Practical UX_Fall 2024
Final Project: Redesign or Improve a Website or Application
Objective:
In teams, you will collaborate to redesign or improve an existing website or application. The goal is to demonstrate your understanding of UX design by creating high-fidelity wireframes, along with a PowerPoint presentation that includes a a project summary and a comprehensive explanation of your design thinking process. Additionally, you will reflect on and present the lessons learned throughout the project.
Project Requirements:
1. High-Fidelity Wireframes:
● Create 2-3 (or more) high-fidelity wireframes of your final design.
● Use Figma to create the wireframes, ensuring they are polished and well-detailed. You need to create a Figma file and include the access link in your final Power Point presentation.
2. Project Summary:
In your summary, include:
● Challenges: What was the design challenge you identified at the start of the project? Explain the specific problems or areas of improvement you aimed to address in the existing website or application.
● Roles: Describe the role of each team member. Who handled specific tasks such as research, design, and prototyping?
● Timeline: Outline the timeline for the project, including key milestones (research, ideation, wireframing, prototyping).
● Final Solution: Summarize the final solution. Explain how your redesign solves the identified problems or improves the existing design.
● Lessons Learned: Reflect on the lessons learned from working on the project. What insights did you gain about the design process, teamwork, or user needs?
3. Design Thinking Process:
Provide a detailed breakdown of your design thinking process, including:
1. Empathize: Explain how you gathered data on user needs. Did you conduct usability
testing, user interviews, heuristic evaluations, surveys, or other methods? What was the key finding from your research?
2. Define: Clearly define the problem(s) you aimed to solve with your redesign. Be specific about user pain points or areas of improvement.
3. Ideate: Discuss your brainstorming process. What ideas did you generate, and how did you choose the best solution?
4. Prototype: Show how you turned your ideas into wireframes and designs. Include visuals of early drafts if applicable.
5. Test: If you performed user testing, explain how it informed changes in your design. Did you make any iterations based on feedback? How did you refine your prototype?
Make sure to include visual data in this section, such as:
● User personas
● User journeys
● Sketches or wireframe. drafts
4. PowerPoint Presentation:
● Create a PowerPoint presentation that includes:
○ An Introduction to the project
○ An overview of the design thinking process
○ High-fidelity wireframes of your final design
○ Visual data (e.g., personas, journey maps, sketches)
○ The Project Summary (challenges, roles, timeline, final solution, lessons learned)
● Include a link to your Figma files in the presentation for easy access to your design work.
Deliverables:
● High-fidelity wireframes (2-3 or more) in Figma
● Project summary (challenges, roles, timeline, solution, lessons learned)
● Design thinking process with key findings from research, iterations, and visuals
● PowerPoint presentation including a link to your Figma files
Important Notes:
● Team collaboration: Ensure every team member contributes meaningfully to the project.
● Present visually: Your presentation should be clear, engaging, and visually appealing, with enough visuals to explain your process. Iterate if needed: If you conducted testing or received feedback, mention any iterations made and how it improved the design.
● Prepare in advance: Make sure your PowerPoint and Figma files are ready by the presentation day.