UI/UX
Interaction
Design
Course
About:
During the spring of 2019 I got the opportunity to take the course Interaction design at Berghs. The course was incredibly valuable and I learned a lot about designing good user experiences with interaction design.
Valtech
– UX Research, konceptutveckling och interaktionsdesign för en ny taxi-tjänst
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Material
Selection
playbook
About:
At consultant agency Knightec there is a specialist team working with Sustainable Plastic Design. I believe sustainable plastic is a very interesting subject and wanted to learn more. My question was, how can I add value to the team and also learn more in the process? I joined an internal project about making a material selection playbook, complementing their plastic expertise by helping to make the playbook user friendly.
Problem:
Making a complicated process easy to understand.
Design Process:
DEFINE
IDEATE
Early
TESTING
PROTOTYPING
TESTING
DEFINE:
Research:
To understand the flow of the material selection process I studied all the text material the plastic team had gathered. In order for me to understand the process correctly I presented the process how I interpreted it. Then they could interject where I had missunderstood and then explain. This way we could early detect unclear parts what was not communicated in the existing material.
Purpose:
The specialist team have extensive knowledge about plastic material selection. The purpose of the playbook is to share that knowledge with the rest of the consultant company.
TARGET GROUP:
Knightec consultants who do not have a lot of experience working with plastic. A common factor is that they are all educated engineers.
IDEATE:
Brainstorming:
The brainstorming session was centered around previously identified problems such as:
How can the process be structured in an understandable way?
How can we put emphasis on the critical steps?
Sketching:
Sketching of process images, overall playbook structure and key elements were made generate a lot of ideas.
Ideas:
Scan:
Visualization of process to help scanning the playbook.
Focus:
Reorganizing grouping of steps of the process in order to put focus on important steps.
Simplify headlines:
Reducing the thinking process and ease understanding.
Specification of properties
Scoring
Navigation:
Clear conventional structure and color coded sections.
Homepage:
Remove happy talk from homepage.
Early TESTING:
Wireframing:
Testing ideas early before having committing a lot of development hours steers the project in the right direction and makes it more efficient.
The wireframing included the front page and the overall navigation.
Think-aloud protocolS:
Making short tests with two persons in the target group gave a lot of valuable input on existing ideas.
Development:
Simplifying process:
Prioritizing user understanding over visualising all detailed options.
Reducing sections:
For the user to get a better grasp of the process the division of sections were updated to be 4 or less.
Verbalizing Headlines:
Changing the headlines to verbs to make it clear what is to be done in each step.
PROTOTYPING:
MOCK-UP:
Working in Adobe XD I put together a mock up to be to do initial user testing.
Development:
You are here indicators:
Add visualizations to indicate where on the site you are.
About:
Adding a clear About-page without fluff text.
TESTING:
MORE Think-aloud protocolS:
Making tests with three persons in the target group gave input on the prototype.
Development:
Clarify texts:
Based in the user input some paragraphs needed updating.
Adjusting sections:
Some issues with the division of the sections were observed.
HELP-INFo:
Added easily found info on who to ask for help if the user gets stuck. The feedback from the help-info will also result in great feedback for future updates of the playbook.
A step-by-step guide designed to help
the user.
Material
Selection
playbook
Project: MAthem
User experience project.
Work in progress
Updates coming in the next weeks
Building
Website
In 2014 I was starting up my company Mönsteriet. When creating the website and webshop I immersed myself into learning about usability and search engine optimization. Favorite books were Don´t make me think and Convert . It was here I really found the interest in interaction design.
