User Experience Seminar

What is User Experience?

“The role a product plays in a person’s life.”

Greenland Inuit / Tactile 3D interaction
Inuits used wooden maps that had been carved into with the coastlines of greenland, so they could tell where about they are by brushing their fingers on them.

How user experience differs
Ebay & Amazon
Searching for items is much easier to use on eBay. It's easier to navigate.
Whereas on Amazon selling items is better.

Google Chrome / Safari / Windows Explorer.

Google shows their popularity within all target markets of new media, which allows their user friendly browser to cross platforms and interact between email, search engine, social media, cloud storage etc. This gives people instant access to the most important elements of there new media routines.

Youtube & Vimeo
Vimeos design is more considered which makes it sleek and more catered towards creative videos in higher quality resolution. Youtube is more well known and has a more approachable layout that makes it target audience the majority of internet users.

Garretts model

User Needs/Site Objectives

To satisfy the audiences need for various formats of photography and knowledge for old/new photographers. Allow users to submit content for the website. 

Functional Specifications/Content Requirements

Images, video and text will be used for website content. For the website to fit the target audience I want them to be able to view a variety of different photographic images with short descriptions/specifications included on a section of the website. I also want to present Interviews in text that would also go alongside images, which are not too lengthy but have a decent amount of information that people would benefit from as the audience, because the audience are more interested in images and may be put off from a lot of text. 

Interaction Design/Information Architecture/Navigation Design

Site map - Homepage > About (Text), Blog (Image heavy & Text), Photographers (Text & Images), Submit (Text)

Visual Design

Simple layout, easy to navigate

Minimalistic use of colours, easy on the eye, avoid distraction from the content and images

Structure of layout based on viewfinder grid

UXD Methods
User Research
Personas - To build picture of who the users are and what they want from the system
Content Strategy
Task Models - Forces you to consider the purposes of your website
Wireframes
A/B Testing - Method of testing a variation of a system against the existing

USER EXPERIENCE IS...

INTERFACE DESIGN

PURPOSE / TASKS   

AFFECT / EMOTIONS

EFFICIENCY  

USABILITY

SATISFACTION         

USER EXPECTATIONS

IDENTITY      

USE-VALUE

EMPATHY

Persona for my website

Key Goals

Wants to read interviews

Has an interest in different types of photography

Wants to view lots of images

Would like to submit/share their photography

Behaviours

Doesn't like complicated layouts

Isn't aware of many current photographers

Doesn't like waiting for images to load up

Gets confused on websites easily

We Must

Create an easy to navigate site

Present images and information in a clear way

Supply the audience with images from new photographers

We Must Never

Confuse the audience

Have long loading times for content

My User Task Flow