Examples of bias Resume Study A resume study showed that resumes with white sounding names were more employable than black sounding names with identical resumes. “Job applicants with white names needed to send about 10 resumes to get one callback; those with African-American names needed to send around 15 resumes to get one callback.”...
Discoverability in design refers to the users’ ability to find key information, services, or applications. The quality allows users to locate something they need in order to complete a certain task. It is often referred to what is noticeable to users on a particular web page and can be a challenge in design because...
We will take a look at human visual perception and its implications for user interface design. Required prep (post your written response before class): Benway, J. P., & Lane, D. M. (1998). Banner Blindness: Web Searchers Often Miss “Obvious” Links. Internetworking: ITG Newsletter, 1.3 (Dec. 1998). Please bring a web-enabled device with a reasonably-sized screen and...
“Direct Manipulation” is a design paradigm that underlies most of the graphical interfaces you use: in direct manipulation interfaces, objects have visual representations that are continuous in time; you can direct perform operations on those objects and the results of the operations are instantly visible. The operations are also reversible. Command line interfaces are...