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Class of Week 11: Readings and Reflections

This week’s class was about cognitive walk-though and focus groups. We had three readings, two of them focusing on cognitive walk-through and one was on focus groups. In the first … Continue reading

November 1, 2013 · 1 Comment

Class of week 10: Readings and Reflections

We had a report to complete for this week. We were criticizing an important website on our report for not meeting Neilsen’s Heuristics, etc. We as a team gave our … Continue reading

October 26, 2013 · 3 Comments

Class of week 9: Readings and Reflections

This week’s class had readings as usual.  We had five articles to read.  The article about navigation was also the most discussed topic in this week’s class.  There were different … Continue reading

October 20, 2013 · 1 Comment

Class of Week 8: Report and Presentations

This week has been the most intense week in this semester so far for 512.  We were working on the User Research Report.  We had long hours of discussions to … Continue reading

October 12, 2013 · 1 Comment

Class of Week 7: Interface Design

For this class we had four readings.  In one of the papers, the authors used probes to inspire their users.  Based on how their users responded while receiving the probes … Continue reading

October 8, 2013 · 4 Comments

Class of Week 6: Scenarios and User Behavior

The readings of this class illustrated the importance of scenarios – understanding, analyzing and synthesizing. The chapter we read is important for any product designer who is having problem in … Continue reading

September 29, 2013 · 1 Comment

Class of Week 5: Contextual Analysis is Team’s persona based

There’s a lot to talk about this week’s class.  The User Research Plan for Schurz Communications made it an interesting week to start with.  We as a team were looking to … Continue reading

September 22, 2013 · 4 Comments

Class of Week 4: Whom to ask and what to ask

The readings for this class were ‘Alternative methods for User Research’, ‘From ethnography to interface design’ and ‘Understanding Tablet use Google’. In the first paper, the authors took examples of … Continue reading

September 16, 2013 · Leave a comment

Class of Week 3: Anyone can invent from anything…

In this class we discussed about 4 papers, a brief history on some of the greatest inventions in the last 100 years related to Human—Computer interaction and an activity to … Continue reading

September 8, 2013 · 1 Comment

Class of Week 2: Emotional Impact given late recognition…

On week 2, we discussed on the Chapter 1 – The reading for this class was from the book “The UX Book – Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality … Continue reading

September 3, 2013 · 1 Comment