Interface Design for Learning
Interface Design for Learning

Author: Dorian Peters

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0321903048

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In offices, colleges, and living rooms across the globe, learners of all ages are logging into virtual laboratories, online classrooms, and 3D worlds. Kids from kindergarten to high school are honing math and literacy skills on their phones and iPads. If that weren't enough, people worldwide are aggregating internet services (from social networks to media content) to learn from each other in "Personal Learning Environments." Strange as it sounds, the future of education is now as much in the hands of digital designers and programmers as it is in the hands of teachers. And yet, as interface designers, how much do we really know about how people learn? How does interface design actually impact learning? And how do we design environments that support both the cognitive and emotional sides of learning experiences? The answers have been hidden away in the research on education, psychology, and human computer interaction, until now. Packed with over 100 evidence-based strategies, in this book you'll learn how to: Design educational games, apps, and multimedia interfaces in ways that enhance learning Support creativity, problem-solving, and collaboration through interface design Design effective visual layouts, navigation, and multimedia for online and mobile learning Improve educational outcomes through interface design.

User Interface Design for Programmers
User Interface Design for Programmers

Author: Avram Joel Spolsky

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1430208570

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Most programmers' fear of user interface (UI) programming comes from their fear of doing UI design. They think that UI design is like graphic design—the mysterious process by which creative, latte-drinking, all-black-wearing people produce cool-looking, artistic pieces. Most programmers see themselves as analytic, logical thinkers instead—strong at reasoning, weak on artistic judgment, and incapable of doing UI design. In this brilliantly readable book, author Joel Spolsky proposes simple, logical rules that can be applied without any artistic talent to improve any user interface, from traditional GUI applications to websites to consumer electronics. Spolsky's primary axiom, the importance of bringing the program model in line with the user model, is both rational and simple. In a fun and entertaining way, Spolky makes user interface design easy for programmers to grasp. After reading User Interface Design for Programmers, you'll know how to design interfaces with the user in mind. You'll learn the important principles that underlie all good UI design, and you'll learn how to perform usability testing that works.

Design Wise
Design Wise

Author: Alison J. Head

Publisher: Information Today, Inc.

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780910965316

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"Design Wise" explains what interface design is and how to evaluate it. Information is included on the importance of interface design to users, how a product gets designed, a design evaluation template, and design analyses of CD-ROMs, Web sites, and online providers.

Make It So
Make It So

Author: Nathan Shedroff

Publisher: Rosenfeld Media

Published: 2012-09-17

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1933820764

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Many designers enjoy the interfaces seen in science fiction films and television shows. Freed from the rigorous constraints of designing for real users, sci-fi production designers develop blue-sky interfaces that are inspiring, humorous, and even instructive. By carefully studying these “outsider” user interfaces, designers can derive lessons that make their real-world designs more cutting edge and successful.

Interface Design
Interface Design

Author: Peter Bickford

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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A guide for designing easy-to-use software, this book offers an on-the-job view of what it takes to create great products, offering practical tips and advice instead of forcing the reader to extrapolate from abstract psychological theory. "Human Interface" targets a wide range of design issues, from taming the incomprehensible interfaces of database systems and the Internet, to using sound and animation effectively in multimedia.

Designing Interfaces
Designing Interfaces

Author: Jenifer Tidwell

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2005-11-21

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0596008031

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This text offers advice on creating user-friendly interface designs - whether they're delivered on the Web, a CD, or a 'smart' device like a cell phone. It presents solutions to common UI design problems as a collection of patterns - each containing concrete examples, recommendations, and warnings.

User and Task Analysis for Interface Design
User and Task Analysis for Interface Design

Author: JoAnn T. Hackos

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1998-02-23

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13:

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Helps you design a great user interface by focusing on the most important step in the process - the first one. You learn to go out and observe your users at work, whether they are employees of your company or people in customer organisations. You learn to find out what your users really need, not by asking them what they want, but by going through a process of understanding what they are trying to accomplish. The authors take you through a step-by-step process to conduct a user and task analysis. You learn: How interface designers use user and task analysis to build successful interfaces; Why knowledge of users, their tasks, and their environments is critical to successful design; How to prepare and set up your site visits; How to select and train your user and task analysis team; What observations to make, questions to ask, and questions to avoid; How to record and report what you have learned to your development team members; How to turn the information you've gathered into design ideas; How to create paper prototypes of your interface design; and How to conduct usability tests with your prototypes to find out if you're on the right track.

The Humane Interface
The Humane Interface

Author: Jef Raskin

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780201379372

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Cognetics and the locus of attention - Meanings, modes, monotony, and myths - Quantification - Unification - Navigation and other aspects of humane interfaces - Interface issues outside the user interface.

User Interface Design of Digital Textbooks
User Interface Design of Digital Textbooks

Author: Elena Aurel Railean

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-09-06

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9811024561

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This book is a synthesis of the complex interdependencies between user interface design of digital screen and learning process. It is analyzed the impact of digital revolution on learning, phases of digital textbooks use and development; specific features of educational system & learning environment; psycho-pedagogical characteristics of XXI students; user interface design topology; user interface design features of digital textbooks in accordance with human thinking paradigms; critical thinking of user interfaces and content (linear, systems, global and metasystems design approach). One special chapter describes innovative organizational forms of learning with digital textbooks. Metasystems learning design of digital textbooks will be of particular interest to the readers because this is an innovative approach of learning design, which proved the experimental data of the instructional dynamic and flexible strategy. It proved the practical application of didactical model of digital textbooks for chemistry and mathematics. The main benefits for reader refers on understanding the applicability of metasystems learning design for digital textbook use and development, in particular for STEM education. It takes more than analysis to help readers overcome the impact of user interface design of digital textbook on learning outcomes.