User Centered Design
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- Created on: 21-12-20 19:36
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- User Centered Design
- Usability
- Inclusive - can be used by everyone easily and have little restriction of use dues to cultural difference / circumstances
- Convenient - can be used by everyone with ease
- Flexible - the user experience can be adapted to suit individuals
- Welcoming - no design barriers to a product's use
- Aesthetics
- Colour
- It elicits responses by stimulating emotions and can be used to excite and persuade - but they can have -ve effects
- can have different meanings in different cultures
- Form
- How something looks
- Size? Dimensions?
- How something looks
- Texture
- Smooth? Rough?
- Shape
- Symmetric? Asymmetric?
- Proportional?
- Colour
- Sometimes called 'human centered design', it is a design strategy / approach with the aim of making products and systems usable. It focuses on the user interface and how the user interacts with and relates to the product
- Methods Commonly Used
- Focus groups
- Where invited group of intended users share thoughts, feelings, attitudes and ideas
- Usability testing
- Evaluates products by collecting data from people as they try out a product
- Participatory design
- Actively involves users in the design and decision making processes at every stage
- Interviews
- Carried out one participant at a time
- Questionnaires
- Used to ask users for their responses to a set of questions
- Focus groups
- Anthropometrics
- People's measurements
- Split into different percentiles, used depending on the user group
- Specific or generalised measurement
- Ergonomics
- Understanding the interactions between people and the things they do, the objects they use and the environments they work, travel and play in
- 'Fit' between humans and the products they use
- About easiness of understanding use, through other senses the users the user draws when interacting with it
- Good 'fit' = people are more comfortable, do things quicker, fewer mistakes made
- Usability
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