CS4324 User-Centered Design Suggested Final Report Outline

Title

Your Names

Introduction

• Team and roles
• Describe domain and the product
• Overview of how the project implemented user-centered design
  • User and Task Analysis
    • User profile
    • User tasks
  • Usability Plan
    • Usability objectives and requirements
    • Usability metrics
    • Usability criteria
• Systems engineering overview
  • Design and development environment(s)
  • Language used
  • System objectives, requirements, and functional specifications
  • Reliability, availability, security, data integrity (as appropriate)
  • Standardization, integration, consistency, portability (as appropriate)

Approach

• Describe the approach that the team took to develop this application.
• Add enough to the description so that another team, with sufficient knowledge and skill, could duplicate what you did (but not necessarily duplicate your product).

Results

• State of the product
• Usability of the product
  • Actual measurements versus criteria
  • Areas where criteria are met or exceeded
  • Areas where criteria are not met
  • Recommendations to improve usability (as appropriate)
• Significance and Value
  • Your product as it is now, and when fully completed
  • For your education and career
  • Your experience in performing the project

Recommendations for the next iteration

Appendices (as required to support your report) For example:

• Code
• Screen prints/designs
• Materials
• Details on results
• Logs