Homework #1:
Brainstorming and Storyboarding (100 points)
(Due 02/09/05)
Consider the following scenarios:
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Digital shopping assistant. After watching the
video describing the IDEO shopping cart of the future, you want to
design a digital shopping assistant. The module is attached on the side
of the cart, and lets people find the products they wish to buy and
speeds up the checkout process. How will your system work?
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Voting machine. It is election day and millions are going
to vote using your new digital voting machine. How will your system work?
For
each of the mentioned scenarios:
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(5 points) List and rank at least 5
user goals while performing the task. Briefly explain each goals and its
rank (It might be useful to first interview a couple of potential users
before answering this question).
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(15 points) For each of the
first 2 goals in your list, provide at least 10 possible ways to help
users reaching this goal. Explain each way briefly.
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(10 points) Pick the most interesting and
practical solution (e.g. each piece of underlying technology must exist,
the cost must be reasonable, and the solution should not be too far away
from current social conventions) and then explain your choice.
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(20 points) Storyboard a typical user
interaction for your system (using a 8 frames layout). Include a script explaining what is going on
for each frame.
Note: Examples of how to pick-out
good goals, can be found in the reading for Feb 7th: "About Faces 2.0",
(page 63-67)
Clarification addendum: You should turn in two sets of work: one on the
Digital shopping assistant, the other on the Voting machine. Answer all four
questions for each set.
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