User Experience Design for Learning

Templates:

• Test Plan One-Page Template
• Persona Template
• Sample User Test Plan with Email, Script, and Release Form
• Sample User Testing Results Report

General Resources:

1. http://usability.gov
2. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/
3. http://asktog.com/menus/designMenu.html

Contextual Inquiry Links

• http://www.usabilitynet.org/tools/contextualinquiry.htm
• http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/web-usability/contextual-inquiry.shtml

Persona Development Links

• A comic (!) strip that explains the ideas behind Persona development: http://thinkvitamin.com/design/how-to-understand-your-users-with-personas/
• A guide to creating personas https://uxpressia.com/blog/how-to-create-persona-guide-examples
• Indi Young’s advice on persona creation https://indiyoung.com/tag/personas/
• Library Example: http://www.metafilter.com/112698/California-Dreamin#4183210

Prototyping In Powerpoint

• This is a great tutorial that shows how to use hyperlinking to create prototypes in PowerPoint: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/interactive
• Here’s a template with an example and a downloadable template with buttons and objects already created: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20071018/powerpoint-prototype-toolkit-01/
• This is the paper prototyping kit – not powerpoint, but also great http://www.userfocus.co.uk/resources/prototype.html
• Zombie zombie_prototype

Other Prototyping Tools

• Balsamiq Mockups http://balsamiq.com/products/mockups/
• Axure http://www.axure.com/
• Review of other mobile prototyping tools http://mashable.com/2013/04/02/wireframing-tools-mobile/

User Testing Resources

• Website for Don’t Make Me Think and Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug: http://www.sensible.com/
• Demo Test video from Steve Krug: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QckIzHC99Xc&feature=player_embedded
• Downloadable Documents and Resources from Steve Krug: http://www.sensible.com/downloads-rsme.html

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