Design Research Project 3 Readings

User Requirements (Design Research) Design Research - Methods and Perspectives Edited by Brenda Laurel User Requirements- - focus directly on the users of a product - their behaviors, goals and needs.

Demographic Data Resources: - US Census Bureau www.census.gov - National Center for Educational Statistics www.nces.ed.gov - National Center for Health Statistics www.cdc.gov/nchs - Internet statistics: www.pewinternet.org Design Research - Methods and Perspectives Edited by Brenda Laurel

- provide directional design input - elicit their goals and needs User Interviews: - provide directional design input - elicit their goals and needs - how they perform their current tasks independent of the specific products being developed Design Research - Methods and Perspectives Edited by Brenda Laurel

Personas: - synthesis of the data into a form that can be used by the entire product development team. - identify specific user goals and needs, so that they can be aligned with business needs and technical goals to create an agreed upon, prioritized list of features and functions. Design Research - Methods and Perspectives Edited by Brenda Laurel

The Inmates Are Running The Asylum, 1998 - introduced the use of personas as a practical interaction design tool. The Origin of Personas, by Alan Cooper

‘If, responding to the directive design for the user, you follow logic, you tend to canvass the user community, collect their requests for functions, and then provide them a product containing all of those functions. I call this “the sum of all desired functions’. The Origin of Personas, by Alan Cooper

What will the impact of that have on design research? ‘Access to intellect, software, materials, and resources is really opening up. You’ll be able to imagine something and then have some kid at a local 7-Eleven-type fab lab make it for you.’ What will the impact of that have on design research? The Origin of Personas, by Alan Cooper