Foundational Concepts in HCI:

• User-Centered Design (UCD): Prioritizing user needs and preferences throughout the design process.
• Usability: Ensuring ease of learning and use for users to achieve their goals.
• Affordances and Signifiers: Communicating possible actions clearly through cues and indicators.
• Feedback: Providing timely information about system state and user actions
• Cognitive Load: Minimizing mental effort required to perform tasks.
• User Experience (UX): Focusing on emotional, perceptual, and cognitive aspects of interaction
• Accessibility: Making technology usable for individuals with diverse abilities and disabilities
• Human Factors: Considering human capabilities and behaviors in system design.
• Interaction Paradigms: Understanding different interaction modes like GUIs, touch, and voice interfaces.
• Prototyping and Iterative Design: Creating and refining low-fidelity versions of systems based on user feedback
• Foundation Concepts in HCI:

  • User-Centered Design(UCD)
  • Usability
  • Affordance and Signifiers
  • Feedback
  • Cognitive Load
  • User Experience
  • Accessibility
  • Human Factors
  • Interaction Paradigms
  • Prototyping and Iterative Design