Description

This course concerns application interfaces for mobiles, tablets and smartphones. It presents the foundations of mobile HMI ergonomics and shows good practices for designing and improving the user experience. Practical modeling and audit work is carried out during the training.

Who is this training for ?

Anyone in the field of IT directly or indirectly concerned by the quality of Human-Machine interfaces.

Training objectives

Training program

• Introduction: what is ergonomics?
  • Definition of ergonomics.
  • Why do we need ergonomists? The role of ergonomics.
  • Benefits of 'ergonomics.
  • Ergonomics at the intersection of several disciplines.
  • Ergonomics and accessibility: constraint or complementarity.
  • Score: law of FITTS.
• Design an ergonomic mobile interface
  • Introduce ergonomics into the HMI design cycle.
  • Types of intervention: design or correction.
  • The return on investment of ergonomics.
  • Waterfall, V-cycle, Agile: how to take ergonomics into account.
  • ISO 9241-210 usability standards.
  • Specificities of mobile HMIs: display, interactions, new audiences and uses.
  • Common ergonomic problems.
  • Example Familiarization with ergonomics.
  • Audit of different HMI presenting ergonomic problems.
  • Observation and identification by participants of points for improvement.
• Study users, their tasks and context
  • Human cognitive functioning.
  • Optimize mobile display.
  • Mobile sites, dedicated apps or responsive design? Colors, images, menus, icons : the rules for mobiles.
  • Navigation in a mobile interface.
  • The target population: establishing Personas.
  • Tactile gestures, specificities by operating system.
• Mock up a mobile interface
  • What is mock-up? Sketching, low-fidelity mock-up.
  • Medium-fidelity mock-up.
  • High-fidelity mock-up.
  • The tools available on the market.
  • Practical work Interface design using low visual fidelity tools (Balsamiq, Wireframe Sketcher).
• Heuristic analysis of mobile HMIs
  • The heuristic analysis method: strengths, weaknesses, ROI.
  • The "universal" heuristic criteria.
  • Analysis methodology heuristic.
  • An analysis grid for mobile HMIs.
  • Study of analysis and audit grids.
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