FreeMind Mobile User Experience 2: Usability Week 2011 Conference Different platforms require different user interface design. What works for mouse-driven desktop design is not the same as for gesture-driven touchscreen design. Additionally, apps allows us to streamline functionality in more phone-specific design. In this course, you will learn the UI elements for creating successful apps on devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android, and Kindle. This course focuses on the user experience, not on development or programing. Topics Behavioral differences between tablets and phones Usage patterns and activities among mobile users Design standards that people expect Device differences: Android vs. iPhone vs. Free Material with Course Attendance Nielsen Norman Group Tablet Website & Application UX report (a $198 value). Format The basis of the course is a lecture format with a couple of group exercises to reinforce the learned principles and guidelines. The course also includes: Companion Course
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Application Usability 1: Usability Week 2011 Conference Graphical user interfaces (GUI) have a rich vocabulary with screen components for many different situations. Effective design and implementation of these screen components have profound, positive implications on the overall user experience; while unusable design can have adverse effects on your users and customers. In this seminar, we’ll explore the behavior of application screen components, including both standard behaviors that users expect and unique interface components designed for specific interactions. "This course ties together all of the principles learned throughout the rest of Usability Week and applies them directly to application design. Meredith EnglundIntronis Please note: This course does not cover mobile apps. Topics Format The basis of the course is a lecture format with a couple of group exercises to reinforce the learned principles and guidelines. The course also includes:
37 Data-ish Blogs You might not know it, but there are actually a ton of data and visualization blogs out there. I'm a bit of a feed addict subscribing to just about anything with a chart or a mention of statistics on it (and naturally have to do some feed-cleaning every now and then). In a follow up to my short list last year, here are the data-ish blogs, some old and some new, that continue to post interesting stuff. Data and Statistics By the Numbers - Column from The New York Times visual Op-ed columnist, Charles Blow, who also used to be NYT's graphics director.Data Mining - Matthew Hurst, scientist at Microsoft's MSN, also the co-creator of BlogPulse.Statistical Modeling - We might disagree on certain things, but Andrew's blog is one of the few active pure statistics blogs.The Numbers Guy - Data-minded reporting from Carl Bialik of the Wall Street Journal.Basketball Geek - Like statistical analysis and basketball? Statistical/Analytical Visualization Maps Design & Infographics Others Worth Noting
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Xerox developed this UI as the future to hierarchical lists. It was purchased by SAP and locked away. It's a beautiful concept of Focus and Context that maps a large site onto a hyperbolic web that you can drag around and quickly survey everything. by pauljacobson Apr 6