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Improving the User Experience of Your Applications Dr. David Geerts – Research Manager – Centre for User Experience Research (IBBT / KU Leuven)

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Presentation given at the Microsoft Insiders event on Thursday 26 January 2012

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Improving the User Experience of Your ApplicationsDr. David Geerts – Research Manager – Centre for User Experience Research (IBBT / KU Leuven)

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“The extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness,

efficiency, and satisfaction in a specified context of use”ISO 9241-11

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Peter Morville’sUX Honeycomb

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Emotional Design (Donald Norman)

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ISO 9241-210

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context of use

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De stok aan de klas-applicatie beweegt wanneer het zieke kind de aandacht vraagt

user requirements

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design solutions

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evaluate designs

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USER CENTERED DESIGN PRINCIPLES

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model human processor

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fitt’s law

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gestalt principles

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DonaldNorman’s Principles for Transforming Difficult Tasks into Simple Ones7

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1. “USE BOTH KNOWLEDGE IN THE WORLD AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE HEAD””

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2. “SIMPLIFY THE STRUCTURE OF TASKS”

1.Keep task the same, but provide mental aids

2.Use technology to make the invisible, visible

3.Automate but keep the task the same

4.Change the nature of the task

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3. “MAKE THINGS VISIBLE: BRIDGE THE GULFS OF EXECUTION AND EVALUATION”

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4. “GET THE MAPPINGS RIGHT”

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5. “EXPLOIT THE POWER OF CONSTRAINTS, BOTH NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL”

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6. “DESIGN FOR ERROR”

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7. “WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, STANDARDIZE…”

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User Experience Myths

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EVERYTHING SHOULD BE ACCESSIBLE IN 3 CLICKS

“When users find what they want they don't complain about number of clicks”

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PEOPLE WILL LEARN HOW TO USE OUR SOFTWARE

But not when there are better alternatives available ...

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DESIGN HAS TO BE ORIGINAL

But not at the cost of becoming unusable ...

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THANKS!@davidgeerts

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Credits

http://alivepixel.deviantart.com/art/Happy-people-1-94410611

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http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000029.php

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http://www.lessonsoffailure.com/software/user-interface-affordances/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordferguson/1580261051/

http://martin.kleppmann.com/2007/07/20/usability-aspects-of-gas-cookers.html

http://createwithcontext.com/insights-how-people-really-use-the-iphone.php

http://www.webseoanalytics.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/seo-myths-mythbuster.jpg

http://www.uie.com/articles/three_click_rule/