IAT 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: User Experience Design, User Experience, Heuristic Evaluation
23 Apr 2013
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Iat201 week 2 what makes good interface design. Traditional hci is the study of how humans interact with computers. Cognition refers to the mental processes involved in gaining knowledge and comprehension, including perceiving, thinking, remembering, judging, and problem solving. Distributed cognition views these processes as occurring across organizations and societies, while cognitive systems includes processes that are distributed between human(s) and computers. User-centred design (ucd) is a product development methodology that comprises task-based business objectives and user-centric activities and analysis throughout the development cycle. Interaction design is the art of facilitating interaction between humans & products for optimal user experience. // user experience design is the creation and synchronization of the elements that affect users" experience with a particular company, with the intent of influencing their perceptions and behavior. Gulf of execution-there"s nothing there to tell you what to do. Gulf of evaluation-you are not sure what an action will do. Usability principles-used mainly as the basis of evaluating systems.
