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===Formulate your goals, user's problems and other important findings=== | ===Formulate your goals, user's problems and other important findings=== | ||
Your coming design work will be based on your research findings. As they are very important because of that, you should write them down. This is | Your coming design work will be based on your research findings. As they are very important because of that, you should write them down. This is especially important if you work in a team - it helps to stay focused and eases communication. | ||
You can write down your '''original project idea''' first, as well as you target group. Describe your potential users as clear as possible. Than write down what you want to do. This will be supporting the '''user goals''' you found out via your research. During the interviews you researched as well '''problems''' of the users. Being aware about problems will help you not to repeat errors and reveals a lot about the way the user deal with current technology. Making these errors is something you want to avoid to do. You should write down as well what could distract you in the design process. This is often rebuilding existing products that appear to have a similar focus or including functions that are often suggested but don't support your actual product vision. | |||
You can simply write down these in a simple bullet-pint-style: | |||
'''What I want to:''' | |||
* | |||
* | * [Product vision] | ||
* support these goals:[...] | |||
'''I don't want to:''' | |||
* | * cause the users the following [Problems] | ||
* Loose focus by [...] | |||
Having that in a clear and graspable form - best printed out and put visible in you project room helps you to realize your vision and to design a product suiting the users needs. | |||
===Use what is already out there=== | ===Use what is already out there=== | ||
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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. | ||
==Designing== | ==Designing== | ||