Human-Centered Design Principles

Human-Centered Design

• A design approach that focuses on understanding the needs, wants, and limitations of users
• Involves empathy, creativity, and experimentation to develop innovative solutions
• Key principles:
  • Empathize: Understand users' needs and pain points
  • Define: Define the problem and identify opportunities
  • Ideate: Generate a wide range of ideas
  • Prototype: Create a tangible representation of the idea
  • Test: Refine the solution based on user feedback

Prototyping

• A tangible representation of a design concept
• Allows for testing and refining of the design before final implementation
• Types of prototypes:
  • Low-fidelity prototypes: Simple, rough representations of the design (e.g. paper sketches)
  • High-fidelity prototypes: More detailed and realistic representations of the design (e.g. interactive digital models)
• Benefits:
  • Reduces misunderstandings and miscommunications
  • Identifies usability issues and areas for improvement
  • Allows for rapid iteration and refinement

Wireframing

• A low-fidelity visualization of a product or interface
• Used to define the basic structure and layout of a design
• Key elements:
  • Boxes and lines: Representing the layout and structure of the design
  • Basic typography: Representing the text and font styles
  • Simple graphics: Representing the visual elements and icons
• Benefits:
  • Quickly and easily conveys the overall design concept
  • Allows for rapid iteration and refinement
  • Facilitates communication and collaboration with stakeholders

Human-Centered Design

• Human-centered design is an approach that prioritizes understanding user needs, wants, and limitations to develop innovative solutions
• It involves empathy, creativity, and experimentation to create solutions that meet user needs
• The design process consists of five key stages:
  • Empathize: Understand users' needs and pain points through research and observation
  • Define: Define the problem and identify opportunities for innovation
  • Ideate: Generate a wide range of ideas for solutions
  • Prototype: Create a tangible representation of the idea
  • Test: Refine the solution based on user feedback and testing

Prototyping

• A prototype is a tangible representation of a design concept that allows for testing and refinement before final implementation
• Prototypes can be low-fidelity (simple, rough representations) or high-fidelity (detailed, realistic representations)
• Benefits of prototyping include:
  • Reducing misunderstandings and miscommunications
  • Identifying usability issues and areas for improvement
  • Allowing for rapid iteration and refinement

Wireframing

• Wireframing is a low-fidelity visualization of a product or interface used to define the basic structure and layout of a design
• Key elements of wireframing include:
  • Boxes and lines representing the layout and structure
  • Basic typography representing text and font styles
  • Simple graphics representing visual elements and icons
• Benefits of wireframing include:
  • Quickly and easily conveying the overall design concept
  • Allowing for rapid iteration and refinement
  • Facilitating communication and collaboration with stakeholders

Test your knowledge of the human-centered design approach, including empathizing with users, defining problems, ideating solutions, prototyping, and testing.