{"id":1689,"date":"2010-04-13T21:01:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T20:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2010-04-13T21:01:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T20:01:22","slug":"scandevconf_notes_nathaniel_schutta_making_web_apps_suck_less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2010\/04\/13\/scandevconf_notes_nathaniel_schutta_making_web_apps_suck_less\/","title":{"rendered":"ScanDevConf notes: Nathaniel Schutta, &#8220;Making web apps suck less&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<i>This is my summary of Nathaniel Schutta&rsquo;s &ldquo;Making web apps suck less&rdquo;, a session I attended at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scandevconf.se\/2010\/conference\/\">ScanDevConf 2010<\/a>. <b>Please understand that, except for the notes at the top and bottom, this post reflects the opinions of the speaker, not me.<\/b><\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n[various examples and illustrations of bad usability]\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat does usability include in web apps?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nLearnability\n<\/li>\n<li>\nEfficiency\n<\/li>\n<li>\nMemorability &ndash; how easy is it to pick up an application again after a few months&rsquo; absence\n<\/li>\n<li>\nHandling errors\n<\/li>\n<li>\nUser satisfaction\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How much should you focus on each of these? As usual in software development, the answer is &ldquo;It depends&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nHow many users will the system have?\n<\/li>\n<li>\nHow often will they use it?\n<\/li>\n<li>\nWill they get training?\n<\/li>\n<li>\nDo they have alternatives to using your application?\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nHow do you find usability problems?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nAsk users\n<\/li>\n<li>\nWatch them\n<\/li>\n<li>\nTry doing it yourself\n<\/li>\n<li>\nJust as comments are a code smell, (the need for) documentation is a usability smell. Warning signs include post-its stuck to the screen, looking things up in the manual.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nPaper prototyping is a powerful tool for evaluating usability. Test them with actual users!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<i><b>My opinion:<\/b> A good intro for those who have never given usability much thought. Luckily we&rsquo;ve come a bit further than this with our application.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my summary of Nathaniel Schutta&rsquo;s &ldquo;Making web apps suck less&rdquo;, a session I attended at ScanDevConf 2010. Please understand that, except for the notes at the top and bottom, this post reflects the opinions of the speaker, not me. [various examples and illustrations of bad usability] What does usability include in web apps? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[207,442,385,393,376,441],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky_things","tag-conference","tag-nathaniel_schutta","tag-scandevconf","tag-sdc","tag-usability","tag-web_development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}