Today’s lecture was preparing us for the final push on Healhcare App Project in order to have it handed in by the deadline.
Paul started off class running through a tutorial on, “how to create our own buttons or compontents. He advised once we made them we could build up a component libary and reuse them in furture projects. By doing this you can keep the same button but change the colour and design easily.
Laws of Ux
Users often perceive aesthetically pleasing design.
The design is not just what it looks and feels like. “Steve Jobs”
Orgins 1995 by Kurosu and Kashimura.
Daniel Kahneman- “Thinking fast and slow”
Task 1
For our 1st task in class, we were given sample text on Hick’s Law and had to structure the content according. Paul asked us to use the typescale guide on Material.io to help us with this to task.
Here is the design I came up with. I choose the quicksand typeface. I experimented with different shades of blue for the headings, background and buttons. I wanted to give the content a clean and simple look.
Automatic Cognitive Processing
System 1
- Intuitions
- Feelings
- Intentions
- Impressions
System 2
- Focus
- Research
- Searching Memory
- Mathematical Operations
- Suitational Awareness
Apple are a great example of using Automatic Cognitive Processing to interest their audience.
People will judge on the first 55 millseconds of seeing a product. Therefore it is important to make first impressions count.
Usability testing is great as it demostrate how a user uses my product.
Gestalt Principle was introduced in 1920’s. These include:
- Promoxity
- Simialrity
- Conitinty
- Closure
- Common Fate
- Figure ground
Task 2
We were asked to create a card compotent with Google’s Material Design based on our favourite/ most recent book we read. The dimensions were 350px times by 480px.
Here’s my design I came up with. The book I choose was “Once Upon A Tyne: Our Story Celerbating 30 years together on telly.” I give a brief desciption of the book and creating two buttons.
Mental Models/ Congintivte load
What to take away:
- Carryout usability testing
- Content Audits
- Labbelling
- user Research
- User Interviews
- Card sorting
Resources
Material.io
Reflection
Overall after this week’s lecture I feel more confident creating buttons and structuring my work. This will help me with my HealthCare App become successful.