Reflection

Was it a success?

Through my initial prototypes and then into my final prototype I feel that I have covered most if not all of the requirements set at the end of my research. This means that from all the data gathered from my research I have been able to design a Healthy Information Eating System which meets the needs/goals/tasks/expectations/opinions of my intended user group. Its because of this that I feel that this project has been a big success. I think that my HEIS design is engaging, informative, original and most importantly its usable and accessible by wide range of users which in this day and age is an important aspect. I have covered all functional requirements and my design of the interface is intuitive, consistent and user-friendly.

What I couldn't mention in my design is the environmental requirements as these things aren't the interface itself. If this design was to be taken forward and used to build a real system then the screen for example would need to be adjustable, no glare, height adjustable etc for users who may have difficulty using such a system. This would allow wheelchair users to be able to interact with the system in the same way as any other user. This accessibility combined with my GUI design would make a usable, informative and engaging system.

Next time

If I was going to carry out a similar project in the future I think that there are certainly some improvements and things I would have done differently.

• I personally feel that more interviews would have given some further insight into things that I may have missed or could have added.
• I think if I was able to research into a larger user group with different characteristics the system could have been better.
• I think I would have benefited from creating multiple personas/scenarios from the interviews so that the detail of the research was richer and possibly attract a wider spread of people to the system.
• I think that I could have created a few more lo-fi prototypes to try out different layouts and structures as it was almost instantly that I found a layout and just stuck with it, not that it was a bad layout but it could possibly have been improved.
• A final design in Photoshop would have been more professional however this would probably be the next stage after the hi-fi prototype.