Mobility Studies - Design for Mobile Content and Mobile Applications

Week 9: Usability design and user-research

• Usability for mobile design
• Focus Groups
• Interpreting data
• Improving applications based on user-focussed design
• Final Portfolio task: Submit project specification

Objectives

• Understanding and applying design techniques and standard for mobile devices

Tasks

Under Week 7, there is a set of slide provided by Dave. There are new slides released for the usability in this page.

Read slides week 7 and Week 9 and submit the summary of your reading in form of 4 questions and answers. There should be 3 multiple choice question and 1 True/False Questions. The 4 questions will count for 20% of the mark for week 9. The other 80% will be completed by you answering some of the questions of your friends. This will be done in form of a quiz next Week.

The questions you submit should reflect a good level of reading and understanding of the subject.

Please note that there are comments very important in the slides.

Resources

• Dowload slides here {slides title: Mobile User Experience: What Web Designers Need to Know }
• User Experience Evaluation Model v1.1
• Web services

Notes: How to formulate your questions

Multiple Choice question

• Question on a single line i.e. could look like many lines as long as the "enter key" is not pressed down
• Answers immediately following the question.
• Asterisk (*) in front of the correct choice.
• There is a (.) after the number of each question

Example:

1. Which of the following is a prime number?
a) 4
*b) 5
c) 6

True/False question

* Question on a single line
* The answer on the next line. Can be any of the following: T, t, True, TRUE, true, F, f, False, FALSE, false

Example:

1. 3 is a prime number.
True

Deadline

Monday's Group --> Wednesday 6 PM

Tuesdy's Group --> Thursday  6 PM