Open Challenge: Cross-Interface or Target User
Requirements: Each student individually completes 1 cross-interface or target user open challenge on their own out-of-class time. (This is 4% of your overall grade.)
Submission Mechanism: Submit Open challenges using this open challenge form.
Open Challenge: Cross-Interface Option
Introduce an experience that supports users across different interaction styles. For example, a person starting a road trip might plan their trip using Google Maps and then interact with their planned route on a mobile device during the trip. A user of Amazon's music service may set up a playlist or library and interact with it through a website, mobile app, or speech-recognizing interface (Echo/Alexa).
Describe how well or how poorly the designers of the experience you chose incorporated unique aspects of each device / form factor used. Was the experienced enhanced or hurt by the decision to offer different modes of interaction?
Rubric: you will be graded on clarity, understanding of the terms you use, and how well you include various forms of evidence for the arguments you make (images, references to readings etc).
Open Challenge: Target User Group Option
Pick a company that has hired you to test a multi-site (web, handheld [voice]) interface. Describe two distinct populations of potential users that you would want to bring in for user research and/or usability testing; in each case give at least one concrete screening criterion that identifies a person as a member of that population. (These might be questions you would give to a participant recruiting firm to use in ruling a person in or out of the test group.) In addition, describe one population that you would not include in your test groups, along with a screening question that could be used identify members of this population. For each one, explain briefly (but compellingly) why you selected this population for inclusion or exclusion.
a. users you want:
b. more users you want:
c. users you don’t want:
Rubric: you will be graded on clarity, understanding of the terms you use, and how well you include various forms of evidence for the arguments you make (images, references to readings etc).