Road to Usability

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This activity is offered free of charge for your use in educational settings or World Usability Day events.

On this page: Activity Summary | Learning Goals | Preparation | Setup | Moderating

Activity Summary

Description:

This is a poster that illustrates the progression of a product from idea to execution. The poster is augmented (if possible) with physical artifacts from the development cyle. These artifacts might include early design sketches, home-spun prototypes, and the final product.

Activity type:

Poster or diorama

Good for:

Persons of all ages

Requires:

Poster creation materials, product development artifacts

Minimum activity time:

5 minutes

Docents/Moderators:

No moderator necessary, however one might be used to answer questions

Equipment:

• Poster=-making equipment
• Artifacts from the development process
• Table for displaying artifacts

Activity Signs

• docs/signs/Sign_road.pdf (488K PDF)

Learning goals

This activity gives participants a view into the product development process. The artifacts chosen might include cocktail-napkin sketches, popcicle-stick prototypes, and other visually interesting pieces of the product develoment process.

Activity Preparation

1. Identify an organization willing to share prodoct evolution artifacts
2. Create a poster/table display from the materials, taking care to protect the artifacts from harm.

Activity Setup

1. Hang the poster in a clearly-visible area, and set up artifacts on a table.

Activity Moderation

This activity could be moderated or unmoderated.

Found a Better Way? Question? Comment?

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