What is a course & the tools for having a great one (Part 1)
See also: Part 2 – a design proposition for Moodle course front page (Update July 5th: Working on the follow-up article is taking longer than I expected. Bear with me, it is on its way! :) Inspired by...
View ArticleMaster’s thesis about Moodle and open source usability work
A couple of weeks ago, my master’s thesis was approved, titled User experience design in open source development: Approaches to usability work in the Moodle community (PDF). The work documents...
View ArticleThe temptation to avoid usability work
I am currently working on a private software project in a startup. I am involved not only in the design of the overall user experience, but also in implementation, since we are not many. The temptation...
View ArticleWhat is a course & the tools for having a great one (Part 2)
Moodle 2.0 was released yesterday (Yay! Super-Yay!) so a small discussion starter into what I think Moodle might look like in the future is appropriate. Actually, the discussion continues from a couple...
View ArticleDangers of moded user interfaces
Modes can be dangerous in a user interface, especially if the UI does not make the modes and their states clearly visible. This is often heard advice about UI design. I collected snippets of this...
View ArticleSimplifying Moodle forms and adding activities to courses
At LUNS Limited they’ve collapsed the Moodle form fieldsets that only contain optional items, in Moodle forms. Without having seen any usability test results or knowing whether they exist, it does seem...
View ArticleUser Experience design: inviting the users
(Adapted from my master’s thesis, Chapter 8.1.). Spool: Vision, feedback, culture Some promote approaches to usability practice alternative to User Centered Design. Spool (2008, 2009) calls the...
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