Archive for the 'Readings' Category

Chronological Overview of The Task-Centered UI Design Process

Monday, May 15th, 2006

Identify your audience and understand the world they live in such that the interface can tie into their tasks
Identify concrete representative tasks that users perform in which the system must accomplish. This will make for a good initial skeleton outline
Conduct research on existing user interfaces and look for ways on how to improve upon them [...]

Java GUI Event Handling

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Java and event handling: How events are passed to user interface components, how to create event handlers, and more
By Todd Sundsted
Summary
Here’s the rundown on event handling as implemented by the abstract windowing toolkit (AWT). This article describes the Event class and explains how the Java run-time system passes events to the components that make up [...]

Task-Centered User Interface Design

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Task-Centered User Interface Design: A Practical Introduction
by Clayton Lewis and John Rieman
Copyright ©1993, 1994
PDF Version
http://hcibib.org/tcuid/tcuid.pdf
HTML Version
http://hcibib.org/tcuid/
Motive for research
Couldn’t sleep. Wondered around the internet and found myself at U of T’s 20059 / CSC428H1F Human Computer Interaction course webpage. Great links there.