UI/UX and uses of data

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Objectives:

• The goal of this lab assignment is for students to distinguish between good and bad UI/UX using real-world examples. Through practical examples and observations, students will gain an understanding of how to evaluate UI/UX through a checklist of what to look for.

Resources needed for this lab

References, a video, a PowerPoint and some notes are available at my website https://www.aholdengouveia.name/IntroData/usesofdata.html

• BadUI battles on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/badUIbattles/
• Bad UI examples https://goulartnogueira.github.io/BadUI/

• Webby Awards https://www.webbyawards.com/
• UX design awards https://ux-design-awards.com/

Answer the following questions

Each of the above 4 websites above showcases some of the best and the worst of UI/UX. Going through the entries/comments/winners/submissions please answer the following questions using the 10 point checklist and feedback pointers from https://designlab.com/blog/design-critique-checklist-for-ux-designers#ten If the point isn't relevant to your question, you may include an explanation of why instead. For example, if you want to critique a physical product, it may not have a navigation or mobile design to give feedback on, and it's ok to explain that.

You should pick 4 specific examples from the above websites. The 4 examples are going to be your favorite, least favorite, most humorous, and who should have won.

• What was your favorite design? Evaluate it using the checklist.
• What was your least favorite design? Or most aggravating design?Evaluate it using the checklist.
• Which of the bad examples did you find most humorous and why? Evaluate it using the checklist.
• From the good example submissions, but not winners, who do you think should have won an award, And why? Evaluate it using the checklist.

Deliverables

1. A text document with answers to each of the above questions, making sure to include the 10 point checklist for EACH of the 4 choices you picked from above. An example of this is attached to the lab, you can fill this table out for each of your 4 choices. You may do 4 documents clearly labelled for which one it is, or one document that contains all 4 clearly labelled.
2. Find an article from the past year on a use of data that you consider bad or unethical, make sure the article is from a reputable source using the CRAAP test, and specific to a company/industry.