7-4: Project 3: Summary of User Research and Methods
Purpose
Your goal is to create a design for a software interface. You will experience the scope of the design process from brainstorming ideas and gathering information about users’ needs to storyboarding, prototyping, and finally, testing and refining your product.
As you work on the software interface, you will demonstrate your ability to apply fundamental Human-Computer Interaction principles to interface analysis, design, and implementation. You will be responsible for delivering project components to your professor at several points during the course.
Action Items
1) Begin work on your user research by conducting needfinding. It is due week 7.
a) Watching how people do things is a good way to learn their goals and values. This is called needfinding. Watch the video about participant observation to get a better idea about what is involved.
b) You don’t need to only watch people using electronic devices. You can observe them as they do it now without technology. Remember to observe them in situ (in their natural task environment). You may want to consider conducting diary studies if your subject’s activities are hard to observe.
c) Select 3 people you will observe while they do a task similar to the task users will do when using the design you plan to create. Choose people who are not like you in some way. For example, they may not be college students or may have a different type of job.
a) Your goal is to observe their su**esses and failures and identify opportunities for improvement. Tell your participants what you will be doing and ask them for permission for permission to observe them. Coordinate times to get together.
b) Prepare interview questions to ask participants after the observation is finished.
c) Observe the participants. Tell them to perform the task as realistically as possible. Invite users to think aloud as they perform the tasks. Take notes. Use digital photographs or sketches to capture important moments and insights.
d) Interview the participants. Spend 10 15 minutes asking your prepared questions about the activity. Record answers and observations.
e) When your three observations are done, go over your notes and use them to help you create a list of specific user needs. You are focusing only on user needs and goals at this point, not solutions. It might help to use the phrases “needs to be able to” or “needs a way to”.
2) Organize your needfinding results for submission.
a) Have a captioned photograph of sketch from each person you observed. The photo/sketch and the caption should document an interesting or important moment from your observations, perhaps when a user got stuck and had to figure out an alternate path or when the user ran into a limitation and needed something more/different.
b) Make a list of the needs/goals/tasks you observed (at least 15). Group and organize this list as appropriate.
c) Use the Needfinding Rubric to self-evaluate your work and edit as needed.
Submission Instructions
Complete and submit your assignment per your professor's instructions.
Grading Criteria
Problem solving and analysis:
Answers complete and correct: 0 – 20 points
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