Evaluating user-centred design

For this project we had to write a 3000 word essay we were told to:

• Evaluate the success of user-centred design
• demonstrate a critical understanding of the topic
• present analysis on a range of research sources
• use appropriate language
• employ hardvard
• if you are going to add images make sure they are important and referred to in the essay
• at the heart of the essay there should be three seperate case studies
• before that there must be some kind of introduction
• and following the case studies, some kind of conclusion
• The annotated bibliography is where you show the validity of your knowledge

Word count includes:

• Everything bar bibliography appendices and image captions
• add word count on it
• can go over by 10%

User-centred design means the needs wants and limitations of users, and it is an approach not a process.

Topics to follow are:

• UCD in consumer-facing products services in a specific sector
• UCD in social media platforms
• UCD in games of a particular game

Produce a written report that identifies and evaluates three case studies, for each one:

• Identify ehat the objectives are
• how user-centred design helps them to be achieved
• How design success might be evaluated

Questions to ask:

• how is the success of UCD evaluated
• who is the business
• who is the customer
• what was the problem
• how was it addressed through design
• did the design work
• how do we know it worked
• what do you think about his

For this essay I chose the topic of social media and y three case studies were Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.