UX from 30,000ft: Lecture 17 - Validating Your Work

specific: COMP33511

topic: Validating Your Work

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### Lecture 17 (50 minutes)

### [@sharpic](http://twitter.com/sharpic)

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noteid: Ch 10 - Validating Your Work

specific: COMP33511

website: http://sharpic.github.io/COMP33511

author: [@sharpic](http://twitter.com/sharpic)

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topic: Recap -- Hat Racks for Understanding #1

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### Data Collection/Analysis

1. Participant Observation;

1. Task Analysis;

1. Focus Groups;

1. Interviews;

1. Social; and

1. Archive.

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topic: Recap -- Hat Racks for Understanding #2

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### Dissemination

1. User Stories;

1. Use Cases;

1. Persona;

1. Scenario;

1. Wireframe;

1. Mock-up / Wizard of Oz;

1. Storyboard;

1. Flow Chart;

1. State Transition / State Machine; and

1. UML.

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topic: Expert Evaluation via the Audit #1

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1. Walkthroughs; and

1. Heuristic Evaluation.

### Think!

Kinds of questions you are asking, expertise of the 'expert'.

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topic: What Questions Would YOU Ask?

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topic: Fieldwork

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1. In-Situ / In the Wild;

1. Anthropological - small sets of people.

Difference is in the intention - Not to inform design - but to evaluate the correctness!

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topic: Unobtrusive

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### Problems with 'normal' Observation.

1. **Guinea Pig**: people feel like guinea pigs, therefore change their behaviour patterns;

1. **Role Selection**: participants see the experimenter as having an elevated status, therefore following that experimenters lead;

1. **Measurement as Change**: aspects of experiment introduces real changes, and

1. **Response Sets**: respondents will more frequently endorse a statement than disagree with its opposite.

### Design criteria to avoid these.

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topic: What Criteria Would YOU Enact?

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