Project Documentation, Pt. I

You’ve spent the past 3 weeks problem-defining, interviewing, creating site maps, and wireframing. Let’s talk about it.

For your next post, you won’t be responding to this one. You’ll start your own. (Whether you post to the “Principles & Practice of User Experience” publication or not, you’ll begin by writing a new story.)

Your post should address the following:

1. What is the need / problem your website is trying to solve?
2. What did you learn about your users from your interviews? What are their goals and motivations for using the website? What are their pain points?
3. Based on your interviews, how will you measure the success of your designs? Be explicit. Are your measurements quantitative or qualitative — or both?
4. Describe the process of designing your site map. What informed your decisions to organize your navigation and your content in the way you did? What was the easiest part? What was the most difficult part?
5. Describe the process of designing your initial wireframes. What, if anything, were you able to modularize? What was the easiest part? What was the most difficult part?
6. Summarize and respond to the feedback you received on your intial wireframes. Do you agree / disagree with your peers’ feedback? Why or why not?
7. What are your next steps for your project?