User Research

User Research

Alan Cooper’s The Inmates are Running the Asylum

Alan Cooper brings together his breadth of experience with interaction design, as demonstrated through his works with Visual Basic, and consulting with many prominent clients in order to explain the need for, and the role of interaction designers. Having recently finished the book, and found it very educational, I’ll draw out, and discuss some of…

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Evaluating existing technologies, paper prototypes in action, Windows 7 and the disappointing user experience of my DVD player!

This week our HCI course featured an introduction to starting the design process by evaluating existing technologies, and the key advantages of this were made apparent when we started to build paper prototypes. In an abstract sense, the advantages of evaluating existing technology is that aids redesign - you can see what elements turned out…

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Introduction to Human Computer Interaction

The first lecture from Dr Graham Mcallister ( ) has shared an article which highlights the importance of good usability design, where altering just one button an a high traffic website had an immediate effect on sales – ( The $300 million button)   The fails miserably. Within the course we are getting the opportunity…

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