• Part 1. Discussion/short answer questions:
  • 1a. What is UX (user experience)? What is usability? What are the similarities and differences between the two? Try to use some concrete examples to illustrate your answer.
  • 1b. What is universal usability (UU)? How would you characterize it? (Hint: consider in-class discussion of this topic in addition to what is presented in the DTUI book).

• Part 2. UI design/evaluation
  Select a software, an application, a Web site, an online service, a smart device, a game, or anything with computer/software embedded in it, that you may interact with as a user, and perform the following:
  • 2a. Analyze its usability by consulting the 8 golden rules of interface design and describe your activities and findings.
  • 2b. How would you use the evaluation results from the above activity to measure its usability?
  • 2c. What other concrete usability metrics you might use, and how would you collect data for them?

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