User experience for creative industries: week 2

App idea - An add on for cinema apps that allow users to input their location and find places that are showcasing more local indie films.

Research artifacts:

.UX design requirments doc

.Research plan 

.User research 

.competitor research 

.market research 

User Research

User research artifacts are essential for the early design process. These documents help designers understand users to make human-centered design decisions. User research artifacts include:

• Personas: A fictional person representing a user group. Personas provide UX designers with a human representation to focus their empathy and understanding.
• Empathy maps: A practice to empathize with users to visualize what they think, say, do, and feel when encountering a problem or situation.
• User journey maps: A step-by-step visualization of a user’s journey as they complete a task.
• Storyboards: Similar to journey maps but focus more on illustrations and storytelling to visualize an idea or concept.
• User flows: A start to finish visualization of a user’s journey through a digital product–like an eCommerce checkout process.

• Design artifacts: create one of these for the assignment
• .Sketches & paper prototypes (easy)
• .Wireframes
• .Sitemap/information architecture diagrams
• .Mockups
• .Prototypes
• .Style guide