User Experience

• Controls
• Displays
• Micro-Interactions
• User Interface Patterns

Controls

Anything

that

looks like

you can mess with it

Beyond Blue Links: Making Clickable Elements Recognizable
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/clickable-elements/

Displays

Anything 

that

changes

when something happens

Micro-interactions

"contained product moments that revolve around a single task"

• adjusting a setting
• viewing  a status message
• turning a feature on or off

http://microinteractions.com/what-is-a-microinteraction/

User Interface Pattern

"recurring solutions that solve common design problems"

• menus
• calendars
• galleries

http://ui-patterns.com/patterns

Interactivity Code Roadmap

HTML

From the beginning, people chose paths through a hyperlinked structure by clicking on links.

Later, they interacted with web servers via forms. 

Links

Makes something clickable
Replaces current page
Can be targeted

<a href="url" target="option">clickable element</a>

A link is a promise: http://www.nngroup.com/articles/link-promise/

Links

URL

• Relative - the path from current file
• Absolute - the path from root of site

Target

• _self: Load the response into the same context (default)
• _blank: Load the response into a new context.

Usability

• Make links look like links
• Hint about what will happen
• Don't distract from current content

A link is a promise: http://www.nngroup.com/articles/link-promise/

Forms

Primary way for getting data from customers

Forms

Most annoying thing about any sales process

Most forms are never completed

Forms

Many form-as-a-service options are available

Ultimately, you need to know how to code them

Basic HTML Forms

Sends data to a server
Replaces the current page

Everything is inside a <form> element

Almost everything is an <input> element

Requires a submit button

Form Exercise

http://form-echo.herokuapp.com

1. Play with the page
2. Examine the source code
3. Look up the tags
4. Code your own