User Interfaces, Web Design, and UX

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1. Interfaces Web design user experience
2. I’m Adi @adi_dahiya on the interwebs I design & build web things
3. What is good design? Mash of intuition & visual science Collection of hacks
4. Design for hackers What goes into building a web app? happens when we go mobile? is user experience, anyway?
5. A crash course in visual design
6. Consciously design with white space
7. Solve common white space problems with margin & padding @PennApps! Philadelphia, PA! 2013s.pennapps.com !     @PennApps! Philadelphia, PA! 2013s.pennapps.com !
8. Exploit the visual shortcuts & cues that humans perceive
10. PLEASE JUST ALIGN ALL THE THINGS
11. VISUAL HIERARCHY dictates your content
12. It’s really just all about boxes within boxes
13. Related elements go together (duh.) The most important elements get emphasized @PennApps! 792 ! !56! followers !following !
15. Owned by the logo (site) Global actions
16. Owned by the activity stream (dashboard- specific)
17. Owned by a user (artlog)
18. because the post owns the box! These are post-specific actions
19. You should (quite literally) outline your UI elements Dashboard page •  Header –  Logo –  Main navigation •  Dashboard •  Search •  Profile •  Sidebar –  Profile card –  Quick links •  Social stream …
20. A NOTE ON COLOR
21. Color is great for highlighting content, evoking emotion, & serving expectations
22. But it’s easy to get carried away… too much variation is distracting & harmful
23. Add color later Start with grayscale
24. GOOD TYPE IS ALL YOU NEED
25. Web Design is 95% Typography – Oliver Reichenstein, Information Architects
28. X-height affects apparent size space efficiency visual impact
32. Establish a type hierarchy
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35. What makes an interface 10 common UI/UX heuristics
36. 1.  Visibility of system status The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time.
37. 2.  Match between system & the real world The system should speak the users’ language, with words, phrases and concepts familiar to the user, rather than system-oriented terms. Follow real-world conventions, making information appear in a natural and logical order.
39. 3.  USER CONTROL & FREEDOM Users often choose system functions by mistake and will need a clearly marked "emergency exit" to leave the unwanted state without having to go through an extended dialogue. Support undo and redo.
40. 4.  Consistency & standards Users should not have to wonder whether different words, situations, or actions mean the same thing. Follow platform conventions.
41. 5.  Error prevention Even better than good error messages is a careful design which prevents a problem from occurring in the first place. Either eliminate error prone conditions or check for them and present users with a confirmation option before they commit to the action.
42. 6.  Recognition rather than recall Minimize the user's memory load by making objects, actions, and options visible. The user should not have to remember information from one part of the dialogue to another. Instructions for use of the system should be visible or easily retrievable whenever appropriate.
43. 7.  Flexibility & efficiency of use Accelerators (unseen by the novice user) may often speed up the interaction for the expert user such that the system can cater to both inexperienced and experienced users. Allow users to tailor frequent actions.
44. 8.  Aesthetic & minimal design Dialogues should not contain information which is irrelevant or rarely needed. Every extra unit of information in a dialogue competes with the relevant units of information and diminishes their relative visibility.
45. 9.  Help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors Error messages should be expressed in plain language (no codes), precisely indicate the problem, and constructively suggest a solution.
47. 10.  Help & documentation Even though it is better if the system can be used without documentation, it may be necessary to provide help and documentation. Any such information should be easy to search, focused on the user's task, list concrete steps to be carried out, and not be too large.
48. Wait a sec… wtf is ux?
49. User experience Interactions Flows Tasks Value extracted
54. Now that you mention mobile…
56. Decide what’s important, optimize for touch
57. Where to go from here Getting started, getting inspired, and hacking design
58. There are some awesome DESIGN Resources Here’s a sweet Kippt list I made of design-related links & resources https://kippt.com/adidahiya/design
59. And you, too, can learn design! Study good design. Steal everything. Do side projects. Just practice.
60. thanks! @adi_dahiya adi.dahiya14@gmail.com