described as real people. - To understand personas and its importance, we have to understand the meaning of end goals. - End goal is the most significant factors in determining the overall product experience. Saturday, 12 January, 13
leave for home. • Make good business decisions based on my data. • Find problems proactively before they become crit ical. UX practitioners must translate end goals into a product’s behaviors, tasks, look, and feel. Persona helps humanize the process in doing so. http:// www.uxmatters.com 3 most important thing in personas creation: profile, scenario and avatar Saturday, 12 January, 13
help fictional users reach their fictional end goals - interview real people, don't assume you know what a teenage girl/60 grandpa wants. - using personas when designing for 'everyone' risk alienating certain type of users (think social site) Saturday, 12 January, 13
designer and developer know where 'things at' • easier to change wireframe on the fly then actual pixel-perfect mockup • more important in this ajax era - more quick screens to show the state of things. Saturday, 12 January, 13
states/pages for a UI component, how does an engineer know the c onditions under which each of the ten states appears? - task flows = diagram (flowcharts or inter-linked components) that shows the relationship between components of various user interactions for an application. Saturday, 12 January, 13
encourage fast iterations: you can switch and sketch and erase with apparent ease - photoshop has layers. In PP, you can have many papers/cards illustrating different interaction process. - allow users participation by drawing on mocks. Saturday, 12 January, 13
design stencils available for you to mix and match. - Yahoo! Design Stencil - http://www.infodesign.com.au/ usabilityresources/design/ paperprototypinggraphics.asp Saturday, 12 January, 13
Hard to communicate the concept of 'loading time' in paper. - experimental navigation structure such as timeline, complex dropdown and etc are hard to illustrate via drawing. - localization, RTL interface Saturday, 12 January, 13
whenever possible • breadcrumb is overrated (undo, proper support of back button is more important) • use card sorting to organize your Saturday, 12 January, 13
more time to make decisions. Clutter, too many options. Hick's Law. • your app might fail because of lack of features, but never because of lack of UI and execution choices. Saturday, 12 January, 13
and consistent alignment • learn about the fundamentals of color theory. • if you don't know what color to use - use light blue/ grey. Color blind-friendly, universal and culturally peaceful. Saturday, 12 January, 13
hundreds of servers for analytic purposes to study users cognitive style when using their site. • forget pageviews, visits. learn to dig deep: entrance page, time on page, Saturday, 12 January, 13