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- 18. To do list
- Call Ken
- Write presentation
- Cinema tickets
- Fish fingers?
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- 39. The achievement of maximum
effect with minimum means
Dr Koichi Kawana
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- 41. Simplicity in user interface design
refers to experience, not artefacts
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- 43. Experience occurs at many levels
Correspondence between program model
and mental model
Visual / output
Input mechanisms
Physical dimensions & handling
Eco-systems of software / devices
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- 44. The achievement of maximum
effect with minimum means
Dr Koichi Kawana
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- 47. A process for simplicity
(guidelines in a specific order)
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- 53. What effect is the user
trying to produce?
Understand context
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- 54. What does the user
know?
Understand context
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- 58. Many hands make light work
Meeting at 13:40
By removing the irrelevant
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush Don’t forget to put the
Today is the first day of the rest of your life cat out
Some day I’ll fly away
To dare is to do you emphasise what
One, two, three, go! really matters
Simply better Just do it
Buy one get one free
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- 59. By removing the irrelevant
you emphasise what
really matters
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TITLE Travel
Stunning scenery planner
Search
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View my travel plan
Home | Regions | Experiences | Events | Wine & Food | Accommodation | Transport | General information Recommendations
What’s this?
Region map Interactive map Unsorted (4 items)
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- 74. GOMS KLM
Card & Moran
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- 75. A process for simplicity
Spend time up Understand the users’ context
front thinking
Shrink, Hide, Embody
Organise
Eliminate waiting
Spend time Test
later checking
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- 76. The road to hell is paved with good intentions
Linear step-by-step processes - taking control of what the user does next
We’ll let the user decide
What if the user wanted to...
Instructions
Long lists
Home pages
Error messages
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- 80. A process for simplicity
Understand the users’ context
Shrink, Hide, Embody
Organise
Eliminate waiting
Test
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- 81. Perfection is achieved
not when there is nothing more to add
but when there is
nothing more to take away
Antoine de Saint Exupery
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- 82. No matter how cool your user interface,
less would be better
Alan Cooper
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