Students were given the task of designing a thermostat for a home. The functionality was pre-defined, as was the underlying circuitry - the size of the LCD output was locked, and there were only four buttons to work with. In the scope of the two week project, students developed personas to understand their end users. They created written scenarios of use, and mapped the functionality requirements to these scenarios. They then developed storyboards and hand-drawn prototypes, and tested these with real users. Finally, they developed high-fidelity mockups to illustrate their design solutions.

 

Shown: Thermostat interface, developed by Katie Inglis