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MinneBar Notes - Designing For Use

By Garrick Van Buren

 I hit the back button and lost all my notes. That’ll teach me to try to do this in the browser.

  • Smart Defaults - when a user asks for something, see if it makes sense for 80% of users. Most of the people who speak up are edge cases, in the other 20%.
  • What assumptions can you make about the user when using widgets/code like FCKEditor, Dojo, etc.
  • YULUP - data entry method - look in to this.
  • Selling Usability - Get Data to back up your arguments. Find out why someone is against spending more time on usability and address it - extra time, relieve their concerns, etc.
  • Mock things up as quickly as possible.
  • Here’s your idea, here’s my interpretation and why I think it’s better.
  • Directing the way the user’s eyes move around the screen, doing things to get their attention in new environments.

    • Battery is dying, I have to post this now and charge up later.

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    One Response to “MinneBar Notes - Designing For Use”

    1. » MinneBar 2: Wrap up » MNteractive » Says:
      April 23rd, 2007 at 8:07 am

      […] While 50 minutes was just enough to get warmed up, I think we had a pretty good conversation. Christopher Warren wrote up notes. That’s what unconferences are all about. Thank you. “Hopefully my mumblings about […]

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