Week 2 - Day 2
Navigate using audio
Groups of users with special needs
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Elderly
- Larger buttons
- Less complicated
- Voice navigation
Visually impaired
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- Voice controlled
- Increase fonts
Children
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- Security / parental control
- Simpler vocabulary
- animations
- make it interesting for them
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Software which gives you errors
- Pokemongo
- Doesn’t tell you what to do when you can’t log in
- Music widgets
- Two buttons that do similar things are pretty close to eachother
- Causes user error
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- The designers weren’t trying to make these problems, they probably just didn’t get the feedback
- Need to think about what can happen
Variations in physical ability and workspaces
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- Ergonomics
- Reduces physical stress
- Healthier way of doing everyday things
- Built specifically for the user
- “the study of people’s efficiency in their working environment.” - Google
Kinds of variances
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- Vision
- low Vision
- color blind
- dyslexic
- Hearing
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- impairment / deaf
- Might need visual or tactile alert
- Touch
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- Might have less ability to move
Cognitive ability
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- Memory
- Retention of how to use the system
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- Experience
- Having prior experience with similar software
- Ability to learn
- Problem solving
Personality
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- Certain personalities might get more frustrated
- Certain personalities might like to process information differently
Cultural differences
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- Language
- Is it easy to translate
- Knowing that a sentence means what you think it means
- Not just translating the exact words
- Currencies
- Decimal points, etc.
- Dates and numbers
- icons
- some things could be offensive
- Some icons don’t have the same meanings in other cultures