This reading seminar involved
chapters six to eight which in short were about the stages in the design
process where you come up with ideas, refine them and finally concretize them
as a prototype.
One of the things I found worthwhile
considering brainstorming is that you need to give room to be a little wild and
not to criticize any idea that comes up. I found during our own brainstorming
sessions that that kind of climate in brainstorming did help us to really dare
to approach our problems in new ways. Earlier we kind of had ideas of ways of
solving our project, but I found the ideas we came up with during this
brainstorm to be superior.
Right now we’re in the process of
refining our main idea, so reading about that chapter felt relevant, although I
felt much of what was written were not so much about what to do, but rather
things to watch out for as to not confuse users. For example you don’t want to
two lines of text aligned and looking similar if the texts themselves are not
related.
We probably will start to think
about prototyping soon so we can get some user input about the small details we
most assuredly will miss. I think we have a strong concept so far, but to
really make something people will want to use, we’ll have to spend time making
the interface understandable for the users. I didn’t feel like I got as much
from the eighth chapter as I did for six and seven, but I think I realize how
important this step is in the iterative design process. Prototyping can’t be done the
last thing you do, because after you let people try your prototype you’ll end
up with a long list of things that need to change. It will be longer the longer
you wait because a lot of functions often are tied in to each other, so to
change one thing you might have to change another.
My question is: Is it better to involve users during the process of refining your idea, or rather to independently work out a version and then develop a prototype to test on the user if you only have the resources for one test study
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