Human-centered design

human-centered design

• Human factors & interactive digital media design

lecture: overview

• Focus on human commonalities - memory, perception, and attention

• Introduce the Information Processing Model of cognition

• Suggest some human-centered design strategies derived from these understandings and the information processing model

guiding assumptions

• Human systems – memory, attention, perception – provide some unique constraints of which designers should be aware

• Simple, commonsensical approaches to interface and information design can make a difference in using with online and offline multimedia environments

• The more cognitive resources (attention, memory, etc.) that you can focus on the educational task, the better the learning outcomes – HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN MATTERS