During this class we looked at human centred design and how important this topic is when designing anything, as they will be using the design we create. Therefore thinking about how they are going to use it and how to make it as accessible for everyone. It is important that we think of them as humans and not just users. By sort of empathising with them we can understand some struggles or disadvantages that some face, better.
UX is people. It’s not technology, it’s not about computers, it’s about people.” — Jakob Nielsen, usability pioneer
A Norman door is a door that is difficult to use or confusing, named after Don Norman. It may say pull when you should push, or have a handle when it should be a flat surface to let the human know its a push door. Don wrote a book called “the design of everyday things”, in which he talks about certain creations that have been made which do not think of the human/s that will be using that product.
There is an endless list of conditions, illnesses, disabilities that humans face that may limit them in their daily life. As designers we have to think of these humans and try our best to include and allow them the accessibility to the products, services etc. that we design. Some conditions to think of when designing are listed below:
For one of the tasks we had been given a text from Jakob’s Law, we used an Iphone 14 frame and a grid to help with layout. I used a simple hierarchy using larger size and different fonts for titles, subheadings, blocks of text etc. To start I did not use any colour to create the basic layout, and choose the typefaces and sizes that I wanted. We also used the Material Design’s Card guidelines which allowed me to create the button icons for “previous” and “next”.
After making this I added colour, personally I love the two colours chosen, however, this may be difficult for some humans with impaired vision. I decided to change the colour to make it more visually inclusive.