Advisory Boards

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Advisory Boards

• Goals
• To simulate part of the real world experience
• To facilitate effective question asking
• Approach
• Compose a board representing specific types of
  expertise
• Each student should participate on at least one
  board.
• Board sits in front of room, with signs
  indicating their expertise
• Q A begins with one question from each
  expertise area

User Advocacy
Big Picture
Web Usability Specialist
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Advisory Boards
Whats in it for the user?
User Advocacy
How does what is proposed fit with the big
picture?
Big Picture
How will I test this?
Web Usability Specialist
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Discussion of Readings

• Driving questions
• What types of design principles can a UCD
  designer use to inform their design?
• How are the available principles similar to, and
  different from each other? What are the
  implications for their use (e.g., ease of use,
  credibility, results)?
• What are sources of design principles available
  to UCD designers?
• What challenges arise in using design principles?

• Class-generated concerns

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Project Exercise Design IDue, 2/24/04

• Prepare a proposed redesign of your product. Use
  a combination of words and images to represent
  your proposed redesign. Justify this design
  using both design principles discussed in class
  as well as the information you have about your
  users, their tasks, and the contexts for their
  tasks. Bring to class one copy of this exercise
  for each member of the team and one copy for the
  instructors.

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Paper Prototyping - Examples
Source http//www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/lib
rary/us-paper/?dwzoneusability
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Paper Prototyping

• Especially useful for
• Concepts and terminology
• Navigation/workflow
• Content
• Page layout
• Functionality

• Not so useful for
• Technical feasibility
• Download/ response time
• Scrolling
• Colors and fonts

Source http//www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/lib
rary/us-paper/?dwzoneusability
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Paper Prototyping - Benefits

• Benefits
• Test your design with users before you code
• Make fast changes
• Find out what marketing really wants
• Eliminate technology variables from the usability
  testing equation

• Common Concerns
• Validity ("Does it find real problems?")
• Professionalism ("What will others think of it
  ... and us?")
• Development resources ("Do we really have time to
  do this? Is it just extra work?")

Source http//www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/lib
rary/us-paper/?dwzoneusability