Assessment Summary
The purpose of the second assessment task is to perform, and report on a usability evaluation using a digital system that aligns with the focus of your usability principles/guidelines in the first assessment task. The evaluation should also consider user needs by creating a user persona. The critique will describe the interface, present areas that have high usability areas with design concerns. Some low-fidelity designs will demonstrate suggested fixes or improvements based upon your findings, or your own ideas given your understanding of usability. These changes can refer to specific aspects of the interface, re-designing specific functionality/tasks, or a combination of both.
Your Digital System
The digital system that you will use needs to align with the focus of your guidelines/principles presented and justified in the first assessment task. Students who do not use a system related to their first assessment task risk receiving no marks for this assessment.For example, website usability guidelines and principles require you to choose a website (maybe one fitting a particular genre, eg online shopping). If you are det
ermined to choose a different digital system that does not match the work you have completed in Assessment 1,then you need to seek approval from the Unit Chair before starting given your evaluation criteria will be incomplete/missing. For students who have not completed the first assessment task, you will need toresearch, understand, and apply usability guidelines and principles to a related digital system. Questions or concerns over digital systems can be asked in the Assessment 2 Questions discussion topic.
Analysis and Evaluation of the Digital System
There are two main tasks associated with this assessment. Firstly, you need to complete a usability analysis of your digital system (likely to be a website/web app, software program, mobile app or game) and write a commentary on the best and worst parts of the interface.Secondly, you are required to present examples of fixed, improved or new interfaces in response to some of the findings of your evaluation.These interfaces will show the visual design and can show specific functionality relevant to your digital system from your understanding of task analysis.
Analysis of the Digital System