MCAD lecture to interactive study students on the basics of web interface design, its evolution in the world of human-computer interaction, and the importance and impact it has in user experience design.

6. You’ve completed your research.

7. You’ve outlined your strategy.

8. You’ve built your architecture.

9. Collaboration is critical .

10. Design is… an activity that requires us to develop empathy for others, which involves a deep understanding of how people will interact with something. It is a process of problem solving that uncovers obvious flaws as well as hidden truths. It is a creative exercise that generates things we can react to and helps us draw conclusions and make decisions .

12. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gibbons/2722815615/

13. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/garyjd/74946837/

14. Aesthetic Usability Effect: A phenomenon in which people perceive more-aesthetic designs as easier to use than less-aesthetic designs. Lidwell, Holden, Butler. Universal Principles of Design Rockport Publishers 2003.

15. Photo credit: http://www.ecojoes.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/old_school_cellphone.jpg

16. Photo credit: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Cell_phone_Sagem_my202X_ubt.jpeg/

17. Photo credit: Apple, Inc.

18. Aesthetic Usability Effect: Sites that made the effort to craft a nice, professionally designed look made a lot more headway with users, even if those users had few other reasons to trust those sites. Stanford Web Credibility Project credibility.stanford.edu

20. Consider: What is the site’s intended purpose? Who is the intended audience? What is the intended emotional experience?

25. Activity! What is the site’s intended purpose? Who is the intended audience? What is the intended emotional experience?