A partial chronicle of the journey I took to get here.
Happy 2014! Want to learn something new? Try a free online course!
I've participated in several during the past year. What I've noticed is that online courses have different goals and different audiences depending on the source. Thus you'll get different things out of each one. Here's an overview of the courses I took. See what works for you.
Read MoreThis is part eight in my series about the Human-Computer Interaction course I took through Coursera. Read all my posts for the full story.
Assignment 6 User Testing - Results
After we ran three or more user tests following the procedures we created we had to analyze our observations.
Read MoreThis is part seven in my series about the Human-Computer Interaction course I took through Coursera. Read all my posts for the full story.
Assignment 6 User Testing
Now the final pieces fell into place as we created test materials and recruited participants.
Read MoreThis is part six in my series about the Human-Computer Interaction course I took through Coursera. Read all my posts for the full story.
Assignment 5 Ready for Testing
Goal of prototype
The goal of the mobile app is to simplify vehicle maintenance tracking. Specifically, this prototype focuses on the procedure for entering mileage at the time of filling up the fuel tank.
Before moving forward on our high-fidelity prototypes we needed to enumerate the issues found during the heuristic evaluations.
Read MoreThis is part five in my series about the Human-Computer Interaction course I took through Coursera. Read all my posts for the full story.
Assignment 4 Start Building
In Assignment 4 we began the process of creating a high fidelity prototype based on one of the wireframes we made in Assignment 3. I selected CarBuddy prototype 2.
But first we needed a plan--a development plan.
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