{"id":229,"date":"2009-07-11T13:51:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T20:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=229"},"modified":"2009-07-11T13:51:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T20:51:40","slug":"basic-discovery-questions-pt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"Basic discovery questions (pt 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Set of basic foundational questions to help a UI designer (or user researcher) get up to speed on a project, focused on understanding the core functionality, primary user goals\/tasks, and targeted scenarios of use. These questions are meant as a good baseline starting point, and are not comprehensive nor exhaustive!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>USER SCENARIOS<\/strong>: A summary of the common &#8220;story of use&#8221; of the product by the aforementioned typical user<\/p>\n<p>* What circumstances start the product usage?<\/p>\n<p>* What drives the usage? What sustains using the product?<\/p>\n<p>* What decisions happen at what events?<\/p>\n<p>* Where do things happen?<\/p>\n<p>* When do things happen?<\/p>\n<p>* What is the pacing\/timing of events and decisions?<\/p>\n<p>* What is the social life of the information? (meaning who else is involved, other actions outside the product that occur, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>* What are the artifacts in the system (or resulting from using the product) and what do they do or indicate? Who else uses them?<\/p>\n<p>* When is the usage complete? What is considered &#8220;done&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set of basic foundational questions to help a UI designer (or user researcher) get up to speed on a project, focused on understanding the core functionality, primary user goals\/tasks, and targeted scenarios of use. These questions are meant as a good baseline starting point, and are not comprehensive nor exhaustive! USER SCENARIOS: A summary of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=229\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Basic discovery questions (pt 3)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}