Application Design for Web and Desktop

What you will learn

Manage visual complexity in applications with many functionalities

• Minimizing visual search
• Progressive disclosure and visual hierarchy
• Menus, accordions, tabs, and direct manipulation

Guide users through complex workflows

• Understanding users’ conceptual models and expectations for a workflow
• Data input, entry, and selection
• Forms vs. wizards
• Dealing with long processes

Present complex data

• Patterns for displaying big tables
• Filtering data and accessing data subsets
• Principles for making visualizations easy to understand
• Designing useful dashboards

Help users learn a new interface

• Learnability and learning curves
• Inline and contextual help and tips
• Tutorials
• Catering to both novice and expert users