WEB PROGRAMMING
USER-CENTERED DESIGN-P2
Alaa Khalaf Hamoud
2021-06-24
Contents
3.4.5 Movement Capabilities
3.5 The User’s World
3.6 User Environments
3.7 General Types of Users
3.8 Accessibility
3.9 Building a Usable Site
3.4.5 Movement Capabilities
• Navigate website.
3.4.5 Movement Capabilities
• Minimize user efforts using these devices.
• Pages should optimized for quick
navigation via the keyboard.
• Moving the pointer around the screen
takes effort, and a button or link press
may take up to a few seconds if a user has
to move a long distance or focus on
clicking a very small button.
3.4.5 Movement Capabilities
• Fitt’s law basically states that the smaller the
button to press and the farther away it is,
the longer it will take to perform the action.
• Minimize mouse travel distance between
successive choices).
3.4.5 Movement Capabilities
3.4.5 Movement Capabilities
• Solve navigation issue (back or browser
back button).
• Make clickable regions large enough for
users to move to them quickly and
press them accurately.
3.5 The User’s World
• Users of a web site are affected by their
environment.
• Location, the noise around them, and
visual quality of the monitor they are
using, and so on.
• Medium of the Internet and the Web,
which includes things like network
connections, servers, browsers, and so on.
3.5 The User’s World
• Each user will have his or her own
opinions, capabilities, environment,
and experiences, all of which will
influence how the site is interpreted.
• A fine balance between what the user
thinks and wants and what the designer
thinks and wants.
3.6 User Environments
• Influenced by what could be called their
environment of consumption.
• When designing for users, always think
about where the user is accessing the
site from?
• Designers must take into account the
environment of consumption.
3.7 General Types of Users
• Novice User
3.7 General Types of Users
• Power User
3.7 General Types of Users
• Intermediate User.
3.7 General Types of Users
• Provides features that cater to all users.
• Provide keyboard shortcuts and other
features, such as customizable
interfaces.
• Help systems and wizards are other
features mostly geared toward the
novice user.
3.7 General Types of Users
• It is probably best to aim for the largest
group of users: the intermediate.
• Some individuals may have disabilities
that prohibit them from using a Web
site that most users find easy to use.
• They may expect to use symbols from
the real world, such as those for
navigation.
3.8 Accessibility
• Making your site as accessible as possible.
3.8 Accessibility
• Assuming that all users have perfect
physical and technical capabilities is
wrong.
• Providing accessibility for people who may
have deficiencies involving sight, hearing,
or other physical capabilities isn’t just a
nice idea anymore it may actually be
required for some organizations.
3.9 Building a Usable Site
• Focus from the beginning on the users of the
application
3.9 Building a Usable Site
• Try to ask the users about their needs but
don’t fall in user trap.
3.9 Building a Usable Site
• You are NOT the user and Users are NOT
designers.
You
Designer User
3.9 Building a Usable Site
• You might consider interviewing them or
giving a survey.
3.9 Building a Usable Site
• Build a prototype site, or just a set of simple
diagrams on paper of how pages might look,
and test it out with users, and Perform user
testing early and often.
3.9 Building a Usable Site
• After tests and interviews (qualitative and
quantitative measurements).
• Qualitative measures include user
satisfaction about using website.
• Quantitative measures include number of
mistakes made during a task, the amount of
mouse travel, and the time it takes to
perform a task.
Questions
• What Fit’s Law suggests?
• How to solve navigation problems?
• How environment of consumption affect the success
of website?
• How user environment affect the website design?
• How to ensure that your website is accessible?
• Define novice, power, and intermediate users?
• List three suggestions to design a usable website?
• What is the difference between qualitative and
quantitative measurements?
End of Chapter Three-P2
