What is usability? How important is it to visually organize
your site before you start working on the project? What
do visual cues have to do with usability?
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Readings: (Fri
7/12)
- Emotion and Design: Attractive
Things Work Better
-Usability First: Introduction to Usability
-Usability
Basics
Guest Speaker: Donald Norman -
Author of Emotion and Design: Attractive Things Work Better.
Listening: (Sat
7/12)
-Interview
with: Krug, S (2000) author of "Don't make me think:
a common sense approach to web usability", Indianapolis,
IN: New Riders Publishing.
Writing:
- Create a ten-question questionnaire to conduct a usability
test. This questionnaire is meant to be filled out by a person who is observing the user navigating a site. Do not conduct the test, only create the instrument.
To create a form you can use the instructions at the College of Education; or you can use this tutorial on how to create a form, or use some of the following 'form generators':
- Response-o-matic: http://www.response-o-matic.com/template.htm
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Formmail.to http://formmail.to/formmailto/(Sat 7/13)
- Draw your site map Explain the navigation you use, and say what changes in navigation or organization you would like to make to the site.
To draw the site map you can use PowerPoint, Word or any image editor you are familiar with, or you can use free software such as eXactMapper Lite which makes the creation of a map very easy, or you can also show it in a table format. (Mon 7/15)
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