UCD & Usability characteristics of good interface
Simplicity and ease of use; intuitive logic, organization and low memory burden; visibility; feedback; affordance; mapping; and constraints.
What are characteristics of a good
user-product interface?
Usefulness, effectiveness, learnability and likeability.
What are Usability objectives?
Designing for simpler interfaces and controls reduce mistakes. Consequently, using the product or system is easier, safer, and more reliable.
What is User Errors
Individuals or groups that enthusiastically adopt environmentally friendly practices as consumers
What are Eco Fans?
A graphical tool that identifies a general theme to collect facts, opinions and ideas. They express data and information in a common format by creating clusters and groups of common information. It represents a text based map which shows aspects of the product that has been/will be taken into consideration in the design and manufacturing of the product, thereby presenting the results.
What is Affinity diagramming?
The decisions required for the product to be the most helpful for the user given certain conditions.
What is sympathetic?
The extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals effectively and efficiently, while functioning in a predictable and consistent manner.
What is Usability?
Enhanced usability are the improvements made to a product in order to improve physical, psychological and social aspects such as product acceptance, user experience and productivity. Enhanced usability looks to eliminate/reduce user error, and training/support.
What is Enhanced usability?
The consumption of goods and services that have minimal environmental impact, promote social equity and economic vitality, whilst meeting basic human needs
What is Sustainable Consumption ?
The testing of a product with potential users to find out how usable the product is.
What is a Usability testing session?
The range of users for a particular product or system.
What is User population?
The extent to which a user can operate a product or system at a defined level of competence after a pre-determined period of training.
What is Learnability?
Design that speaks to people's nature in terms of how they expect products and systems to function and how they expect to interact with them.
What is Visceral design?
The practice of consciously purchasing products produced in a way that minimised social and environmental damage, while avoiding those that have a negative impact on society and the environment
What is Ethical Consumerism?
A framework devised by Professor Lionel Tiger that encourages design for pleasure and emotion. It comprises of four areas: Socio-pleasure; Physio-pleasure; Psycho-pleasure; and Ideo-pleasure.
What is The four-pleasure framework?
A person's perceptions and responses that result from the use or anticipated use of a product, system or service, this can modify over time due to changing usage circumstances.
What is User Experience?
The extent to which a product enables the user to achieve their goals.
What is Usefulness?
Developing products and services with the user in mind so that they can reduce time wasting and simplify complex aspects of the product.
What is Productivity?
What 4 aspects of performance does sustainability reporting focus on?
what is economic, environmental, social and governance?
A set of possible sequences of interactions or event steps between a user and a product to achieve a particular action.
What is a Use case?
A lab in which usability testing is carried out, and test users are monitored by another group of observers in a different room.
What is a Usability laboratory?
The product is easy to use; Users can use it easily and with few or no errors.
What is Effectiveness
Controls are easily accessible to the human eye.
What is Visibility?
Disconnecting two trends so that one no longer depends on the other, lowering environmental impact while maintaining social and equity benefits.
What is decoupling?
A framework for creating designs that improve the relations of users with a product and intentionally trigger emotional responses.
What is The attract/converse/transact
(ACT) model?