Tuesday, 31 March

User-Centered Design 1/4

User-Research, Stanford dSchool, dMindsets, the Five Modes of a User-Centered Design Process, IDEO, David Kelley, Bill Moggeridge

Error Messages are Evil

How did your Usability Testing projects turn out?

Exam Grades Posted

Everyone received a 6.67 point curve on your grade

If you want your exam back please check with your mentor

Extra Credit Sketchnoting

Submit scans of good pages to your (new) mentor by noon on Friday, 17 April

Reading Response 10 Question Review

1. Why is user-research important?

Because it enables you to create designs that deliver a better experience.

2. What are the two basic questions of an interactive design process? Describe the nature and importance of each?

1. Who will use it?
2. What will it do?

3. What are four of the ways of learning about users and the context in which designing takes place. Please set out the characteristics of each.

1. Surveys
2. Interviews and focus groups
3. Field studies
4. Generative approaches

Introduce Project 4: User-Centered Design

Context

The Stanford Institute of Design (dSchool)
http://dschool.stanford.edu/ 

IDEO
www.ideo.com

IDEO.org
www.ideo.org

  
Review Project 4 Brief, and interim assignments

Good student examples:

Problem Identification (though formatting should be more designerly)

Of complete project (though cover page should not be numbered):

Meet with (new) Team

Homework for Thursday, 2 April:

Choose potential organizations to serve as your user, preliminarily contact them.