An interaction prototype with uncertainty, control, undo, and failure-repair states.
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Usability, Uncertainty, and User Control
Make uncertainty usable and important actions reversible.
Design feedback, latency, confidence, correction, undo, escalation, and recovery for probabilistic behavior.
Task protocol, usability findings, repair trace, state inventory, and revised interaction.
Uncertainty, Control, and Repair Prototype Kit
Class requirement: create or sign in to your Alternate Clouds account, deploy the Uncertainty, Control, and Repair Prototype Kit template, and submit its live URL before the class is marked complete.
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Use only work you own or are authorized to use.
Every submission needs a source-and-license manifest covering text, code, images, audio, video, fonts, datasets, models, weights, and AI reference inputs. Attribution alone is not permission. Questionable material stays private or is replaced before deployment or showcase.
Ask about rights clearance01Communicating uncertainty+
Match the signal to the decision instead of showing decorative confidence percentages.
Applied exercise
Prototype three uncertainty treatments and test what people infer.
02Control and reversibility+
Give people meaningful preview, edit, cancel, undo, and escalation at the right consequence level.
Applied exercise
Map every action by reversibility and add the missing control.
03Feedback, latency, and repair+
Design visible system status and recovery when work takes time or fails halfway through.
Applied exercise
Test a slow response, partial failure, and correction flow.
04Usability for variable behavior+
Evaluate ranges of outputs and failure classes rather than one scripted happy path.
Applied exercise
Run task tests across representative good, ambiguous, and unsafe outputs.
The complete course adds the teaching deck, Alternate Clouds lab, source-bounded guide, review rubric, and instructor feedback.
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