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User-centered Design
COSC 2628
Project Milestone 3: Prototyping and Testing

Assessment
Type
Group project with individual component. Groups as allocated via tutorials and created on
Canvas. Submit online via Canvas→Assignments→Project Milestone 3 GROUP and Individual
Reflections. Marks awarded for meeting requirements as closely as possible.
Clarifications/updates may be made via announcements/relevant discussion forums.
Due Date Sunday 12th June 2022, 11:59pm (Group), 16th June 2022 11:59PM (Individual)
Marks 20 (Group) + 10 (Individual)


1. Overview

The objective of this project is to design a prototype for a mobile application based on your group’s choice of project
for milestone 1. This mobile application can either be for the Android or iOS platform. These three projects are based
on real world client briefs. As you will be using data gained in milestone 1 for milestone 3, you cannot change projects
halfway through.
A: Online clothing mall B: Find a babysitter C: Dog sharing service
Goal: To encourage users to shop
for clothing online, including
second hand clothing
Client: A mall provider, such as
Westfield in collaboration with a
clothing recycling charity.
Goal: To help parents find regular
or one-off babysitters for their
children, and to help babysitters
find parents they can work for.
Client: A parenting site such as
babycenter, who want to provide
additional services
Goal: To help people find someone
to walk their dog because they are
unwell, elderly or unexpectedly
time poor, and to help people find
dogs they can walk and share with
others.
Client: An animal welfare charity
who want to improve dog
wellbeing and reduce dog
surrender.

Upon successful completion of this milestone you should be able to:
- CLO2: Understand the components of a design plan and apply user-centred design process from
requirement gathering to user studies and evaluation.
- CLO3: Critically analyse usability of sample interfaces and identify key features that make an
outstanding user-centred interface, and evaluate the usability of a small-to-medium-sized software
application.
- CLO5: Apply software and paper prototyping tools to design user interfaces that take into account
human capabilities and constraints, users’ needs, usability goals and user experience goals.
- CLO6: Synthesize the design and evaluation of various components of user interface effectively in
teams and peer-review team members’ works and contributions.

2. Assessment details (Group)

Target Users
It is your task to research this and provide structured user groups with their own needs and goals as well as the
personas.

Functional Requirements
Based on your findings in Milestone 1, implement at least four main features in your prototype. This does not include
minor supporting functions such as logging in, registering, log out and changing password. Each feature has to be
complete in terms of a critical path based on your key path scenario.
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Deliverables:
Prototype Component – as a link in the introduction of the report.
The prototype will be based on your project file residing on the Figma Platform. Assessment
of prototype will include:
1) Fulfilling the functional requirements brief.
- Do you have all the features requested? Did you provide examples of user inputs?
2) Page layout and navigation patterns used.
- Is the layout suitable to your form factor?
- Are you grouping the wrong elements together?
3) Intuitive design and aesthetics.
- Look at the principle of affordance.
- Was the application easy to understand, with proper use of colors and element sizes?
- Do the patterns fit the mobile platform?
4) Interactions actually working as intended.
- Does your prototype provide example inputs?
- Does your prototype provide example responses to user inputs?

Report Component
The PDF report component contains two main sections:
Section 1: User Testing
A report of one user test per member in your team. Run the user test online with a real
world target user. Follow these steps:
1) Recruit your user. Ensure you screen them by asking some basic questions.
Include your recruitment method in your report.
2) Prepare a brief script and use attachment 1 as a template. Ensure that the scenarios are the same across all
the tests done by your group and only share the scenarios with the user.
3) Run the test at the allotted time with your user. We recommend creating a meeting
on Teams and invite your user as a guest. Share your prototype link and send them
the scenarios. Next request your user to share their browser tab so you can observe
their actions and also listen to them thinking aloud as they work on those tasks. You
Tips
1) There are multiple ways to fulfill the requirements but look at similar
applications to see what worked and what did not.
2) Try not to approach the problem from a technical point of view. Think about
what the users want at this stage and how your app would achieve both the
client’s and the users’ goals.

Software tool for prototyping - Figma
Figma ( http://www.figma.com ) is an online prototyping tool that supports all fidelities
and collaborative efforts. To register a free education account, please register using
your rmit email address and it will be upgraded from a trial.

For assignment 3:
Figma has a powerful editing set of tools for you to design your interfaces, and it
supports many UX libraries around. For example for your wireframes here you can
use this: https://www.figma.com/resources/assets/wireframe-kit/
Other options: You can also try Axure, Proto.io or lucidchart.
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may record the session with their permission but do not submit the recordings, they
are just raw data for your analysis.
4) Ask the user some post test questions and thank them.
5) Analyse your observations and feedback to produce your report.
In your report, provide:
a) Your methodology (recruitment and running of the tests)
b) Results of the test - what went well, and what did not,
c) any improvements you recommend and have implemented, and
d) the filled in template (attachment 1) for all tests.

Section 2: Pattern Description
Describe the main patterns that you have used to build your prototype. In this section, provide all the screens that you
have created, label and annotate each one. This is so if your prototype becomes unrecoverable, we still have a record
of your work. It is also a good way for us to understand your design.
Ensure your design is final before completing this section.

3. Submission (Group)

You must submit all the relevant material as listed below via Canvas. A group will be available for your team, so any of
the members can upload a PDF version of your report.

After the due date, you will have 5 business days to submit your report as a late submission. Late submissions will incur
a penalty of 10% per day. After these five days, Canvas will be closed and you will lose ALL the assessment marks.

4. Individual Quiz Submission

Individual Component (10 marks) Interview Quiz on your user testing session.

You will reflect on your user testing experience by answering three questions. In this quiz you will also be required to
submit a short 1-minute video of yourself and a photo ID. You can access this quiz via Milestone 3 Reflections on Canvas
addressing the question in the Quiz.

5. Assessment declaration:

When you submit work electronically, you agree to the assessment declaration:
https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/student-essentials/assessment-and-exams/assessment/assessment-declaration

6. Academic integrity and plagiarism (standard warning)

Academic integrity is about honest presentation of your academic work. It means acknowledging the work of others while
developing your own insights, knowledge, and ideas. You should take extreme care that you have:

• Acknowledged words, data, diagrams, models, frameworks and/or ideas of others you have quoted (i.e. directly
copied), summarised, paraphrased, discussed or mentioned in your assessment through the appropriate
referencing methods,
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• Provided a reference list of the publication details so your reader can locate the source if necessary. This includes
material taken from Internet sites.

If you do not acknowledge the sources of your material, you may be accused of plagiarism because you have passed off
the work and ideas of another person without appropriate referencing, as if they were your own.

RMIT University treats plagiarism as a very serious offence constituting misconduct. Plagiarism covers a variety of
inappropriate behaviours, including:

• Failure to properly document a source
• Copyright material from the internet or databases
• Collusion between students
For further information on our policies and procedures, please refer to https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/student-
essentials/rights-and-responsibilities/academic-integrity

7. Marking Guidelines

Please see rubric on the assignment page on Canvas.


Attachment 1:


User Test #
Date: Time: Facilitator:
Task 1 Insert scenario for the user.
Observations:
Task 2 Insert scenario for the user.
Observations: