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The research is the preperation for the actual design process. Doing research will help you to design for what the users want to archive and to avoid common problems. It is also likely that some other people did work you can build on. This can save you a lot of time and pondering. | The research is the preperation for the actual design process. Doing research will help you to design for what the users want to archive and to avoid common problems. It is also likely that some other people did work you can build on. This can save you a lot of time and pondering. | ||
It is usefuil to do research on | |||
* Your users goals (what they want to archive) | |||
* Existing Problems | |||
* Solutions, Experiences and Problems others had in similar projects. | |||
In the beginning of your Project the main research activity will be doing user research and getting to know the goals and problems of your users. Later on you will probably solve more specific problems and use more books and online ressources to solve these problems. | |||
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Reading the headline "research" you will have probably thought of numbers, statistics and large tests. The findings of research like this can be useful for us, but we will not conduct this kind of research: It is too elaborate and would just help to learn about existing things and not about ways to create new and innovative solutions. Instead you will read about a kind of reasearch that deals directly with the users | |||
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It is important to get to know what your users what to archive – what their goals are. Goals are not activities like using a feature in your product. | |||
"Finding that funny picture from the last holiday" is a goal the user might have, searching for it is not a goal the user has. If search would not be needed to find the picture she would not search! | |||
==Use what is already out there== | ==Use what is already out there== | ||
The easiest (though least exiting) way to get insights is researching for ressources you can use. | The easiest (though least exiting) way to get insights is researching for ressources you can use. Using existing ressources is useful in later project stages when you need to solve specific problems and already know about your users goals. | ||
If the topic you want to work on is new for you it might be a good start to start with a book that offers an overview on the field of interest. It will help you as well to get to know the special terms that are used in a more specialized topic. This can be crucial: I often searched for papers of otehr ressources on the web. What often took the most itme was getting to know the name of what I was actually looking for. For a recent project on online collaboration in design I googled a lot about "Open Design", Collaborative Design" etc. finally I found out, that the term that gave me some interesting links was "open source design" – which was not what I would have guessed initially. | If the topic you want to work on is new for you it might be a good start to start with a book that offers an overview on the field of interest. It will help you as well to get to know the special terms that are used in a more specialized topic. This can be crucial: I often searched for papers of otehr ressources on the web. What often took the most itme was getting to know the name of what I was actually looking for. For a recent project on online collaboration in design I googled a lot about "Open Design", Collaborative Design" etc. finally I found out, that the term that gave me some interesting links was "open source design" – which was not what I would have guessed initially. | ||
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You can search for papers by using [http://www.google.com/scholar google scholar] or the [http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm ACM Library]. The search is free in both cases but just google scholar links sometimes directly to the papers while you need a membership for ACM. If your university has one, you are a lucky student! But even if you find a paper on ACM or google scholar links on a pricy database too you should give it a try and search specifically for that papers title. Often the researchers have published accessible versions on their webpages. | You can search for papers by using [http://www.google.com/scholar google scholar] or the [http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm ACM Library]. The search is free in both cases but just google scholar links sometimes directly to the papers while you need a membership for ACM. If your university has one, you are a lucky student! But even if you find a paper on ACM or google scholar links on a pricy database too you should give it a try and search specifically for that papers title. Often the researchers have published accessible versions on their webpages. | ||
==Planning Interviews== | ==Planning Interviews== | ||
==Conducting Interviews== | ==Conducting Interviews== | ||
==Review the Interviews== | ==Review the Interviews== | ||
==Formulate Your Goals== | ==Formulate Your Goals== | ||
=Early Design= | =Early Design= | ||
==Requirements== | ==Requirements== | ||