May 9, 2012 @ 09:30, Room: 11A
Chair: Jeff Johnson,
Course 25: Designing What to Design: a Task-Focused Conceptual Model - Course
Contribution & Benefit: Designing a conceptual model is an important early step in interaction design. Unfortunately, it is often skipped, resulting in incoherent, overly-complex applications. This course explains how to design conceptual models, and why.
Abstract » An important early step in designing a user interface for a software application is to design a coherent, task-focused conceptual model. Unfortunately, this step is often skipped in software development. Many designers jump right into sketching and prototyping the UI before they understand the application at a conceptual level. The result is incoherent, overly-complex applications that expose concepts that are irrelevant to the users’ tasks. This course covers:
- What conceptual models are, and how they can improve the UI design process,
- Perils and pitfalls of not designing a conceptual model,
- Object/actions analysis (part of designing a conceptual model),
- An example conceptual model for a specific application,
- Benefits of Conceptual Analysis: object taxonomy, lexicon, task scenarios, object-model,
- A hands-on exercise in performing Object/Actions analysis for a simple application.
- What conceptual models are, and how they can improve the UI design process,
- Perils and pitfalls of not designing a conceptual model,
- Object/actions analysis (part of designing a conceptual model),
- An example conceptual model for a specific application,
- Benefits of Conceptual Analysis: object taxonomy, lexicon, task scenarios, object-model,
- A hands-on exercise in performing Object/Actions analysis for a simple application.