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Creating Considerate Web Applications
- 1. Creating Considerate Web Applications Bojhan Somers & Jimmy Berry Google Summer of Code Project July 2008
- 2. About me Student Usability Consultant at Usendes Google Summer of Code Co-mentor Bojhan.nl
- 4. Why does most software suck? “ Know thy user, and you are not thy only user” - Arnie Lund
- 5. Why does most software suck? How do you expect to do X?
- 7. Don Norman
- 8. User-centerd Design Manage expectations Design first, code second Adding a feature to core is dangerous Remove features that are not neccesairy
- 9. Disclamer : This is not how you do it.
- 10. Finding functionality Drupal jargon Optimize for muddeling trough
- 11. Finding functionality Do you really readme.txt?
- 12. Finding functionality Card Sorting
- 13. Online Card Sorting Optimal Sort
- 17. Finding functionality Visual seperation of functionality How do users categorize and label functionality? Workflow Embedded functionality? let the user know..
- 18. Flexibility Interface focused on to many target groups Inflexible interface
- 19. 4 diffrent screen states Regular Blank Error Flooded
- 20. Blank state Why? Introduce the concept Good first impression Avoid beginners questions
- 24. Blank state best practices Quick introduction Give a sample screenshot or screencast to see how the page would look it it has data. Explain how to get started Refer to extra documentation if its available
- 25. Flooded State What happends to your interface if you have 20.000 nodes?
- 30. Flooded state best practices Don’t let it constraint your design. Reconize flooded state Adaptive interface
- 32. Copywriting is interface design! Instructions is a last resort Stop writing for everyone Let someone else do it Read your interface outloud, does it sound right?
- 33. Killing good ideas Problem A participant was confused of the terminology to describe the web site’s main page. The participant expected to see Home Page used instead of Front Page. Solution Rethink the term front page. Consider using a more conventional term such as home page.
- 34. Killing good ideas +1
- 35. Killing good ideas “ I'm not sure why Home page should be more consistent than Front page in anyone's vocabulary.” “ I'm not suprised that people are more familiar with the term home page -- but its a very non specific term used in a wide variety of contexts.”
- 37. Killing good ideas “ How are we going to solve opinion wars, so we can improve the usability of Drupal?”
- 38. Allowing good ideas Data! Usability testing
- 39. Contact Information Bojhan Somers [email_address] Jimmy Berry [email_address]