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March,
23rd, 2000 |
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Laura
Arlov is author of the excellent book "GUI Design
for Dummies" and is arguably the leading UI Design
expert in Scandanavia. In this in-depth interview she
defines what it takes to be a good UI Designer; tells
us why Technical Writers make good Usability Testers;
we talk about her book, GUI Design for Dummies; we get
her take on designing for WAP Phones; she tells us her
hopes for the coming few years in UI Design; and she concludes
with her "Silver Bullet" for better software
usability.
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March,
15th, 2000 |
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For
those of you who already like to write Use Cases to model the
Interaction in your designs, and for those who remain skeptical
of Use Cases, Constantine and Lockwood have recently released
a new paper on Essential Use Case Style and Structure.
The
Essential Use Case is used to create the Task Model. One of
three key models in the Usage Centered Design Methodology detailed
in the book, Software For
Use, which was uidesign.net "Book of the Year"
for 1999. The other models are the User Role Model and the Content
Model.
I
highly recommend this paper which IMO is the best paper written
on Use Cases thus far. It features a detailed analysis of existing
writing on Use Cases and highlights many of the existing shortcomings
whilst presenting the latest approach which is without doubt
an improvement on previous approaches.
Download
the pdf (380K) from foruse.com
or,
read
more Constantine and Lockwood...
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March,
11th, 2000 |
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If
you didn't catch the second half of the Alan Cooper interview,
last month, then take a look now.
Alan
gives us his wisdom on Persona Definitions versus Demographics;
how the Information Age and Information Appliances change
how we traditionally think; why "Design" is
a poisonous term; and why complexity really isn't the
issue, when it comes to Web Design.
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March,
6th, 2000 |
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So
far web design has been obsessed with the 1-1 relationship between
the site and the User. With the possible exception of Intranet
sites, collaborative computing has been by-and-large ignored.
That will need to change in order to deliver compelling wireless
applications which add sufficient value to make people switch
away from their PC Web Browsers.
The
Web has been considered to be a 1-1 narrowcasting, pull media.
That is to say that it is very different from say TV which is
a mass, 1-many, broadcast(wide), push media. Many web site designers
and .com companies are still struggling to come to terms with
this change. It requires a whole new way of looking at marketing.
We're not in a broadcast world anymore.
It
is very tempting to take that new understanding and translate
it onto wireless web applications. That would be wrong!
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