design & Written Language: "Many comparisons have been drawn between written language and interface design. That’s understandable considering both design and language are essentially forms of communication. The better at communicating we are, the easier it is for our audience to understand our messages and intentions,... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: 7nights.com D. Keith Robinson republished a 2 year old article about persona sketching. "A persona sketch, in essence, is a persona that is based on rough, incomplete or assumed data and best guesses. I want to emphasize that it is always better to have real user data to... Weiterlesen
Mark C. Russell published at usability news a paper about Hotspots and Hyperlinks: Using Eye-tracking to Supplement Usability Testing "This article discusses how eye-tracking can be used to supplement traditional usability test measures. User performance on two usability tasks with three e-commerce websites is described. Results show that eye-tracking data... Weiterlesen
Jeremy Slocum and Shelby Thompson published at usability news a paper about Smooth or Textured: Does Mouse Pad Surface Impact Performance? "This study examined the effects of mouse pad usage on performance of a target acquisition task. Results indicated no performance difference between three specialized mouse pads, a traditional mouse... Weiterlesen
J. Ryan Baker published at usability news a paper about Hotspots and Hyperlinks: Using Eye-tracking to Supplement Usability Testing " This study investigated the effects of multi-column displays and justification on reading performance and satisfaction of an online narrative passage. Participants read a short story displayed in one of six... Weiterlesen
A. Dawn Shaikh published at usability news a paper about The Effects of Line Length on Reading Online News "This study examined the effects of line length on reading speed, comprehension, and user satisfaction of online news articles. Twenty college-age students read news articles displayed in 35, 55, 75, or... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: buddybuzz.org Gregory M. Lamb describes in his article at the christian science monitor two technologies to improve online or screen reading: ScentHighlights "ScentHighlights gets its name from a theory that proposes that people forage for information much in the same way that animals forage in the wild. 'Certain... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: firstmonday.org Paul F. Marty and Michael B. Twidale describe in their article at firstmonday a method of fast testing the usability of websites with an audience: "This article documents the authors’ attempt to develop a quick, inexpensive, and reliable method for demonstrating user testing to an audience. The... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: wired.com Abby Christopher and Mike Faden about the end for the era of organizing files in nested folders: "User-interface experts at one of the world's top design houses say Mac OS X Tiger is the beginning of the end for the Macintosh Finder -- the era of organizing... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: firstmonday.org A paper about search interfaces for older adults by Anne Aula and Mika Käki: "We have previously found the elderly users to face several usability problems with the current search engines. Thus, we designed an elderly–friendly search interface, Etsin. To evaluate the success of the design, a... Weiterlesen
Luke Wroblewski about design thinking and the increasing importance of strategic design: "Now as more companies specifically look to design to create meaningful long-term customer relationships and to differentiate their products (the volume of product releases and cost cutting [the China price] from competitors requires them to gain market advantage... Weiterlesen
Source: designerstoolbox.com At Designers Toolbox you can find screenshots of WinXP, MAC OS X and OS 9 Form Elements. This is very helpful if you design an interface e.g. for WIN XP on a MAC OSX Computer. related link: Designers Toolbox: Form Elements: Windows XP, Mac OSX, Mac OS9... Weiterlesen
screenshot: uservision.co.uk In a research study 500 consumers from the uk where asked by the user-experience consultancy User Vision wich 5 items in everyday life they found most difficult to use. 60% answered that the Video Recorder is the most difficult item to use followed by the Child car... Weiterlesen
screenshot: sapdesignguild.org SAP Design Guild is featuring the topic "Accessibility". "In this ninth edition of the SAP Design Guild, which is published in cooperation with SAP's Accessibility Competence Center (ACC) in Walldorf, Germany, you will get an overview on the current situation around accessibility in the world regarding legislation,... Weiterlesen
Jared M. Spool thinks that ad-hoc usability testing in any space or lab-less testing is in fashion: "More and more, we're seeing clients conducting ad-hoc testing in any space they find. In our own work, we're doing the same, rarely taking advantage of labs when they are easily available, just... Weiterlesen
screenshot: upassoc.org Laura Faulkner has published early results of her unpublished doctoral dissertation "Structured Software Usability Evaluation: An Experiment in Evaluation Design". Thus it appears that breaks improve the results of heuristic evaluation. "Early results of a study being performed by the Applied Research Laboratories, The University of Texas... Weiterlesen
screenshot: xbox interface By reason of the last fair E³ i found some interesting information on dexigner.com about the new interface in the xbox360, it`s worth to read it! "AKQA, a global interactive marketing agency, has collaborated with Microsoft to create the striking new console game interface at the... Weiterlesen
screenshot: gotomedia Dave Rogers shows at gotomedia how he uses Adobe Acrobat as Prototyping Tool: "I love paper prototyping and find it particularly effective in the early stages of development with low-fidelity models. But I'm not here to talk about paper prototypes. Snyder's book (and the Nielsen Norman Group's... Weiterlesen
screenshot: redish.net Caroline Jarrett told at usabilitynews.com about the idea of Ginny Redish to improve heuristic inspection. Ginny Redish used personas for heuristic inspection: "Ginny (Redish) introduced us to a new method of doing heuristic inspection that she has developed with Dana Chisnell. They’d done a lot of usability... Weiterlesen
screenshot: boxesandarrows.com Georg Olsen about his experiences in using personas and some basics of persona creation: "When building personas, the first challenge is finding the information to build them. Obviously, it’s preferable to talk to and observe the users themselves, but that’s not always possible. In my opinion, any... Weiterlesen
screenshot: Aerlingus.com In this articel Gerry McGovern wrote about the key steps in creating reader persona. His conlusion: three key personas with three tasks works best for a website. His examle: aerlingus.com. "The first step in developing successful reader personas is to decide what readers you are not going... Weiterlesen
Thom Haslam wrote an overview on the connection between color and accessibility: "We all know that color can make or break a site. But beyond eye candy appeal, color choices also impact usability and accessibility. Even if it looks great at a glance, the color scheme doesn't work if many... Weiterlesen
D. Keith Robinson published in 2003 a tutorial on the Practical Persona Creation: "A persona is a user profile that you can use to help make design decisions, as well as use to aid you in other ways. These profiles are created from your knowledge of your users, usually knowledge... Weiterlesen
screenshot: sitepoint.com "Consistency can be something that you can use to your advantage, rather than a straitjacket that constricts you unnecessarily. It can help minimize your development and maintenance costs, free you from having to be concerned about relatively trivial design issues, and provide an enhanced user experience for... Weiterlesen
Nielsen claims in his new article "Mental Models For Search Are Getting Firmer" that users are getting confused if a Button labeled with the word "search" is used for parametric search. The reason is, according to Nielsen, that users have precise expectations for the behavior of search. "(...) Although often... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: arstechnica.com / The SmallTalk development and GUI environment Jeremy Reimer about the history of the GUI: "Today, almost everybody in the developed world interacts with personal computers in some form or another. We use them at home and at work, for entertainment, information, and as tools to leverage... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: steptwo.com.au "Organising functionality and content into a structure that people are able to navigate intuitively doesn't happen by chance. Organisations must recognise the importance of information architecture or else they run the risk of creating great content and functionality that no one can ever find. This article provides... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: leacock.com/patterns/ Matt Leacock, Erin Malone, Chanel Wheeler wrote a paper about the Yahoo Pattern Library and its implementation: "Yahoo’s multiple business units, each containing decentralized user experience teams, have a natural tendency to design different solutions to similar problems. Left unchecked, these differences would weaken the Yahoo! brand... Weiterlesen
Donna Maurer wrote in her article "how to write memorable scenarios for usability testing" about the importance of vivid detail and emotional aspects in scenarios: "Good usability test scenarios can be hard to write - they have to be realistic, have enough detail to be complete, be jargon-free and should... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: www.geocities.com/faulknerusability Laura Faulkner has published an Paper "Beyond the Five-User Assumption" in 2003. She tried to disprove Nielsens argument, that five users are enough for good usability testing: "It is widely assumed that 5 participants suffice for usability testing. In this study, 60 users were tested and random... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: lukew.com Luke Wroblewski ans Frank Ramirez wrote a paper about "the opportunities and limitations that characterize some of the most popular Web application presentation layer solutions available today. They evaluated each solution against a consistent set of criteria and described it with a concise definition, set of examples,... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: ajax.de Ajax is becoming a real term. Signal vs. Noise reported that the wallstreet journal introduced the term in an article: "Ajax is a recently coined name for a dense mouthful of software technologies that are built into Web browsers. The most important of them are JavaScript, a... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: Software Usability Research Laboratory In der neuen i-com (1/2005) ist interessanter Artikel (S. 51) zum Thema "Card Sorting" inklusive einer Fallstudie von Stefan Schilb. Er gibt darin eine kurze Übersicht bzw. Einführung in das Thema Card Sorting Eine zentrale Aufgabe zur Konzeption von Webseiten ist die Informationarchitektur, hierbei... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: digital-web.com "Innovative design inspired by accessibility will help you create Web applications that change the way we communicate, work, shop, or play and increase the number of people participating in the resulting communities. Don't postpone providing an alternative method or direct access for years or decades. Do it... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: guuui.com "Communicating to users how to fill out a form where each field has to be filled out in a linear manner is relatively simple. Most users even understand when we try to tell them that some fields are optional and some are required. But when we ask... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: mspace.fm "mSpace is an interaction model to help explore relationships in information. mSpace helps people build knowledge from exploring those relationships. mSpace does this by offering several powerful tools for organizing an information space to suit a person's interest: slicing, sorting, swapping, infoViews and preview cues. An mSpace... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: lge.com LG Electronics wrote a short description of the connection between corporate design and interface design in their corporate design manual. They call it Product Identity: "PI (Product Identity) means to embody and to sustain the brand image through product design. CIPD, the process to make products' identity... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: hp.com "This paper presents aspects of a study into how and why people use camera phones. The study examined people's intentions at the time of image capture and subsequent patterns of use. Motivated by current interest in "picture messaging", we focus on images taken to communicate with absent... Weiterlesen
Source: esa.int Sometimes good things come from space: "Soon we may be able to fill the bath, turn the lights on and play our favourite CD without moving from our chair or pressing a button. Technology, developed by ESA for European spacecraft, is now being used to create small... Weiterlesen
"This study discusses the contributions of eye-tracking data to traditional usability test measures for first-time usage of websites. Participants viewed the homepages of three different websites. Results showed that eye-movement data supplemented what users verbally reported in their reactions to a site. In particular, the eye-tracking data revealed which aspects... Weiterlesen
Source: www.research.ibm.com Gorlenko and Merrick talk about the opportunities and challenges of designing devices for the mobile environment in the IBM Systems Journal (4/2003). "Mobile computing platforms combining small, lightweight, low-power devices with wireless network connectivity enable the performance of familiar tasks in new environments and create opportunities for... Weiterlesen
"This study reports a psychophysical comparison of four ergonomic mouse-type devices to the standard mouse. It was hypothesized that muscle activity transferred from the distal to proximal limbs for some of the ergonomic mice may result in increased load on the shoulders and declines in target acquisition performance. Results revealed... Weiterlesen
Source: heise.de Thats what a lot of people looking for: a mobile phone which has been designed for people who want to phone only. No needless functions, no games, large buttons, only one function per button, no screen, just one ringtone, no large instruction manual and its easy to... Weiterlesen
Source: Windows XP Mediacenter Microsoft updated the Controlstyles of Windows XP. The Windows XP Mediacenter Edition looks like shine metal and a little bit like glass. A interessting fact is, that this style was used for some Longhorn-releases.... Weiterlesen
Source:manzi.weblogs.us At Manoj Matchado's Blog you can download a very compact overview or introduction on Interface Design, Usability and Information Design. Very interesting is page 72: "Windows Icons are better then the new OSX Icons". The presentation is very recommendable for interface design newbies. related links: Manzis Blog... Weiterlesen
Source:microsoft.com "The Office Design Group is built around collaboration. We are a diverse group of product designers, trained in industrial design, graphic design, visual communication and human-computer interaction. Cross-disciplinary teamwork allows us to create user interfaces that redefine the nature of information exchange." Microsofts designer talk about their work... Weiterlesen
Martijn van Welie updated his website about patterns in interaction design. At his page you can find descriptions of Web Design, GUI Design and mobileUI Design patterns as well as links to other websites about interface design patterns. related linkWebsite of Martijn van Welie... Weiterlesen
Source: imaginecup.info Microsoft provides a list of wich fonts are supplied with the different Microsoft Products (incl. Operating Systems) and with Mac OS* on their Typography Website. Also they provide a list of the Core fonts for the web: Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Comic Sans MS Courier New... Weiterlesen
Jared M. Spool wrote in this articel about an interesting theory. In his research he discovered, that users call an interface "intuitive" if one of the following conditions are met: the User looks at the interface and knows how to use it from experience the User don't know how to... Weiterlesen
Source: wired.com "How Would You Redo the Google Interface?" - Four designers (Joshua Davis, Jenny Holzer, Shepard Fairey, Ideo) share their (re)visions. I like the google button best: "The Google button. It's your trusted link to relevant information anywhere.' This concept moves Google from World Wide Web to world-at-large.... Weiterlesen
"Global research by MORI, conducted for Nokia, has identified a strong trend for consumers to move from their fixed-line phones to use their mobile handsets for all or most of their voice calls. Fixed-to-Mobile Substitution (FMS) is occurring across the four major markets surveyed - Great Britain, USA, Germany and... Weiterlesen
Mir ist aufgefallen, dass es bei der Formulierung von Änderungen in Softwareprojekten zum Teil derbe Formulierungen verwendet werden, z.B.: "Hallo????? Also das passt überhaupt nicht." "Was soll das hier?" "Gehts noch?" "BIST DU TAUB?? Das hab ich doch schon 1000000x geändert!!!! Kapiers endlich!!!! Aus meiner Sicht resultieren die verfehlten Formulierungen... Weiterlesen
In this essay Donald Norman describes the purpose of Personas and a fast way of creating personas. Neither Personas have to be accurat nor is a large body of research required. Normans personas are created quickly and without much details. Abstract:"A Persona is an artificial person, invented for the purpose... Weiterlesen
Source:Siehe Literaturverweis Udo Arend hat auf der MuC 2004 einen interessanten Ansatz zur "effizienten Konstruktion von ergonomischen Benutzeroberflächen aus konfigurierbaren Bausteinen" vorgestellt. Zur Zeit führt SAP die Nutzung von generischen UI Patterns im Interface Design ein, um Bedienoberflächen nicht mehr zeitaufwendig gestalten sondern nur noch konfigurieren zu müssen. Das... Weiterlesen
Benjamin Roe shows in his OSS Quick GUI Design Guide five key points of user interface design: "The user is not using your application", "Fitt's Law", "Unnecessary interference", "Use the power of the computer", "Make items easy to distinguish and find". Abstract:The Open Source software world is full of excellent... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: economist.com Here is a Economist article on the importance of ease of use and the cost of unusable or complex IT-technology. Abstract:THE computer knows me as its enemy,” says John Maeda. “Everything I touch doesn't work.” Take those “plug-and-play” devices, such as printers and digital cameras, that... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: AskTOG Bruce Tognazzini recommends in his articel that companies should establish direct feedback from their customers all the way back to their development teams. ExtractThe web offers the perfect way for companies to gather feedback from the public. If carefully designed, a feedback system can short-circuit emerging... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: Microsoft ExtractThe Microsoft Windows User Experience is an indispensable guide for User Interface Developers and Designers to designing software that runs with the Microsoft® Windows® operating system. The design of your software's interface, more than anything else, affects how a user experiences your product. This guide promotes... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: SAP Design Guild Here is the persona SAP for whom the Plan Evaluator was designed for. Ralf Sonne is a 48-year-old production planner at Klinger AG in southern Germany who earned his degree in Industrial Engineering and has worked in the planning environment for over 20 years.... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: cooper.com Steve Calde, design director at Cooper, describes in his article how personas can be used to guide a user-documentation creation-process. Extract:Personas and other user-modeling techniques are often solely discussed as tools for product development, but they are useful tools in other arenas, as well. Technical writers... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: daring fireball John Gruber about the use of brushed-metal windows and OS X. By the way this articel gives an example on how human interface design guidelines were understood by their users. And how they put the guidelines into action. Sometimes the personal preference of the designer... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: www.37signals.com Extract of the paper by Ryan Singer:The biggest challenge for web designers is the unthinkably huge number of possible ways to solve any given problem. We usually don't think of this because we have our habits and traditions to fall back on, but there are literally... Weiterlesen
Jakob Nielsens Guideline on the correct use of checkboxes and radio buttons. (Ugly website, usefull guideline) Extract:Even prominent websites make elementary errors in the use of basic user interface controls. The main guidelines are clear, but there are ten other things you should consider when using checkboxes and radio buttons.... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: kde.org Jonathan Turner published a review on the usability of the new KDE 3.3. conclusion:KDE has a lot going for it. It's attractive and powerful. Its breadth of functionality is inspiring. Where it could benefit most is a consistent eye toward usability, particularly in not overwhelming new... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: time-tripper.com Jenifer Tidwells Page is a resource for UI Patterns and Techniques. It is guideline how UIs should be architected and designed also. Extract:If you've done any Web or UI design, or even thought about it much, you should say, "Oh, right, I know what that is"... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: www.cs.umd.edu In 1998 Ben Shneidermann and some colleagues did a project on Visualizing Patient Records: Extract:Computerized medical records pose tremendous problems to system developers. Infrastructure and privacy issues need to be resolved before physicians can even start using the records. Non-intrusive hardware is required for physicians to... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: www.joannawiebe.com This is what Joanna Wiebe from onemind thinks about the Interface Colour Trends 2005: Extract:Color is a powerful tool, but its effect is not yet well understood. Each color we see gives off electromagnetic wave bands of energy. Each shade has its own wavelength, which evokes... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: webstyleguide Extract:THIS BOOK / WEBSITE IS FOR ALL THOSE who wish to publish durable content on the Web. Durable content is not guided by trends; good design will withstand the test of time, whereas trends quickly become frivolous. Success in Web design goes beyond technology and fashion.... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: www.atpm.com Extract:"Outline users are to other Mac users as Mac users are to those of Windows. They are enthusiastic about the freedom that their tools provide, and part of that is the innate capability to take the tool and bend it to support individual cleverness. Outliners are... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: www.atpm.com Extract:"Now we turn to how we interact with the outline itself. This is no small matter, my friends, because outliners may be the environment you spend your most creative time in—that time when the Mac is supposed to be special in understanding and supporting. Good user... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: www.frogdesign.com Frogdesign designed parts the windows media player for windows XP and put a case studie on their website. extract:frog first assembled cross-discipline teams of industrial, brand, and digital designers to develop a common vocabulary and process for problem solving. That process included materials and texture studies,... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: www.idfuel.com ExtractComputer glitches would be a lot less annoying if the machines were programmed to acknowledge errors gracefully when something goes wrong, instead of merely flashing up a brusque "you goofed" message. The trick, according to a researcher who has analysed users' responses to their computers, is... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: www.idfuel.com As student i did a lot of 3D Modelling and Animation in Alias Wavefront and Alias Maya. At this time i went to the ars electronica and tried a haptic navigation tool. It was a mechanical thing with force feedback to explore 3D objects. After i... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: java.sun.com Excerpt:As the Java platform has matured, designers and developers have recognized the need for consistent, compatible, and easy-to-use Java applications. The Java look and feel meets that need by providing a distinctive platform-independent appearance and standard behavior. The use of this single look and feel reduces... Weiterlesen
Sample, Screenshot: www.jnd.org According to a articel of the computerworld Don Norman said last week that the general-purpose pc should become obsolete. Because the GUI of a file-based Operating System with all the data a normal user has to handle today becomes too complex. Norman: “You didn’t have to... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: www.ibm.com Excerpt:The most compelling design solutions are ones that are simple, natural to use, and completely in tune with users' needs and experiences. Achieving these solutions in the design of technology products and e-business applications requires building a multi-disciplinary team, tapping resources such as published research, guidelines,... Weiterlesen
Screenhot, Source: developer.gnome.org Abstract:"This document tells you how to create applications that look right, behave properly, and fit into the GNOME user interface as a whole. It is written for interface designers, graphic artists and software developers who will be creating software for the GNOME environment. Both specific advice... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: developer.kde.org Excerpt:This document attempts to specify the look-and-feel for KDE applications. The goal is to provide some rules-of-thumb for developers to create their applications interface so that KDE software will have a consistent look-and-feel. The guidelines in this style guide are only suggestions - they are not... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: Digital Web Magazine "More and more, designers are working on the same site for months or even years. As new features are added and new needs are identified, a site needs to be flexible to changes, so that post-launch changes can be made quickly and easily." (digital... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: msdn.microsoft.com Microsoft expects, that with all the features built into Longhorn the number and variety of client applications will expand over the next few years. That means that the "one-size-fits-all approach to the Windows user experience is becoming less useful". Thats why they are working on a... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: www.cooper.com Interaction designers are famous for complaining about products that are poorly designed, and wishing they had the opportunity to redesign them. In this article, Dave Cronin reminds us that there are many well-designed products out there, too. He offers a selection of products you can buy... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: www.usabilitynews.org Gina M. Copas, Tonya L. Witherspoon, & Karen V. Reynolds reviewed a Blackboard course: Summary: "A global group of robotics educators were invited to participate in and evaluate a pilot online course on LEGO® Mindstorms Robotics that was delivered via Blackboard? course management software. Participants completed... Weiterlesen
In this study Candace Gilmore & Charles G. Halcomb investigated the effect of technology on the student-teacher interaction. Summary: "Recent studies have shown that use of technology in the classroom is increasing. This study investigates the effect of the changing role of instructor as this trend continues. Findings indicate that,... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: www.usabilitynews.org In this article Laurie Brady described the role of interactivity in WBT. Summary: "The effect of interactivity within an educational website was examined regarding learning outcomes, website satisfaction, and student time-on-task. The participants consisted of 72 seventh grade students from 5 classrooms. Each participant was randomly... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: www.usabilitynews.org Gina M. Copas & Lynn Elders compared in this study data input Methods on handheld computers. Summary: "Three data entry methods (external keyboard, internal keyboard, or Graffiti2™) were compared in terms of speed, accuracy and satisfaction. Results indicate that data entry was fastest on the external... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: www.usabilitynews.org "Michelle Bayles reported in the article 'Online Banking: Why People Are Branching Out' results from a questionnaire designed to query online banking behavior. The most frequent activities reported were checking account balances and viewing or paying bills. Purchasing insurance, CDs, and applying for a loan or... Weiterlesen
Poor usability and bad interface design are a problems wich prevent opensource software from widespread use and market success. Frans Englich adresses in his article on NewsForge this problem from the perspective that software usability is a technical issue that Open Source developers can and should face and conquer. Extract:"If... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: www.usabilitynews.org "The study 'Paper or Pixels: What are People Reading Online?' evaluated the reading habits of Internet users across five document types - journal articles, news, newsletters, literature, and product information. Internet users completed an online survey indicating how likely they were to read a document online... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: www.gotomedia.com Kelly Goto defines in "Brand Value and the User Experience" four guiding principles that should be a part of any usability or user experience specialist's toolkit. The four principles are: Create comfort—first and foremost. Make the experience intuitive. Keep it consistent. Build credibility and trust. In... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: www.usabilitynews.org "The study 'The Effects of Contrast and Density on Visual Web Search' evaluated the effects of white space on visual search time. Participants were required to search for a target word on a web page with different levels of white space, measured by level of text... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: home.san.rr.com/deans/prototypes.html On this website you can find a pictorial history of the "Apple Desktop Interface" 1979 - 2000. Related Links: the "Apple Desktop Interface" 1979 - 2000... Weiterlesen
Source: www.photocase.de The Article "Apples and Oranges" deals with the problem, that usability and design are two fields that collide. Didier P. Hilhorst ask the question why is that and why designers and usability experts can't work together to deliver a better product, a top-notch Web site or a... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: www.37signals.com 37signals uses an interesting technique called “Epicenter Design” when designing functional screens for web-based apps. It helps answer the “where do we start?” question. "Epicenter Design involves focusing in on the true essence of the page (the “epicenter”) and then building outwards. This means not starting... Weiterlesen
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Screenshot, Source: Microsoft Longhorn website Microsoft presented the new Longhorn Interface at the WinHEC 2004. The new Interface is named Avalon and is much more animated than Win XP. 3D effects, animations of icons, and test boxes that can vary from transparent to opaque will all make for al... Weiterlesen
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Screenshot, Source: WinHEC Website Technical Revolution is over, now its Time for Emotions. Jim Allchin, Senior Vice President, Personal and Business Systems Group, Microsoft announced in his keynote at the The Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) that the future of Software lies with the Products which awakens Users Emotions.... Weiterlesen
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Screenshot, Source: Microsoft At the following website you will find guidelines that show the steps of designing and creating Windows XP-style icons.... Weiterlesen
Unter Applikationsgrafiken versteht man im Allgemeinen alle Grafiken die auf einer Softwareoberfläche im Zusammenhang mit der Bedienung Verwendung finden. Das sind Icons, Buttongrafiken und Symbole. Icons repräsentieren Objekte, die der Anwender auswählen, öffnen, ziehen kann (z.B. Dateiicon). Buttongrafiken kennzeichnen Aktionen, Einstellungen, Werkzeuge bzw. Modes der Applikation (z.B. Kopieren, Speichern). Symbole... Weiterlesen
Es gibt eine relativ brauchbare Definition von lesbaren Schriften im Leitfaden für die Gestaltung von Bildschirm- und Büroarbeitsplätzen der Verwaltungs-Berufsgenossenschaft (BGI 650).... Weiterlesen
Christine Phillips untersuchte an der Wichita State University wie sich Musik auf die Leistungsfähigkeit von Computernutzern bei der Lösung von Aufgaben auswirkt.... Weiterlesen
Es wird zur Zeit viel über "Joy of use" im Zusammenhang mit Softwareergonomie gesprochen. Beim Stöbern im Netz bin ich auf eine Definition aus dem Jahr 2001 und einen interessanten Buchtipp gestoßen.... Weiterlesen
Die Bedienoberfläche ist das Kleid einer Software. Über sie bekommt der Anwender zum ersten Mal Kontakt mit den Funktionen und Möglichkeiten. Hinterlässt die Bedienoberfläche einen guten ersten Eindruck, bekommt sie die Gelegenheit, den Anwender von ihrer vollen Leistungsfähigkeit zu überzeugen.... Weiterlesen
Windowssoftware ist häufig sehr langweilig gestaltet. Denken Sie nur an die Standardcontrols im kantigen Grau von Windows oder im bunten Plastik XP-Style. Das eine wirkt alt, angestaubt und langweilig und das andere wirkt billig, quietschig und unprofessionell. Dabei ist die haptische Wirkung der Softwareoberfläche von höchster Bedeutung für die visuelle... Weiterlesen
Splashscreens, digitale Hilfesysteme, Verpackungen und Handbücher bieten Softwareproduzenten eine gute Möglichkeit um mit perfekter Grafik ein modernes und leistungsfähiges Bild ihrer Software zu vermitteln. Dabei sollten sie darauf achten, dass die Grafiken – je nach Häufigkeit von Versionswechseln – an den aktuellen Zeitgeschmack angepasst oder zeitlos gestaltet sind.... Weiterlesen
Sollten Buttons die einen ähnlichen Zweck erfüllen die gleiche Beschriftung haben? Die Antwort auf diese Frage hängt von der Sichtweise ab.... Weiterlesen
Wir - die Fachgruppe oe:interface - wollen ein Forum für Networking, Wissenstransfer, Erfahrungsaustausch und Weiterbildung für Thüringer Usability Professionals schaffen. Wir wollen hiermit alle ansprechen, die beruflich mit der Konzeption, Gestaltung, Umsetzung und Evaluierung von Bedienoberflächen zu tun haben.... Weiterlesen
Die Verordnung legt fest, wie Arbeitgeber Bildschirmarbeitsplätze gestalten müssen. Die Verordnung stellt den Arbeitgeber u.a. vor die Aufgabe Software, welche im Unternehmen eingesetzt werden soll, auf die Einhaltung dieser Verordnung zu überprüfen.... Weiterlesen
Um Entwickler von Anwendungssoftware besser auf den Gebieten Interface Design und Usability unterstützen zu können hat openeyes - die Agentur für strategisches Design die Fachgruppe oe:interface in Weimar gegründet. Weitere Informationen zur Fachgruppe finden Sie unter: interface.openeyes.de... Weiterlesen
Wer schon immer mal wissen wollte, wie SAP Software-Interfaces entwickelt, der sollte sich mal bei der SAP Design Guild umsehen. Dort finden sich Termine, Interviews, Guidelines und eine Expertencommunity rund um Interface Design und Usability bei SAP.... Weiterlesen
In der Literatur lassen sich für die Gestaltung von Textblöcken am Bildschirm folgende Richtlinien finden: Der Textblock sollte zwischen 6-15 Zeilen lang und zwischen 15-65 Zeichen breit sein. Die Schriftgröße sollte zwischen 10 und 18 Punkt betragen.... Weiterlesen
Im Projekt m^2 [medienquadrat] an der Fakultät Medien der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar wurde zur Evaluierung von Online-Lerninhalten u.a. ein textbasierter Chat zur Diskussion von Lerninhalten und Konzepten eingesetzt. [1]... Weiterlesen
Source: ajax.de J.J. Garret describes in his article at adaptivepath.com a interesting approach to develop web applications that allow users to interact without waiting for the server. "An Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) application eliminates the start-stop-start-stop nature of interaction on the Web by introducing an intermediary — an... Weiterlesen
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