Considering User Specific Design Criteria Gathered From a Participatory Design Study: A Case Study on Designing Icons for an Info-Assistant System Interface

Number: 14 June 1, 2011
  • Öğr. Gör. Dr. Asım Evren Yantaç
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Considering User Specific Design Criteria Gathered From a Participatory Design Study: A Case Study on Designing Icons for an Info-Assistant System Interface

Abstract

This article shares our experiences on how a participatory design study can be effective in building up design criteria for a specific design problem. Our research is based on concepts gathered through surveys applied to user groups, which are turned into specific design criteria and then into icon sets with a participatory evaluation study, and finally presented to the user groups again via control tests. In the end, all the data collected from three studies are turned into design criteria for future studies. In the study carried out, design criteria have been established by a certain group of designers at the end of the first stage in which 180 users participated. The study resulted with % 9 increase in user success. But the main outcome is the case specific design criteria gathered through an iterative-participatory design study.

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Turkish

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Authors

Öğr. Gör. Dr. Asım Evren Yantaç

Publication Date

June 1, 2011

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February 4, 2014

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Year 1970 Number: 14

APA
Yantaç, Ö. G. D. A. E. (2011). Katılımcı Tasarım Çalışmasında Ortaya Çıkan Kullanıcıya Özel Tasarım Kriterlerinin Değerlendirilmesi: Bilgi-Destek Sistemi Arayüzünde Yer Alan İkonlar İçin Bir Vaka Çalışması. Galatasaray Üniversitesi İletişim Dergisi, 14, 97-113. https://izlik.org/JA96LN25UZ

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