1. User-Centered Design Week 4

2. Agenda 5:30 – Team Stand Up 5:40 – User-Centered Design 6:15 – Activities: Usability Testing 7:25 – Ongoing Offsite Activities

3. Objectives Introduce User-Centered Design characteristics Design Requirements for UI Learn Testing methods for UI Prototyping lifecycle How to Paper Prototype

4. User-Centered Design Speaker Name: Title Credentials

5. User-Centered Design Speaker’s presentation goes here

6. What is User-Centered Design? Designing things with the user in mind. You are not the user.

7. 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

8. How would you open these?

9. Design Requirements Handles Hinges Visual signals indicate how to interact with the door

10. How else to design with the user in mind? Keep it simple! Source: Debra Lauterbach

11. 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

12. How to Design Interfaces Source: Debra Lauterbach

13. Usability Testing

14. 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

15. User Interface Research Template Find the UI Research tab in your team’s Technovation Workspace on Google Docs

16. Example of User Interface Testing Find the UI Test tab in your team’s Technovation Workspace on Google Docs

17. 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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20. Ongoing Offsite Activities Customer Development Usability Testing Evaluate Data Continue with App Inventor Build Prototype