CSC 216/s08/changing fortunes

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Inter the Face!

The Human Mystery Interface

The problem

The Goal is to illustrate good interface design.

Participants and props

Volunteers, projector screen

The script

A list of function calls for the "mystery human interface" will be shown on screen. Volunteers will attempt to decipher the interface by calling functions and observing how the "human object" implements the calls. They will then propose suggestions as to how the interface might be better designed. Re-emphasize how important it is to create a thoughtful interface while coding.

Bad interface

doStuff()

talk()

Better interface

doTheTwist()

sayHello()

disco()

References

Paper