Слайд 1@cwodtke
INTERFACE DESIGN FUNDAMENTALS
Слайд 2“Like putting an Armani suit on Attila the Hun, interface design
only tells how to dress up an existing behavior.” – Alan Cooper
Слайд 3A framework is the way elements will be organized on a
page for use and understanding
Слайд 4From last week’s homework 5min
Слайд 5A task analysis
From Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web, this
is a task analysis for a website for Sundance film festival, featuring a schedule planner
Слайд 8First Yahoo 1994
1995: first graphic logo
Remind you of something?
Слайд 9Including the schedule creator tool…
Слайд 11When to Use Wizards
Multi step process
Must be completed in order
The
audience is not technically savvy
Bandwidth is low
Слайд 13What if we put the tasks with the thing they were
modifying?
Слайд 14It’s a toolbar
Tools here
Item affected here
Слайд 15Toolbars
Tools here
Item affected here
And here
And here
Photoshop: toolbars on steroids
Слайд 16The web uses toolbars more sparingly
Слайд 17Toolbars
Tools here
Item affected here
A simpler design is better for infrequent use.
Слайд 23What other ways can we organize elements? Control Panels? Carousels? Thumbnail
Full Size?
Слайд 25
Two videos sites.
The “meal” is the video, and the tools to
consume (or play with) it are arrayed around the main meal.
(P.S. There are toolbars too)
Слайд 26WHICH PAIR OF PANTS ARE NOW 39.99?
Слайд 28
Why is the response so far from the invitation?
Слайд 30When designing the page, group items by similarity and similarity of
task (navigation items together, editing items together)
Give them visual importance based on user number, usage frequency and importance to business.
Слайд 31Create “zones” for functionality groups.
You can group them by putting white
space around them, or use lines
Remember to keep tools close to the thing your working on
Слайд 32IF YOU ARE PUTTING BOXES AROUND THINGS TO MAKE IT CLEAR,
YOU PROBABLY SHOULD START OVER
Слайд 43Subtlety will send you to the poor house.
Tell your users what
to do.
Clarity is relaxing, not annoying.
Слайд 55On the product page (apples!)
For the company to succeed
2 minutes
Слайд 62Comics are read in the west left to right, like a
page. However, good artists add visual elements to help you flow.
http://samkieth.blogspot.com/
Слайд 67I AM TIMES NEW ROMAN
Hey, I’m Arial
Слайд 72A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Слайд 73To be great is to be misunderstood.
Слайд 74A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
— 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Слайд 75To be great is to be misunderstood.
Слайд 76A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
— 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' —
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Слайд 77To be great is to be misunderstood.
Слайд 91WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT WHEN YOU THINK OF A PAINTING
Слайд 92Poetics: Control, power, precision
Слайд 93Values: Lightweight, easy, sketchy, imprecise
Слайд 95WHAT DO YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU THINK OF WRITING?
Слайд 99WHAT DO YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU THINK OF SOCIAL?
Слайд 107MINIMALIST DESIGN
Only use one font. Preferably Helvetica.
Only use three, all
very different. Perhaps a fourth for footer text.
Only use one color, with variations, and one “accent” color.
Turn on the grid (if you are using Photoshop, etc)
Never align center.
Don’t use stock photography, unless you have awesome taste. It has no soul.
Have a hierarchy
Слайд 108CHEATS
Design Patterns
Libraries
Odesk
Conference proceedings
You can’t buy taste
Слайд 109Q&A
"In an architecture of content, the information becomes the interface." --
Edward Tufte