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Week 3, UAR Assignment
Partners for Retinal Health UAR’s (www.FightBlindness.org/prh) Usability Aspect Report (UAR) for Partners For Retinal Health Website I thought this assignment was an excellent way to diagnose the...
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Week 3, Reflections on Required Reading
This reading was all about how to do usability testing correctly. I think the author really shed light on all the different considerations, both big and small, seen and unseen, that need to go into...
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Week 4, Think Out Loud assignment
My 3 Usability ‘think-out loud’ testers were Patrick Phelan, Monika Acosta, and Evan Groth. The first two are daily computer users outside of website development. Third tester is a developer who has...
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Week 5, Reflections on Required Reading
This reading took a comprehensive look at some of the popular methods available for conducting a usability test. As the book indicates, each of these methods has a focus on uncovering very particular...
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Assignment 5, Paper Prototype
When i originally selected my 5 tasks I really felt that they were a great depiction of some of the things that most users would be completing while visiting the PRH site. Because of that, my paper...
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Assignment 6, Think Aloud with Paper Prototype
Results: Usability Aspect Report (UAR) for PRH Website (Paper Prototype) I enjoyed this assignment and I think that all 3 of my evaluators did too. The idea of a paper prototype was foreign to them at...
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Week 6, Required Reading
After reading this Chapter, it became clear to me that controlled experiments are one of the most time intensive but conclusive methods of evaluation. I was surprised to find that this reading really...
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Week 8, 3D Printing Project
My idea for a product is inspired by a relatively new local project in Baltimore city known as the BNote. Similar local currency exists in other local communities. The purpose behind a concept like...
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Week 8, Reflections on Required Reading
I thought that the reading was interesting and found that, as it was described, contextual research is really a great way to combine some varias data collection techniques in a a very telling...
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Week 9, Gathering Data
The Current Task Using 3D printed local currency, participants would perform the task of receiving goods and services in exchange of the local currency. Currently In place of this task, in situations...
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Week 10, Reflections on Required Reading
I would imagine that if you wanted to develop anything for someone who suffers form short term memory loss, you would definitely want to conduct participatory design alongside those who do have...
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Week 10, Assignment, Idea Generation
Time Travel. How would you deal with this if you were in a different time period? 10 years ago? 100 years ago? 1,000 years ago? 10,000 years ago? How about in the future? 10 years later? 100 years...
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Week 10, Reflections on Required Reading
After reading all about storyboarding, its clear to me that some of the most important decisions you must make when creating one, is deciding what details to show to the reader and which to not. This...
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Week 11, Storyboarding
Sketch Version 1 Feedback My critics opinion was that while they understood the process, they thought it would make more sense rearranged so that he takes care of getting the local currency prior to...
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Week 12 Assignment, 3D Printing Video
See Dropbox Folder for Final Video. Click Here for final video transcript. Click Here for final storyboard and Images in PowerPoint format.
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