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 Tuesday, July 22, 2008
[ARCHWORLD] Interaction Design for Non-Designers

Larry Constantine talked about Interaction Design for Non-Designers. It was a very 101 level presentation, and there were a lot of, well, yeah, of course moments, but overall, I felt it was worthwhile.

Some of the highlights:

  • Don't punish your user - his example - a survey web page with dropdowns for yes/no, instead of radio buttons. It takes twice as many clicks to get through it
  • "Every time there is an 'instruction manual' for a control, you should rethink it"
  • The status area at the bottom of a lot of screens is generally never looked at
  • Users tend to blame themselves when something doesn't work, instead of blaming the developer (who is almost always the one who deserves the blame)

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