Block 1 Flashcards
(50 cards)
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Interaction Design
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- Users
- activities
- environment
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Good interaction
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- Usability (How easy to use and learn interface)
- User Experience (How good the users experience of the interface is)
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User
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- someone who will use the interface
- need to understand who the user will be.
- characterised by their background and preferences
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Activity
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What a user wants to do shapes activities
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Environment
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- where the interface will be used
- Different environments can affect the product
- Social environment is important to consider too.
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User-centred design
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Core-approach of interaction design (A good product is designed around users)
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Establishing requirements
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- A requirement is a need that particular interactive product must satisfy
- Requirements depend on:
- characteristics of users
- activities they will perform
- environment in which user interacts with the product
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Designing Alternatives
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- Trying alternative designs enables designers to explore ways of satisfying the requirements
- This is an essential and creative part of the process
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Prototyping designs
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Designers need to prototype the most promising designs to produce models
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Evaluating Prototypes
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- Enables designers to assess limitations of particular design
- find out if prototype meets requirements
- identify new requirements
- establish any changes to existing requirements
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Design process
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Three key characteristics -
- Iteration
- Usability and user experience
- User involvement
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Iteration
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- Repeating evaluation and redesigning key features of design process
- Leads to better understanding of requirements
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Usability and User experience
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- How usable a product is and how users experience the product
- Ideally, designers should identify requirements for these at start of the project
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User involvement
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Critical in helping designers understand design context, and identifying possible design solutions
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Goals of Interaction design
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- Effectiveness
- efficiency
- safety
- utility
- learnability
- memorability
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Effectiveness
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Does product enable the user to easily accomplish task for which it was designed?
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Efficiency
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Does the product enable the user to accomplish the task quickly, with minimum number of steps?
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Safety
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Does the product minimise user errors and if they do make errors, can they recover quickly?
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Utility
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Does the product offer functionalities the users need to complete a particular task?
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Learnability
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Is it easy to learn how to use the product?
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Memorability
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Is it easy to remember how to use the product?
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Usability Goals
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- Measurable goals : Usability goals can be assessed and measured
- Goals must be prioritised : For certain products some goals more important than others
- Meeting goals may be challenging : Characteristics of users, their activities and context in which they operate can make it challenging to achieve certain usability goals
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Design principles
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- Perceivability
- Consistency
- Affordance
- Constraints
- Feedback
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Perceivability
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- Perceivability is an extension of visibility
- Experience of any interactive product passes through our sense first
- More prominently an element of an interface engages users senses, the easier it is for the user to perceive the element
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Assessing Perceivability
- How strong and distinct is the visual, tactile, auditory or olfactory stimulus?
- How is the element presented in the context of the interface?
- Which senses is the user able to use?
- How does the users mind respond to external stimuli?
- What is a users cultural background?
- In what kind of environment is interaction taking place?
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Consistency
- Receiving inconsistent responses in interaction can lead to failure or confusion
- Elements of an interface need to be designed and organised with consistency and interacting with them needs to yield constant outcomes
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Affordance
- The way in which we perceive characteristics of an object
- Signals the way in which an object can be used
- Always important to design interactive product so characteristics of its interface clearly communicate possibilities for interaction that the product offers
- Affordance described as special form of consistency between characteristics of an interface and characteristics of a user
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Constraints
When interactive options and functionalities of an interactive product are temporarily restricted
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Feedback
- Feedback is of critical importance as it lets users know they have interacted with the system successfully
- Main difference between feedback and outcome is that feedback is just an acknowledgment of interaction, outcome is the effect of that interaction
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Designing for different users
- Physical capabilities
- sensory capabilities
- cognitive capabilities
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Physical capabilities
- Do users require certain dexterity in hands or limbs to operate product or require force?
- Is there any other physical capabilities we should keep in mind?
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Sensory Capabilities
- How well can users perceive input to their sense?
- Are users likely to have good vision?
- Is their hearing ok?
- What about their other senses?
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Cognitive capabilities
- Are users able to process level of info required by the device?
- How can they use the info gathered through their senses to help them make decisions?
- Will it take them too long to learn something?
- How are they likely to respond emotionally?
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Nature of activity
- Capabilities should be viewed in context of actual activities carried out during interaction
- Physical environment may have significant effect
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Production context
Means the setting in which interactive product is developed, both at project level, and as part of company's product strategy
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Project shareholders
- Users - Primary shareholders
- Beneficiaries - People who may benefit from project, or conversely, negatively
- Contributors - People who need to make time, energy or other resources available
- Decision makers - People may control resources you need to make progress with project
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Wider settings
- Sometimes design involves more that one organisation
- Sociocultural - Companies have different ways of working that may shape process
- Organisational - At organisational level, given interactive product may be conceived as part of product line or portfolio, therefore choices may be influenced
- Economic - Size and wealth of a company may in turn affect resources available for given project
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Gathering data
- Asking the users
- Observing the users
- Matching methods to questions
- Ask
- Observe
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Asking the users
- Ask users and stakeholders to talk about experiences, habits, opinions etc.
- Use questionnaires or interviews
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Observing the user
- Observe users or stakeholders in different situations
| - Naturalistic or controlled setting
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Matching methods to questions
Different methods provide different kinds of info, and matching designer's questions to method or enquiry is crucial
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Ask
- Individual or group
- more or less structured
- face-to-face or by correspondence
- numeric or descriptive data
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Observe
- Individual or group
- Naturalistic or controlled
- direct or indirect
- numeric or descriptive data
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Output of design ideas
- Wide range of Sketching and prototyping techniques
- Some focus on capturing design context by sketching typical users, actions or settings
- Other approaches focus on capturing designs by sketching or prototyping interfaces and interactions
- Prototypes either low fidelity or high
- Designers might also use higher tech prototypes that only focus on specific aspects of interaction
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Why sketching and prototyping important
- Reflecting on design context
- investigating requirements
- exploring design alternatives
- evaluating
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Reflecting on design context
- Designers sketch design context as well as potential designs
- Helps them consider users, activities and environment as well as collective understanding
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Investigating requirements
- Sketches and prototypes also allow designers to investigate requirements
- Allows users to check requirements and also find new ones
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Exploring design alternatives
- Exploring different ways of meeting requirements
| - Different ways of meeting requirements is key function of design
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Evaluating
- Allow prospective users to engage with designs and provide feedback
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Iteration and interrelated activities
- Activities of evaluating and gathering info go hand in hand
- Establishing requirements and evaluation concerned with design context, users needs and interaction
- Designing and prototyping concerned with designers conceptualisation of interaction
- Each time we evaluate prototype requirements, we are refining requirements
- Having refined them, they can be used to develop new prototypes, which can then be evaluated and so on
