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Because our product’s main purpose is to give feedback to the user during exercise, input modalities are not as important as output modalities. However, there must be some way for user to control the device, so input modalities need to be shortly discussed too.

Because our product consists of a smartphone app and training clothes embedded with future’s technology, it would have been quite difficult to build a real prototype for evaluation purposes. Keeping in mind that the essence of our product is not its physical parts but the AI-powered analytics and suggestions, building a physical prototype just to show how the product would look like seemed not very reasonable, especially considering that the clothes themselves should look and feel like regular training clothes.

Now that we have evaluated our first MVP and have some information on what potential users think about our product, we must decide how to move forward with the development of our product. We will have to come up with idea on what kind of second MVP to develop. Our product is quite challenging inContinue reading “#7 Further development plan”

After discussing about UX goals we agreed on three main goals that best capture the feelings we want our product to awaken in our users. However, we also decided that we will put forward some “sub-goals” as well that will help us communicate what we are trying to achieve with our main goals.

Our minimum viable product was created using story mapping method described in this article. We started by thinking what would the user’s story look like when using the product for the first time and separated this process to five stages: setup, preparation, exercise, feedback, and after the exercise. In real life situation feedback is not necessarily its own separate step, but instead happens both during the exercise and after it. However, the stage includes distinctive features, that couldn’t be included in either “during the exercise” or “after the exercise” without including them in both.

We saw that the customers can be split in to three different segments: beginner, intermediate and professional users. After this we created three different personas that fit each segment to see what are their needs and how would they react to the product.

Only one of us was able to attend the third workshop, so the Power/Interest Grid for Stakeholders and Customer Grouping Canvas represent his ideas on these topics. However, we agreed that the pictures will be uploaded as they are and that all of us can then comment on them to explain their own ideas. This way our thought process also becomes visible to the reader, which is a happy consequence of working this way on this particular blog post.

In our project we will follow the guidelines set down by the ISO 9241-210: 2019 standard about “Ergonomics of human-system interaction: Human-centred design for interactive systems.” The standard describes an iterative loop for designing human-centered solutions. The key parts of the loop are understanding the problem, the users and the environment, creating criteria for the understanding i.e. requirements, creating ideas, validating them preferably with users and iterating on the evaluations.

Anton is a third year bachelor’s student in industrial engineering and management. Erkka is a first year master’s student majoring in Human-Technology Interaction. He enjoys reading and sports (both doing and watching). Esa is a fifth year software engineering and UX student from Hervanta. He likes climbing and board games.