Part 3 of 5 in the series 4 ways I meet "users".
In a guided exploration I let a person immerse themselves in a system. I ask them to accomplish tasks that touch on points in the artefact that we want to validate. During the hour-long session I can find a lot of pain points in the artefact I help design. I can validate full use cases.
Part 2 of 5 in the series 4 ways I meet "users".
Interviews help me understand the life and desire of those that will use the artefacts that I help design. "How do persons decide/negotiate which channel to watch?"
Part 1 of 5 in the series 4 ways I meet "users".
In this first part of a short series on participatory design methods I write about usability tests. The tests help me prove if my solutions for important details in my artefacts work or if I have to "go back to the drawing board". There are an enormous amount of persons who know more then I do about the things I design.
Part 4 of 8 in the series Deliverables.
Prototypes are good for a lot of things: usability studies, testing ideas and as an internal communication tool. For a guideline project I helped create an iOS app prototype. The process was fun and gave us many insights.
In the span of 90 minutes I changed my mind on several key aspects, scrapped two prototypes and got lots of new ideas. All thanks to my colleagues!
Part 3 of 8 in the series Deliverables.
I wanted to introduce my colleagues to the user experience parts of a new project we are working on so I invited them to a paper mockup session. The team created a lot of cool, fun and useful interaction ideas and my colleagues also started thinking a lot about the details in the product that we are creating. The workshop was a great success.
Part 2 of 8 in the series Deliverables.
On barnkanalen.se we have a few very popular coloring books. In May 2013 we where tasked with enhancing the functionality of the painting book. I used Paper Prototyping as my main tool to define the interactions in the admin interface before it was developed.
Part 1 of 8 in the series Deliverables.
In the video I discuss how I and my sister Åsa took a theoretical approach to understanding farm tourism. We gained three insight that informed our communication strategy and also influenced the actual product – a vacation apartment on our family farm Smultronboda. "I say "hhhmmm" a lot less towards the end ;)."
Before attending the IDC'14 conference I had not thought of personalization from the perspective of enabling persons who use an artefact to explore the artefact. I had only thought of personalization as based on algorithms or settings. The new perspective feels very valuable.
The list is a reminder of the very broad range of persons, systems and organizations that I must empathize with and cater to when designing. "Users", editors, developers, graphic designers, guidelines, CMS:s, future system owners...
Part 3 of 3 in the series Structures of User Experiences.
A digital system should be a place where individuals can have experiences. However, "making space" in digital interfaces require the ability to get a mental image of the software. It requires structure.
Part 2 of 3 in the series Structures of User Experiences.
Monolithic, Integrated, Platform, Connected, Separate. How system parts connect.
Part 1 of 3 in the series Structures of User Experiences.
Google as a cohesive whole. Apps as castles in the air, ready to float away at any time. User services that present no interface to the users. Quotes and thoughts.
Part 6 of 7 in the series Bathroom User Experiences.
Use the human ability to see connections between separate parts of a system. Build products that help us improve the world a bit. Build accessible artefacts. Make the important system states obvious. If your interface needs instructions, you have failed.
Part 5 of 7 in the series Bathroom User Experiences.
Some shower faucets have more then one outlet – one for a shower head and one for filling the bath tub, for example. In these, the water temperature and water flow is set once and a lever is used to switch between the outlets. The design of that switching mechanism can be quite horrid.
Part 4 of 7 in the series Bathroom User Experiences.
I had the pleasure of staying in the UFO at the Thee Hotel over midsummer. Since the room is suspended between three pines there is no running water. Instead, there are shared showers in a separate building. And an incineration toilet in the UFO.
Part 3 of 7 in the series Bathroom User Experiences.
Over the last 100 years, bathroom and kitchen faucets have become very common. Have you thought about how much they have changed over time?
Part 2 of 7 in the series Bathroom User Experiences.
Using the same volume of water for all flushes is wasteful. Perhaps using water at all is too wasteful for the planet. But using a toilet where there is a choice of a small or a big flush is, I imagine, a small step forward. 6 examples of flush buttons.
Part 1 of 7 in the series Bathroom User Experiences.
Been to an air plane loo recently? I bet you have. Thought about the flush button in there? Unfortunately, you might have. That's due to it's poor interaction design.
Barnkanalen sänder tv. Eller är det kanske så att Barnkanalen tillhandahåller redskap till barn så att de kan underhålla sig själva? Att se Fåret Shaun-avsnittet "På håret" som ett redskap för underhållning är ett sätt att börja tänka interaktionsdesign (IxD).
