Designing with the Mind in Mind Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules

• Main Author: Johnson, Jeff consultant (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 2021
• Edition: Third edition
• Subjects: Graphical user interfaces (Computer systems)
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User interface (UI) design rules and guidelines, developed by early HCI gurus and recognized throughout the field, were based on cognitive psychology (study of mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language), and early practitioners were well informed of its tenets. But today practit...

Table of Contents:

• Our perception is biased
• Our vision is optimized to see structure
• We seek and use visual structure
• Our color vision is limited
• Our peripheral vision is poor
• Reading is unnatural
• Our attention is limited; our memory is imperfect
• Limits on attention shape our thought and action
• Recognition is easy; recall is hard
• Learning from experience and performing learned actions are easy; novel actions, problem solving, and calculation are hard
• Many factors affect learning
• Human decision making is rarely rational
• Our hand-eye coordination follows laws
• We have time requirements
• We make errors