CS 5/7312 (Spring, 2025): Homework #1
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Part 1. Discussion/short answer questions:
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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.
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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).
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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:
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2a.
Analyze its usability by consulting the 8 golden rules of interface design
and describe your activities and findings.
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2b.
How would you use the evaluation results from the above activity
to measure its usability?
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2c.
What other concrete usability metrics you might use,
and how would you collect data for them?
Due Date:
2/11/2025.
Prepared by Jeff Tian
(tian@smu.edu).
Posted: Feb. 3, 2025.
Last update: Feb. 3, 2025.