Designing User Interfaces

Participants will learn how to design usable display screens and user interfaces. Emphasis is placed on techniques and guidelines to design and critique different types of screens, transaction codes, and types of interaction. The course will include lectures, team projects and usability critique of selected material.

Objective:
This is a two-day intensive course in the guidelines and concepts of designing the user/computer interface and interaction strategies. This course is intended to teach strategies and techniques for considering and incorporating ease of learning and ease of use into the design of software systems. Participants will learn the principles and criteria required to design for usability. This course is valuable for software engineers, programmers, systems analysts, planners, documentation professionals, and software support specialists.

Topics:
2. Introduction and overview of course
3. Interactive information processing
4. Displaying information for users
5. Designing usable screens and dialogues
6. Designing the interaction
7. Direct manipulation and graphic user interface design
8. Constructing user interface metaphors
9. Usability in software development

Outcomes (skills learned):

	Make a case for the importance of HCI in system development
	Describe the goals of user interface design and evaluation
	Apply an integrated perspective to the usability design process
	Characterize HCI design in terms of cognitive processes
	Apply strategies and techniques for designing dialogue styles
	Assess critically the design trade-offs of using different interaction styles
	Identify the key elements of graphic user interfaces
	Select and use the appropriate evaluation method
	Apply relevant guidelines to designing effective user interaction
	Apply guidelines for graphical user interface design