Luke Murphy is a student in Computing and IT, he defines Human Computer Interaction (HCI) as ” he design and study of how people (Users) interact with technology interfaces” in his 2018 blog. He considers 5 principles that are important for designing effective HCI.

1. Requirement Engineering
2. Interaction Design
3. Personas
4. Disruptive Innovation
5. Visual Aesthetics

The Interaction Design Foundation believes that there are “widely applicable laws, guidelines, biases and design considerations which designers apply with discretion” in their article. They believe the cognitive load of a user must be considered when improving the usability, appeal, and decision-making time effectiveness of a site. Text should be easy to read, navigation should be simple, distractions are minimized, and don’t offer too many options.

There are a lot of intuitive things you can do when designing HCI. For example, I did not stick the navigation bar links randomly on the page. They are easily accessible at the top. I also used large text for headings and titles and smaller text for bulkier bodies of text. I minimized my use of colour as to not distract from the text and only use supplementary photos to fill up blank space, help with understanding and/or pique interest.