Evaluation Framework

The practitioner's guide to user experience design

Read these to prepare for class discussion

  1. Chapter 4, Innovation Is Not for Innovation's Sake
    pages 113-125
    in Miller, L. (2015). The practitioner's guide to user experience design.
    New York; Boston: Grand Central Publishing.
    2. Universal Principles of Design
  2. Universal principles of design
    The principle of cost-benefit, 68
  3. Universal principles of design
    The principle of mapping, 152
  4. Universal principles of design
    The principle of Ockham's razor, 172
  5. a relevant article from the Nielsen Norman Group
    Technology Transfer of Heuristic Evaluation and Usability Inspection
  6. Mao, J.-Y., Vredenburg, K., Smith, P. W., & Carey, T. (2005). The state of user-centered design practice. Communications of the ACM, 48(3), 105-109.
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Optional readings which may come up in class discussions

Holzinger, A. (2005). Usability engineering methods for software developers. Communications of the ACM, 48(1), 71-74.
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McNamara, N., & Kirakowski, J. (2006). Functionality, usability, and user experience: Three areas of concern. interactions, 13(6), 26-28.
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