Effective GUI Design Training (T-111)
Overview
Learn essential tools and techniques for effective Graphical User Interface design through theory and hands-on exercises. Discover how you can ensure that the needs of your customers are considered and incorporated into your product design. Our qualified instructors provide a practical overview of detailed GUI screen design, GUI standards and guidelines, and approaches to design and prototyping. You will learn how to effectively specify user interfaces and apply the User Centered Design process in software application design.
Benefits
After completing this course, you will be able to:- Use key principles and theory of GUI design and design effectively following a User-Centered Design process
- Understand how to verify the usability of your GUI design and where to integrate usability testing into your software development process
- Create a detailed GUI design and write GUI standards & guidelines
- Effectively specify GUIs and avoid common mistake when using GUI controls
- Develop business and user requirements, specify user tasks, and use this data to inform the design of your user interface
- Know where to find and how to apply pertinent user interface design guidelines and standards
- Decrease training efforts by as much as 50%
Who should attend?
- Software Developers
- Web developers
- Application developers
- Information architects
- GUI designers
- Market researchers
- QA personnel
- Graphic artists
- Visual interaction designers
- Project managers
- Documentation and training specialists
| Duration: | 2 days |
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| Course Price: | $1390 CAD per participant + applicable taxes. |
| Schedule: | View our training schedule. |
| Downloads: | View our training brochure (pdf) |
Course Outline
- Information Design
- Interaction Design
- Visual Design
- Organizing Principles
- Exercise: Classification Scheme Exercise
- User Interface Architectures
- Data oriented
- Task oriented
- Process oriented
- Interaction Principles
- Orientation
- Affordance
- Feedback
- Progressive Disclosure
- Interaction Design Common Elements
- Primary Window Elements
- Secondary Window Elements
- Palettes
- Window Controls & Widgets
- Navigation
- Search
- Input Devices
- Design Patterns
- Information Design & Navigation
- GUI Prototyping
- Horizontal Prototypes
- Vertical Prototypes
- Concepts & Prototyping
- Design Concept & Wireframes
- Laws of Perceptual Organization
- Visualization principles
- Color in Graphs
- Binary
- Qualitative
- Diverging
- Sequential
- Screen Layout Principles
- Clutter & Grids
- Consistency
- Grouping & Spacing
- Navigation
- Colour Use & Colour Design Principles
- Text & Font Use
- Icon design
- ISO Standards
- MS Windows Guidelines
- Java look and feel Guidelines
- Accessibility Guidelines
- Usability Heuristics
- Usability Guidelines
- Exercise: Heuristic Review
- Navigation
- Icons & Text
- Vista OS Page Types
- Task flow pages
- Hub pages
- Spoke pages
- Task Dialogue
- Command Links
Schedule Training
For more information on our courses offered in Toronto and Ottawa, or to schedule a session, call +1 (613) 820-2179, +1 (416) 214-2854 or email us at design@macadamian.com.