UI Process

User Centered Design – UI Process

Predesign stage:
* Know the user: individual characteristics, current and desired tasks, functional analysis, evolution of the user and the job
* Competitive analysis
* Setting usability goals; financial impact analysis

Design stage:
* Parallel design
* Participatory design
* Coordinated design
* Guidelines and heuristic analysis
* Prototyping
* Empirical testing
* Iterative design; capture design rationale

Postdesign stage:
* Collect feedback from field use
* Figure out who’s going to use the system to do what
* Choose representative tasks for task-centered design
* Plagiarize (using parts of old designs)
* Rough out a design
* Think about it
* Create a mock-up or a prototype
* Test it with users
* Iterate
* Build it
* Track it
* Change it