Wednesday, 22 October

Discussion of reading response questions

Review of initial pilot test - what did you learn?

Discussion of next steps in project


Homework for Monday, 27 October at noon:

• Work on usability study

• Read Don Norman "Error Messages are Evil,"
  http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/error_messages_are_e.html

• Read Don’t Make Me Think, “Usability testing on 10 cents a day” (part 2) pp. 127 - 141 and answer the following reading response questions:

1. Why, according to Norman, are error messages evil?  
2. What, according to Krug, are the typical problems found in web design?
3. How, according to Krug, do you decide what to fix?
4. What should you resist doing when fixing websites?