Usability for Nerds
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General principles
- Feedback to user
- The user should be in control
- Self-explaining interfaces
- Predictability
- Transparency
- Never interrupt the user
- Can I guess what the user wants?
- Error tolerance
- WYSIWYG
- Speak the user's language
- Avoid anthropomorphic interfaces
- Design should reflect the user's logic, not the constructor's logic
- The design of a button should reflect its importance
- Provide alternative ways out of a situation
- Surveys, Questionnaires, Forms and Option lists
- Accessibility to handicapped users
- Novices versus experienced users
- Feature Bloat
- Standardization
- Open standards
The design process
Specific technical problems
Hardware
Software
Web design
References
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