Most designs in the industry are human centred, as humans are the end users of the created products. Therefore, designers have to take appropriate steps to create a useful end product that will be used with satisfaction of the users (humans).
Designers must focus on ‘people’ and question themself ‘’Who will be using this product?’’, ‘’What device is appropriate and mostly used for this type of product?’’.
Many questions may be answered and correctly used when conducting appropriate research before physically desigining. Research allows the correct structure to be created, saving time and energy solving problems that have not been raised before hand. Such as, defining target audience which could lead to possible future interviews with users from a specific background.
Users need a good experience with the product, therefore consistency in design is crucially important to meet the needs on all users from different spectrums e.g, users with disabilities
User interface is a visible area on the screen where the user is able to interact with a digital system to achieve a result such as, loading up a webpage. User interface is heavily focused on users experience, good and bad, if bad then changes are made instantly and improved. It’s a changing environment for the user to achieve a simpler and more enjoyable system that makes the users satisfied. The elements on screen must be simple to use, easy to access and easy to understand.
This can be achieved by the continous consistency in design e.g. colour schemes & element sizes (buttons) throughout the product. Many designers turn to the use of design guidelines, which show and tell the appropriate text sizing for a given screen size, to make the text not too small or too large. But also not forgetting the webpage structures such as positioning of the content.
A great user interface includes accessibility features for users whom may not operate the same way as an average user would e.g, colour blindness. Accessibility features are extremely important, they open access to the whole users enabling them to successfuly use the product aswell.
The visual context may be hard to design with accurate accessibility features for all, therefore appropriate questions need to be asked before designing such as:
There are many approaches to creating a accessible product or design. Vector Design is one of them, when using a zoom in feature for users with poor eyesight, a vector design will not pixelate or turn blurry, making it an accessible design.
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