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Tag: Interaction Design

  • USDA Invites You to Reimagine the National School Meals Program Application
    USDA challenges others to redesign and reimagine the National School Meals Program Application.
  • Creating Cross-Channel Experiences
    Ensuring a valuable and consistent user experience across all channels helps build credibility and trust in your brand.
  • User-Centered Design Process Map
    The user-centered design process is composed of several methods and tasks related to website development. The type of site you are developing, your requirements, team, timeline, and the...
  • Creating a User-Centered Approach in Government
    Government agencies provide vital information and services that affect people’s daily lives. They have the responsibilities of responding to the needs of its citizens, running as...
  • User Interface Design
    User Interface (UI) Design focuses on anticipating what users might need to do and ensuring that the interface has elements that are easy to access, understand, and use to facilitate those...
  • Information Architecture
    Information architecture (IA) focuses on organizing, structuring, and labeling content in an effective and sustainable way.  The goal is to help users find information and complete tasks. ...
  • Interaction Design
    Interaction design focuses on creating engaging interfaces with well thought out behaviors. Understanding how users and technology communicate with each other is fundamental to this field....
  • User Experience
    User experience (UX) focuses on having a deep understanding of users, what they need, what they value, their abilities, and also their limitations.  It also takes into account the business...
  • Getting the Guidelines Up-to-Date
    Updating the Guidelines is an important part of the reboot of our Usability.gov Program. We are creating the process and want to know how you’d like to see it take shape. 
  • A New Purpose; A New Design: Welcome to the Usability.gov Re-boot
    Usability.gov’s re-boot not only has a pioneering new design; it also reflects our new, expanded purpose. Learn more about how we got here. 
  • Use Cases
    A use case is a written description of how users will perform tasks on your website.  It outlines, from a user’s point of view, a system’s behavior as it responds to a request. Each use...
  • Creating Wireframes
    This document provides a description and examples of both Design and Functional wireframes.
  • Prototyping
    A prototype is a draft version of a product that allows you to explore your ideas and show the intention behind a feature or the overall design concept to users before investing time and...
  • Navigation: Left is Best
    Learn about which location for navigation is best to help users access subsequent content pages.
  • Users Are Not Good Designers
    Users are most useful in helping to identifying user requirements and what a system will do. Users are less valuable when involved in determining how best to do it.
  • Mobile Usability, Testing Testers
    Usability testing equipment for mobile devices is improving. Read the results of a study HHS conducted on two mobile user-testing tools, the usability platter and usability clip. 
  • Usability and Mobile Devices
    Find out what factors influence performance on mobile and what is further needed from the research community.
  • Creating Usable Online Forms
    Find out about the importance of aligning labels to fields in form design.