1 / 26

The Wheel: A Comprehensive UX Lifecycle Template

This chapter presents "The Wheel," an iterative UX lifecycle template designed to enhance user experience through structured processes. The template encompasses four fundamental activities: Analyze, Design, Implement, and Evaluate. Each stage includes vital sub-activities such as Contextual Inquiry and Prototyping to ensure thorough exploration and refinement of designs. By managing transitions based on risk tolerance, project goals, and available resources, teams can effectively navigate through the design process—ultimately leading to a more successful product that meets user needs.

krysta
Télécharger la présentation

The Wheel: A Comprehensive UX Lifecycle Template

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Chapter 2The Wheel: A Lifecycle Template By, Robert Larmore Lisa Paul Palathingal 02/20/2014

  2. Introduction • Iterative, evaluation-centered, UX lifecycle template • Iterative Process: All or part is repeated for the purpose of exploring, fixing or refining a design • Lifecycle: Structured framework consisting of a series of stages and corresponding activities

  3. Four basic abstract activities

  4. The Wheel

  5. UX process activities • Analyze • Design • Implement • Evaluate

  6. UX process activities • Analyze • Design • Implement • Evaluate

  7. UX process activities Analyze: Understanding the business domain, user work and user needs Sub-activities: • Contextual Inquiry • Contextual analysis • Extracting requirements • Synthesizing design-informing models

  8. UX process activities • Analyze • Design • Implement • Evaluate

  9. UX process activities Design: Creating conceptual design, interaction behavior, and look and feel Sub-activities: • Design ideation and sketching • Mental models and conceptual design • Design production

  10. UX process activities • Analyze • Design • Implement • Evaluate

  11. UX process activities Implement: Prototyping Types: • Vertical • Horizontal • T • Local

  12. UX process activities • Analyze • Design • Implement • Evaluate

  13. UX process activities Evaluate: Verifying and refining interaction design Methods: • Rapid evaluation • Fully rigorous

  14. Flow among UX process activities

  15. Flow among UX process activities • Activities can overlap Objective: • Move forward to production

  16. Managing the process with activity transition criteria Team must be able to decide: • When to leave an activity • Where to go after any given activity • When to revisit a previous process activity • When to stop making transitions and proceed to production

  17. Managing the process with activity transition criteria Answers depend on transition criterion: • Whether designers have met the goals and objectives • Whether there are adequate resources (time and budget) remaining to continue

  18. Choosing a process instance for project Factors: • Risk tolerance • Project goals • Project resources • Type of system being designed • Stage of progress within project

  19. Project Parameters Risk: • Things going wrong • Features or requirements being missing • Not meeting needs of users The less tolerance for risks, the more need for rigor and completeness in the process

  20. Project Parameters Resources: • Budget • Schedule • Person Power

  21. Project Parameters • Practitioners with extensive experience need less rigorous process

  22. Project Parameters • Type of system being designed: Example: mp3 player vs. air traffic control system • Stage of progress within project: Early stage: Analysis Later stage: Evaluation

  23. Mapping project parameters to process choices

  24. The system complexity space

  25. Interaction complexity • About elaborateness of user actions to accomplish tasks in the system

  26. Interaction complexity Low interaction complexity: • smaller, easier tasks • Example: ordering flowers from a Website High interaction complexity: • larger, more difficult tasks • requires special skills or training • Example: manipulating a color image with Adobe Photoshop

More Related