{"id":874,"date":"2026-03-29T19:23:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sova.ourcloud.ou.edu\/elliott\/?p=874"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:45:48","slug":"aix-design-prototype-lo-fi-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sova.ourcloud.ou.edu\/elliott\/2026\/03\/29\/aix-design-prototype-lo-fi-test\/","title":{"rendered":"AIX Design: Prototype Lo-Fi &amp; Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Objective<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The objective of this stage was to test the core user flows of&nbsp;<em>Dearly<\/em>&nbsp;using a low-fidelity paper prototype. I wanted to understand how the app is easy to understand for first-time users, identify usability issues early, and validate whether users can successfully complete key tasks like onboarding, journaling, and reflecting on their mood patterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AI Usage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I used ChatGPT to help analyze and easily understand my key findings and insights from the cognitive walkthroughs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After conducting the walkthroughs and taking notes on user behavior, confusion points, and errors, I used AI to organize these observations into clear patterns and themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Example Prompt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cHelp me summarize key findings from the cognitive walkthroughs for my journaling app. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are my notes:\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Output:<\/strong><br>AI grouped my observations into themes such as onboarding clarity issues, decision overload when choosing journaling formats, unclear save flow, and confusion in the Reflect section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Benefits &amp; Challenges<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>AI helped me quickly organize my findings into clear, readable insights. Instead of manually sorting through all my notes, I was able to identify patterns more efficiently and present them in a structured way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outputs sometimes generalized my findings, so I had to review and adjust them to make sure they accurately reflected what I observed during testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reflection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>AI played a supporting role in this stage by helping me process and communicate my findings more effectively. I conducted the testing, gathered the data, and identified the issues, while AI helped organize and refine those insights into clear themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, I was responsible for the research and analysis, and AI assisted with structuring and summarizing the results.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Objective The objective of this stage was to test the core user flows of&nbsp;Dearly&nbsp;using a low-fidelity paper prototype. I wanted to understand how the app is easy to understand for first-time users, identify usability issues early, and validate whether users can successfully complete key tasks like onboarding, journaling, and reflecting on their mood patterns. AI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sova.ourcloud.ou.edu\/elliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sova.ourcloud.ou.edu\/elliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sova.ourcloud.ou.edu\/elliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sova.ourcloud.ou.edu\/elliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sova.ourcloud.ou.edu\/elliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sova.ourcloud.ou.edu\/elliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"https:\/\/sova.ourcloud.ou.edu\/elliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sova.ourcloud.ou.edu\/elliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sova.ourcloud.ou.edu\/elliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sova.ourcloud.ou.edu\/elliott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}