Parenting Mobile Application Concept Design based on User-Centred Design principle
Sharma, Chandni (2017)
Sharma, Chandni
Haaga-Helia ammattikorkeakoulu
2017
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2017053111265
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2017053111265
Tiivistelmä
In the world of smartphones as the basic inevitability, it is quite challenging to design a mo-bile app prototype for a social science field which has been in research for more than 80 years. Parenting involves emotional and psychological journey with the motive of raising great kids. Parenting mobile app development requires extensive consideration as humans are creatures filled with experiences and feelings.
The objective of this thesis is to design the concept of parenting mobile app prototype using User-Centered Design principles. The research work aimed to understand, interpret and describe the phenomena of parenting and find out answers of needs parents have.
User Experience, UCD, Human-centered approach and usability engineering process holds the backbone of the thesis work.
The focus was on investigating Finnish parents and their parenting style. The scope was limited to parents in Finland. This has provided stronger conclusive results which can be further expanded to other countries and cultures, according to the scope and environment changes. Gathering requirements from the parents, analyzing the data collected from survey and interviews and creating a scenario-based design further prototyping into mobile app covers the process summary.
Online prototyping tools were used to design the mobile app prototype to bring the real feel to the project. The project details were kept in scope to initial design. It does not include any functional implementation.
It was a constructive research which resulted in a successful prototype design. Following the UCD principles ease the process of user study, data collection and interpretation and designing the prototype. Usability testing helped in evaluating the design concept. The prototype evaluation report indicated that the app is easy to use and provides satisfactory user experience.
The objective of this thesis is to design the concept of parenting mobile app prototype using User-Centered Design principles. The research work aimed to understand, interpret and describe the phenomena of parenting and find out answers of needs parents have.
User Experience, UCD, Human-centered approach and usability engineering process holds the backbone of the thesis work.
The focus was on investigating Finnish parents and their parenting style. The scope was limited to parents in Finland. This has provided stronger conclusive results which can be further expanded to other countries and cultures, according to the scope and environment changes. Gathering requirements from the parents, analyzing the data collected from survey and interviews and creating a scenario-based design further prototyping into mobile app covers the process summary.
Online prototyping tools were used to design the mobile app prototype to bring the real feel to the project. The project details were kept in scope to initial design. It does not include any functional implementation.
It was a constructive research which resulted in a successful prototype design. Following the UCD principles ease the process of user study, data collection and interpretation and designing the prototype. Usability testing helped in evaluating the design concept. The prototype evaluation report indicated that the app is easy to use and provides satisfactory user experience.