ah teaches user experience design (Is it a solution? lecture)

Is it a solution?

Lecture outline

Using research to guide and support solutions. Lecture slides will be made available on the day of the lecture.

Today's schedule

Sorry, due to some scheduling shifts we will have a bit of a weird schedule today:

• 4:45-5:15pm — external critiques, 1-on-1s, activity time
• 5:15-5:45pm — project next steps and brief lecture
• 6:00-6:20pm — external critiques, 1-on-1s, activity time
• 6:20-6:50pm — 1-on-1s, activity time, final presentation fix-ups
• 7:00-8:10pm — presentations

Be prepared with questions for our 1-on-1 time.

External crits schedule

Our schedule for today's external critiques. You will be meeting at ah.link/zoom

External critiques

Bonus office hours

I am offering bonus office hours on Sundays between 1:30-3pm or after 8pm. Please reach out to book a time by end-of-day Friday if needed.

Questions?

From insights to designs

One approach to creating direction from your insights is to begin translating them into 'how might we' statements.

Cautions

Much like with our research questions and insights, how-might-we statements want to avoid a couple of common hang-ups:

• Not focusing on the user's needs/outcome.
• Stating a solution.
• Avoiding too broad or focused statements.

Mad libs

(Round 2)

Some fill-in-the-blanks style how might we statement options to get you started thinking:

• How might we action the experience of user when they describe challenge?
• How might we help user feel emotion when they action?
• How might we positive action of item for user?

You have 8 minutes.

Systems thinking

As a designer, systems thinking is meant to help us understand the bigger context in which we are working as well as to challenge our framing of a given problem or space.

Systems thinking

Categories

External critiques

One-on-ones

We will start presentations at 7pm. I will meet with groups I haven't met yet with now:

• BADAMtss (📱)
• Group 1 (📱)
• Chimpanzini Bananini (👩‍⚕️)
• Team Soda Pop (🎥)

You have 6 minutes.

Insight presentations

Each group will get three minutes for presentation and then there will be three minutes for feedback. If you go overtime there will be less time for feedback.