Final Dissertation Plan

Ellen Setterfield CoP 3 Plan “In what ways can user experience inform graphic interface design for online services?”

Introduction: • Summary of each chapter • Web usage and its increase since birth • Tim Berners Lee Chapter 1: • User Experience defined (primary and secondary sources) • My personal opinion of user experience • General consensus • User experience and its history (product design and architecture design) • Psychology and Human Computer Interaction roots • The user (human brain, learning and interaction theory) • Why user experience is important Chapter 2: • User Experience designers – definition • Methods of User Experience design • Agile and waterfall methodologies • User research and user journey maps, personas • Roles within user experience – researcher, designer • User testing - guerrilla testing, lab testing • Prototyping and wire framing • Information architecture Chapter 3: • Way-finding and navigation • Supermarkets • Ecommerce Conclusion: • How user experience design is becoming a important role • The importance of Agile methodologies • Any clear factors derived from the case studies • My final opinion