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LEARNING REFLECTION:

1. What did you know about this week’s topics before this week?

• Storyboarding
  • Storyboarding is used by designers to help map out the flow of users and the path they will follow when using a product? That’s my guess.
• Low-Fidelity Prototyping
  • Low-Fidelity prototyping is when you create a very minimal mockup of a design. It’s used as a way to get the design process going and makes you focus more on what the thing you’re creating is actually supposed to do, rather than how it looks. It’s a helpful (and slightly scary!) tool for perfectionists who get too caught up in making things perfect before actually doing anything. I’m excited to try it out in this class!

2. Comparing what you know now to what you knew before, name at least two

important things that you learned this week.

• I learned that lo-fi prototyping is great for testing usefulness. It can also test usability, but it’s particularly good at testing usefulness at a low cost.
• I learned that you can create full-blown studies to understand the user experiences of the product by using only paper, a facilitator, human computer, and observer.

3. How can you apply what you learned to your Semester Project or beyond? Put

differently, what rule(s) can you create for yourself so that you can benefit from

this knowledge later?

I can view the storyboarding and lo-fi prototyping sections of this course as extremely valuable to determining what my final semester project can be like. They’re not to be quickly completed so that my team can move on to the “actual” design, they are a foundational part of what we’re creating.

4. Describe what you know about next week’s topics in a sentence or two.

• Studio Discussion #1
  • This will be a chance for Prof. Smith to mentor a group and everyone else in the class will learn by watching.
• Rapid Evaluation + Experimental Design Crash Course
  • Rapid evaluation is quickly generating findings about how a user study went (?). Experimental design is how you set up an experiment (?).

ACCOUNTABILITY QUESTIONS:

1. What tasks did you give yourself in last week’s answer to Accountability

Question #4?

Task 1: Try to get up before 8AM Monday-Friday in case something comes up so that I have more time in the mornings to do work before my afternoon classes. | In Progress