Week 6 To-Do’s
Lecture and reading
Attend the lecture to learn about this week’s topics and obtain extra information from this week’s reading list (short articles/videos to read/watch):
- Design Fixation by David Jansson and Steven Smith
- The Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers by Adam Grant
- A Crash Course in Creativity by Tina Seelig
- Do Schools Kill Creativity? by Sir Ken Robinson
- Ideation in Practice: How Effective UX Teams Generate Ideas by Aurora Harley
Draft user stories (Individual)
Each member of the team chooses 1 possible feature for your app, and create an epic and a user story for that feature. Each member’s feature should be distinct. Use the affinity diagrams, POVs, and HMWs from last week to guide you. Then, as a team, discuss and refine the user stories. Your design document should include:
- 4-5 epics, in total (depending on the number of team members).
- 4-5 user stories, in total (depending on the number of team members).
Create storyboards based on the user stories (Individual)
Each team member takes their feature, and sketch an actual story about a user’s struggle: e.g., how that feature on your app will be used to resolve the user’s problems, and what is the final outcome. Then, as a team, discuss, critique, and refine the storyboards. Your design document should include details such as:
- Setting (people involved? environment? task being accomplished?)
- Sequence (what steps are involved? what leads someone to use the app? what task is being illustrated?)
- Satisfaction (what’s the motivation for the user? what’s the end result? how does the user feel? what needs are you satisfying?)
- Screenshots of the storyboards.
Team meeting and design document
Conduct this week’s team meeting or discussion in and/or out of class. Update your design document with the outcomes of this week’s activities. More details are available on the Information page under Deliverable 2a.
Think about your mid-term report
The mid-term report will due in about two weeks. It is always better to do everything earlier such as starting to polish the results in your design document, think about an outline of the presentation, reflect on the past design stages, and prepare figures or illustrations. The workload of future weeks may increase. More details are available on the Information page under Deliverable 2b.