ITP 310x Final: Cumulative Notes — ITP 310
3 Dec 2016
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7 tips for great user experience (user life cycles) 7 tips for great user experience: you are not the user . Improve existing problems: don"t solve a problem that"s not there, communication, every behavior is a kind of communication. Iteration: improve with different versions, it takes many attempts to solve a problem. Initial design is often different than final product: designing does not stop once the product launches, functionality first, design second, focus on the main point of the product, design to accommodate all user life cycles. Interested user: first-time user, ongoing user, passionate user. If there"s competition : improve on the competition"s failures. If there"s no competition : there"s probably a reason why. User research: users are the drivers of success for your product. Tips for research: represent full range of users, collect user demographic information. Research methods: focus groups, interviews, surveys, field studies, directed storytelling, card sorting, analytics, mental model map.
