Designing by the rules:: A user-centered approach to redesigning Aalborg University’s e-Learning Lab website

Marchev, Georgi Rumenov

4. term

Information Studies (Human Centered Informatics), Master

2014

2014-06-02

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I dette projekt udvikler jeg en praktisk metode til at designe websites for organisationer. Metoden sætter brugerne i centrum ved at fokusere på deres mål og behov og tager samtidig højde for andre faktorer, der skal indgå i designprocessen. Samtidig bygger jeg et website, som både fungerer som kilde til empiriske data og som redskab til at udvikle, eksemplificere og validere metoden. De to mål er gensidigt afhængige: fremskridt på det ene gør fremskridt på det andet muligt. Arbejdet er guidet af en brugercentreret tilgang og kombinerer tre etablerede modeller: Rogers m.fl.s livscyklus for interaktionsdesign (en enkel cyklus af kerneaktiviteter), Morville og Rosenfelds balancerede tilgang til research (til at afveje forskellige perspektiver og typer af viden) og Garretts model for elementerne i brugeroplevelsen (til at se på forskellige lag i oplevelsen). Tilsammen udgør modellerne en ramme, som jeg anvender i redesignet af e-Learning Labs website, et forskningscenter ved Institut for Kommunikation og Psykologi på Aalborg Universitet.

This project develops a practical method for designing websites for organizations. The method puts users at the center by focusing on their goals and needs, while also considering other factors that must be accounted for in the design process. At the same time, I build a website that serves as a source of empirical data and as a tool to develop, illustrate, and validate the method. These two goals are interdependent: progress on one enables progress on the other. The work follows a user-centered approach and combines three established models: Rogers et al.'s interaction design lifecycle (a simple cycle of core activities), Morville and Rosenfeld's balanced approach to research (to weigh different perspectives and types of evidence), and Garrett's elements of the user experience (to consider different layers of the experience). Together, these models form a framework that I apply in the redesign of the website for the e-Learning Lab, a research center in the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University.

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web design ; e-Learning Lab ; eLL ; e-Lab ; redesign ; user-centered ; methodology ; user experience ; information architecture

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