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Designing App Resource: Mobile Design Book

App Analysis:

1. Define what is the function or objective of the App.
2. In your sketchbook, write down the main navigation sections.
3. Sketch the Site Map of the App.
4. Create the digital Site Map of the App.

Home work:

A) Sketch the WIREFRAME/S for your Mobile App in your sketchbook AND create the wireframes using Miro. You should have wireframes for all the major pages your user will need to navigate to.

B) UX your app with a family member or friends. Ask them questions below and document their answers in a google doc.

C) Implement any necessary changes to your app

D) Create a Google slide presentation in which you present your app to a potential client. Address: Why/What/Who/When and How. Make it look professional and awesome!

E) Be prepared to make a 3 min “sales” pitch in class!

UX Questions:

First Impressions

• What is your first reaction to this?
• What is going through your mind as you look at this?
• How does this compare to your expectations?
• What can you do here?
• What is this for?
• Do you have any questions right now?
• Why would someone use this?
• How do you think this is going to help you?
• What is the first thing you would do?

Task Focused

• If you wanted to perform [task], what would you do?
• What would you expect to happen?
• What parts of this were the most/least important for you?
• How could we present the information in a more meaningful way?
• Is there anything you would change/add/remove to make this better for you?
• What was the hardest part about this?
• Was there anything surprising or unexpected?
• On a scale of 1–5, how [adjective] was this?

Summary

• Would you use this today?
• What might keep people from using this?
• What is the most you would be willing to pay for this?
• What, if anything, do you like or dislike?
• If you had a magic wand, what would you change?
• Does this feel like it was designed for you?
• Is anything missing?
• What adjectives would you use to describe this?
• On a scale of 1–5, how likely or unlikely would you be to recommend this to a friend?
• Since this isn’t finished, what would you like to see in the final version?

Optional Home Work:

Please Read

What Social Media Needs to Learn From Traditional Media  Wired by GILAD EDELMA

Facebook forced troll farm content on over 40% of all Americans each month – Ars Technica by TIM DE CHANT

Making Material Design

 

How to be “Team Human” in the digital future | Douglas Rushkoff

SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE PERILS OF LOOKING FOR ‘LIKES’ Douglas Rushkoff Blog

https://rushkoff.com/social-media-and-the-perils-of-looking-for-likes/

Homework:

Please complete reading the following article and write reading response (.5 -1 page)

Behavioral Design Makes It Easy to Do ‘the Right Thing’

Rooted in human psychology, this design framework can motivate users to change their habits.

Jeff Link

 

 

please watch the Social Dilemma and write a review (1 Page)

The Social Dilemma | Full Feature | Netflix –

We tweet, we like, and we share— but what are the consequences of our growing dependence on social media? As digital platforms increasingly become a lifeline to stay connected, Silicon Valley insiders reveal how social media is reprogramming civilization by exposing what’s hiding on the other side of your screen. It is available on youtube:

AND please complete A and B

PRODUCTION:
App Development

Preparation: 

A) Think of a social problem (psychological, physical, economic) created by a social media site or a web service. Describe it and discuss how it contributes to this issue. (.5 page)

B) Follow the OUTLINE POINTS below and write a Draft for your PROPOSAL (1 page)

1. Propose an App that will help with an aspect of the issue that was identified.

2. Decide the FEATURES of your app.

3. Identify TARGET USERS.

5. Determine the platforms (iOS and/or Android) Note: Make it up, but give a reasonable explanation.

C) Sketch the WIREFRAME for your Mobile App in your sketchbook AND create wireframe using Miro or Illustrator

 

 

 

Critical Response Process

Developed by Liz Lerman this is the process we will be using to offer feedback.

Step 1. Statements of Meaning

Responders state what was meaningful, evocative, interesting, exciting, and/or striking in the work they have just witnessed.

Step 2. Artist as Questioner

The artist asks questions about the work. In answering, responders stay on topic with the question and may express opinions in direct response to the artist’s questions.

Step 3. Neutral Questions

Responders ask neutral questions about the work, and the artist responds. Questions are neutral when they do not have an opinion couched in them.

This step is one of the most fundamental, challenging, and misunderstood steps of Critical Response Process.

Step 4. Opinion Time

Responders state opinions, given permission from the artist; the artist has the option to say no.

Overview:

Web Design:

Steps to conceptualizing a site

• Research and Discovery
• Content Inventory
• Site Mapping
• Wireframing
• Usability
• Prototyping

Concept Document using Design Thinking –

• title
• name
• date
• description

Design thinking Steps:

• Empathize
• Define
• Ideation
• Prototype (sketch)
• Test (describe)

Wireframing Class/Homework:

• 5 sketches (either by hand or very quickly on Miro
• 3 different versions of wireframes on Miro or illustrator (choose one final)
• One mood board
• Design on illustrator the landing page, one “about” page and one 404 page (be creative)

Viewings:

My Boyfriend Came Back From the War, 1996 by Olia Lialina

WAYFINDER by Matt DesLauriers

Website Redesign – Charlie Marie TV

Miro Download