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by TheSOB88 5728 days ago
What I learned from a Human-Computer Interaction class in college

- Always think of the user. All tradeoffs should be made in favor of the user

- Don't expect users to read anything; they're busy

- Make it as simple as possible, but no simpler. Don't dumb it down, just don't complicate it

- For each page/window, know exactly what the user wants to do there.

- Make things clear, easy to see, and easy to learn

- Have an Undo command, for Christ's sakes

1 comments

Forgot - Feedback. Users need to know when they have performed an action correctly.