Hier, j’ai eu l’opportunité d’introduire l’ergonomie à des développeurs et designers Drupal lors d’une réunion Drupal à Lyon. Le point principal de la présentation est de comprendre l’importance de bien connaître pour qui ils conçoivent. Ensuite, j’ai élaboré sur des techniques afin de collecter une mine d’or d’information sur ces utilisateurs.
J’ai décidé de les impliquer en leur demandant d’aller effectuer deux exercices. Le premier étant un test utilisateur sans modération (Chalkmark). Ils devaient cliquer à l’endroit où ils trouveraient la réponse à la tâche. Visualiser les résultats du test utilisateur. Il faut toutefois garder en tête qu’uniquement 8 participants ont complété l’exercice, lorsque nous faisons une vraie recherche pour un produit, il faut au moins 50 réponses.
Le deuxième exercice était un tri de carte afin d’aider à la compréhension de l’architecture d’information d’un site web fictif – LyonCMS.fr. Encore une fois, 8 participants ont complété, normalement, il faudrait minimum 50 réponses. Visualiser les résultats du tri.
Et voici la présentation
Merci à Léon Cros, organisateur de ces réunions Drupal à Lyon.
Using Braille on pharmaceutical packaging, what a great idea!!! Just try to figure out how to distinguish from one medicine to another when you have few of them in your bathroom and you can’t read what’s on the packaging. It must be troublesome. Since October 2010, all medicines sold in European Union countries must display the name of the medicine in Braille on the package. I’m currently living in France at the moment and I had the opportunity to get my hands on one package.
Let’s think about a blind living in Canada (for example) where he doesn’t have the opportunity to get that kind of package. If he inadvertently swallows the wrong pill for few days and get really sick, that’s the kind of mistake some people will call it Human error but it’s definitely a Design error instead. If the package was better thought, as it is in European Union countries, it would significantly mitigate the risk of swallowing the wrong medicine.
A really nice video showing the design company IDEO re inventing the shopping cart (the real one you use, or not, in supermarket) while using several different techniques such as interviews, contextual observations, prototyping, etc. It’s worthwhile to watch it.
Thanks to Harry Brignull for sharing this video.
I left NZ a month or so ago and I’m now traveling in Australia; be back in Canada, my home country, for June.
For New Zealand techies, February means Webstock, a good conference. Like last year’s conference, it was very insightful with speakers as diverse as Scott McCloud (Cartoonist and author of Understanding Comics), Marco Arment (co-founder of Tumblr), and Amanda Palmer (artist, singer). But today, I’ll tell you what I learned from Christine Perfetti’s talk. She is the former VP & Managing Director at User Interface Engineering and now CEO of Perfetti Media, a Boston based Usability training and consulting firm. (more…)
I love reading magazines, I was subscribed to Fast Company and Wired for several years before coming to NZ. Now, I still receive my UPA (Usability Professional Association) magazine here in NZ. As far as I remember, the UPA magazine has always been wrapped in a sealed plastic bag, which could be frustrating to open. (a bit similar to memory cards hidden inside hard plastic). About a year ago, UPA changed the way they package it, have you noticed it? (more…)
