Dr. Brian Smith
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2) This course partially consisted of projects done by a team of 5 individuals. If you are a member of this team and do not wish for these projects to be shared online, please contact me and they will be removed.
This project involved creating a usable system with goal-directed design methods. Our group decided to design a new Penn State Portal to replace the current portal system used at the University. We called this system PSUortal.
This project involved the following components:
- Problem statement
- Identification of potential users and tasks, development of personas
- Scenarios and task analyses
- Low-fidelity prototyping and user testing
- High-fidelity prototyping and heuristic evaluation
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This project involved designing a paper prototype of a mobile phone based on a given scenario. This required identifying the tasks that the user performs in the scenario, and turning these tasks into actions that can be performed using the prototype. After building a paper model of the mobile phone, my teammate and I evaluated the prototype and produced a document explaining the tasks, design, methodology, observations from user tests, and suggested improvements.
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