Design rules

Question 1

Two dimensions of design rules

Answer 1

Authority (Must be followed or its just a suggestion) and Generality (can be applied to many design situations or in some particular situation)

Question 2

Standarts (two dimensions)

Answer 2

+authority -generality

Question 3

Generality (two dimensions)

Answer 3

-authority +generality

Question 4

Greater generality means less probability of conflict

Answer 4

F

Question 5

What is ISO 9241?

Answer 5

Its a standard for usability specification

Question 6

Standards
– Set by national or international institutions to ensure
compliance with a set of design rules by a large
community (uniformity, compatibility).
– Requires consistent underlying theory (stable).
– Hardware/software standards.
– High authority.

Answer 6

Nothing! Just write it from memory

Question 7

ISO 9241 – usability specification
– Usability: The effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction with
which specified users achieve specified goals in particular
environments.
* Effectiveness:
– Accuracy and completeness with which specified users achieve
specified goals in particular environments.
* Efficiency :
– The resources expended in relation to the accuracy and
completeness of goals achieved.
* Satisfaction:
– Comfort and acceptability of the work system to its users and
other people affected by its use.

Answer 7

Nothing! Just write it from memory

Question 8

• Guidelines
  – Suggestive and more general
  – Several books and technical reports contain huge
  catalogues of guidelines.
• Ex: Apple human interface guidelines
  https://developer.apple.com/design/

Answer 8

Nothing! Just write it from memory

Question 9

Guidelines

Answer 9

• Guidelines
  – Suggestive and more general
  – Several books and technical reports contain huge
  catalogues of guidelines.
• Ex: Apple human interface guidelines
  https://developer.apple.com/design/

Question 10

Standards

Answer 10

Standards
– Set by national or international institutions to ensure
compliance with a set of design rules by a large
community (uniformity, compatibility).
– Requires consistent underlying theory (stable).
– Hardware/software standards.
– High authority.

Question 11

Using no design rules is better than using them

Answer 11

False

Question 12

3 design rules collections

Answer 12

-Nielsen’s 10 Heuristics (addressed later)
– Shneiderman’s 8 Golden Rules
– Norman’s 7 Principles

Question 13

HCI Design patterns

Answer 13

• An approach to reusing knowledge about successful
  design solutions
• A pattern is an invariant solution to a recurrent problem
  within a specific context.
  Examples
  – Light on Two Sides of Every Room (architecture)
  – A wizard breaks a task down into a linear sequence of steps,
  often presented as a sequence of dialog boxes.
  – Go back to a safe place; center stage pattern (HCI)
  – Martijn van Welie, http://www.welie.com/patterns

Question 14

HCI design patterns
An approach to reusing knowledge about successful
design solutions
* A pattern is an invariant solution to a recurrent problem
within a specific context.
* Examples
– Light on Two Sides of Every Room (architecture)
– A wizard breaks a task down into a linear sequence of steps,
often presented as a sequence of dialog boxes.
– Go back to a safe place; center stage pattern (HCI)
– Martijn van Welie, http://www.welie.com/patterns

Answer 14

Nothing! Just write it from memory