In case you haven’t noticed, most of your potential customers have gone mobile. Last June, consumers began spending more time on mobile apps than on the web, according to researcher Flurry….

Questions to discuss from the reading Thoughts on Interaction Design: chapters 1-5

February 7, 2012

Disscussion

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Chapters 1 & 2

What makes up interaction design and what are some of the industry’s challenges?
What is interaction design, how its evolving. What fields does it draw knowledge from?

Chapters 3, 4 & 5

What information can ethnographic tools give you to improve the interactivity of an online banking website? (pp. 48-54)
At what point is a design finished? What makes it a success? What is its purpose? (pp. 54-62)
Identify a product family you use regularly (can be anything from technology to consumables except for coffee). How has its branding effected your use, relationship and experience with the product? (pp. 78-84)

Seung Chan Lim on his project Realizing Empathy

January 31, 2012

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WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson

January 24, 2012

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Week 3 Prototyping

January 24, 2012

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This week you’ll begin wire-framing and prototyping your proposed bobble site. Below you’ll find an article on the topic, a few resources from paperprototyping.com and a few video examples of how to do a user test.

Paper Prototyping by Shawn Medero
From paperprototyping.com Overview of a Paper Prototyping Project A one-page overview of the activities in a paper prototype usability study. Use this document to plan your next usability study using a paper prototype. And Task template and instructions A template used in creating tasks for usability tests (of paper prototypes or otherwise) along with instructions for its use.