CSCI 1170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Visual Hierarchy, Usability, Golden Ratio
20 Sep 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
User design elements - designing meaningful experience for the web. To design something well, you must understand the. Humans can only retain 5 to 9 things at a time in their shirt term memory. As such try to simplify and categorize item to have only few items shown at a given moment. A user should not wait more than 2 seconds for certain system response (e. g. login, user confirmation) Get rid of unnecessary messages - should be clear to the point. Design elements should make user"s required interactions obvious. Insure that there is a clear visual hierarchy and. Pages should be broken up into clearly defined areas/sections. Give users choice that guide them - and provide them with simple choices. Do not complicate the process of completing a task. Navigation bar are meant to help, not confuse. Provide info and to answer question such as. Give the user some idea about how to fix the error.
