Interface and Interaction Design

Project:

Challenge:

As part of an Interface and Interaction Design course, my team had to create a system that would allow users to connect and exchange cultural backgrounds.

Process:

• Contextual Inquiry
• Structured user interviews
• Affinity diagram creation and analysis
• Brainstorming sessions to formulate short and long-term solutions
• Lo-Fi and Hi-Fi prototype creation
• Interface design

My Role:

I was involved in the creation of surveys that were administered to potential users of our system in order to understand their needs. After this I participated in the creation of an affinity wall where we identified the users main needs and where able to direct our investigation and system design to accommodate those needs.

I started lo-fi sketches of screen layouts and then iterated to the final interface of our system the which I was involved in prototyping in HTML in order to demo and preform user testing on specific tasks that had been discovered in our contextual inquiry that were desired by users.

Outcome:

• The user testing showed that the interaction and navigation of the system was clear and simple to understand.
• Prototype
• Final paper submitted into CHI Student Design Competition.