Utility = whether it provides the features you need

Usability = how easy & pleasant these features are to use

Useful = Utility + Usability

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1 You may want to review the Osborn's method http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorming

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http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/cooper_prototyping.html

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● A high-level design strategy

● Should clearly express the problem or

opportunity

● Examples:

– "with a good scheduling interface, no one should

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See more: http://www.mobiledesignpatterngallery.com/

● “Usability 101: Introduction to Usability”, Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox: January 4, 2012

(http://www.nngroup.com/articles/usability-101-introduction-to-usability/)

● Jakob Nielsen. 1992. The Usability Engineering Life Cycle. Computer 25, 3 (March 1992), 12-

22. DOI=10.1109/2.121503 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/2.121503

(http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=121503)

● Human-Computer Interaction lectures by Scott Klemmer, from Stanford Online Course, at

http://coursera.org (2012)

● Mobile Prototyping Essentials Workshop, by Rachel Hinman (see more:

http://www.slideshare.net/Rachel_Hinman)

● Parallel & Iterative Design + Competitive Testing = High Usability, Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox:

January 18, 2011, http://www.nngroup.com/articles/parallel-and-iterative-design/

● 7 reasons why you can’t sell usability, and what to do about it

http://www.usefulusability.com/7-reasons-why-you-can%E2%80%99t-sell-

usability/

● Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right

Design (Interactive Technologies), Bill

Buxtonhttp://www.amazon.com/Sketching-User-Experiences-Interactive-

Technologies/dp/0123740371

● UsabilityGeek (Justin Mifsud) http://usabilitygeek.com/

● Mobile Design Pattern Gallery: UI Patterns for Mobile Applications, by

Theresa Neil, 284 pages, O'Reilly Media (March 13, 2012) ISBN-10:

1449314325,I SBN-13: 978-1449314323

● Universal Principles of Design, by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden and Jill

Butler, Hardcover: 216 pages, Rockport Publishers (October 1, 2003),

English, ISBN-10: 1592530079, ISBN-13: 978-1592530076

● Amal Dar Aziz, Guide to Storyboarding, http://hci.st/story

● Using Qualitative Methods in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering,

by Carolyn Seaman, from University of Maryland Baltimore County,

Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering, Visiting

Researcher – UFPE Center for Informatics (ask me for the PDFs)