portfolio > prototypes
In my first year at Bentley, I took a prototyping class with Chauncey Wilson (Autodesk). Our assignments varied: we created personas, and created submissions for the Usability Professionals Association Body of Knowledge (to name a couple).
persona
The assignment was to create a persona, based on assumptions and light research for a user of a job search website. As I was a recent graduate from college, I chose to create a persona of a recent college graduate searching for a job, attempting to do so with LinkedIn.com. I used PowerPoint to format the persona.
rich picture
One of our first assignments was to create a Rich Picture to help us visualize a process including various stakeholders. I chose to create a rich picture of the flow of goods and services of a local coffee shop. I used PowerPoint to create this rich picture, and learned that visualizing relationships and processes is important in understanding them.
wireframe
During the months I spent researching Human Factors organizations, I visited many websites. As part of an assignment, I created a wireframe of such a website. I used PowerPoint to create this wireframe. I found that using color made the process more difficult, and from then on omitted color from my wireframes.
medium fidelity prototype
Using Microsoft PowerPoint, I created a medium fidelity prototype for a fictional car payment calculator. This was my first attempt at creating a clickable prototype in PowerPoint and found it clunky and time-consuming, however, it was able to do the job.