Course on Interaction Design & Usability
Duration
16
hours
Location
Online
Language
English
Code
PTRN-015
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Description
When does something have good usability? What is good usability? How do you design good usability? How do you test for it?This course will go over the basic tools of the Interaction design and Usability.
After completing the course, a certificate
is issued on the Luxoft Training form
is issued on the Luxoft Training form
Objectives
The course will give an introduction to good usability, how to design for it and how to test for it. The course will go over the most common theories behind it, the practical guidelines, and the tools, techniques and methods to securing a good user experience.
Roadmap
- The term usability explained through guidelines.
- The theories behind good usability (Gestalt Principles, Affordance etc.).
- User based usability evaluation as a tool.
- Other types of evaluation (Heuristic, remote, paper etc.) along with their pros and cons, and area of application.
- Interaction design techniques.
- Practical recommendations for good interaction design. Interaction design and usability for mobile platforms.
Speaker – Janne Jul Jensen is an interaction designer at Trifork A/S.
She specialises in usability, user experience and interaction design, and applies her expertise mainly to the mobile app projects within Trifork, most recently apps for KMD, DSB, Danske Bank, Radiometer A/S and Roskilde Festival. She is a sought after speaker by educational institutions, conferences, the public sector and companies, and she was recently voted best speaker at the GOTO Aarhus conference 2013 out of 100+ speakers by the audience. She also gives courses internally and externally on her topics of expertise and is the founder of a Danish user group on Design & Usability, where peers can meet, get inspired, share experiences and learn from each other.
Previously she was a researcher at Aalborg University for seven years, successfully collaborating nationally and internationally with academia and privately held companies on a number of projects resulting in a number of publications. Furthermore, she reviewed for conferences and journals and coorganized smaller conferences. Apart from her research, she taught HCI to undergraduate and graduate students and supervised student projects on these topics. She earned her Ph.D. degree in 2009 and a M.Sc. in Software Engineering in 2003, both from Aalborg University in Denmark.
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