![]() Of this knowledge you accumulate by using and testing with/observing people using the system. In my practice with software usability, most what is the mean age of software used by most people can what other alternatives are available etc.Ĭ. Where new paradigms are introduced make them learnableĪnd consistent (it is all about consistence) ī. Avoid new or rare paradigms (the use of the option key isĭ. Will always produce a consistent character output) Ĭ. Make combinations intuitive and consistent (‘ and vowel E.g., Group functional keys instead of mixing them randomly ī. one digit is easier to use than two, two digits areĮasier to use at the same time than three Ī. e.g., we have 10 digits (sometimes less),Ĭ. Paliga’s explanation on what should be at the veryįirst level of typing is a good example of a best practice or principle ofĪ. Standards, best practices and conventions The more people you want to use your layout the more you need to know about them.Ģ. So ethnography counts in identifying whether previous technology hadĪlready established certain habits. This is what we have been taught by typing machines of This statement wouldn’t work for Brazilians, as we areĪlready used to first pressing the accent and then the letter to produce theįused accented letter. ![]() Press an accent and then write their letter because they are accustomed to first Mentioned that Africans with *little technical knowledge* would not expect to Needless to say that both contexts are more Windows users than Mac users, but we already established that will be followed up later.Īndrew shared an interesting piece of information when he So other needs to fulfil are religious and pedagogical. They will use it for religious purposes, since we have a strong following of the Yoruba religion in my country combined with a recent push to re-learn that tradition properly, starting with the diacritics, which help us pronounce the words correctly. The context of Brazilian use is one of the individual who actually can understand English and afford to make a choice of buying a US MacBook Pro (it is cheaper than buying it in Brazil itself, another social factor to know) and doesn’t feel uncomfortable of using a foreign layout. ![]() Can follow instructions to install īoth audiences a and b come from very distinct contexts. Brazilians who own a US or UK keyboard, are interested in Yoruba culture or are descended from Yoruba stock and want to use Yoruba accents and tonals to understand religious texts an songs. Nigerians that use English as their main writing system, living in Nigeria, the US or the UK who want to write in Yoruba either full time or in the middle of English text. Knowledge, for what tasks and the base layouts that will be changed by the newĪ. This step by knowing who will use their keyboard layouts, level of technical It is very obvious that everyone in this forum deals with Identification of the target audiences their needs, I use these practices in software and systemsĭesign and in fact they are all borrowed from engineering, psychology,ġ. Human-Centred Design, which can be transferred to other areas of design (suchĪs keyboard layouts, etc…). I will try to summarise the normal procedures I use in
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