Ideas to Apps, lesson 2: "Making It Usable"
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"Usability is all about how easy, pleasant, and effective your app is to use. Does it get the job done? Is it fun to use? Sounds pretty basic, but it’s important."
Focuses on enhancing the user experience by adding interactive features like text inputs and buttons, and emphasizes the importance of usability and iterative design.
Lesson Video
Reinforces Micro-Learning: Recommendation to limit viewing to one lesson per day.
Reminds of the existing app structure (header, sidebar, canvas) and the goal of adding interactive features.
Demonstrates instructing the AI to add a text input and a "Send" button as well as to align the objects nicely and tighten up the layout.
Introduces the concept of a "prompt," which typically includes text and images.
Discusses how the added question and input field give the app a unique, interview-like feel, showcasing the emergence of an interesting concept through AI-assisted experimentation and rapid prototyping.
Defines usability as how easy, pleasant, and effective an app is to use, and emphasizes the human role in judging this.
Points out that time spent refining small details can make the process more enjoyable and also spark new ideas.
Encourages viewers to experiment with their AI assistants to prototype simple app ideas.
