Introduction to User Interface Design

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Course objective

You will get an overview of user behavior on the Web, learn design heuristics, and you will learn web accessibility guidelines and techniques.

Course outline

• Understanding users
  • Foraging for information
• Understanding information architecture
  • Defining the user
  • Creating personas
  • Understanding user goals
  • Modeling user tasks
  • Creating a task-based navigation
• Developing a look and feel
  • Working with fonts
  • Choosing the color palette
  • Using graphics effectively
• Choosing terminology
  • Creating/outfitting the usability lab
  • Working with participants
  • Choosing and experimental design
• Understanding accessibility
  • Making sense of section 508
  • Understanding how Section 508 affects your website
  • Testing for accessibility

Audience

This course is for anyone involved in Web interface development: technical writers, information architects, graphic designers, interface designers, and usability engineers. There are no prerequisites for this course.