CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)
Fridays 12:30-1:50 · Gates B01 · Open to the public
Jeff Johnson UI Wizards.Web Bloopers: Avoiding Common Design Mistakes
January 9, 2004
This talk is based on the presenter's new book: Web
Bloopers: 60 Common Web Design Mistakes and How to Avoid Them (Morgan
Kaufmann). The book explains how to avoid common Web design errors, illustrated
with examples from actual websites. The talk asserts that the Web is not commercial
product quality, largely due to poor usability. It describes a few bloopers
in each category, and explains how to avoid them. The talk is illustrated
with many examples of bloopers in commercially-available websites.
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Jeff Johnson is President
and Principal Consultant at UI Wizards, Inc., a product usability consulting
firm. He has worked in the field of Human-Computer Interaction since 1978.
After earning B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale and Stanford Universities,
he worked as a user-interface designer and implementer, engineer manager,
usability tester, and researcher at Cromemco, Xerox, US West, Hewlett-Packard
Labs, and Sun Microsystems. He has published numerous articles and book chapters
on a variety of topics in Human-Computer Interaction and the impact of technology
on society. He frequently gives talks and tutorials at conferences and companies
on usability and user-interface design. He is the author of GUI
Bloopers: Don'ts and Dos for Software Developers and Web Designers (2000),
and Web Bloopers: 60 Common Design
Mistakes and How to Avoid Them (2003)..
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