Lesson 3.2
Generating Designs and Design Patterns
Sketching Designs
→ Paper is really a wonderful design medium; it’s cheap, it’s flexible, it’s easy to
use.
→ Lay out many ideas on a big table or tape them up on a wall, stand back, point at
them, talk about them, move them around.
→ Generate many ideas.
→ Don’t fixate on an early vision and stop brainstorming.
→ Focus attention on the issues that matter in early design, without distracting you
with details like font, color, alignment, whitespace, etc.
→ Improves the feedback you get from users.
→ Hand-sketch design seems less finished, less set in stone, and more open to
suggestions and improvements.
Scenario
→ take your task analysis and turn it into stories
→ Scenario is a concrete, realistic story that sets up a situation involving a user with
a goal to satisfy, and then follows the user through the tasks they do to satisfy that
goal.
→ A scenario is the task-analysis equivalent of a persona, as a fictitious, concrete
example of an abstract task.
→ A scenario can be used to create the first prototype of your design (of a sort): a
storyboard
Storyboards
