Exercise 4 - Individual post - Amanda

During the seminar we discussed and applied the Decide model to our project. We decided to use heuristics as our method and allow our classmates to be the experts tomorrow at the seminar. The experts are going to evaluate our first draft of clickable prototype that we have done in pop-app. Thanks to guidance from both Eva and Ann we have been able to develop the first version of the interface we drew on the storyboard last week. From this we hope to receive feedback about the interface and layout. A negative thing about letting our classmates to be the experts is that we might think a lot alike and miss certain important aspects that people from different cultures and background might find confusing or unclear. Since we are all studying to become engineers, we might have the same trial and error thinking and a way to understand technology better than others. On the other side it is out first draft and getting feedback on it would help us a lot since we would like to get some input on our design.

Another point we discussed during the seminar was that we wanted to be experts our selves to the updated version of the pop up and go through Nielsen’s 10 usability heuristics and also do a walkthrough if time allows.

If we hade endless amount of resources I primarily do better and more thorough field-study where we interviewed more tourist and asked more questions in depth. I would also hire professionals to give me guidance when it comes to designing interfaces and usability and actively asking for feedback. Furthermore I would let experts within the field test out app and give us feedback. We would also let our target group test the new interface to determine the level of usability since they are the end users and know best about the requirements.