HCI Course Part 3 - Wireframing

This is part three in my series about the Human-Computer Interaction course I took through CourseraRead all my posts for the full story.

Assignment 3 Wireframing

After choosing a concrete direction (Mary Jo's Storyboard in my case) we jumped into the process of prototyping by creating two rapid interactive wireframes that varied in interface, but offered the same basic functionality.

The process of rapid prototyping involves producing your ideas quickly and testing them. Confirm if your designs work as planned. Based on what you learn from those tests make more designs and refine previous ones. Test more. Refine and adjust. Test. Repeat again. Iteration upon iteration to improve and refine the design.

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HCI Course Part 1 - Needfinding

As I mentioned previously, during April & May 2013 I participated in Scott Klemmer’s Human-Computer Interaction course from Stanford Online.

In this course, you will learn how to design technologies that bring people joy, rather than frustration. Helping you build human-centered design skills, so that you have the principles and methods to create excellent interfaces with any technology. (more)

Over a series of posts I'll share some of my coursework with you. This is the first of the series. Read them all!

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Personas for Everyday Use

Recently I found myself helping a friend who was stuck while trying to write the cover letter for a job application. Now I know she's not the only person to have writer's block in this situation. After stumbling around for a while I came upon a solution that will hopefully help you as well:

Write a persona for the recipient of the cover letter. 

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