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Articles
Tools for Design and Visualization
- Eurovision Song Contest 2011 and NodeXL: A Perfect Match – Part I
- Eurovision Song Contest 2011 and NodeXL: A Perfect Match – Part II
- My Design Tools – Part I
- My Design Tools – Part II
- Using Prototypes
- UI Toolbox: Capturing and Editing Screenshots – Part I
- UI Toolbox: Capturing and Editing Screenshots – Part II
Simplification
- What Does "Simple" Mean?
- Anti-Simplification – How to Make Life Harder for Users
- Reducing Complexity
- Error Prevention Comes First
- Don't Let Your Interface Lie
- Don't Let Users Suffer from System Weaknesses
Interaction Design
- Bridging the Gap – Part I
- Bridging the Gap – Part II
- Bridging the Gap – Part III
- Did You Make Your Selection? – Part I
- Did You Make Your Selection? – Part II
- Did You Make Your Selection? – Part III
- Did You Make Your Selection? – Part IV
- The Software Works The Way I Think: Beyond Point and Click
- A Layman's View on Interaction Styles – Part I
- A Layman's View on Interaction Styles – Part II
- Selecting Objects By Attributes – Part I
- Selecting Objects By Attributes – Part II
Screen Design
- The Art of Hiding – Part I
- The Art of Hiding – Part II
- Screen Layout – Part I: General Considerations
- Screen Layout – Part II: Layout Hierarchy
- Screen Layout – Part III: Examples
Design Process
- The Construction Cycle – Another Way to "Organize" the Design Process
- User Feedback
- What Does User Integration Mean for Software Design?
- Mapping a Conceptual Interface to a Physical Interface
Hierarchies
- Hierarchies - Categories vs. Vectors
- Fighting
(with) Hierarchies –
Part I: Basics - Fighting
(with) Hierarchies –
Part II: Presentation - Appendix: Fighting (with) Hierarchies – Presentation Techniques I
- Appendix: Fighting (with) Hierarchies – Presentation Techniques II
Visual Design
Articles
Web, Web Applications, Web Design
- The Web – A Short Introduction
- An Introduction to Designing User Interface Controls at SAP
- From Dropdown Listboxes to Comboboxes
- List Box Tweaks (Part II)
- Concept Statements and Website Messages – Part I
- Concept Statements and Website Messages – Part II
Performance
- Waiting at the Computer: Busy Indicators and System Feedback – Part 1
- Waiting at the Computer: Busy Indicators and System Feedback – Part 2
- Waiting at the Computer: Busy Indicators and System Feedback – Part 3
- Human Performance at the Computer – Part 1: Introduction
- Human Performance at the Computer – Part 2: Making Applications More Responsive
- Human Performance at the Computer – Part 3: Perceived Performance
- Human Performance at the Computer – Part 4: On the Way to Performance-Oriented UI Guidelines
- Addressing a "Design Issue:" Start-Up Time
- Examples of Poor Responsiveness
Miscellany
- Adding Value to Your Interface by Using Simple Math and Matching
- Refreshing Three HCI Laws: Fitts' Law, Hick's Law, and the Power Law of Practice
- How Much Documentation Do Applications Need? – A Simple Example
- Human-Computer Dialog: How Good Does "Good Enough" Need to Be to Appear "Perfect"?
- Narrative User Interfaces
- Golden Rules for Bad User Interfaces
- Universal Usability
- User Interface Controls and Interaction Techniques of Horror
- Designing for a Workforce That Acts More Sustainably – Part 1: Action Fields for Designers
- Designing ... Sustainably – Part 2: Action Items for Designers
- Designing ... Sustainably – Part 3: Designing for Remote Collaboration and Communication
- Designing ...Sustainably – Part 4: Using Ambient Media to Support Awareness of Remote Colleagues
- Designing ... Sustainably – Part 5: Using Persuasive Design/Technology
- Designing ... Sustainably – Part 6: Replacing Physical Objects with Virtual (Digital) Ones
- Using Ambient Media to Support Awareness of Remote Colleagues – Part 1: Examples new
- Using Ambient ... Remote Colleagues – Part 2: Ideas new
- A Proposal for Playful Interactive Persuasion: The "Employees' Commute Calculator" (ECC) – Part 1: The Easy ECC (E2C2) new
- A Proposal for Playful Interactive Persuasion: The "Employees' Commute Calculator" (ECC) – Part 2: Ideas for a More Advanced Version new
Design Tidbits
Updated: December 22, 2011
The Design Tidbits section offers a growing selection of articles centered around UI and graphic design.
Recent Additions
Using Ambient Media to Support the Awareness of Remote Colleagues – Part 2: Ideas
December
22, 2011: This series of two
articles is for readers who want to learn more about how ambient media
could be used in a work context and who also like to engage in brainstorming.
The second article in the series presents ideas about how the projects
that were discussed in part 1 could be transferred to an office environment.
Using Ambient Media to Support the Awareness of Remote Colleagues – Part 1: Examples
December
21, 2011: This series of two articles is for readers who want to
learn more about how ambient media could be used in a work context
and who also like to engage in brainstorming. The first article in
the series presents prototypical examples of ambient media conveying
awareness information from the DIS 2010 conference in Aarhus, Denmark.
A Proposal for Playful Interactive Persuasion: The "Employees' Commute Calculator" (ECC) – Part 2: Ideas for a More Advanced Version
December
20, 2011: In this article series, our author proposes and roughly
sketches an "Employees' Commute Calculator" (ECC), which
allows a company's employees to explore the environmental consequences
of their commuting behavior in a playful way. Part 2 of the series
presents ideas for a more advanced version based on the room metaphor.
A Proposal for Playful Interactive Persuasion: The "Employees' Commute Calculator" (ECC) – Part 1: The Easy ECC (E2C2)
December
15, 2011: In this article series, our author proposes and roughly
sketches an "Employees' Commute Calculator" (ECC), which
allows a company's employees to explore the environmental consequences
of their commuting behavior in a playful way. Part 1 of the series
presents a simple version of it, the E2C2.
Designing for a Workforce That Acts More Sustainably – Part 6: Replacing Physical Objects with Virtual (Digital) Ones
September 27, 2011: In the sixth and final article in his series, our author will look at the "replacing physical objects with virtual (digital) ones" action item. This primarily constitutes a reduction strategy, and he will therefore also look briefly at related reduction strategies.
Designing for a Workforce That Acts More Sustainably – Part 5: Using Persuasive Design/Technology
August 23, 2011: In a series of six articles having the motto "Designing for a Workforce That Acts More Sustainably", our author investigates how designers can contribute to making a company's workforce behave more sustainably. In this fifth article in his series, he will look at the action item "using persuasive design/technology".
Designing for a Workforce That Acts More Sustainably – Part 4: Using Ambient Media to Support Awareness of Remote Colleagues
July
26, 2011: In this fourth article in his series, Designing for
a Workforce That Acts More Sustainably, our author will look at
the second of four action items, namely "using ambient displays
to support awareness of remote colleagues". In the meantime, he
has learned that the visual mode is just one of several options for
providing ambient information. Ambient information can also be conveyed
through sound, touch, and smell, or a combination of these. He will
therefore refer to ambient media rather than ambient displays in
his article.
Designing for a Workforce That Acts More Sustainably – Part 3: Designing for Remote Collaboration and Communication
June 30, 2011: In a series of six articles, our author investigates how designers – particularly user interface (UI), user experience (UX), and interaction (IxD) designers – can contribute to making a company's workforce behave more sustainably. In this and the following three articles, he looks at the action items that he identified for designers one by one and in more detail. He begins with the first action item, "designing for remote collaboration and communication".
Eurovision Song Contest 2011 and NodeXL: A Perfect Match – Part I
May
31, 2011: In the first part of his article about applying the visualization
tool NodeXL to the European Song Contest (ESC) 2011 voting data,
our author presents variations of the same graph that illustrate how
certain NodeXL features help make the graph less cluttered yet
more instructive: He starts with the default global appearance, and
then uses NodeXL's autofill feature to apply global changes
to edges and vertices based on graph metrics. Finally, he applies dynamic
filters to change the graph selectively, with regards to edges, vertices,
and filter opacity.
Eurovision Song Contest 2011 and NodeXL: A Perfect Match – Part II
May
30, 2011: In the second part of his article, our author will demonstrate
how you can assign category colors to edges and vertices. Categories
can be assigned in various ways: automatically, manually, or by performing
simple calculations or manipulations. Finally, he will show how you
can use a map as graph background and thus provide a natural layout
for data that has a geographic reference.
Designing for a Workforce That Acts More Sustainably – Part 2: Action Items for Designers
May 10, 2011: In his second article about designing for a work force that acts more sustainably, our author steps back and asks in what sustainability aspects, as defined by Nathan Shedroff, designers can have an impact. Combining action fields with sustainability aspects, he finds four possible action items for designers, which will be covered in upcoming articles.
Designing for a Workforce That Acts More Sustainably – Part 1: Action Fields for Designers
March 17, 2011: In a series of six articles, our author investigates how designers, particularly user interface (UI), user experience (UX), and interaction (IxD) designers, can contribute to making a company's workforce behave more sustainably. In this first article, he looks for fields of action for designers and identifies three such fields: (1) commute and travel, (2) resource, energy, and waste management, and (3) organizational issues.
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