Now, the problem every time was the expectation to offer perfect answers, along with supporting reasons. Although my intuition helped me get through on a few, the part I would struggle most was in offering convincing reasons to support my answers. I felt my supposed intuition had some underlying logic and concepts but I needed to reify those. I needed to have constructs that I could use to easily judge any Design, be it a web page, mobile application UI or even a poster.

1. Mindfire is a software service provider offering
customized technological and digital solutions
through offshore software development using Agile
methods.

2. Very often at work, I used to get bombarded with user-interface
related questions. Some of those would be ones I would be
hunting tangible answers for myself. Typical ones would be:
“Does this website look good?”
“Which interface looks better?”
“Should I place the button to the left or to the right?”
“Do I keep the logo Green or Red?”
Now, the problem every time was the expectation to offer perfect
answers, along with supporting reasons. Although my intuition
helped me get through on a few, the part I would struggle most
was in offering convincing reasons to support my answers. I felt
my supposed intuition had some underlying logic and concepts
but I needed to reify those. I needed to have constructs that I
could use to easily judge any Design, be it a web page, mobile
application UI or even a poster.

3. What followed was a lot of google search, expert advice
seeking and directionless research. Finally, I came across a
course based on Design Thinking which paved the way to a
whole new perspective of looking at any design.
I now use a personal knowledge kit, heuristics of sorts, that I
have been able to develop, courtesy this course, which helps
me analyze any User Interface. If you are facing similar
problems, this blog should be of help. So here are the points:

4. 1. Evaluate your Work
Before making an Interface public, make an evaluation yourself by
asking these questions:
How easily can someone
Determine the function of the system and possibilities?
Determine the mapping from the intention of the user to actual
operation?
Perform the action?
Tell the state of the system? Tell if the desired action has been
completed or not?
Determine the mapping from the state in which the system is into
what the user understands?
If all the questions have already been addressed in your design,
then you’re good to go. If not, then you need to enhance one or
some of the aspects listed below to make the User Interface better
i.e. providing

5. Visibility and Feedback
Consistency
Non-destructive operations (undo)
Discoverability (menus)
Reliability
And events should not happen randomly
All these points sum up to nothing but an implementation of
the following statement
“Immediate feedback on actions AND Continuous
representations of objects” — This is what lies at the core
of the best designs that are made.
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