Usability
Lab session
J16E28: Wed 24 Mar 2010
09 | Usability
Homework
3.1 Prototype Website
Over the last 3 weeks you have laid the groundwork for building your Show Racism the Red Card website by developing your team's Design Specification which includes: Content Audit, Navigation Structure, Technical Specification, Team Work Breakdown, Functionality, Page Layouts, Wireframes & Visual Comps.
Over the next 3 weeks you will be working on the Production, Testing, Promotion of Show Racism the Red Card Website & on making a 5 min presentation to the Client which will involve a 2 min 'screencast'.
This week's homework is to build the prototype website, incorporating the feedback from last week's CRIT session.
This is a group work assignment and should be prominently linked to from your home page on the team website.
Individual student work should also be evidenced in Research Diary/Creative Experimentation. Please ensure that your Research and Creative Experimentation Diaries are up to date.
Please Note: EASTER BREAK is from 29.03.10 - 09.04.10 so no lectures or lab sessions for the next 2 weeks, but perhaps an opportunity for those who are behind schedule to make up ground.
Lecture
B82B01: Fri 26 Mar 2010
09 | Usability
This lecture looks at methods for improving ease of use during the design process, the main components of usability & how to test it.
The lecture covers: * What is Usability - a definition * Why is Usability important? * Jakob Nielsen’s Usability findings * Don’t make users think * User Tracking * Usability debate - How Little Do Users Read? * Further reading * Designing for users * Usability testing
Resources and links
Further Reading (online sources)
- 25 Point Website Usability Checklist
- User Focus Usability Guidelines
- Line 25, 10 Usability Crimes you should’t commit
- Introduction to good usability
- 10 Useful usability findings
- 10 Usability tips for web designers
Usability testing resources