Much has been written about computer user interface design, but many of the established principles seem to elude instructional application designers who tend to violate proven guidelines with abandon. If this werent problematic enough, designing effective interfaces for learners actually introduce additional challenges and constraints. This book, one of six in Michael Allen’s Online Learning Library, will guide learners through these mine fields. Practical, and hands-on, it includes dozens of worked examples, tips, techniques and strategies with proven advice for the interface designer on topics that include: screen layout; screen inertia (keeping things put; helping learners focus); fonts, colors, and boxes; encoded messages (underlining, colors, grouping); animation (the good and the annoying); and, input gestures (when to use which).
Book Details:
- Author: Michael W. Allen
- ISBN: 9780787997281
- Year Published: 2007
- Pages: 150
- BISAC: BUS030000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Human Resources & Personnel Management
About the Book and Topic:
Much has been written about computer user interface design, but many of the established principles seem to elude instructional application designers who tend to violate proven guidelines with abandon. If this werent problematic enough, designing effective interfaces for learners actually introduce additional challenges and constraints. This book, one of six in Michael Allen’s Online Learning Library, will guide learners through these mine fields. Practical, and hands-on, it includes dozens of worked examples, tips, techniques and strategies with proven advice for the interface designer on topics that include: screen layout; screen inertia (keeping things put; helping learners focus); fonts, colors, and boxes; encoded messages (underlining, colors, grouping); animation (the good and the annoying); and, input gestures (when to use which).
Online learning is a rapidly emerging market that will increasingly influence how we learn at work, at school and at home. For business, online learning holds the promise of rapid and scalable deployment of mission critical learning investments, and increased speed to competency. Corporate spending on technology-assisted learning is expected to exceed $20 billion by 2008, according to IDC, and by this time will account for almost a third of all corporate investment in learning.
AUTHOR PLATFROM: Michael Allen is the founding father, and #1 expert in the field of online learning and computer-based instruction. His company, Allen Interactions, will promote the book through client workshops, on the company’s web site, at conferences, and a monthly ezine. Allen also speaks regularly at industry events. PRACTICAL AND ACCESSIBLE CONTENT: This series offers an accessible, easy-to-read, and practical guide to creating successful elearning, with dozens of worked examples and a related website offering additional content. ASTD TIE-IN: The curriculum for each of the six modules in ASTD’s E-learning certificate program, which Allen has been commissioned to design and facilitate, will exactly mirror the six titles in this series.
About the Author
Dr. Michael Allen is a recognized leader in the architecture and design of interactive multimedia learning strategies and authoring tools. He has over 25 years of professional, academic, and corporate experience in the development, sales, and marketing of interactive learning. He is the primary architect of Author-ware and the founder and former chairman of Authorware, Inc. (which merged with Macromind/Paracomp to form Macromedia, Inc.). He is currently Chairman & CEO of Allen Interactions Inc., which builds interactive CD-ROM’s and provides interactive multimedia consulting. Dr. Allen founded the Journal of Computer-Based Instruction and was twice elected president of the International Association for the Development of Computer-Based Instructional Systems. He is an adjunct professor in the graduate programs at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, a frequent conference speaker, and widely published.