Week 05 Assignment

Question

Instructions:

Your goal this week is to pick a single design concept.
Ideally you would base this decision on some kind of concept test with your target users.

Task:

Create a blog post on your Week #5 page with:

The concept you are pursuing, with whatever refinements you have made to date. Ideally you will use what you have learned in the visual expression modules. (However, in some cases the domains you are working in will not lend themselves to sketching as we have taught it.) Make sure to annotate the concept so it is clear to your peer evaluators.

I will pursue with a combination of two of my concepts.

Remember that my gap is "A solution where I can store and easily find information for my Music Collection in details, including all release formats, providing reports and search options."

I have chosen "An App in my Computer Accessible from Everywhere Through the Internet - Concept J", which will have the most refinements and "An Excel File in my Phone - Concept D".  These two actually got the highest score in the matrix.

So Concept J will have to change:

• The App will be a Microsoft Access Database. I am more familiar with this than creating apps.
• This will not be accesible through internet, however it will allow to download a copy (last backuped) for local use whenever needed. This as you 're never sure about internet availability and it's quality when online searching through a Database when needed.
• The above mentioned, will not be the only mobility option as I will merge with Concept D:
• The Database have Exporting to Excel Options, so I can always have the latest data backuped in my phone, making Internet conection less important. Plus it's a format easily readable in any smartphone device.

So I guess I have to rename Concept J as:

"A Database in my Computer, that can be downloaded from Everywhere Through the Internet and exports An Excel File for use in my Phone"

 A short description of the process you used to test your concept (or concepts) with target users. This may be a concept test in which you pose three alternatives and ask users to pick their preferred alternative. It could be a concept test in which you measure "purchase intent" with the five-point intention scale explained in the video. Really, the main objective is to show some users some concepts and/or prototypes and get their feedback.

Actually, I couldn't find many of my friends dealing this gap.
This fact along with the nature of my project, being a computer app that can't tell much if not completed, made me choose a combination of processes.
I first made a Purchase Intent where i actually presented not the concept but my gap: Would you buy a solution where you can store and easily find information for your Music Collection in details, including all release formats, providing reports and search options?
This made them show interest in the whole project, so then I presented three of my concepts and let us have a discussion about them. There is where all the refinements were born as with the discussion we kept what we liked and spoted the problems.
At last I got them in a Forced Choise situation, where i asked them to choose only one of the above concepts.