SE365 · Lecture 8 · Annotated SlidesDesign Principles and Guidelines
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Design Principles and Guidelines

Principles vs. guidelines vs. standards, usability principles (learnability, flexibility, robustness and their sub-principles), and heuristics and golden rules (Shneiderman’s eight golden rules, Nielsen’s heuristics).

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  1. 1 Slide 1
  2. 2 Overview
  3. 3 Learning Outcomes
  4. 4 Slide 4
  5. 5 1) Introduction
  6. 6 1) Introduction (cont)
  7. 7 1) Introduction (cont)
  8. 8 1) Introduction (cont)
  9. 9 2. Usability Principles
  10. 10 2. Usability Principles (cont)
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  13. 13 Slide 13
  14. 14 2. Usability Principles (cont)
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  27. 27 3. Heuristic & Golden Rules
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  34. 34 Summary
  35. 35 LINKS
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Overview

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1) Introduction

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2. Usability Principles

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Notes

  1. Usability principles in three groups: LEARNABILITY (predictability, synthesizability, familiarity, generalizability, consistency), FLEXIBILITY (dialog initiative, multithreading, substitutivity, customizability), ROBUSTNESS (observability, recoverability, responsiveness, task conformance).

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PredictionQ1

Being able to undo an action belongs to which principle group?

PredictionQ2

Letting users customize toolbars belongs to:

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3. Heuristic & Golden Rules

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Notes

  1. Shneiderman’s 8 golden rules: strive for consistency, universal usability (shortcuts), informative feedback, dialogs that yield closure, prevent errors, permit easy reversal, keep users in control, reduce short-term memory load.

Exam angle

PredictionQ1

Which is one of Shneiderman’s golden rules?

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Notes

  1. Nielsen’s heuristics (see Lecture 13).

  2. Seen again Lecture 13: Evaluation: Inspections, Heuristics and Walkthroughs, slide 8: Nielsen’s heuristics

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Summary

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LINKS

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