Prototyping & Interaction Design
Project Purpose: Illustrate free-hand sketching, rich pictures, storyboarding and annotated wireframes.
Project Type: Individual Effort
Sketching for Design Thinking - Freehand Sketching is a method that can be used early in the design process.
Rich Picture:
- An informal method for reasoning about and communicating the competing objectives of stakeholders
- Indicates all stakeholders who could be affected by the system
- Displays a very rough process (arrows and labels) and positive and negative concerns of stakeholders.
- Supports a foundational understanding of the house building process and the entities involved
- Supports a foundational understanding of the house building process and the entities involved
- Shows end goal of the scenario, the building of a house, and key stakeholders involved throughout process
Storyboarding:
- Storyboard provides tasks, people, and scenes to represented
- The senario is visual depicted and the key players are identified
- The key players are involved in the each frame in the scenario
Scenario:
Isaac and Shawna, a recently married couple, have planned their honeymoon and need to make a boarding reservation for their dog. They have to call the facility to make a reservation and usually they both call separately, not knowing their spouse has already made the reservation.
Key Players:
- Task
- Task
- Reserve boarding for the dog and receive confirmation
- People
- Isaac, Shawna and Dog Boarding Staff
- Scenes
- Acknowledging dog boarding is needed
- Deciding to contact Dog Boarding Staff
- Via phone is inconvenient & not all parties aware
- App used by Shawna to make reservation request
- Dog Boarding Staff confirm reservation via app
- Confirmation sent to Shawna & Isaac’s cell phones
- People
- Isaac, Shawna and Dog Boarding Staff
- Scenes
- Acknowledging dog boarding is needed
- Deciding to contact Dog Boarding Staff
- Via phone is inconvenient & not all parties aware
- App used by Shawna to make reservation request
- Dog Boarding Staff confirm reservation via app
- Confirmation sent to Shawna & Isaac’s cell phones
Annotated wireframes of User Experience Homepage (above) are low-fidelity method used by both a team of UX professionals, as well as colleagues, interested in usability.
