Human-Computer Interaction 3e ­ Dix, Finlay, Abowd, Beale

CHAPTER 5
interaction design basics

outline

links

resources

exercises

• Design Council
• Trace Research and Development Center - universal design
• Boxes and Arrows: The Design behind the Design
• notes about design from paranoidfish.org
• Scenarios - part of a suite of usability resources at Information & Design, Melbourne, Australia
• Dialogical techniques for the design of web sites - IJHCS paper by Erskine et al on their use of scenario-based design in the evaluation and redesign of a Web site
• Incorporating Navigation Research Into a Design Method - a UsabiltyNews article summarises this talk by Victor Lombardi. In particular he argues that more ssystematic navigation designis needed as opposed to current over-reliance on testing.
• e3 online! as others see - a brief introduction to colour blindness
• www.vischeck.com - colour blindness links, plus online tools and downloads to enable you to see how things look for colour blind users
• Zebra Tables - a nice article by David Miller about producing readable tables in CSS.

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