Wow, I’ve let some grass grow under the blog here. Sorry about that - I’ve never been good about blogging regularly.
Recently, I spoke at BarCamp Nashville. My talk was about some usability design principles that I gleaned from Don Norman’s book The Design of Everyday Things, and how I think these concepts from the physical usability world can be transferred over to the web. In the talk, I covered three main areas: affordances, visibility and feedback. There are a ton more great ideas from this book, but alas, 25 minutes isn’t a bunch of time.
If you’re interested in checking out the presentation, it’s posted on SlideShare here.
Here’s a great blog post from Will Sloan, where he takes some points I covered and expands on them (thanks Will!)
And, here’s the original presentation page on the BarCamp Nashville site.
In addition, I gave a condensed talk about affordances at Nashville Ignite, a really fun presentation event where presenters are given 5 minutes to talk, with your slide deck automatically advancing every 15 seconds. You can watch that here.
Thanks to everyone who came out, I really appreciate it!
