User Experience Design - Task 2
Design, good and bad, is prevalent all around us. One might think that good design is based on a personal preference. However, most “poor” designs are often called so because they don’t reflect the user’s needs. Good User Experience (UX) Design is all about predicting user roadblocks and possible design problems.
For a user to have a good experience, the product needs to have the following characteristics:
1. Usable
For a product to be usable, it needs to be discoverable and understandable.
It means that the design, structure, and motive of the product are clear to the user. The user should be able to figure out what actions can be performed and how to perform these actions on the product. They should also be able to understand what the different controls and settings mean, and how the product is supposed to be used.
2. Equitable
An equitable product is designed so that users with diverse backgrounds and abilities are able to use and enjoy it.
An equitable product delivers a high-quality user experience to all its users regardless of their age, gender identity, race or ability. Equity goes beyond equality. Equality aims to provide equal resources to all, whereas equity aims to provide resources based on the different needs. This is especially important to consider for commonly disenfranchised groups.
3. Enjoyable
An enjoyable product design makes the user happy.
The design creates a positive relationship with the user. A product does not need to be enjoyable for it to function properly. But, an enjoyable design enhances the user’s positive feelings about the product.
4. Useful
A product is useful if it solves a user problem. It is important to note the difference betweenusable and useful.
Usability refers to the product working well and being easy to use, while usefulness refers to the product’s ability to solve user problems.
Base on this the next task we need to do is to do a design audit based on our previous Task 1 mobile application that we chose (that plays a role for our own project). Since I chose "ZARA" application, I need to dive in more on the application.