Short excerpts | week #3

Some quick titles and acronyms from week 3 lectures: 

Fieldwork research methods 

Capture requirement from fieldwork

Ethnographic field work - what is it  (Direct observation-asking questions)

Interpreting what you see 

Understanding communities from their perspective 

Distilling user requirements 

Theoretical positioning 

    ->Distributed cognition 

    ->Activity theory

    ->Critical ethnography 

    ->Ethnomethodology (EM)

Praxelogical  bag account (flow chart)

Analytical approach

Mail example

[naturally accountable organisation]

Flow diagram - sequential progressions 

GUI

Direct manipulation interface

WIMP paradigm 

Tangible interface (TUIs)

pointing device resulting  real time feedback

+ GUI Advantages         => recognition over recalling 

- GUI Disadvantages     => Time consuming for repetitive tasks

    Moving thousands of files? command line automation better than GUI

Hick-Hyman Law 

Designing error messages

 Avoid words such : illegal, bad, aborted, error & fatal

 UNDO/REDO should pervasive 

Empty state (+) to start

Navigational patterns

Principles of UI 

Design guidelines

UX template kits

Adobe UX

Figma

Ergonomics and physical design

Ubicomp

Practical : Affinity diagram brainstorming