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IN4MTX 131 : Intro to HCI : Winter 2013 : Ellie Harmon : 2014-01-14

Day 3: UX & IxD: An Iterative Process

Informatics 131: Introduction to HCI

1Tuesday, January 14, 14


Agenda

• Questions from Thursday

• Reading response feedback (pick up at end of class or during office hours)

• This week’s readings:

• Overview of IxD from Kolko’s perspective

• HCI process models: wheel, lifecycle, iteration

• Sketching

• How did discussion go?

• What makes a good sketch? What are sketches useful for? When in the process?



Questions from Thursday

• I talk too fast! Incomplete slides.

• Yes, it is our Judy Olson that Grudin referred to

• Gender issues last week -- what about heteronormative attitudes?

• Large companies make mistakes, too!

• You all liked the laws a lot!

• Will talk about sketching @ end of lecture

• Will talk about project next week. Nothing to work on until after next Tuesday’s class.

• Getting to UX question momentarily... but... anything else?


IN4MTX 131 : Intro to HCI : Winter 2013 : Ellie Harmon : 2014-01-09 4http://www.kickerstudio.com/2008/12/the-disciplines-of-user-experience/

HCI v. UX v. IxD -- will there be a job for me?

User Experience Professionals Association

http://www.wittycookie.com/montreal-web-design.html

http://envis-precisely.com/

Tuesday, January 14, 14

http://www.kickerstudio.com/2008/12/the-disciplines-of-user-experience/

http://www.kickerstudio.com/2008/12/the-disciplines-of-user-experience/



http://envis-precisely.com

http://envis-precisely.com


“the creation of a dialogue between a person and a product, service, or system”

•Happens over time!

•Both reactionary & anticipatory

•This is one helpful way to think about interactions

5

Kolko on IxD



Design is different than art

•Function, language & meaning

IxD is more than usability, subjective qualities, too

•Recall Gillian Smith’s Imperatives: Usability, Utility, Satisfaction/experience, Communicative (Symbolic) Qualities, Sociability

6

Kolko on IxD, cont’d



Interaction design is not just about aesthetics

Also not just about technology

What other kind of expertise?

7

Kolko on IxD, cont’d



* Interaction design as a dialog that happens over time

* Dialog between user & designer

* Dialog between user & object/system/software

8

Kolko on IxD, wrap-up



Wheels & Cycles!9

http://www.flickr.com/photos/userpathways/3064892251/in/set-72157605894411570/


http://www.akendi.co.uk/process/experience-quadrants/








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User Research & Analysis

Evaluate

Prototype

(Re)design

Final Product

Adapted from Rodgers, et al. Interaction Design. 2007




Evaluate

Prototype

(Re)design

Final Product




Bill MoggridgeDesigning Interactions

p. 730



http://designminds.org.au/


http://designminds.org.au

http://designminds.org.au


Key points

• Design happens through a process

• Iterative & Cyclic

• Won’t be right the first time

• Doesn’t happen overnight

• Alternating between generating new ideas and evaluating those ideas



Sketching

• How did discussion go?



Sketching

• “the archetypal activity of design”

• for working through

• for communicating

• useful as an activity even if the outcome is something you throw away!



The only true voyage of discovery is not to go to new places, but to have other eyes

Marcel Proust (quoted in Buxton, p. 105)



David Hockney exhibit @ DeYoung Museum



My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.

James Thurber(quoted in Buxton, p. 115)



• Quick

• Timely

• Inexpensive

• Disposable

• Plentiful

• Clear vocabulary

• Distinct gesture

• Minimal detail

• Appropriate degree of refinement

• Suggest & explore rather than confirm

• Ambiguity



Sketching: where & when?


Evaluate

Prototype

(Re)design

Final Product



For Thursday

• Sketchbook check in class - you need at least THREE

• Reading Response: R2: Foundations of Interaction

• Give one example of an ‘affordance’ or ‘signifier’ that you encounter in your daily life. Explain why it is an affordance or signifier.

• Give an example of a time when you or someone you know had trouble using some kind of technology and the situation could have been improved with a better-designed signifier.


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