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

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Example of User Interface Testing

Find the UI Test tab in your team’s

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week?• What challenges did your team

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Ongoing Offsite Activities• Customer Development • Usability Testing• Evaluate Data• Continue with App Inventor• Build Prototype