diff --git a/User-Experience.markdown b/User-Experience.markdown deleted file mode 100644 index 2e65ef4..0000000 --- a/User-Experience.markdown +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ -First page about Briar app's Interaction Design. - -NB: I will use the acronym "UX" as an umbrella term for all of this work. Personally I don't like the term as it doesn't mean anything specific. To be specific, the UX section will cover: - -- **User Research (UR)** thinking that goes into the Briar Project app. User research is the discovery of what a user wants and needs. Why would a user would to use Briar? How would they use it? What do they need it to do? -- **Interaction Design (IxD)** of the Briar Project app. To reference the Enclopedia of Interaction Design, "Interaction Design is about shaping digital things for people’s use." IxD is the design of how the technology and human user interact. -- **User Interface (UI)** design of the Briar Project app. UI design is concerned with the visual elements the user uses to interact with the application. It is concerned with the use of correct visual elements, the correct placement of these elements. -- **Usability Testing (UT)** to make sure we are doing the right things. Usability testing of anapplication like this will be difficult due to so many concerns around privacy of the user, access to users in difficult areas of the world. However, usabiliy testing, however guerilla it is is necessary. - -UX does not mean "make it sexy". Software does not need to be sexy. - -UX is much more than just "UX/UI". \ No newline at end of file