Final Reports and Presentations

You’ve Done Design Briefs
•Team Members
•Statement of Problem/Challenge
•Activities to Date
•Summary of User Interviews & Participant Profiles
•Design Priorities and Issues
•Quick Review of Related Products/Systems
•Persona(s)
•Task Statements
•Evaluation Plan
•Exposures
•Schedule of Design & Evaluation Activities

Final Reports Goals
•Present a problem/challenge
•Show how you used HCI methods to arrive at a solution
–Discuss design alternatives
–Motivate design decisions
•Choices were not arbitrary
•Choices move design closer to “optimal”

Final Report
Required Sections: Part 1
•Team Members*
•Statement of Problem/Challenge*
•Review of Related Products/Systems*
•Summary of Interviews and Participant Profiles*
•Key Design Issues and Priorities*
•Personas* (may be primary and secondary)
•Task Statements* (OK if revised)
*Included in Design Brief. Revise as necessary for Final Report

Final Report
Required Sections: Part 2
•Selection Among Design Alternatives - How did you decide on design elements early on?
–Mockups - Show examples. eg. Scan in your paper mock-ups
–Cognitive Walkthrough
–Heuristic Analysis
What were the key findings for each method?
How did the findings change your design?
Screen shots are helpful, if available!
•User Testing
–Design for User Testing
What was the design you used for user testing?
–Experimental Protocol
What was the procedure you used during testing? This includes instructions, practice tasks, etc.
-Tasks
What tasks did participants complete?
-Participants
Summarize the general characteristics of participants.
-Summary of Results/Overview of Findings
Can use a table and chart issues/results for each user
Can organize by aspects of the system and problems with each (rather than organizing by user).
Give data to support your claims. Give quotes, comments, screen shots, etc. of problematic elements that back up your summary.
If you don't have original formatting screen shots, use the current ones and talk about how you changed them from how they used to be.

Final Report
Required Sections: Part 3
•Recommendations/Revisions from User Testing
–High Priority - Deal breakers - what had to be changed or else the system would not work and goals would not be achieved
–Moderate Priority - things that don't make or break your system, but may help the users and meet the requests/comments
Explain how your prioritization of design issues and the design changes you made as a result.
•Final Design
•Future Issues
What was your final design? How does it resolve issues identified during user testing. How does your design meet the needs of your users? Finally, how well does the final design resolve the challenge/problem you identified at the beginning of the report.

Final Report Questions
•Does your report clearly show the evolution of your design from beginning to end?
•Do you show how HCI methods informed your initial design and subsequent changes?
•Have you made it clear how your user testing informed your final design?
•Is it clear how your final design will meet your users’ needs and resolve the challenge/problem you identified?

Due by 5:00 PM on May 6th

Presentations
•20 minutes per project
–We have 9 projects total
–Teams: Each person should present a portion of your project
•15-17 minutes for presentation
•3-5 minutes for answering questions
–Audience members: Be active & ask questions!

Presentation Goals
•Communicate the problem/challenge you were trying to solve
–Convince your audience that it’s important!
•User Needs
–What were the user needs that you identified?
–What was the initial design?
•HCI Methods --> Final Design
–How did HCI methods inform decision decisions? - Choose a few things that really helped you. Choose the most important design decisions and changes you made and how they happened.
–What were the major design changes and why did you make them (e.g., what HCI results convinced you?)
–How well does your final design meet users’ needs?

Presentation Questions
•Did you clearly state the problem/challenge and its importance?
•Is it clear what your users’ needs are?
•Did you clearly connect the outcomes of HCI methods (e.g., Cognitive Walkthrough, Heuristic Analysis) to major design changes/decisions?
•Did you make a case for your final design meeting users’ needs?

Present on April 29 - Bring Napkins