Monday, April 29, 2013

Post #20 User-Centered Design

-http://infohost.nmt.edu/~mentor/Peer_Mentoring_Handbook.pdf

For the document that is user friendly I choose the NMT Peer Mentoring Program Handbook. The handbook is used for both mentors and mentees as a guideline. The handbook is very comprehensive with clear distinctions between the different sections in the book. The screenshot above is the table of content, which is also nicely labeled and indented to make the handbook easier to look through if there was a specific question that needed to be asked. The main colors, aside from the title page, are blue and black. All the main sections are in blue and boldfaced. If there is a lot of information about a specific topic all the relevant information is in bullet points which makes it easier to follow along then if there was just a wall of text. The handbook also uses different fonts consistently thought the document to highlight curtain points in the text. The use of different fonts is important in a user-friendly document because it allows people to follow along a lot easier. There are also no awkwardly placed spaces in the document unlike the government document previously discussed. All the text is neatly put together so the rhythm in the text is kept through the handbook. 

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