Exercise 1

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Overview The exercise purpose is to gain some general understanding of the techniques used for analysis, design, and implementation of user interfaces. The exercise follow the methodology for applying the basic principles of analysis and design to the user interface. These principles will be refined and applied throughout the remainder of the course.
Methodology A methodology is a system of orderly application of methods, sounds like a plan! We will orderly apply a series of analysis and design steps that will generally improve the chance that the resulting user interface will be usable and perform as intended. There are many methodologies, we'll use just one but is important to have a plan and follow it.
Analysis
Problem statement What is the problem to be solved?
  • The School of Natural Science needs a new phone tree.
User We need to study users because they determine the success or failure of the user interface. Some of the tasks for user analysis are:
  • Who are the users?
  • What do they know the relates to the problem?
  • What do they like to do?
  • What are their capabilities?
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