Members
Joy Agustin (jagustin@hawaii.edu)
Astrid Tomsic (astrid_tomsic@yahoo.com)
Conceptual Design
User Feedback
- Introduction
- Requirements
- Design and Prototype
- Conceptual Design
After gathering requirements from both the interviews and usability testing, we developed Activity Scenarios followed by Essential Use Cases and a new Claims Analysis. In the Claims Analysis, certain features contained various options. For example, the "Resume file format" feature could be either "Standard universal format", "Small set of universal formats", or "Unrestricted with best practices guidelines". Therefore, each option became a category with its own positive and negative points, aiding in the decision making process. These documents completed the Task portion of the Usage Centered Design Model.
From these documents, Context Diagrams were developed as an informal brainstorming exercise for the developers. These were not shown to the users because we believed that they were too abstract to illicit useful feedback from the users without any lengthy explanations.
Instead, the first version of the Abstract Layouts were created from the Context Diagrams which included all of the tools needed to complete the tasks specified in the new Essential Use Cases. This approach using visual and interaction design was intended to encourage user feedback on the layouts and navigation between layouts. Ordinary letter-sized paper and colored Post-It notes were used in an effort to make users feel more comfortable with changing and experimenting with alternative designs.
From the users' feedback, a final version of the Abstract Layouts was created. These layouts were the corner stone for developing the current prototype. However, since the Context Diagrams were used as a stepping-stone in development, they were not continuously updated to reflect the changes made in the new Abstract Layouts.
- Prototype
- Conceptual Design
- Evaluation and Redesign
- Conclusion
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