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Design for Engineers: Making Your App Work for Normal Users

Event Interactive 2010
Format Panel
Organizer Eston Bond Spymaster
Description Are you an engineer or web developer sick of having designers tell you your interfaces look (and work) like crap? In this panel, designers and engineers will work together to lay down the basics of typography, visual design, interface design and accessibility in easy-to-remember rules engineers can apply to their interfaces. Questions will also be taken from the panel-goers.
Questions
Answered
  1. Isn't all this design crap just ornamentation?
  2. How do design and engineering work cooperatively?
  3. How can I impress those egotistic design-types?
  4. How can I choose colours that work well together?
  5. What makes type usable and beautiful on the Web?
  6. How do I as an engineer think about interfaces differently than the common user?
  7. Doesn't this design stuff contradict "form follows function?"
  8. What are the most important points in designing asynchronous interactions?
  9. Can design be distilled down to such simple heuristics?
  10. What are some resources that will help in more detail?
Level Beginner
Category Design Thinking, Information Architecture, Interface Design, User Experience, Visual Design