Designing for different culture
When we are designing for a different culture like for international design, we should:
- Be careful about using images that depict hand gestures or people.
- Use generic icon.
- Choose colour that are not associated with national flags or political movements.
- Ensure that the product supports different calenders, date formats and time formats.
- Ensure that the product supports different formats, currencies, weights and measurement system.
- Ensure that the product supports international paper sizes, envelope sizes and address format.
- Avoid integrating text in graphics as they cannot be translated easily.
- 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:
1. A basis for the overall design
2. For technical implementation
3. As a means of cooperation with the design teams
4. As a means of cooperation across professional boundaries
Used for the notion of plus and minus scenarios
- Attempt to capture most positive or most negative consequences of a particular proposed design solution.
- Help designers gain more comprehensive view of the proposal.
Generate Storyboards from Scenarios
How?
- Break into steps.
- Focus solely on screen.
- Focus solely on environment.
Designers are forced to think on the screen and also environment part seperately.
Generate Card-based Prototype from Use Cases
Paper prototype is a fast and easy way to change and re-design your interface.
Four important people are involved in Paper Prototyping which are:
- user
- person who acts as a computer
- someone who becomes the facilitator
- observer
Other ways of prototyping involves animatics and rapid sketch prototyping which uses a program to make it interactive.
Tool Support- support prototyping through sketching tools, environment to support widget and icons.
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