Tagged: ui

One Way To Conduct a Usability Study

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We knew usability was going to play a big role in the successful release of version 1.6 of an ongoing software development project. What we weren’t sure of was when we could schedule a formal usability study with the product end users. Fortunately, we were able to plan, conduct, and analyze the study prior to [...]

How to Reuse UI Components Using XML Layouts and the Inflater Service

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Creating UI components for Android apps programmatically is difficult.  So, the Android framework provides a way to create UI components via XML.  The Eclipse Android SDK actually provides a tool for creating these XML UIs via drag-and-drop/WYSIWYG.  Now developers must manage XML documents along with their Java code, which can also be difficult.  To help [...]

User-Centered Design: The Epic Battle for Investment

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Call it creating an effective User Experience (UX). Call it designing the ultimate User Interface (UI). Call it constructing the best Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) ever known. Call it whatever you want. In short, User Centered Design (UCD) is all about creating an effective platform between a system and user. Let’s start at the beginning… the [...]