Evaluation
Evaluators collect information about users’ or potential users’ experience, when interacting with
Why Evaluate?
To improve the design of any of the above-mentioned examples
Evaluation can occur in the range of places, such as:
Laboratories,
People’s homes,
Outdoor and work settings.
When to evaluate?:
throughout design; finished products can be evaluated to collect information to inform new products.
What are the Evaluation methods?
Observing = Controlled Settings, Natural Settings
Asking Users = Controlled Settings, Natural Settings
Asking Experts = Natural Settings, Without users
Testing = Controlled Settings
Modeling = Without users