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User-Centered DesignWeek 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?
Technovation Challenge Google Group
Share with us onTwitter & Facebook
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Ongoing Offsite Activities• Customer Development • Usability Testing• Evaluate Data• Continue with App Inventor• Build Prototype