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What is the primary purpose of conducting interviews during the user needs assessment?

  • To gather statistical data
  • To gain insight into user needs, operations, and processes (correct)
  • To train users on using the system
  • To create marketing strategies

Including users in the design process ensures that the final product aligns with their expectations.

True (A)

List two key components of user group analysis.

  1. Background information on the user group. 2. Primary goals and motivations for using the system.

The ______ phase of interviews is used to summarize insights and thank participants.

<p>closing</p> Signup and view all the answers

Match the interview steps with their descriptions:

<p>Introduction = Goals, ethical considerations, consent Warm-up = Easy questions to build rapport Main Session = Logical and clear questions Closing = Summarize insights, thank participants</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is a key interview tip?

<p>Avoid jargon and compound sentences (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

User group analysis only considers the technical equipment users will interact with.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three UX goals mentioned for developing the app for personalized children's stories?

<p>Nurture, relatedness, and joy</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of error message provides general updates or statuses?

<p>Information (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Severe usability problems are those that cause minimal user disruption.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of usability testing?

<p>To improve system usability by identifying usability issues and collecting user feedback.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Effective error messages should use ____ language and provide actionable instructions.

<p>clear</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a key goal when presenting findings in usability testing?

<p>To guide future design iterations (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Match the following usability problem severities with their descriptions:

<p>Minor = Minimal user disruption Moderate = Delays user tasks and causes frustration Severe = Prevents task completion entirely</p> Signup and view all the answers

During a think-aloud testing session, which of the following is NOT a part of the execution phase?

<p>Developing realistic tasks (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Tasks should be vague and not aligned with user goals.

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What type of prototypes should include clickable elements to simulate user interactions?

<p>Intermediate prototypes</p> Signup and view all the answers

All usability problems should be categorized based on their severity and frequency of occurrence.

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What is a key consideration when designing error messages?

<p>Use clear, polite, and constructive language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

User stories should lead to creating __________ that are specific and testable.

<p>tasks</p> Signup and view all the answers

Match the following components of intermediate prototypes with their descriptions:

<p>Clickable Elements = Simulate user interactions Error Messages = Guide users back to the happy path Colors and Fonts = Enhance visual design User Feedback = Refine tasks iteratively</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of error messages?

<p>Overly technical (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Collaborative contribution from all group members is important for project grading.

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What should intermediate prototypes balance effectively?

<p>Simplicity and usability</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following describes functional requirements?

<p>They define what the system should do. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Non-functional requirements include specifications like performance and scalability.

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary purpose of error messages in software design?

<p>To provide constructive feedback and guide users in resolving issues.</p> Signup and view all the answers

An example of a functional requirement is, 'It should be possible to ______ a book.'

<p>borrow</p> Signup and view all the answers

Match the following user scenarios with their respective user stories:

<p>Colorblind city employee = As a colorblind city employee, I want to send application results in a visually clear format. Citizen with impaired intellectual ability = As a citizen with impaired intellectual ability, I want a simple financial assistance application process.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What should be considered when creating usability problem lists?

<p>Both severity and frequency of issues. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

User stories are a detailed format outlining all possible scenarios.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the concept of 'unhappy paths' in software design?

<p>Scenarios where users encounter issues or errors during their interaction with the system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the main goal of think-aloud testing?

<p>To capture user frustrations and insights (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Heuristic evaluation is performed by users of a system.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Name one of Jakob Nielsen's common heuristics.

<p>Visibility of system status</p> Signup and view all the answers

Tasks that prevent users from completing key functions are categorized as __________ problems.

<p>severe</p> Signup and view all the answers

Match the following key design principles with their descriptions:

<p>Visibility = Ensure controls are obvious and actions clear Feedback = Provide timely responses to user actions Constraints = Limit user actions to minimize errors Consistency = Maintain uniformity across the system</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is NOT a core principle of usability?

<p>Neglect (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Usability problems should be resolved based on user feedback.

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How can you categorize usability problems?

<p>Minor, Moderate, Severe</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following roles are part of an Agile team?

<p>Scrum Master (C), Product Owner (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Kanban focuses solely on iterative development.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the four phases of the Rational Unified Process (RUP)?

<p>Inception, Elaboration, Construction, Transition</p> Signup and view all the answers

_____ maintenance involves enhancing performance and usability.

<p>Perfective</p> Signup and view all the answers

Match the types of software maintenance with their objectives:

<p>Corrective = Fixing bugs Adaptive = Adjusting to changes in the environment Perfective = Enhancing performance and usability Preventive = Reducing the risk of future issues</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a key principle of User-Centered Design?

<p>Early focus on users and tasks (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Testing in Scrum projects should not involve end users.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the emphasis of maintenance in software development?

<p>Debugging, updating features, and improving performance</p> Signup and view all the answers

Flashcards

Informative Error Messages

Error messages that provide general updates or status about the system.

Warning Error Messages

Error messages that alert users about potential risks, often with options like 'Yes,' 'No,' and 'Cancel.'

Error Error Messages

Error messages that notify users about issues requiring immediate attention.

Think-Aloud Testing

A type of usability testing where participants think aloud their thoughts and actions while interacting with a system or product.

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Usability Problem Lists

A process of identifying, categorizing, and prioritizing usability issues based on severity and frequency.

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Minor Usability Problems

Usability problems that minimally disrupt the user's experience and may cause slight confusion.

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Moderate Usability Problems

Usability problems that delay user tasks and cause frustration, but don't completely prevent task completion.

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Severe Usability Problems

Usability problems that entirely prevent users from completing tasks, leading to significant dissatisfaction.

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User Story vs. Task

A user story describes a user's desired outcome or goal, while a task provides a specific, testable scenario that aligns with a user story. Imagine a user story as a general direction and a task as a specific route.

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Error Message Design

Error messages should be clear, polite, and guide users back to the correct path. They should also provide visual cues to indicate severity.

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Low-fidelity vs Intermediate Prototype

Low-fidelity prototypes focus on structure and functionality, while intermediate prototypes add details like color, fonts, and interactive elements. Think of a simple sketch evolving into a detailed painting.

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Usability Testing

Usability testing involves observing how users interact with a prototype and gathering feedback on their experience. Researchers use this feedback to identify areas for improvement.

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Website Structure Principles

Principles of website structure, navigation aids, and responsive design guide how users navigate and interact with a website. This includes clear headings, intuitive menus, and adaptable layouts for different screen sizes.

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Five Acts of Testing

The Five Acts of Prototype Testing are a framework for conducting and analyzing usability tests. Each act focuses on different aspects of the testing process, from planning to reporting results.

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Responsive Design

Responsive design ensures a website adapts its layout and content to different screen sizes and devices. This provides a consistent and comfortable user experience across desktops, tablets, and smartphones.

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Task Creation for Usability Testing

Task creation is a crucial aspect of usability testing. Tasks should be specific, realistic, and aligned with user goals to effectively evaluate the user experience. Imagine real-life scenarios users might encounter.

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User Interviews

The process of gathering information directly from users through conversations to understand their needs, behaviors, and opinions.

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Defining Target Interviewees

Identifying the people who will use the system or product, and considering their characteristics, needs, and goals.

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Interview Questions

Questions designed to gather information about how users interact with a product or system. They can help to understand user motivations and problem-solving approaches.

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Interview Process

A structured approach to conducting user interviews, ensuring a smooth flow of information and a comfortable experience for the participant. It involves introducing the interview, building rapport, asking key questions, and summarizing findings.

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User Group Analysis

Analyzing user groups based on their demographics, motivations, and technology usage. This involves identifying their characteristics, goals, and how they interact with the system.

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Creating User Stories

Creating detailed narratives about user behaviors and motivations, illustrating their needs and struggles with a system. They are based on user interview insights and help inform design decisions.

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Prioritizing User Groups

A technique for organizing and priorizing user needs based on their importance and impact on the system's design. It's a way to focus on the needs that matter most to users.

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Summarizing Interview Data

Analyzing data gathered from user interviews to identify patterns, common themes, and insights that inform design decisions. It's about finding the 'golden nuggets' of information.

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Functional Requirement

A specific type of requirement that outlines what a system should do, including its features, rules, and user interactions. Examples: "A user should be able to borrow a book." or "A user can't borrow more than three books at once."

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Non-Functional Requirement

A specific type of requirement that focuses on how a system performs rather than what it does. Examples: "User Experience (UX) should be intuitive and enjoyable" or "The system should be able to handle 10,000 users at once."

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User Story

A structured format describing a user's need through a specific action. It follows this structure: "As a [user role], I want [action], so that [reason]." Example: "As a citizen with impaired intellectual ability, I want a simple financial assistance application process."

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Use Cases

Detailed scenarios outlining steps and interactions to achieve specific user goals, complementing user stories with deeper functional insights. Example: "A user can borrow a book by going to the library, picking it up, and scanning it at the checkout counter."

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Think-Aloud Test

A formal test that involves thinking aloud as you perform a task, allowing researchers to gain insights into user behavior and identify potential issues.

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Constructive Error Message

A type of error message designed to help users understand and resolve problems easily. It is clear, concise, and offers helpful instructions.

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Unhappy Path

Any potential scenario where a user might encounter negative or unexpected outcomes, requiring careful consideration and design to ensure a smooth and supportive experience. Examples: "No internet connection" or "Error while processing request."

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Heuristic Evaluation

A usability evaluation method where experts assess an interface against established usability principles, identifying potential problems and assigning severity levels.

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Visibility

A design principle that ensures controls are visible and actions are clear to users.

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Feedback

A design principle that provides timely and informative responses to user actions, giving them feedback on their progress.

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Constraints

A design principle that restricts user actions to avoid errors and guide them towards correct usage.

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Consistency

A design principle that ensures consistency in design and functionality across a system to enhance user familiarity and predictability.

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Affordance

A design principle where elements suggest their purpose and how they can be interacted with. For example, a button should look clickable.

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User-Centered Design (UCD)

A software development methodology that prioritizes user involvement throughout the design and development lifecycle.

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Early Focus on Users and Tasks

Involves understanding users' needs, behaviors, and goals to create products that meet their requirements.

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Agile Software Development

A flexible, iterative approach to software development that emphasizes continuous improvement and user feedback.

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Scrum

A framework for managing Agile projects, focusing on iterative sprints and collaborative development.

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Kanban

A visual system for managing work flow that limits work in progress to optimize delivery.

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Rational Unified Process (RUP)

Emphasizes iterative development and utilizes the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for modeling.

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Software Maintenance

The process of modifying software after its release to fix bugs, improve performance, or adapt to new environments.

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Study Notes

User Needs & Interviews

  • Understanding user needs is crucial for effective design.
  • Methods for user focus include interviews, workshops, low-fidelity prototyping, and evaluations.
  • Including users ensures the product meets expectations.
  • Interviews are used to gain insights into user needs, operations, and processes.
  • Target interviewees are defined (users and stakeholders).
  • Questions in interviews should be prepared (what do they do, how do they do it, what information do they need).
  • The interview process involves introduction (goals, ethical considerations, consent), warm-up questions, a main session of clear questions, cooling-off questions, and closing with summaries and thanks.
  • Tips for effective interviews include avoiding jargon, compound sentences, leading questions and biases.
  • Audio/video recordings and notes help capture data.
  • Interview data is summarized using patterns and examples.

User Group Analysis

  • Purpose is to understand specific user needs by analyzing specific groups.
  • Helps create targeted designs by identifying user characteristics and contexts.
  • Key components include who (background, age, gender, education, computer knowledge), why (primary goals and motivations), what (tools, equipment), where (physical and social environments), when (frequency and duration of use), and importance (prioritizing user groups in design).
  • Steps for group analysis include identifying user characteristics, conducting interviews, creating user stories and outlining tasks needed to reflect the user needs.
  • Example project idea: A children's storytelling app using AI to mimic a parent's voice.

UX Goals

  • Define and measure the intended user experience.
  • Influence design decisions by setting emotional and functional benchmarks.
  • Focus on desirable user experience factors like fun, engaging, reward, motivation, and surprise, while avoiding undesirable factors like frustration, boring interactions and annoying features.
  • UX goals are used to guide design and measure success in prototypes.
  • Examples include security, joy, and competence for specific user groups in an application.

Low-Fidelity Prototyping

  • Early-stage design focused on structure and functionality, not aesthetics.
  • Used for validating navigation and interaction flows.
  • Used for quickly gathering feedback for iterative improvements.

Happy Paths

  • The ideal sequence of steps a user takes to complete a task without errors; a smooth system usage.
  • Guides the design of user-friendly interfaces.

Defining User Stories

  • Use format: "As a [user group], I want to [achieve goal] so that [reason]".
  • Example stories include "As a parent, I want to record my voice reading a book so my child can feel connected", or "As a child, I want to choose stories using images so I can read independently."

Intermediate Prototyping and Error Messages

  • This involves transitioning from low-fidelity to intermediate prototypes
  • Incorporating results from previous testing to refine designs
  • Error messages should be polite, precise, and constructive and address user deviations.
  • A user should be guided back to the intended workflow and given options for actions, if any are available.

Website Design

  • Understand fundamental principles of web and app design.
  • Prioritize user tasks over aesthetics
  • Use grid-based layouts for consistent and responsive designs
  • Use breadcrumbs and clear navigation elements
  • Design menus with clear labels, use internal and outbound links (and inbound links) to improve navigation
  • Consider mobile device designs to optimize for touch-screen use
  • Include guidelines for web usability
  • Design functionality and prioritize users' task needs over aesthetic concerns.

Testing Low-Fidelity Prototypes

  • Validate design functionality before high-fidelity iterations.
  • Identify usability problems and refine tasks for a stronger design.
  • Testing ensures better alignment with user needs.

Functional and Non-Functional Requirements

  • Establish clear requirements for software design and development.
  • Focus on both functional and non-functional aspects.
  • Functional requirements define what the system should do.
  • Non-functional requirements define how the system should perform (e.g., security, scalability).
  • Non-functional requirements focus on the system attributes rather than functionality.

UML (Unified Modeling Language) and Class Diagrams

  • UML is a graphical language for specifying, visualizing, and documenting system designs.
  • Understand and practice using use case diagrams, class diagrams, and sequence diagrams to document the static structure of a system and to visualize system structure.
  • UML elements include classes, attributes, methods, inheritance, associations, and compositions.

Testing Types and Goals

  • Understand and differentiate between functional and non-functional testing (e.g., unit testing, integration testing, system testing, acceptance testing, alpha and beta testing).
  • Functional tests focus on whether the system meets specified requirements while non-functional testing focuses on performance, security, and usability, etc; of the software.
  • Key testing methodologies include think-aloud testing, heuristic evaluation.
  • Using both black-box and white-box testing methodologies is required.

UX Testing Techniques

  • Understand and apply different UX testing methodologies to evaluate and refine design effectiveness.
  • Techniques like think-aloud testing, heuristic evaluation, and usability problem lists are used to evaluate a system's structure, navigation, and responsiveness.
  • The think-aloud protocol involves watching users interact with a product or platform to understand their experience. Using a structured problem list helps to prioritize issues based on severity and frequency.

User-Centered Design

  • Highlight the importance of involving users throughout the software design process.
  • Emphasize iterative design and the integration of user feedback.
  • Early Focus on Users: Understanding user needs, behaviors and goals.
  • Empirically measure reactions and analyze user performance; metrics like effectiveness (success rate), efficiency (time/effort) and user satisfaction (perception).
  • Focus on iteratively testing and refining design based on feedback.

Software Processes and Maintenance

  • Software processes and development methods such as Waterfall, Agile (Scrum, Kanban) and Rational Unified Process (RUP) are discussed.
  • Understanding different types of software maintenance, including corrective maintenance, adaptive maintenance, perfective maintenance, and preventive maintenance.
  • Emphasize iterative development and user feedback to develop effective designs.

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