In this practice-oriented paper for human factors education, we describe our experiences piloting a variation of a classroom activity reported elsewhere. We conducted the activity with two different groups of students: psychology majors and software engineering majors. Focusing students on the simplest of algorithms is a fruitful activity to introduce them to biases and variations that occur in practical field studies. Students enjoyed the activity, and we took away learning for our industrial research context.
Designers of interactive systems often work in environments that am continuously changing. External, uncontrollable change is rapidly becoming a daily impedim~t in many designers' lives. In this age of rapid technologml progression and heightened competition, systems designers must be able to prepare for, cope with, and even pdbrm better because of inevitable change. 13ecauM the nature of user interbce design is to make complicated technology usable, user intedltce designers tve especially afkcted by design changes.This paper is a chronicle of the adventures of time user interl%ce designers while working on the design of an interactive system within a changing domain.We describe the kinds d changes that atlkc$ desi~the impact of change on the design process, how a designer can prepare fw change, and finally, how to respond to change.By sharing our experiences on a project fkught with change, we hope to help other &signers learn to work well within a changing design environment.
A small team of usability analysts created, implemented, and followed a company-wide process to increase user interface consistency across products. Key ingredients to success were: an effective process; ongoing, active, involvement from stakeholders; iterative design and review cycles; and easily accessible and reusable code. This effort changed the process of cross product user interface design at SAS, providing impetus to the development of products that are more consistent. Goals, process, results, and lessons learned are described.
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