Sunday, April 8, 2018

Kent State UXD Program- Interaction Design Journaling Week 3

I have seen first hand through my professional experience and my most recent academic experience (through exercises and assignments) that it is important to make clear of the business logic or understand the business strategy.

A good example was the exercise we are doing now for my class for a lunch buddy program.  This is proposed app that allows parents to add new funds for a child's lunch account.  There was a concept of an account, a child, and a primary payment method.  Is the account the same as the child?  Do you want to allow parents to select a different payment method for each of their children?  For the purposes I assumed a child essentially represented an account.  This would allow a parent to choose two different payment methods for both of their children.   But doing so makes you make decisions about the navigation.  As a designer you have to take into account the interface has to be easy to create different payments for multiple children.  But it also has to take into account there are many families with just one child.  My solution was to use a home screen friendly to multiple child families but to have the navigation include a simple 'Add funds' icon to allow those families with one child a simple way to add funds.  In this case the since there would be only one child the App would make it easy for those families to just add some funds without looking at too much information.

The business logic and business strategy can have an effect on the design of your App or web site.  Its important to always remember this otherwise it will cause frustration from your audience.

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