Week 7

This week our lecture was on design direction.

The lecture was very short as it was just explaining our assignment in more detail. The steps that we need to take in detail are:

1. Identifying the problem

2. Getting insight and researching into the nature of the problem: symptoms versus disease.

3. Developing/proposing a solution to the problem.

4. The iterative design process:
- Investigation need/acceptability for the proposed solution.
- defining users and product requirements.
- designing the product and testing its usability.

5. Presenting and discussing the final solution.

These steps are the steps we need to follow to complete our assignment and thats all the lecture was on today. We were given no homework as we are expected to be working on our assignment until it is due.

Today in class we were allowed to work on our assignments since we did not have any homework and it is not far away from our first assignment due date. I have been working on my assignment at home, I have completed the steps 1, 2 and 3 and I'm currently doing step 4. Im half way already and have done 1500 words. I feel like this assignment is making me think outside the box, with creating an app that will help the users with their goals and objectives. I feel my app will be successful in helping first year university students with time managing their time between studying and socialising. The layout of the app is very simple, as we don't need it to be complex and too hard to use. Today I want to have the assessment completed so I can spend the last few days before submission to go over and fix up mistakes and clean up my report.

References
Gudue, Raghavendra. (2015). 9291 User Interface and experience. Lecture 6, week 7: Design direction. [powerpoint slides].