UCD
What is User Centered Design?
Usefulness, effectiveness, learnability and likeability.
What are Usability objectives?
Reasons for usability testing for edible cutlery for young children
What is ease of use?
Simplicity and ease of use; intuitive logic, organization and low memory burden; visibility; feedback; affordance; mapping; and constraints.
What are characteristics of a good
user-product interface?
A graphical tool that identifies a general theme to collect facts, opinions and ideas. They express data and information in a common format by creating clusters and groups of common information. It represents a text based map which shows aspects of the product that has been/will be taken into consideration in the design and manufacturing of the product, thereby presenting the results.
What is Affinity diagramming?
The use of systematic processes including a range of fields to be more creative with problem solving
What is a multi-disciplinary team?
The extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals effectively and efficiently, while functioning in a predictable and consistent manner.
What is Usability?
When a mobile device is improved in order to develop physical, psychological and social aspects such as product acceptance, user experience and productivity, eliminate/reduce user error, and training/support.
What is Enhanced usability?
Controls should be easily accessible to the human eye.
What is Visibility?
A testing session in a controlled lab in which testing is carried out, and test users are monitored by another group of observers in a different room.
What is a Usability testing session?
The range of users for a particular product or system.
What is User population?
The extent to which a user can operate a product or system at a defined level of competence after a pre-determined period of training.
What is Learnability?
Using a fictional focus on target audience in order to help understanding.
What is persona?
What is the focus of Usability Testing for testing a phone for a technophobe?
What is ease of use?
A framework devised by Professor Lionel Tiger that encourages design for pleasure and emotion. It comprises of four areas.
What is The four-pleasure framework?
The 5 stages of User-Centered Design?
What is Research -> Concept -> Design -> Implementation -> Launch?
The extent to which a product enables the user to achieve their goals.
What is Usefulness?
Developing products and services with the user in mind so that they can reduce time wasting and simplify complex aspects of the product.
What is Productivity?
Consideration of usability characteristics for an air traffic controller that needs to input messages under pressure.
What is organisation and low memory burden?
Expensive to run and so can limit the amount of data collected.
What is a usability laboratory?
Design that speaks to people's nature in terms of how they expect products and systems to function and how they expect to interact with them.
What is Visceral design?
A set of possible sequences of interactions or event steps between a user and a product to achieve a particular action.
What is a Use case?
The Samsung Gear Sport user interface clearly indicates how it should be used which enhancement is most useful
What is affordance?
When a person is categorized into a population based on culture, class, gender, etc.
What is Population stereotypes?
A framework for creating designs that improve the relations of users with a product and intentionally trigger emotional responses.
What is The attract/converse/transact
(ACT) model?