Notes for reading "Design Wise"

Alison J. Head's book--Design Wise, uses lots of interviews with professional people, get lots of insight about HCI interface design. It is a good book for a beginner, easy to read.

The first thing I want to remember is the "Considerable Factors in the HCI Approach to Interface Design"
1. Organizational factors: Training, job design, politics, roles, work organization
2.Environmental factors: Noise, heating, lighting, ventilation
3.Heath and safety factors: stress, headaches, musculoskeletal disorders
4.Cognitive aspects of the user: Motivation, enjoyment, satisfaction, personality, experience level
5.Confort factors: Setting, equipment layout
6.User interface: Input devices, output displays, dialogue structure, use of color, icons, commands, graphics, natural language, 3-D, user support materials, multimedia
7. Task factors: easy, complex, novel, task allocation, repetitive, monitoring, skills, components
8.Constraints: Costs, timescales, budgets, staff, equipment, building structure
9.system functionality hardware, software, application
10. Productivity factors: increase output, increase quality, decrease costs, decrease errors, decrease labor requirement, decrease production time, increase creative and innovative ideas leading to new products.

There are also other things such as IBM's four principles of the usability design process, Design Template