Week 05: Define User Needs & Evaluate AI Need

You will turn your research insights into clear design directions. Each team will create personas and user journey maps to better understand users’ goals, experiences, and challenges. You will also explore whether AI is needed for your solution and identify what data AI might require to effectively support user needs.

Topics

  • Personas
  • User Journey Maps
  • AI need to address the design challenge
  • Mapping User Needs to Data Requirements
Assignment 3: Define

Class Activity

Develop:

  • Persona(s) representing your target users using this template. You may have more than one persona. Each persona must include user needs, goals, and challenges/frustrations, demographic information, photograph, name, direct quote reflecting their need(s)
  • User journey map(s) for your persona(s) using this template. It must clearly describes the scenario, defines user goal(s), journey phases, user actions, quotes and emotions in each phase, outline opportunities to solve design challenges (using AI).

Evaluating AI need and Mapping user needs to data requirements

  • Using this template, evaluate if AI is needed to address the design challenge or improve user experience.
  • Using this template identify what data (user input, behavior, context, etc.) is needed, how data is collected and how AI might use that data to address user needs.

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