This website is written by Mike Sinkula (et al.) and is dedicated to his studies in Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. 
Usability Testing Demonstration with Camtasia »
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Usability Testing Project Plan for Seattle Central Community College »
Introduction This usability testing project is designed to improve our understanding of how students at Seattle Central Community College (SCCC) actually use the college’s website and where they feel like the website is not meeting their intended needs. The main usability issues that we will be addressing with this usability testing project will be the [...]
Usability Testing Project Proposal for Seattle Central Community College »
Our class project group will be conducting a series of usability test on the Seattle Central Community College (SCCC) website. This website serves as an informational gateway for current, past and potential students as well as serving as a communication portal for faculty and staff.
Reading Response: Design Thinking »
In the article, Design Thinking, Tim Brown presents the idea that thinking like a designer can help one to better develop products, services, processes and strategies. He goes on to argue that designing a product alone without a marketplace does not utilize the full spectrum of a human-centered design approach. According to Brown, only by [...]
Protected: Research Activity Report: Usability Testing with User Sketches »
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Research Activity Report: Heuristic Evaluation »
Our team chose Heuristic Evaluation as our second research activity to improve our understanding of User-Centered Design for the file sharing application SugarSync. Heuristic evaluation is another discount usability engineering method that is perfect for quick, cheap, and easy evaluation of a user interface design. It involves having a small set of expert evaluators examine the interface and judge its compliance with recognized usability principles (Nielsen, 2005).
Research Activity Report: Wants & Needs Analysis »
Our group chose to conduct a Wants & Needs Analysis for our first activity to improve our understanding of User-Centered design for the file sharing application SugarSync. We chose the Wants & Needs Analysis as our first activity because it is an extremely quick and relatively inexpensive brainstorming method to gather data about user needs from multiple users simultaneously (Courage & Baxter, 2005).
Reading Response: Getting the Right Design and the Design Right »
In the article, Getting the Right Design and the Design Right: Testing Many Is Better Than One, William Buxton et al present a study where three functionally equivalent but stylistically distinct designs of a House Climate Control System were presented to potential users of the system. In this study, it was found that users are [...]
Response Paper: Principles of Contextual Inquiry »
When we think of designers, we usually envision them sitting behind a desk or a computer working on whatever it is they are designing. We rarely think of them out in the field studying with an actual user. But, is this the correct image for a User-Centered Designer? I would argue not.
Reading Response: Experimental Evaluation of Five Methods for Collecting Emotions in Field Settings with Mobile Applications »
Experimental Evaluation of Five Methods for Collecting Emotions in Field Settings with Mobile Applications by Isomursu, et al. describes how these methods, two adopted from literature and three self-created, were used in nine separate field experiments done in naturalistic settings.