Programmers are poor Designers
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Programmers are poor Designers
Human Factors in Interface DesignAndy Barry, Morgan Boes,
Dan Cody, Eric Hwang
Goals
Personas
Representing how users browse
Unnatural to programmers – the people, not the
computer.
Usage Scenarios
Why do users revisit a website?› What do they know about the site?› How does their knowledge vary?
Make life easy for the person – not for the programmer
3 Fundamental Cases
Short Term Long Term Disconnected path
Simulating Cases
Going back to a website that…• the user visited a day ago• the user visited a month ago• the user visited from a link in an email
Why Talk to People?
Users:What does this do?
Incompressible
Helped us create a more natural mapping
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Programmers are poor Designers
Human Factors in Interface DesignAndy Barry, Morgan Boes,
Dan Cody, Eric Hwang