User-Centered Design Week 4
Agenda 5:30 – Team Stand Up 5:40 – User-Centered Design 6:15 – Activities: Usability Testing 7:25 – Ongoing Offsite Activities
Objectives Introduce User-Centered Design characteristics Design Requirements for UI Learn Testing methods for UI Prototyping lifecycle How to Paper Prototype
User-Centered Design Speaker Name: Title Credentials
User-Centered Design Speaker’s presentation goes here
What is User-Centered Design? Designing things with the user in mind. You are not the user.
Mental Models How we expect the world to be Based on prior experience Affect expectations of new things Sometimes based on analogy Examples: Computer desktop Light switches
How would you open these?
Design Requirements Handles Hinges Visual signals indicate how to interact with the door
How else to design with the user in mind? Keep it simple! Source: Debra Lauterbach
What is User Interface? Interface: a common boundary or link between two things User Interface: interface between person and thing, especially software User Interface Design: Designing things that make sense for the people who use them Example: Jitterbug phone
How to Design Interfaces Source: Debra Lauterbach
Usability Testing
Activities: Usability Testing (20 minutes) Investigate apps that are similar in function to yours or that have the same target customer Make notes about the features/interface Determine what you think it should do. What does it do well? What could it do better? (40 minutes) Create your paper prototype (15 minutes) Test with another team
User Interface Research Template Find the UI Research tab in your team’s Technovation Workspace on Google Docs
Example of User Interface Testing Find the UI Test tab in your team’s Technovation Workspace on Google Docs
Reminder: Weekly Reflections What did your team like about this week? What challenges did your team have this week? Anything else your team would like to share?
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Ongoing Offsite Activities Customer Development Usability Testing Evaluate Data Continue with App Inventor Build Prototype