programmers are poor designers

Programmers are poor Designers

Human Factors in Interface DesignAndy Barry, Morgan Boes,

Dan Cody, Eric Hwang

Goals

Personas

Representing how users browse

Unnatural to programmers – the people, not the

computer.

Usage Scenarios

Why do users revisit a website?› What do they know about the site?› How does their knowledge vary?

Make life easy for the person – not for the programmer

3 Fundamental Cases

Short Term Long Term Disconnected path

Simulating Cases

Going back to a website that…• the user visited a day ago• the user visited a month ago• the user visited from a link in an email

Why Talk to People?

Users:What does this do?

Incompressible

Helped us create a more natural mapping

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Programmers are poor Designers

Human Factors in Interface DesignAndy Barry, Morgan Boes,

Dan Cody, Eric Hwang