Sunday, December 25, 2011

week 10

Designing for different culture

Guidelines:
- Ensure that the product supports international paper sizes, envelope sizes & address format.
- Allow for text expansion when translated from english


 scenarios in design
- Scenarios can be used to explicate existing work situation but are more commonly used for expressing proposed or imagined situations to help in conceptual design
- 4 roles for scenarios:
                                    *A basis for the overall design
                                    *For technical implementation
                                    *As a means of cooperation with the  design teams
                                    *As a means of cooperation across professional boundaries 

Generating prototypes in design: 


- Steps in the travel organizer scenario
*Focus solely on the screen
*Focus solely in the environment
- Generating storyboards from use cases
- Generating card-based prototype from use cases

How to Using prototypes in design
Prototyping physical design
- Expand the cards to generate a more detailed software or paper-based pro type.
Tool support:
- To support sketching tools, environments to support icon and menu design to widget libraries and so on

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