Your UI can make or break the application (to the user, anyway)

  • Robin Schaaf, University of Notre Dame, schaaf.4@nd.edu

code4lib 2012, Thursday 9 February 2012, 11:00-11:20

UI development is hard and too often ends up as an after-thought to computer programmers - if you were a CS major in college I'll bet you didn't have many, if any, design courses. I'll talk about how to involve the users upfront with design and some common pitfalls of this approach. I'll also make a case for why you should do the screen design before a single line of code is written. And I'll throw in some ideas for increasing usability and attractiveness of your web applications. I'd like to make a case study of the UI development of our open source ERMS.