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Reflections on NM4210
It’s come to an end… the module at least. I must say, when I first started off this module, I had no idea what to expect. I made a last minute transfer in because I needed to fulfill some level 4000 modules. Looking back, I am rather glad I did take this module. I’ll list [...]
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Phase IV:Evaluation
High-fidelity prototyping and UX evaluation
We improved and changed many details in this version of prototyping.
Quadrant we changed the colours and instructions.
We also added in the personal memoranda and more instructions to describe and also tell users how to be productive.
The verdict: better now, with all the added improvements. But there are still sections [...]
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Phase III:Design
Information architecture
Following up from the last post, this time we are trying to find out how users organize and plan tasks. While other methods of information architecture are web-focused, we came up with our own idea of creating a scenario and let the users plan the activities in any way they feel relevant to [...]
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Reflections on User Research Smoke & Mirrors, Part 5: Non-Scientific User Research isn’t a Bad Thing
Article
This article is mighty interesting. In fact the entire series is interesting, and I would recommend a quick read around them.
I find it amusing in the world of user research and experience design that it seems through the article, researchers seem to believe that lending some amount of scientific credence to their research would somehow [...]
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Phase II: Define
Attached are the slides presented. Pause it if you want to read the slides
Looks like it’s time to define things. We finally nailed down the requirement and needs, and at this stage we are beginning to do some user research. What are our user profiles? And developing personas for [...]
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Phase I : Discover
What do we do? That was the questioned that plagued us for 2 weeks! We’re beginning on the final project to develop an end-product using the user experience concepts that we have learnt and will continue to learn in the weeks ahead. But what product??!!
Then came the idea of a toilet clip to allow ladies [...]
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Four pleasure analysis
* Expand RMA profile you worked on in the seminar room into a story (target user profile)
* Analyse user profile using four-pleasure framework
* Identify user need pleasures and pleasure of appreciation
* Prepare “product benefit specifications”* for a [...]
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Products and Emotions
Why do people need so much shoes? especially of the fairer gender, there would be tons of shoes!
The wall of shoe boxes beside the shoe rack at home is quite testament to the amount of shoes my mom and sister can horde. As a matter of fact, they would hardly remember all the shoes they [...]
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Now… isn’t that easy? After all, the world is filled with badly designed products. from handphones with buttons too small for even an imp to use to…. microsoft windows? Actually it was difficult to find a product that stood out from the rest especially since I’ve been so conditioned to live with all the flaws [...]
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Welcome! Though this will likely be a blog that will not exist for too long beyond the module’s span of life.
Nonetheless, this would be a record of my learning experiences.
Hope you enjoy
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