Monday September 18 - Needs Analysis

• Comic Sans reading kickoff
• Hannah - about the instructors 3 minute intro
• You have collected inspirational designs, you have identified people to talk to about your project, you will have data. You can do numerous things to synthesize it
• For your Needs Analysis assignment, you may want to consider creating some of the following artifacts (decide upon which are useful for your team):
  • personas
  • concept models
  • goals
  • task decompositions
  • lexicons
  • experience maps
  • Contextual Inquiry models:
  • flow models
  • sequence models
  • artifact models
  • physical models
  • cultural models
• Techniques for deciding how to chart a path forward
  • affinity diagramming, card sorting, selection matrices

link to the checklist for this phase: Needs Analysis Checklist