Research Assistant App
In a nutshell...
Mobile/Desktop Website. Google UX/UI Certification 2022.
Summary
The user problem for this project was how user experience design could help individuals with muscle impairment conduct research easier.
Team/Others
I was the designer and had two rounds of user testers.
Results
After this project, my understanding of designing for disability and inclusion increased ten-fold. I understood the importance before, but I understood more how this type of design helped everyone, not just those who were different.
Constraints
Time was about 3 months of research, design, and user testing.
Research Problem
The Google Certification course I took had us do three projects. My third one was to design a mobile app and website to create pleasant experience for data research for muscular impaired people.
Project Duration 2022 Jan - 2022 Apr
Goals
Create a design tool that will help people successfully gather articles, cite authors and research for their research projects. The goals were to specifically help individuals with disabilities, but the goals were universal.
Study Findings
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Users need better cues to get from certain screens back to where they were.
2.
Prototype should include more familiar language.
3.
Users enjoy the idea that an in-text cite would be convenient and easy.
Persona: Alex Thompson
Alex Thompson is a student with Essential Tremor who needs to add some research to her paper for her team research paper because teamwork is very important for her ideations of success.
Wireframes
The entire wireframing process consisted of prototyping with different groups of people to ensure that usability and ease of navigation was kept at the forefront of the design. It should be easy to select articles and add them to specific projects as well as find citations.
