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You Will Learn How To
- Design and generate effective user interfaces to address end user needs
- Gather requirements through user personas and user stories
- Configure interfaces that allow users to enter information more quickly and accurately
- Implement best practices in the development of user navigation for desktop and Web-based applications
- Incorporate WAI guidelines to ensure support and accessibility for all users
- Address porting issues associated with mobile devices
Course Benefits Competitive advantage can be won or lost depending on the design of the user interface. To be effective, modern software application designs must not only support the required functionality but also fully engage users. Throughout this course, you learn to apply proven user interface design practices to gather requirements, reduce user input errors, and provide intuitive navigation pathways through complex applications to ensure usability.
Who Should Attend User system analysts, system developers, programmers, testers and anyone involved in developing user interfaces. General software development knowledge is preferred but not required.
Hands-On Training Hands-on exercises provide you with practical experience designing user interfaces. Exercises and demonstrations include:
- Generating an electronic prototype of an interface
- Increasing speed and reducing errors to improve end user productivity
- Adding useful help and error messages
- Creating navigation controls
- Incorporating search capabilities
- Adjusting for visual difficulties to increase accessibility
- Providing customisation support
Course Content Presenting Your Best Face to the Customer
Core practices of user interface design
- Leveraging core best practices
- Realising productivity gains
- Increasing your competitive advantage
- Converting binary data to meaningful displays
- Managing the complete user experience
Gathering Requirements
Viewing the system from the user's perspective
- Discerning system needs through user discussions
- Generating user personas
- Extracting user stories
Collecting user feedback
- Building prototypes
- Sketching mock-ups
Designing Based on User Input
Increasing user speed
- Determining sensible defaults
- Selecting the right controls for the job
- Exploring Fitts' Law
Reducing user error
- Limiting the scope for error
- Providing automatic cues
- Allowing for undo
- Supporting users with helpful error messages
Creating the User Navigation
Identifying user interactions
- Designing interface flow diagrams
- Focusing on the necessities
Selecting high-level structures
- Supporting intuition with network-based hierarchal or sequential organisation
- Reinforcing the mental model
Applying best practice guidelines for user interface controls
- Choosing appropriate icons
- Adding shortcut keys for advanced users
- Organising screen real estate with tabs
- Matching menus to widgets
Presenting, Sorting and Filtering Data
Grouping information effectively
- Structuring menus to match workflow
- Separating blocks of data with colour
- Deciding when to right/left/centre justify
Handling presentation delays
- Providing feedback during long wait times
- Collapsing and expanding content on demand
Retrieving data meaningfully
- Implementing search boxes
- Facilitating advanced searches
- Filtering search responses dynamically
Incorporating Aesthetic Considerations
Leveraging images and colour
- Utilising the colour wheel
- Keeping the mental model consistent
- Sign posting with symbols
- Choosing colour harmonies
- Implementing the right metaphor
Handling text issues
- Achieving readability with high contrast
- Adjusting for different language considerations
- Increasing accessibility for different context
Testing for Usability
Gathering measurements
- Counting screen access
- Enumerating mouse events
Applying usability metrics
- Navigating problem discovery
- Determining interface effectiveness
- Calculating efficiency
Evolving the Interface for Future Needs
Porting to mobile devices
- Arranging for a smaller screen
- Adapting to user selection devices
- Customising for differing interaction styles
Preparing for the future of user interaction
- Going beyond two dimensions
- Creating new uses for existing devices
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UK Dates | | 6-8 Jun | London enrol | | 31 Oct - 2 Nov | London enrol |
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