Great design is not something anybody has traditionally expected from Google. Instead, thanks to a vision laid out by a small team of Google designers, each product team is finding its way to a consistent and forward-looking design language thanks to a surprising process.
Spotting an anomaly in the data, figuring out what was causing the issue came down to screen resolution. I came across a site with a comprehensive list and, of course, scraped it into a Google Doc. You can view the list of devices, sorted by brand and model on the original site or use this Google Doc.
Lowgren, J. Current tactile technologies enhance objects and devices with various actuators to create rich tactile sensations, limiting the experience to the interaction with instrumented devices. In contrast, REVEL can add artificial tactile sensations to almost any surface or object, with very little if any instrumentation of the environment. As a result, REVEL can provide dynamic tactile sensations on touch screens as well as everyday objects and surfaces in the environment, such as furniture, walls, wooden and plastic objects, and even human skin.
When sliding his or her fingers on a surface of the object, the user perceives highly distinctive tactile textures that augment the physical object. Varying the properties of the signal, such as the shape, amplitude and frequency, can provide a wide range of tactile sensations.
Preece, J. Hugely popular with students and professionals alike, Interaction Design is an ideal resource for learning the interdisciplinary skills needed for interaction design, human computer interaction, information design, web design and ubiquitous computing.
This text offers a cross—disciplinary, practical and process—oriented introduction to the field, showing not just what principles ought to apply to interaction design, but crucially how they can be applied. An accompanying website contains extensive additional teaching and learning material including slides for each chapter, comments on chapter activities and a number of in—depth case studies written by researchers and designers.
Lynch, P. Consistently praised in earlier editions as the best volume on classic elements of web site design, Web Style Guide, now in its Third Edition, continues its tradition of emphasis on fundamentals. Focusing on the needs of web site designers in corporations, government, nonprofit organizations, and academic institutions, the book explains established design principles and how they apply in web design projects in which information design, interface design, and efficient search and navigation are of primary concern.
New in this edition: —a full chapter devoted to Universal Usability —guidelines and techniques for creating universally usable designs —a full chapter on Information Architecture and how best to promote its robust development —information on Search Engine Optimization and the designs that improve it —techniques for using Cascading Style Sheets for layouts and typographic design — illustrations, all in full color.
Download Tools ZIP 3. Choose your words wisely, you must Using the right terminology is key to successful navigation. Better intranet navigation by paper-prototyping Creating clear, concise, comprehensive, familiar, unique yet uniform navigation names is hard, I hear you say. The Proccess: Start by putting sticky notes on a table. Write one of your top level navigation names on each sticky note.
This is the top level navigation for your site. Start a new line of notes under the top level so they can be moved around if necessary. Group your secondary links under each top level item. Add as many levels as necessary for your navigation, although in general, pages lower than three deep will not be accessed often. Test, test, test Once you have added all the links that you want accessible, find a sampling of co-workers and ask them to find a given link on your sticky note navigation.
In Closing Poor intranet usability is losing money for many organizations. The IT Guide Discover the guide to a simple intranet and simple intranet management. Free Drive internal communications assessment Take the assessment to get a detailed report on the areas of strength and weakness in your internal communications efforts. About the author: Cam Dred Cam has been a Professional Graphic Designer for more than 16 years in the technology industry. With a diverse work history and passion for all visual arts, Cam has provided indispensable value to the Intranet Connections Team.
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Unless a feature offers entirely new functionality or much improved intuitive use, it is often better to stick with a conventional delivery. In closing… Werner Janse van Rensburg wernerjvr isoflow www. Total views 4, On Slideshare 0. From embeds 0. Number of embeds Downloads Shares 0. Comments 0. Likes You just clipped your first slide!
Clipping is a handy way to collect important slides you want to go back to later. A second reason intranet usability has not kept up with intranet features is the increasing reliance on out-of-the-box design from packaged intranet solutions.
Having studied the winners of many years' Intranet Design Annuals , it's clear that great intranet design requires companies to modify packaged solutions to suit their specific needs.
The default user interface will do you no good. Although it's nice to use packaged software instead of coding everything yourself, the user experience remains your responsibility, and you must design a user interface that goes beyond the default settings. Otherwise, employees will likely get lost and waste time trying to get things done using an all-purpose intranet design.
From a usability perspective, an all-purpose design is really a no-purpose design because it doesn't offer users sufficient support. Our newest study is actually the third time we've conducted a wide-ranging series of usability research with a wide variety of corporate intranets. In total, across the 3 research rounds, we've tested 42 different organizations' intranets:. There were 43 locations because we tested one multinational company's intranet on two different continents to assess international usability.
We also conducted observational field studies—sometimes called ethnographies —at 19 different sites. Although you might assume that the daily users would be expert intranet users, we found this not to be the case.
Indeed, people mainly worked with only one or two features, such as using the employee directory to look up phone numbers or reading news items on the homepage.
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