The User Interface Design Process

Designing for People:
The Seven Commandments
Provide a multidisciplinary design team
Solicit early & ongoing user involvement
Gain a complete understanding of users & their tasks
Create the appropriate design
Perform rapid prototyping & testing
Modify & iterate the design as much as possible
Integrate the design of all the system components.

Usability ?
A quality attribute that assesses how easy a user interface is to use.
Also refers to methods for improving ease-of-use throughout the entire design process.

Usability (cont.)

5 quality components of usability
Learnability
Efficiency
Memorability
Errors
Satisfaction

Why usability is important?
One of the most important qualities of an interface
Discretionary use (Web sites)
Mandatory use (business app)

Usability vs. Utility ?
Utility refers to a system or product’s functionality.
Does it do what people want it to do?