User Interface Design 2505ICT

Workshop Four Design Principles II

1 Activity design principles
Last week, you developed some guidelines for how you would design a Travel
Planner application, and drew up a layout. This week you can apply the higher level
design principles to your designs. Work through the principles and revise your
existing designs for this system:
1. Dont make me think does your design follow the ideas outlined in this
principle? What do you need to change?
2. Home Page if you didnt design a home page last week then design one
now. If you did design a home page, then review and revise based on the
principles
3. Did you use conventions in your design? How could you use conventions to
improve your designs?
4. Do your designs support the human tendency to scan rather than read?
What do you need to revise to support this principle?
5. Would your design work on a touch screen? What might you change or
implement for that delivery?
6. Have you inadvertently included functionality choices based on your own
views, rather than a more universal view?

2 Homework

Look at the high level design principles. How would you apply them to the
design scenario for the Brief?
Apply the principles and analyse your results.
Write this up in your Design Brief.
Find an example of prototyping in action.