Design Tools for User Experience Design

: The purpose of this research was to develop an approach to artifact design based on information technology. To make interactive systems easy to use, many companies utilize a user centered design approach. One of the principles for user centered design is to consider the total user experience to cover all of the user’s views. To consider the total user experience is not easy because a user’s experience includes many aspects. To help support this design approach, the authors propose user experience design tools named UED (User Experience Design) Studio. Based on the requirements for a design tool for user experience design, UED Studio would be an integrated application to support design. UED Studio consists of three applications, the Definition Tool, the Evaluation Tool, and the Visualization Tool. To evaluate proposed tools, experiment to make prototype was conducted and the results indicate that the proposed approach has possibility to help designer and multi-disciplinary team to...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: HCI
• Authors: Kazuhiko Yamazaki, Kazuo Furuta
• Keywords: HCI 2007, Human Computer Interaction, User Centered Design, User Experience, User Experience Design