Usability Redesign

more details will be given Reports should be around 3000 words in length and should be accompanied by a prototype redesigned given website. This is a suggestion not a word limit. Stage 1 – Analyse the usability problem with the website Use a rapid evaluation technique (such as a heuristic analysis to identify between THREE and FIVE usability issues with the (Given) site. Please only conduct a brief analysis and write it up in less than 500 words. Stage 2 – Conduct a brief PACT analysis for the website Who are the people, activities, contexts and technology related to finding out about the restaurant? Outline your PACT analysis and pay particular attention to ideas for improving the potential customers’ experience. Stage 3 - Develop a paper (or other) prototype redesign Following your assessment of the website, you should develop a low fidelity ‘paper’ prototype that addresses the issues with that you have encountered. You should present this prototype as an interface design (one ‘screen’ or small set of linked ‘screens’). You can use paper and pencil, HTML and CSS, PowerPoint slides, Photoshop, MSPaint or any other method to produce this prototype – try and develop a ‘home page’ that ‘gives an impression’ of how you would redesign the current resource. Stage 4 – Participatory design Involve some users in discussing or improving the redesign. website? Can they ‘walk through’ an information finding task? Identify any problems or opportunities uncovered by your users. Either note improvements to be made to your design or annotate alterations on the prototype interface. Write up you findings (less than 1000 words). Describe how (or even if) the user involvement method led to any alterations of your initial prototype. Annotate any changes you made to the design. Finally, please include a short reflection on whether collaborating with participant users aided you in your redesign task.