Tuesday, 24 March

Week 10: Usability Testing 3/3

User-Centered Design (UCD), User Journeys, Narrative

http://www.dezeen.com/2015/03/18/john-maeda-silicon-valley-design-businesses-worth-billions-dollars-tech-industry-design-in-tech-report/

Inconsistent Feedback

Reminder re: new Mentor assignments for the remainder of the course:

Edward Tufte Group: Shankar Balasubramaniam • shrabala@indiana.edu

Dieter Rams Group: Jeffrey Gadzala • jagadza@indiana.edu

Jony Ive Group: Tori Rice • tjrice@indiana.edu

Don Norman Group: Danny Rudzinski • drudzins@indiana.edu

Brian Eno Group: Karthik Rao • karrao@indiana.edu

Steve Krug Group: Shannon Grimme • seschenc@indiana.edu

IDEO Group: Omar Sosa-Tzec • omarsosa@indiana.edu

Additional Extra Credit Opportunity

Submit scanned (not photographed) examples of your good sketchnoting to your (new) Mentor

 Review Reading Response 9 Questions:

1. What is User-Centered Design? What are its characteristics? Why is it important? 
2. What are “user journeys”? Why are they important in UXD? What are the stages of such a process? 
3. What are the aspects of a “narrative”?
4. Please cite an interaction you’ve had, e.g. with a game, and explain the narrative in terms of the framework set out in the book. 

Looking ahead to Project 4: User-Centered Design

You, and your team, need to choose a non-profit community organization to do a design for. To start, here's a list of some you might consider:

http://www.bloomingtononline.net/directory/category/Non-Profit-Organizations/64

Project 3: Usability Testing Progress?

Are you happy with your first interim submission?

What have you learned?

What has surprised you?

 Review Brief 

Look at Student Examples

In-class: Your new mentors will come around and check off your work to date as part of your Participation and Professionalism grade

Note: if you wish to change teams for Project 4 please notify your new intern by email by Friday, 3 April at noon.

For additional help with your project please arrange to attend office hours.

Homework for Thursday, 26 March at 12:01 am through Assignments on Oncourse:

Complete interim project 3.2, including:

Additional usability test of the website and app. Include “Background,” enhance the write up of your team’s Case Study through the “App Mode” subsection. Set out preliminary Findings, as well.