...a product or service ‣ In practice, the term most often refers to a person’s interactions with the computer used to access a digital product ‣ The term is necessarily broad and ever-evolving ‣ THE BIG PICTURE FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION In other words: The way that something looks should be derived from the way that it works ‣ This principle originated in architecture and industrial design in the 20th century ‣ A quality experience considers (and balances) both form and function ‣ THE BIG PICTURE IN SIMPLER TIMES, YOU COULD JUST START BUILDING THE BIG PICTURE MODERN PROJECTS REQUIRE COMPLEX PLANNING THE BIG PICTURE OUR PRODUCTS GOT BETTER WHEN USER EXPRIENCE BECAME A DEFINING QUALITY THE BIG PICTURE WHAT IS UX DESIGN? The design of “how it works” balanced against “how it looks” It’s about establishing purpose ‣ It’s the process of defining the functionality of a product or service with constant empathy for the user ‣ It’s the documentation of all design decisions ‣ THE BIG PICTURE VISUAL DESIGNS ARE TO WIREFRAMES… Documents Form Documents Function THE BIG PICTURE …AS RENDERINGS ARE TO BLUEPRINTS Documents Form Documents Function THE BIG PICTURE ALWAYS CONSIDER USABILITY The ease of use and learnability, or usability, of a product or service is paramount in creating a successful experience A usable experience is one that is easily comprehended and allows for the user to accomplish their goals ‣ The design of interactive...
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...To the benefit of software and applications everywhere, UX has become an increasingly important step in the Software Development lifecycle. Even though UX is a slightly surreptitious layer of design, it's no less important. It, by the nature of its name, defines the experience of the users. That experience determines whether or not they want to come back for more, or run screaming in the other direction. UX is something anyone can do. The problem is not everyone can do it well. I can undertake the visual design for a website, but I guarantee you that it will look dreadful and unprofessional. If you learn nothing else about UX I ask you to remember these two things. Know thy user. You are not the user (in most cases). If you don't know your user base, their habits and tendencies, and why they do or do not perform certain actions, then you can't be expected to design a good experience for them. Even if you are very similar to your users, remember that you are only one person and that does not define the qualities of your user base as a whole. Get to know your users and design the experience with them in mind. The role of a UXer is to have that knowledge, constantly expand it, and then design with those users in mind, crafting amazing experiences that will delight and fulfill them. Let's look at all the possible steps a UXer might take in defining the UX of a product. These steps create the ideal process. These steps aren't always possible to complete in the real world,...
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...Introduction to UX Design What is User Experience? Why does it matter? User Experience (UX) the overall experience of a person using a product such as a website or computer application, especially in terms of how easy or pleasing it is to use. Why it matters... CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING SCENARIOS 1. The accident: The accident on the road happened because the driver took his eyes off the road for a moment to turn the radio down. He had to look down because it was impossible to identify which was the volume control by touch alone. Why it matters... 2. The register: The line at the register in the gas station moved so slowly because the cash register was complex and confusing, and unless the clerk paid extra-close attention while ringing something up, he would make a mistake and have to start all over again. If the register had been simpler and the layout and colors of the buttons different, that line never would have formed. Why it matters... 3. The coffeemaker: The coffeemaker didn’t make coffee because you didn’t push down the power button all the way. The machine doesn’t do anything to let you know that it has been turned on: no light, no sound, no resistance you can feel when the button makes contact. You thought you had turned it on, but you were wrong. The problem could have been avoided altogether if you had set the coffeemaker to start brewing automatically first thing in the morning, but you never learned how to use that...
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...Master Dynamique terrestre et risques naturels Math´matiques pour g´ologues e e Op´rateurs diff´rentiels e e On ´tudie en g´osciences des fonctions scalaires des coordonn´es d’espace, comme la temp´rature, e e e e ou bien des vecteurs dont les trois composantes sont des fonctions des coordonn´es, comme la e pesanteur ou le champ magn´tique. Lorsque ces fonctions ont des d´riv´es partielles, on peut e e e d´finir d’autres scalaires ou vecteurs qui restent les mˆmes pour tout r´f´rentiel, ce qu’on appelle e e ee des invariants de la fonction ou du champ de vecteurs. Ils en fournissent des propri´t´s intrins`ques ee e et locales. Pour une fonction, les invariants qui nous seront utiles sont le gradient (un vecteur) et le laplacien (un scalaire). Pour un champ de vecteurs ce sont le rotationnel (un vecteur), la divergence (un scalaire) et le laplacien vectoriel (un vecteur). 1 Produit scalaire et vectoriel Soit deux vecteurs a et b ayant pour composantes dans un r´f´rentiel cart´sien ax , ay , az et bx , by , ee e bz respectivement. On d´finit : e – le produit scalaire : a.b = ax b + ay by + az bz x ay b z − az b y – le produit vectoriel : a ∧ b = az bx − ax bz ax b y − ay b x 2 Notion de circulation d’un champ de vecteurs On appelle travail de A ` B du vecteur a le long d’une courbe (C), dont un segment infinit´simal a e est le vecteur dl, la somme des produits scalaires infinit´simaux e B a.dl. A Lorsque (C) est une courbe ferm´e (A = B), la position...
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...dixtinguixh between little Lucy Mungun und u ruy oq xunxhine ut uny xchoolmute’x birthduy. Exprexxionlexx oq quce, unmoving oq limb und mutinoux oq heurt, I would xtund in the corner counting oqq the minutex until it wux time to go home. Occuxionully I would pluck up the couruge to uxk un udult iq I could go xomewhere elxe to reud. The unxwer wux ulwuyx no. My teenuge yeurx were, ux they ulwuyx ure, even more mortiqying. Thix wux when I dixcovered thut not only could I not pluy nicely with otherx, I ulxo couldn’t dunce or interext unyone in me xexuully. Thut’x u long night. My purentx inxixted I keep going out, which culminuted, one night when I wux ubout 15, in my mother xcreuming ut me in the hull: “You’re going to thut dixco iq I huve to drug you there myxelq!” xhe did. I wux buck by hulq nine. ux you get older, oq courxe, your uutonomy increuxex und mutterx improve. But they’re xtill not greut. Purt oq my problem, I concede, ix xloth – xtuying in ix ximply euxier thun going out – und thix ix xomething I xhould work to overcome. Luzy urxex xhould be drugged oqq the xoqu und towurdx the qun zone juxt ux they ure drugged to the wuxhing muchine to do u loud oq luundry or...
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...Designers won’t be driven by specific product features or even design, but by reimagining the broader experience of how customers might use the product or service. By looking beyond the product to take a extensive view of customer issues and activities around the product, the new designer can find new ways to address unmet needs, create talkworthiness, and fuel differentiation. UX Design will be the dominating role of Innovation, designer will become technologists as the technologist will become a designer as well. If you where to turn on the television and watch the news, you’d see that is not just your home town, state, or country that you live in, the entire world is changing. The world is rioting for something to change: Thailand, Venezuela, Brazil, Mexico, England, Italy, Russia, etc. What is this change? Im not sure yet but the world is screaming “we have lost our way”. (1) “Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goosestepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost… The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these in...
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...Home » web » 25 Resources for Best Practices in Client Side Web Development [2013] 1 25 Resources for Best Practices in Client Side Web Development [2013] Posted on October 10, 2013 The web is growing faster than ever before and bringing in new challenges with mobile and tablet devices (reaching billions). These resources will help you with some of the best practices and guidelines for building a sleek and fast cross-platform user experience. Web Design The following list of links will help you in getting the web design right. 1. http://designmodo.com/style-guides - A style guide tells the story of your design solution. This post will help you create one. 2. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/05/17/typographic-design-patterns-practices-case-study-2013 - A very thorough guide on typography with case studies. A must read. 3.http://www.sitepoint.com/series/css-architectures - A five post series on CSS architectures. 4. http://www.nngroup.com/articles/designing-effective-carousels - The title says it all – ‘Create a fanciful amusement, not a houseful of horrors’. 5. http://thenextweb.com/dd/2013/08/21/six-tips-from-apple-on-how-to-create-better-app-icons/ - Some great tips on creating better app icons for ios 6. http://designmodo.com/create-single-page-website - As the title suggests single page website design with examples. 7. http://css-tricks.com/a-couple-of-best-practices-for-tablet-friendly-design - A quick set of tips to get tablet-ready. ...
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...Copyright © 2015 by UXPin Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be uploaded or posted online without the prior written permission of the publisher. For permission requests, write to the publisher, addressed “Attention: Permissions Request,” to hello@uxpin.com. Index 0. Introduction 1. Building the Foundation for Collaborative UX Design Welcome everyone to the design process Build Empathy, Not Ego Master The Art of Critique Foster Collaboration Through Design Thinking Takeaway 5 8 9 13 19 23 26 27 29 35 38 41 44 45 46 48 50 53 60 61 2. Collaborating on Product Design Planning Collaboration Through User Interviews Team Collaboration Through Stakeholder Interviews Analyze Different Sources of Data Together Affinity Diagrams: The KJ Technique Takeaway 3. Collaborative Design Kickoffs Practical Philosophy for Kickoff Meetings The VIP Guest List Kickoff Meeting Process Design Studios Kickoff Meeting Templates Takeaway Introduction A quick note from the authors In modern product design, collaboration can sound like a four-letter word. Does it mean more time required for meetings, and less for the actual design? Or does it require that less qualified people are given disproportionate influence over design decisions? Design collaboration is actually much more than asking more people for their opinions. Collaboration in the enterprise requires effort – designers must get over their own egos, objections from stakeholders, and the organizational...
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...UX designers perform various tasks at various points in the process. Here are a few things usually are delivered. A/B Testing - compare the effectiveness and quality of experience of different user interfaces. A famous A/B testing is Google’s Website Optimizer; Content inventory - an organized list of pages on a website. There are plenty of methods of conducting a content inventory, a simple tool as Excel to create and manage a content inventory; etc. In addition, there are already some practical suggestions to follow when applying gamification in UX design. For instance, 1) a tangible user interfaces - with the mobile market ever expanding, we need to make sure that the users have a good experience, whatever platform they use to visit our websites. Products need to be adapted to the platform they are being served on. Responsive web design is a good solution to it. 2) constructive and helpful feedback - Feedback is not only about responding to the visitor’s actions, but also about foreseeing their actions. 3) engage your users - e.g. earn badges for completing various tasks, etc. Conversely, there are also some situations that not encourage to use gamification in UX design, such as 1) websites should not have difficulty levels - Games always have to have difficulty levels; completing a game without at least failing a couple...
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...Windows 7 Ubuntu (Linux) Year Event 1983 Bill Gates announces Microsoft Windows November 10, 1983. 1985 Microsoft Windows 1.0 is introduced in November 20, 1985 and is initially sold for $100.00. 1987 Microsoft Windows 2.0 was released December 9, 1987 and is initially sold for $100.00. 1987 Microsoft Windows/386 or Windows 386 is introduced December 9, 1987 and is initially sold for $100.00. 1988 Microsoft Windows/286 or Windows 286 is introduced June, 1988 and is initially sold for $100.00. 1990 Microsoft Windows 3.0 was released May, 22 1990. Microsoft Windows 3.0 full version was priced at $149.95 and the upgrade version was priced at $79.95. 1991 Following its decision not to develop operating systems cooperatively with IBM, Microsoft changes the name of OS/2 to Windows NT. 1991 Microsoft Windows 3.0 or Windows 3.0a with multimedia was released October, 1991. 1992 Microsoft Windows 3.1 was released April, 1992 and sells more than 1 Million copies within the first two months of its release. 1992 Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.1 was released October, 1992. 1993 Microsoft Windows NT 3.1 was released July 27, 1993. 1993 Microsoft Windows 3.11, an update to Windows 3.1 is released December 31, 1993. 1993 The number of licensed users of Microsoft Windows now totals more than 25 Million. 1994 Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was released February, 1994. 1994 Microsoft Windows NT 3.5 was released September 21, 1994. 1995 Microsoft Windows NT 3.51...
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...continuously the current coordinates of the aircraft in a conventionally chosen rectangular coordinate system, rotated with respect to the meridian at the map angle. Coordinates are usually read by the reading of the pointers in kilometers of traveled path from the point of departure and using the cross-track error from the desired track. АНУ-1 continuously produces the dead reckoning by integrating the components of the ground speed vector on the axis X and Y of a Cartesian coordinate system. To obtain the components of the ground speed vector Wx and Wy of aircraft on the axis X and Y of Cartesian coordinate system, the airspeed V and wind speed U on the axes of the speed triangle are converted to the projection of the velocity Vx, Vy, Ux, Uy on the axis X and Y of Cartesian coordinate system with subsequent determination of Wx and Wy, and integrating them to get the coordinates of the aircraft. Navigational speed triangle and its relationship to the rectangular coordinate system are shown in Fig. 1. [pic] Fig. 1 Speed triangle Navigation equations that show the...
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...UNIX, Linux, and Windows Server Critique POS/420 Name Professor Date University of Phoenix Abstract The following sections in this paper focus on analyzing operating systems for Riordan Manufacturing Inc. that specializes in plastic molding and design. Team B concentrated on five main areas of UNIX, Linux, and Windows Server. The five areas include Security, Administration, Networking, Performance, and Programmability. The team explains the existing systems, followed by comparing advantages and disadvantages of each operating system. The comparisons provide insight for Riordan’s IT specialist and administration considering which system to implement. Interesting topics that relate to security weaknesses, and advantages that UNIX® and Linux® compare against the operating giant, Microsoft Windows Server®. Security At the present time, Riordan Manufacturing’s network configurations consist of a heterogeneous UNIX and Windows environment. UNIX has been around for more than 40 years and is known for its’ robust power and scalability. According to the Open Group, “Security, which is often seen as a weakness for UNIX-based systems, is ensured using dedicated communication lines and secure communications protocols, along with strict authentication procedures” (para. 42). This means UNIX, just like Windows, requires configurations to make it a more secure system. Setting up file permissions, user access controls, as well as shutting down network services not currently active...
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...UNIX, Linux, and Windows Server Critique Abstract The following sections in this paper focus on analyzing operating systems for Riordan Manufacturing Inc. that specializes in plastic molding and design. Team B concentrated on five main areas of UNIX, Linux, and Windows Server. The five areas include Security, Administration, Networking, Performance, and Programmability. The team explains the existing systems, followed by comparing advantages and disadvantages of each operating system. The comparisons provide insight for Riordan’s IT specialist and administration considering which system to implement. Interesting topics that relate to security weaknesses, and advantages that UNIX® and Linux® compare against the operating giant, Microsoft Windows Server®. Security At the present time, Riordan Manufacturing’s network configurations consist of a heterogeneous UNIX and Windows environment. UNIX has been around for more than 40 years and is known for its’ robust power and scalability. According to the Open Group, “Security, which is often seen as a weakness for UNIX-based systems, is ensured using dedicated communication lines and secure communications protocols, along with strict authentication procedures” (para. 42). This means UNIX, just like Windows, requires configurations to make it a more secure system. Setting up file permissions, user access controls, as well as shutting down network services not currently active are just a few of the ways that help close the gap...
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...Name: Jazzmen Ou Yong Xuan Li Student ID: S3504166 Class: LF02 Assignment 1 Sally’s Income (I) = $324 Utility function is defined as: Ux,y=x+20y Where x = quantity of petrol (in litres), and y = quantity of composite goods Marginal Utility: MUx = 1 MUy = 10y Price of goods: Price of petrol: Px = $1.50 per litre Price of composite good: Py = $1 per unit Qn. 1 To find Sally’s optimum consumption basket, we need to apply the constrained optimisation process. * Using the tangency condition: MUxMUy=PxPy 110/y = 1.51 y10=1.51 y=15 y=225 * Using the budget constraint: Px(x) + Py(y) = I $1.50(x) + $1(225) = $324 1.5x = 324 – 225 1.5x = 99 X = 66 Therefore, Sally’s optimum consumption basket: x = 66 litres of petrol y = 225 units of composite goods * Sub the values x = 66 and y = 225 into the utility function: Ux,y=x+20y U66,225=66+20225 U66,225=66+300 U66,225=366 At optimum consumption basket x = 66 and y = 225, Sally’s will receive a utility level of 366. Qn. 2 and 4 Composite Goods (y) Composite Goods (y) BL1 BL1 B B 324 (I1/Py1) 324 (I1/Py1) X=66 X=66 Y=225 Y=225 216 (I1/Px1) 216 (I1/Px1) A A U1 U1 U2 U2 BL2 BL2 0 0 162 (I1/Px2) 162 (I1/Px2) Petrol (x) Petrol (x) From Qn. 1: Pt. A = Optimum consumption basket (x = 66, y = 225), where U1 is tangent to BL1 Indifference curve U1: U(66,225) = 366 BL1 = Budget line where I=$324, Px = $1.50 and Py = $1 From Qn...
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...After a brief research of the latest versions of the following database management systems (DBMSs) on the market: Oracle 11G, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and IBM DB2. I found the following information about each DBMS’s. Oracle 11G The biggest advantage Oracle 11G has is that it can help you create customized database applications. Instead of getting a standardized database program out of the box, you get a program that can be customized to fit your needs. This makes it possible to create a database that only has the features you need. Another advantage is Data Mining. It makes it possible to find relationships in data that would otherwise be difficult to find on your own. As good as the above sounds it also comes with a couple of BIG disadvantages. The biggest would be the cost, if you plan on using the program on multiple computers, you will need to buy licenses for each computer. If you plan on making the software available on many computers, these costs can really add up. Another big disadvantage is it comes with a learning curve; this is not something that you can pick up in a short period of time. Microsoft SQL Server MS SQL Server is a Client-server relational database system, with no UI development tools built in. Some of it advantages are, Maintenance its has lots of tools for maintenance, can do most of it with users in DB. It is user friendly, great security, it minimizes redundancy, and it is very consistent. It also works great on an enterprise scale it is designed...
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