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Who is the user?
- demographic
- ASL?
What is the goal/purpose of this design?
- benefits of project?
- learning curve
- behavior changes?
- circumstances of use?
- challenges being tackled?
- duration of use?
- where will it be used?
- any restrictions?
What’s required of the user?
- time?
- ASL?
2. Are there similar/competing projects/products?
3. what is your ideal user?
4. what is your least ideal user?
PostBox
Who is the user? Existing mail art community, new community built around the content.
Age range? All ages
Are there similar/competing projects/products? UIMA, multiple sources of art calls
CorkBoard
Who is the user? Current ITP students
Age range? Graduate student age
Are there similar/competing projects/products? The List,
Goal? Place for students to to discuss their work & ask for help, ease of use
Duration of use? Quick, with the option to look around
Behavior Changes? Minimal
Learning Curve? Visual cues
Conversational Enclosures
Who is the user? Anyone - open userbase
What is the goal/purpose of this design? Change the tone of commenting into constructive
conversations. If people don’t converse, it closes off and ends after an hour regardless.
- learning curve? Describe to users how dialog will happen
3. what is your ideal user? Smart, academic / multiple types of people
Document Creator
Who is the user?
- demographic - Depends on the conversation
What is the goal/purpose of this design? - get folks to converse together, in real time, and keep a
copy for everyone to see
- benefits of project? - share knowledge
- learning curve - extremely easy to use, one click to entry
- behavior changes? - none’ish
- circumstances of use? - Prompted users share info
- challenges being tackled? - bringing a social and collaborative situations together
- duration of use? - short to long. Dawg.
Are there similar/competing projects/products? Google docs / chat based module