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Toolbox Series: Scenarios and User Stories
Scenarios
I think a quote that sums up the essence of scenarios can be found within Dan Saffer’s Designing for Interaction:
“Scenarios provide a fast and effective way to imagine the design concepts in use. In a sense, scenarios are prototypes built of words.”
Taking a persona, you can create some different scenarios for your user to walk [...]
Toolbox Series: Personas
Some might put a persona, or user profile, in a different area of the process but for someone who enjoys a good narrative like myself, it’s helpful to get to know your user. After I interview and have a strong sense of the end user I usually create an initial draft. Then I run it [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Toolbox Series: User Interviews
As I was writing this entry, I realized that I had even more to add to the ‘toolbox’…so keep in mind that this is an overview at best of user interviews and there are tons of books out there dedicated to this subject alone. My large influences for this section would have to be Designing [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Toolbox Series
I’m going to begin a series that will detail aspects and tools of the UX process that I’ve used and some that I’ve come across in my research. This will include (organized according to topic):
Motivations
Interviews
Personas
Scenarios/user stories
Modeling
Activity model
Task flows
Ideation
Paper prototyping
Design studios
Design strategy sessions
Creation
Wireframes
Mockups
Styleguide
Technical Prototypes
Flash
HTML/CSS
Evaluation
User testing
Design principles review
Heuristic evaluation
I’m looking forward to it [...]
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