The lecture this week was based on last weeks tutorials topic, usability. The aim of the lecture was to understand what it is, how to design usable applications and how to test them. We were given a quote from the International Standards Organisation which stated that "The effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction with which specified users can achieve specified goals in particular environments" when referring to usability. I also learned the importance of user experience levels, the requirements of different interfaces (from novice to expert) and overall found the lecture straight forward to follow. The importance of defining different requirements was defined, although it seems pretty obvious that a novice interface would need to be simpler than an expert interface it helped that it was expanded upon more than just stating the obvious factors.
The tutorial was again based on usability and to be honest I didn't find it anymore bnefitial than last weeks tutorial. This week we looked at usability in comparison to the usability triangle discussed during the lecture while applying it to certain questions. We therefore looked at effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction of the University of Glamorgan website.
I didn't really feel the need to look up anything more on usability because it was explained well enough in the lecture for me. So I just looked back over my lecture notes instead.
Overall I felt that the lecture was far more benefitial than the tutorial because I felt the tutorial was slightly repetitive of last weeks and I didn't really learn anything new. The lecture helped me understand the importance of different requirements for different user levels and other factors which can link in with usability such as utility and experience so I felt a lot more confident in defining novice, intermittent and expert users.
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any external links?
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