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What is the primary focus of sketching in design exploration?
What is a mental model in the context of design?
What is the primary purpose of a conceptual model in design?
What is the result of a flawed conceptual design?
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What is a storyboard in the context of design?
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What is the purpose of a storyboard in design?
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What is the approach that extends user-centered design?
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What is the focus of slanty design?
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What is the relationship between designers and users in slanty design?
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Study Notes
Design Thinking, Ideation, and Sketching
- Design thinking is a broad term that encompasses the entire system development lifecycle process, as well as a narrow term that refers to the creative human activity of synthesizing new ideas.
Design Perspectives
- Ecological Perspective:
- Focuses on how the system or product works within its external environment
- Considers how the system or product is used in its context and interacts with its environment
- Includes social interaction and long-term phenomenological aspects of usage as part of one's lifestyle
- Interaction Perspective:
- Focuses on how users operate the system or product
- Involves a task and intention view, where user and system come together
- Includes sensory, cognitive, and physical actions
- Emotional Perspective:
- Focuses on how users operate the system or product
- Involves a task and intention view, where user and system come together
- Includes sensory, cognitive, and physical actions
User Personas
- A persona is a pretend user or a "hypothetical archetype" that represents a specific person in a specific work role and sub-role
- Built up from contextual data, a persona is a story and description of a specific individual who has a name, a life, and a personality
Ideation
- Ideation is an active, fast-moving collaborative group process for forming ideas for design
- It is an activity that goes with design thinking; ideation is applied design thinking
Sketching
- Sketching is the rapid creation of freehand drawings expressing preliminary design ideas, focusing on concepts rather than details
- Used to create a 3D design representation to show clients, customers, and implementers
Mental Models and Conceptual Design
- A mental model is an explanation of someone's thought process about how something works in the real world
- A conceptual design as it is manifest in the system is an implementation of this mapping and can be flawed or incomplete
- A flawed conceptual design leads to a mismatch in the user's mental model
Storyboards
- A storyboard is a sequence of visual "frames" illustrating the interplay between a user and an envisioned system
- Storyboards bring the design to life in graphical "clips," freeze-frame sketches of stories of how people will work with the system
- Storyboards are used to represent interaction sequence designs and are like visual scenario sketches of envisioned interaction design solutions
Design Influencing User Behavior
- Slanty design is an approach that extends user-centered design by focusing on the things people should (and should not) be able to do with the product(s) behind the design
- Design is a conversation between designers and users about both desired and undesired usage outcomes
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Description
This quiz covers design thinking principles, ideation, and sketching techniques in user interface and user experience design. It focuses on design perspectives, user personas, and ideation methods.
