bioinformatics meets user-centred design a perspective生物信息学和以用户为中心的设计观点.pdf

Perspective Bioinformatics Meets User-Centred Design: A Perspective Katrina Pavelin, Jennifer A. Cham*, Paula de Matos, Cath Brooksbank, Graham Cameron, Christoph Steinbeck EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom Abstract: Designers have a saying for a service or product. The goal of UCD friendly interfaces may give the impression that ‘‘the joy of an early release is to produce an effective and usable tool that UCD is everywhere, but it is relatively lasts but a short time. The bitter- that is crafted for use by specific types of scarce in complex domains such as ness of an unusable system lasts for people. For example, in bioinformatics this bioinformatics [6]. Javahery et al. [7] years.’’ It is indeed disappointing to could be on the web, a desktop applica- highlight that online bioinformatics re- discover that your data resources tion, or scientific instrumentation. sources often have interfaces that ‘‘lack the are not being used to their full So what does UCD entail? Everyone is sophistication’’ of the websites and soft- potential. Not only have you in- familiar with good user interfaces, whether ware that people come across in their daily vested your time, effort, and re- they are using smart phones, listening to lives. We have worked in bioinformatics search grant on the project, but portable music devices or surfing the web. for a number of years, and from our you may face costly redesigns if UCD involves placing the user at the experience software developers