Month: March 2018

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[Tien Dao] Week 5: 3/19-3/26

The major goal for this week is focusing on analyzing wireframes and working on the prototype.

Goals:
Finished: Created second persona on Sketch (Wendy)

Finished: Created low-fidelity wireframes on Balsamiq and discuss with Dawn

Finished: Refined the low-fidelity wireframes on Balsamiq to look more clear

Finished: Read Chapter 10 of UX Projects

Started/To be continued: Design prototype using Sketch and InVision

Finished: Choose icons on the Noun Project for our design

Summary for this week: This week, we refine the Balsamiq wireframes and develop the Sketch prototypes accordingly.

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[Tien Dao] Week 4: 2/27 – 3/8

The major goal for this week is focusing on studying the data we collected from interviews and start thinking about our design options.

Goals:
Finished: Competitive research on interesting design
-> Takeaway (should be included):

  • Open Now
  • Open hours
  • Icon
  • Link to map and highlight the room

Finished: Created first persona on Sketch (Becca)

Finished: Studied about interview responses and got to know students’ way of using learning and study spaces

Finished: Sketch some wireframes on paper

Finished: Read Chapter 8, 9 of UX Projects

Finished: Contacted Jaime of Students Program (did not receive a response)

Started/To be continued: Write a detailed report

Started/To be continued: Analyse survey data about five major concern and amenities. Survey link: Survey on Study and Learning Spaces

Started/To be continued: Discuss what features to include for programming

Summary for this week: 

This week, we look at the survey results and determine the features to include in our design (filters, sort, see similar spaces, open hours, etc.). Based on the survey result, we found the common theme and each developed a persona to represent users’ need. We also did competitive research with Dawn to find interesting features.

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[Cici Chen] Week 4: 2/27 – 3/8

The major goal for this week is focusing on studying the data we collected from interviews and start thinking about our design options.

Goals:
Finished: Competitive research on interesting design
Icons: UCLA Library
Map and Filter: SUNY Buffalo Library
Available option: UCL Library

To be continued: Created first persona. (Need to change the template and add more information about user behaviors)

Started/To be continued: Analyse survey data about five major concern and amenities. Survey link: Survey on Study and Learning Spaces

Finished: Studied about interview responses and got to know students’ way of using learning and study spaces

Summary for this week:
This week Tien and I are trying to have more people complete our survey. Based on the survey result, we will be able to develop our first step of design, including persona, prototype. We looked at other similar school’s library and airport website to get an idea of how the page should look like, should we use interaction map or stay at the tradition layout.