Description

This training, which focuses on Web interfaces, will teach you the fundamentals of ergonomics and “User-Centered Design”. You will see how to model and audit your HMI, model target users, optimize a home page, improve accessibility and navigation elements.

Who is this training for ?

For whom ?

Webmasters, graphic designers, website designers, web application designers.

Prerequisites

No special knowledge.

Training objectives

Modeling the users of an application in order to design a Web interface

Understand the standards and the different existing techniques to master the quality of Web interfaces

Create a Web HMI model using a design tool

Audit the quality of an existing web interface by following the different ergonomic criteria presented

Create a user test scenario, implement it and analyze its results

Training program

• Introduction: what is ergonomics?
  • Definition of ergonomics.
  • Why do we need ergonomists?
  • The role of ergonomics. Ergonomics and innovation.
  • ISO 9241 usability standards.
  • UX Design and
  • Usefulness, usability.
  • Emotional design.
• Ergonomics in the development cycle
  • The V-shaped design cycle.
  • Types of intervention, design or correction.
  • The ROI of ergonomics.
  • Ergonomics in depth. Design and structuring.
  • Panorama of different ergonomics methods.
  • Ergonomics in the context of Agile and iterative methods.
• UCD User-centered design, modeling users
  • Personas.
  • Task analysis.
  • Modeling tools. Mind Mapping (XMind).
  • User interviews. Validate a content structure: card sorting.
  • Modeling: When to make a HMI model? Vertical mock-up and horizontal mock-up.
  • Low, medium and high fidelity of models: market tools .
• Understanding humans to create an HMI
  • Human cognitive functioning: visual perception and understanding. Attentional resources.
  • Levels of business expertise.
  • Basic principles of good UX: management of time, concepts of affordance and mapping, Gestalt laws.
  • Colors. Use of images and icons.
  • The context: environment, mobility, interaction methods and guidelines.
  • Menus, Widgets and shortcuts.
  • Man-machine dialogue: principles of Grice, maxims of Nielsen.
• Evaluation: expert/heuristic analysis of software
  • Methodology of expert analysis based on heuristics.
  • The different categories of HMI analysis criteria (control, User Experience, error management, help, etc.) .
  • Review of criteria on examples.