Interaction Design Workshop BIME 591 Winter 2014

Last Time… We had an excellent guest lecture! … But before that, we aggregated concepts into themes and frameworks Now we take those themes and frameworks, and we start designing our solution… Last Time…

Now that you have defined your idea a bit more, let’s talk about the potential solution… Define the major elements of your informatics solution. What is your solution going to do? After your brainstorm, choose 3-5 of these features to focus on. Brainstorm parts of your solution. MAKE SURE THE AIM IS CLEAR! Maybe give them a form to fill out. Brainstorm!

(Stolen from the IDEO HCD Toolkit)

(Stolen from the Stanford D-School Bootleg)

Design Activities Now that you have a list of features to design to… Individually, choose 1 of the following activities that you think best fits your project (or that your would just like to try) Use it to flesh out 1 feature from the brainstorming list When you are done, either: pick up another activity redo the one you already did from a new perspective, redo the one you already did with a new feature And keep designing! Divide the brainstorm from the activity! Design Activities

(Taken from ThoughtForm Toolbox)

Why? Why-How Ladder How? (Taken from Stanford D-School Bootleg)

(Taken from Frog Design Collective Action Toolkit)

Impose Constraints

Usability. gov has a nice site on defining use cases Usability.gov has a nice site on defining use cases. It’s way too much to paste on this page, so read it here: http://www.usability.gov/how-to-and-tools/methods/use-cases.html “A use case is a written description of how users will perform tasks on your website.  It outlines, from a user’s point of view, a system’s behavior as it responds to a request. Each use case is represented as a sequence of simple steps, beginning with a user's goal and ending when that goal is fulfilled.” Create Use Cases

Next Time… You will discuss what you’ve created with your group We’ll look at creating digital wireframes and/or prototypes. Next Time…