UX research, or design research serves many purposes throughout the design process. It helps us identify, prove or disprove our assumptions, find commonalities across our target audience members, and recognize their needs, goals, and mental models. As a User Experience Designer, I’d like to share some UX research methods around gathering data with you. My […]
Use cases are often considered to be a tool only for User Experience (UX) specialists. Read on why many other roles in a product and development team benefit from use cases as an essential milestone in the User Centered Design Process.
Why use cases should feed the interaction design process and not vice-versa.
Gamification is the usage of elements that are typical for games, such as points, badges, levels and leader boards, in non-game contexts. This can be in business software, any other software (e.g. educational software) or in real life contexts (e.g. if your kids refuse to brush their teeth you can turn it into a contest). […]
The term “use case” is a common source of misunderstanding because it is often used to mean different things. Sometimes people use it to describe: a stakeholder’s high-level goal a step by step description of system action the flow of how users interact with a system If a team talks about use cases and everyone […]
A swimlane diagram is a type of flowchart, and it can be used to display the same type of information (data, deliverables, actions and interactions etc.). A swimlane diagram documents the steps or activities across borders (a flowchart is limited to a close linear process in general) and shows which step and activity belongs to which throughout processes; that’s why it’s also called a cross-functional diagram or a cross-channel diagram. What makes a swim-lane-diagram special and unique is that the elements within the flowchart are placed and matched together in lanes, and you can plan and coordinate when and how a channel is required. These lanes can help identify and visualize stages, organizational units, or any other set of separated categories.
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