SIGIA-L Mail Archives: Re: SIGIA-L: RE: Can you help me with a
Re: SIGIA-L: RE: Can you help me with a list?
From: Kayla Block (luxuria_at_pacbell.net)
Date: Wed Apr 04 2001 - 12:46:23 EDT
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-sigia-l_at_asis.org [mailto:owner-sigia-l_at_asis.org]On Behalf Of
>Melinda Baker
>Sent: Wednesday, 4 April 2001 04:11
>To: 'sigia-l_at_asis.org'
>Cc: Julia Rogers
>Subject: SIGIA-L: Can you help me with a list?
>I've been asked to come up with a list of "elements" on a Web site that are
>considered Cognitive elements (info design, interaction design, information
>architecture). These elements will be used in a checklist for assessing
>sites. Here's the format: How well does Element A meet Requirement 1? Then
a
>1-5 rating.
Sounds like a strange use of the term cognitive design, but I've always
thought the term was fuzzy anyway...so let's see:
1. visual hierarchy (can use things like font size, color, etc) to show the
reader what is most important
2. chunking of information - visual grouping can improve readability and
help the user scan through material more easily
3. making sure that similar things work similarly and different things have
sufficient differences
4. clear nomenclature for primary navigation and sufficiently descriptive
link names
5. could include something about fitt's law
6. could include something about site structure (not navigation
nomenclature, but something that's more like -- does the site structure
support user's goals and needs?)
7. despite your clarification that visual design and content don't count, I
think they do. Visual design can support and enhance usability or interfere
with it. Verbose content that users are trying to deal with by skimming can
harm usability. etc.
You might also be able to pull some good stuff from
http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html
Sounds like your supervisor is trying to come up with some usability
development guidelines/best practices?
Kayla
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