This interactive workshop will introduce methods for evaluating and critiquing visualisation tools and software in a practical, straightforward way. Using a mixture of teaching and hands-on activities, you will learn about heuristic analysis, critique, usability testing and emotional response assessment. The skills you gain will help you make a difference to the user experience of the tools you work on, at the same time being able to evaluate alternatives and competitors.
In this workshop, Francis Rowland, together with several members of the Heidelberg Unseminars in Bioinformatics (HUB) group, will introduce some of the concepts and practices that he applies in his work as a UX designer at the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute.
This session aims to complement the session on UX design delivered by Francis at VIZBI 2013. That tutorial focused on user research, developing design empathy, and understanding the audience and this year, we’ll look at evaluating the tools you might have gone on to create for that audience.
Tags: tutorial, user experience, UX, UX design, VIZBI, VIZBI 2014