Hands-On Workshop on User-Centered Design

October 12, 2017 -
1:00pm to 2:45pm
Bob Gradeck, Liz Monk, Eleanor Tutt, Noah Urban, Louise Carter, Sonja Marziano, Denise Linn Riedl

The purpose of this session is to introduce User-Centered Design principles and provide participants with hands-on exposure to several user centered design activities.
 
Resources and materials from the workshop and excellent user-centered design resources:
 

Sonja’s links shared in her handout:

 

Personas used in the NNIP workshop (thanks to Liz Monk and Steven Saylor for their creativity): http://bit.ly/2geCCkz

User scenario worksheets: http://bit.ly/2yjKfwc

Electronic card sort tool that Louise reccomends: OptimalSort - http://optimalworkshop.com/optimalsort

Sonja and NNIP Alum Jordan Wirfs-Brock  led a session at the SRCCON conference on user testing. http://schedule.srccon.org/#_session-roadmap-user-testing

For the workshop, Sonja created an activity document: http://bit.ly/2hDhXDf.

According to Sonja:

“Why this activity was fun for me was because instead of starting with the method to use, we actually wanted everyone to think about their problem statement or the questions they wanted to answer first. Then we thought of users, our relationships with those users, and how users might answer those questions. Then we discussed methods. I created method cards that were inspired by a lot of free resources and participants had to choose options based on the question they want answered, who their users are, and the amount of time they have.”

Sonja’s SRCCON resources: http://bit.ly/2yH4DJ7


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After the NNIP workshop, Charlotte Anne-Lucas recommended two books by Steve Krug - Don’t Make Me Think, and Rocket Surgery Made Easy