The UX of Learning While many desk-shackled students may wish they were napping rather than enduring yet another monotonous lecture, learning is by no means confined within the classroom. In fact, we engage in focused learning activities every day. Think of the last time you ordered a book, booked a flight, or bought a car. Learning is a complex process with distinct stages, each with corresponding tasks and emotions. A hierarchy of learning#section1 According to Benjamin Bloom’s landmark 1956 study, we can classify learning in a hierarchy of six levels, where each level forms the foundation for the next. Fig. 1: Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning. Learning as a process#section2 While Bloom’s Taxonomy reveals the many levels of learning, understanding how these levels flow together in practice is crucial. Fig. 2: A representation of the learning process from Carol Kuhlthau’s paper “Inside the Search Process.” Initiation Initiation is the phase where you become aware that you need information. Explore#section4
International Standards A more recent version of this list can be downloaded. Standards related to usability can be categorised as primarily concerned with: the use of the product (effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a particular context of use) the user interface and interaction the process used to develop the product the capability of an organisation to apply user centred design The standards described here are divided into these categories, and are listed in the table below. Development of ISO standards Standards for HCI and usability are developed under the auspices of the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). The main stages of development of international standards and abbreviations (ZZ) used for the document types are shown below: Usability definitions ISO 9241-11: Guidance on Usability (1998) This standard (which is part of the ISO/IEC FDIS 9126-1: Software Engineering - Product quality - Part 1: Quality model (2000) .
Una infografía que muestra la gran viralidad que alcanzan las infografías en las redes sociales Aunque esta entrada tenga un título tan reiterativo, es la mejor forma de resumir lo que trato de exponer. Y es que, según parece, compartir infografías en las redes sociales es una de las mejores formas de conseguir redifusión y, en consecuencia, generar un mayor tráfico. Esta infografía nos muestra, en forma de porcentajes, el ratio que obtienen las infografías que compartimos en algunas de las principales redes sociales. Sin duda el caso más significativo es el de Twitter, donde el ratio de los tweets con infografías se eleva hasta un 832º, sobre el de los posts tradicionales. Por lo tanto las infografías, con sus detractores y defensores, son un excelente método para lograr una mayor viralidad en nuestras publicaciones sociales. Vía | Redes sociales
Human-Centered Design Course Thread Bibliography | Course Threads Login or Sign Up Human-Centered Design more » Design is pervasive in our lives, as we spend most of our time interacting with human-made tools, objects, services, and information spaces. Check out Berkeley Institute of Design graduate student Lora Oehlberg's introduction of the Human-Centered Design Thread: More Pop-up Content Design is pervasive in our lives, as we spend most of our time interacting with human-made tools, objects, services, and information spaces. Common to all courses included in the Design Thread is the notion that designers have a unique practice or way of knowing what distinguishes design from art (creation which is accountable to the vision of the artist); engineering (the application of scientific and mathematical principles to practical ends); and science (the development of generalizable knowledge through observation, experimentation and hypothesis testing). Announcements March 13: Course Threads Movie Night- "Pi" Search for Courses View all
ISO 9241 ISO 9241 is a multi-part standard from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) covering ergonomics of human-computer interaction. It is managed by the ISO Technical Committee 159. It was originally titled Ergonomic requirements for office work with visual display terminals (VDTs).[1] From 2006 on, the standards were retitled to the more generic Ergonomics of Human System Interaction.[2] As part of this change, ISO is renumbering some parts of the standard so that it can cover more topics, e.g. tactile and haptic interaction. Ergonomics of Human System Interaction[edit] The revised multipart standard is numbered in series as follows: 100 series: Software ergonomics200 series: Human system interaction processes300 series: Displays and display related hardware400 series: Physical input devices - ergonomics principles500 series: Workplace ergonomics600 series: Environment ergonomics700 series: Application domains - Control rooms900 series: Tactile and haptic interactions
An Essay on the New Aesthetic | Beyond The Beyond An Essay on the New Aesthetic Bruce Sterling I witnessed the New Aesthetic panel at South by Southwest 2012. It was a significant event and a good thing to see. If you know nothing of the “New Aesthetic,” or if you have no idea what “SXSW” is, you should repair your ignorance right away. Go peruse this: Now, I know full well that many people never returned from that link I placed up there. You people are either exceedingly determined blog-readers, or else you already know something about the New Aesthetic. You people already know who you are. Joanne McNeil of Rhizome was right when she said at SXSW that things like the New Aesthetic often happen. The New Aesthetic is image-processing for British media designers. This is one of those moments when the art world sidles over toward a visual technology and tries to get all metaphysical. The New Aesthetic concerns itself with “an eruption of the digital into the physical.” He has company. It’s also deep.
What Is Design If Not Human-Centered? The explosive growth of interest in human-centered design raises bigger questions about traditional design education, training, and practice. Late last week, IDEO.org—the nonprofit spinoff of design and strategy giant IDEO—announced a first-of-its-kind, five-week, experiential training program in the art and science of Human-Centered Design for Social Innovation. The program is run in partnership with +Acumen, the outreach arm of social impact investment pioneers, Acumen. Human-centered design expressly involves the investigation of social problems, analysis of knowledge, engagement of users, and prototyping or iteration of solutions. Beyond its projects, popular fellowship program, and new educational initiative, IDEO.org’s online network, HCD Connect, is perhaps the clearest indicator of the accelerating interest in this type of work. The explosive growth of interest in human-centered design raises bigger questions about traditional design education, training, and practice.
Starter League UX Design: How to Define Your User Base & Position Your Product It’s Week #3 of the UX Design class I’m taking at The Starter League. After covering top visual design techniques and research methods last week, we dove right into affinity diagramming, user modeling, and product vision. It’s not as complicated as it sounds, I promise. Affinity Diagramming We left off last week’s recap with some field and survey research tips. Research is critical in the field of UX because, well, the most important thing is people and how they interact with the world, and thus, whatever it is you’re trying to build. That’s where affinity diagramming comes in. Affinity diagramming is the technique of taking a bunch of separate “items”—like statements made by users during field research, observations made by researchers, data points collected from surveys, etc. Let me back up for a minute. That’s when affinity diagramming became my best friend. Based on the field research we did, here’s the affinity diagram my group created (plus, one of my teammates being funny): Quadrants
Vigilancia líquida, de Zygmunt Bauman y David Lyon Hoy en día, los detalles más insignificantes de nuestras vidas son registrados y examinados como nunca antes, y a menudo quienes son vigilados cooperan voluntariamente con los vigilantes. Desde Londres y Nueva York hasta Nueva Delhi, Shanghái y Río de Janeiro, la presencia de cámaras de vídeo en los lugares públicos ya es algo habitual y aceptado por la población. En la actualidad, los viajes aéreos implican el paso por escáneres humanos y controles biométricos que se han multiplicado a raíz del 11-S. Diariamente Google y los proveedores de tarjetas de crédito apuntan el detalle de nuestros hábitos, preocupaciones y preferencias, y con ellos van elaborando estrategias de marketing personalizadas con nuestra activa y, en algunos casos, entusiasta cooperación. En este libro, Vigilancia líquida, el análisis de la vigilancia de David Lyon confluye con el mundo líquido moderno que Zygmunt Bauman ha descrito con su característica agudeza.
Home - UW HCDE 518 The Starter League UX Design: Top Visual Design Techniques and Research Methods It’s Week #2 of the UX Design class I’m taking at The Starter League. After covering UX design heuristics last week, we dove right into these three topics: Visual Design PrinciplesConducting SurveysConducting Field Research Visual Design Principles Visual design principles are essentially the aesthetic rules you should be mindful of whenever you create something (like any website). 1.) Unity is the extent to which all of the elements in your design are clearly associated with one another. 2.) Hierarchy is the established order of elements being viewed. There are various ways you can communicate hierarchy to users, including: Location of certain informationColor schemesSize of elementsTone and length of any textUse of eye-catching imagery (faces, fires) – baby faces and puppies are always a hit! 3.) The idea with this visual design tactic is to basically eliminate things on the page that take away from the information you’re really trying to communicate. 4.) Fluid Design 1.) 2.) 3.) Surveys