L1 - User Centered Design

Question 1

What comes under functional designing?

Answer 1

Use case diagram
Class Diagram
Sequence Diagram

Question 2

What are identified by use case diagrams in functional designing?

Answer 2

A high-level overview

Question 3

What are identified by class diagrams in functional designing?

Answer 3

Key classes and relationships

Question 4

What are covered from the sequence diagrams in functional designing?

Answer 4

Important use cases

Question 5

What comes under interaction design?

Answer 5

Design concepts → High level

Storyboards → detailed UI design

Wireframes

Question 6

What are expected from a system?

Answer 6

• Be easy to use
• do useful things
• enhance the lives of the people that use them

So: Design for people, not for technology

Question 7

What should be the aim of design?

Answer 7

Is to create good user experiences

Question 8

What is UCD?

Answer 8

User Centered Design → the user is put in the center of design

Question 9

What are the factors that we consider in UCD?

Answer 9

• Information Architecture
• Design Concepts
• Effectiveness
• Usability
• Interaction design
• Information Architecture
• Elegance
• User Research
• Visual Design
• Cognitive Psycology
• Efficiency
• Interface Design
• Accessibility
• Satisfaction
• Human-computer interface

Question 10

Why we use UCD/UX?

Answer 10

• Increased customer saisfaction
• Increased user producrtivity
• Increased service and adoptions
• Decreased support and training cost
• Reduced development time and cost
• Reduced maintenance cost

Question 11

How can we reduce development time and cost?

Answer 11

By creating only the features users need

Question 12

How can we reduce maintenance cost?

Answer 12

By doing it right the first time

Question 13

What are the tools and methods used in UCD/UX?

Answer 13

• personas
• scenarios
• storyboards
• wireframes
• prototypes

Question 14

What comes under analysis out of those?

• personas
• scenarios
• storyboards
• wireframes
• prototypes

Answer 14

• personas
• scenarios
• storyboards
• wireframes

Question 15

What is the use of analysis?

Answer 15

to explain the requirements

Question 16

What comes under design out of those?

• personas
• scenarios
• storyboards
• wireframes
• prototypes

Answer 16

• wireframes

- prototypes

Question 17

What is the use of design?

Answer 17

to focus on design

Question 18

What is the use of the persona?

Answer 18

used to understand the background of the user

details - persona, photo, name, job, demographics, goals and tasks, environment, quote

Question 19

So far when analyzing the problem what did we focused on?

Answer 19

Who are the users

What do they want to do and why

Question 20

How is the design emerges?

Answer 20

iteratively through repeated design-evaluation-redesign cycles

Question 21

What is a storyboard?

Answer 21

it narrates a situation showing how it plays out in the context of actual tasks

a series of frames from the user experience point of view

Question 22

What are the characteristics of a storyboard?

Answer 22

• Communicate the feel of the ‘flow’ of the design
• Usually based on scenarios
• Generally a combination of text and images

Question 23

What is the range of wireframes?

Answer 23

back-of-an-envelop-sketch to a full design

Question 24

What is the use of wireframes?

Answer 24

provides an early approximation

shows how the user will interact with the system

Question 25

What are the types of wireframes?

Answer 25

• Digital → High fidelity wireframes

- Hand drew → Low fidelity wireframes

Question 26

What are high-fidelity wireframes?

Answer 26

they are more informative

designed using tools

ex: mock flow, mockups

Question 27

What are low-fidelity wireframes?

Answer 27

designed for only one person’s understanding

not as informative as high fidelity wireframes

designed using simple pencil and paper

Question 28

What is meant by adjusting wireframes based on the personas?

Answer 28

matching wireframes with the personas