How to assess the way users execute tasks and how to understand the context behind it
We’ll briefly discuss task analysis and scenarios as optional information architecture topics which may be helpful for your projects.
Learning Objectives
- Differentiate between a cognitive and hierarchical task analysis
- Describe the purpose of task analysis
- Decompose larger tasks into smaller tasks
- Identify tasks to observe for a given project
- Define a scenario
- Explain how a scenario is helpful for conducting usability testing
Resources
Task Analysis
Use Cases
Scenarios
In this class, we will go through two main topics:
- Task Analysis
- Scenarios
Further Reading
- Task Analysis lecture notes from Matthias Rauterberg