Introduction to Usability Engineering CS 352 Winter 2015

Announcements: This & next week are busy! See schedule: You have work due this week! Next Friday: Project proposal due. You’ll need a proposal and a team by this day. We’ll be doing a “skills inventory” activity & “project pitch” Friday or Monday to help you choose your ideas & teams. (Project page has some project ideas.) Pre-project pitch (now): Shout out some ideas... widgets are for talking about most of these points.

PRICPE A Design Process Many of these ideas are from Marty Siegel and Mike Madison

Where did these ideas come from? Mike Madison gave a lecture in 2010 on which these are based. Degree in design from Indiana University. Now a professional designer (free-lance) with clients across the country. PRICPE contains the steps he follows in ALL of his projects.... ... which are the steps you’ll be following in this course.

PRICPE Pre-dispositions Research Insights Concept Prototype Evaluate Most of these ideas are from Marty Siegel and Mike Madison

PRICPE: Pre-Dispositions What do you know? What DON’T you know? Spend lots of time here, because you can never get back to this stage. PRICPE: Pre-Dispositions Most of these ideas are from Marty Siegel and Mike Madison

Research PRICPE: Research User study Book Web Observations of users “in the wild” PRICPE: Research Mike Madison, Jason De Runa, Jordan Fugate, Sakshi Gupta

Insights PRICPE: Insights Now do I know “enough”? Do I need to do more research? What has changed regarding your predispositions? Now do I know “enough”? Do I need to do more research? What has changed regarding your predispositions? PRICPE: Insights Most of these ideas are from Marty Siegel and Mike Madison

Concepts: Inklings of a Design A concept is not a design – it’s an idea. Rules: 1. don’t get too attached to a concept and 2. don’t spend too much time on any of them. These are about his homelessness project. They ultimately scrapped all of these because they weren’t very good ideas. But they generated better ideas. PRICPE: Concept Mike Madison, Jason De Runa, Jordan Fugate, Sakshi Gupta

Prototype PRICPE: Prototype “An example or working model.” Allows you to explore your ideas before investing time & $ in development. Don’t get too attached to a prototype, and don’t spend too much time on it. PRICPE: Prototype Michael McCurdy, Christopher Connors, Guy Pyrzak, Bob Kanefsky, Alonso Vera, Mike Madison

Most of these ideas are from Marty Siegel and Mike Madison Here’s an example. (This is called a “wireframe”). Most of these ideas are from Marty Siegel and Mike Madison

PRICPE: Prototype Low Fidelity High Fidelity Don’t build hi-fi too early. Not worth your time, and it also gets the client at too low level too fast. His process is usually: sketch, then after finally coming to a good state, add some higher quality graphics work. You have to do usability testing now. PRICPE: Prototype Most of these ideas are from Marty Siegel and Mike Madison

Evaluate PRICPE: Evaluate Did it do for users what you hoped it would? What’s the plan? How much is it going to cost and how long will it take? It’s PRESENTED last, but you have to always ask yourself what’s the next step? PRICPE: Evaluate Most of these ideas are from Marty Siegel and Mike Madison

Iterate Rinse and Repeat Remember that the client is not a designer, so sometimes s/he is wrong. But often you’re the wrong who’s wrong. Most of these ideas are from Marty Siegel and Mike Madison

PRICPE Pre-dispositions Research Insights Concept Prototype Evaluate Mike always does these steps!! PRICPE Most of these ideas are from Marty Siegel and Mike Madison