Assignment 2: Analysis
Status of assignments is presented in the password protected students section.
First, choose a design problem
You can check out the design problem page for ideas about what to do, but you are of course free to come up with ideas of your own. Just because the results are to be presented on the web, it doesn't mean your design problem has to be a website or something similar. Contrary, we encourage you not to choose "design a website" as a design problem.
Publish your design proposal
Describe your planed design problem shortly in order to describe what you are planning to do in assignment 3. It is beneficial if you use some simple sketch or image to describe the problem.
Before you start working with your assignment, we wish to review your choice of design problem. Send an e-mail with a proposition of a design problem to course assistant or course responsible teacher. Design problems sent in will be reviewed continuously.
Analysis: User and Task Analysis and OLE Analysis
In the User and task analysis you should identify and describe the users and their overall goals in using your system or product. Then you move into details and identify the tasks required for achieving those goals.
- Do a OLE analysis. You should there try to answer all the questions in the OLE tool, given your design problem. Try to provide comprehensive answers with explanations. Not all the questions are by necessity relevant in your specific context.
- Do a user analysis using one of the methods described in lecture 10, part 2, for instance, user categories or personae. You can also combine the methods. Motivate your choice.
- Do a task analysis using HTA, described in lecture 10, part 3. When you use the HTA method, your analysis should include both a hierarchical structure and a complementing reading instruction plan. If there are any nodes in your model with only one sub-task, something is wrong.
Suggested reading
- OLE analysis:
- User and task analysis:
- Lecture 10
- Preece, chapter 19 (p 383-385, 401-406) and chapter 20 (in particular section 20.2 about HTA).
- Persona - An Overview
, by Stefan Blomkvist.
See also optional reading and links suggested in lecture 10.