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Job: with Chris Paul @ IBM
Chris Paul, who visited our class, is hiring. Here is a bit of the email he sent me:
"I have a college hire slot for a fulltime position on my team. I am looking for a front-end UI developer...skilled in web standards markup, PHP, javascript, etc. Ideal person has an understanding of design refinement. "
Studio: a bit of user research (homework!)
Because we don't have time for a full round of crits this Thursday, I'm asking you to do a bit of user research with your apps for Thursday.
Find a friend, a relative, or grab someone in the hallway, explain the basic idea of your app, then have them start using your prototype (software or paper). Video the result using one of your phones.
Put the result somewhere online (e.g. DropBox), then play it for the class on Thursday. We'll spend about 10 minutes for each group.
Best,
Ben
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Lecture: menus
We will be talking about menus on Thursday. Here are my notes, and corresponding images.
In preparation, please read the following papers:
- Arjan Geven, Reinhard Sefelin, and Manfred Tscheligi. 2006. Depth and breadth away from the desktop: the optimal information hierarchy for mobile use. In Proceedings of the 8th conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services (MobileHCI '06). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 157-164.
- John Christie, Raymond M. Klein, Carolyn Watters. 2004. A comparison of simple hierarchy and grid metaphors for option layouts on small-size screens. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Volume 60, Issues 5-6, HCI Issues in Mobile Computing, May 2004, Pages 564-584.
- Kim, K., Jacko, J. & Salvendy, G. (2011). Menu Design for Computers and Cell Phones: Review and Reappraisal. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 27(4), 383-404.
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