Week 7: User scenarios and information architecture

Learning Objective

By the end of this week, students will:

• Have a solid understanding of the why, when, what, and how to create scenarios
• Translate user research data to create a usage scenario
• Harness your knowledge of information architecture (IA) to create high-level navigation for your product
• Learn other IA technique for user flow mapping

Class 1

• Review personas assignment submission
• Based on research findings and UX project, plan to create a scenario for the primary persona

Class 2

• Explorer all possible product use to craft a practical information architecture for the app

Week 7 - Required preparation for class 1

Read

• Scenarios (Introduction) (opens new window)
• Using scenarios (opens new window)
• User stories (opens new window)

Lesson Slides

• Week 7-1 Lecture: Usage scenarios (opens new window)
• Week 7-1b In-class: Usage scenarios (opens new window)

Week 7 - Required preparation for class 2

Read

• Review MAD9020 Week 4 slides (opens new window) – INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
• Information Architecture Principles for Mobile (With Infographic) (opens new window)
• What is flowchart (opens new window)
• Data Architecture v.s. Information Architecture (opens new window)
  • DA, development deliverables: Data structure diagram + High-level architecture
  • IA, UX deliverable: Information architecture diagram, sitemap, wireflow, UX flow map, wireframes
    • See some 2019W project examples (opens new window)

Lesson Slides

• Week 7-2 Lecture & In-class: Information Architecture (opens new window)

References: Examples & IA Tools

• **Christmas shopping app personas and scenarios (opens new window)
• https://app.moqups.com (opens new window)
• https://mind42.com/ (opens new window)
• https://www.mindmup.com/ (opens new window)

TODO

TODO before next week

Read all the notes for Week 9 and watch the videos. This will help you answer pop-quiz questions and prepare you for the lectures and the in-class exercises.

Assignments

For class 1:

• 6. Scenario: Create a usage scenario for your primary persona

For class 2:

• 7. Information Architecture – Map out the information architecture for your app