Conclusion: John's Personal Conclusion

My overall conclusion of our HCI project is that our progress over the past term was quite remarkable and shows that our team moulded together rather effectively and produced a high standard of work in a relatively short period of time. This was mostly down to regular meetings to review our development and to discuss future progress in the designs of our ideas.

I feel that our final design concepts for the word-scanning device show great depth and understanding for a possible gap in the market where such a device could be utilised. I believe that this was achieved through the use of in depth research into the specific field, following a ‘user centred design’ process and in particular using personas to review our design decisions.

Personas are a good way to develop a concept by reviewing choices made during the design phase, though the eyes of the products target audience. This way we can see where a design’s features are in need of improvement or development. I feel that the personas we came up with for our project provided a good insight into possible users of our design and helped us observe issues with our original prototype, which we would of never thought of on our own accord.

Overall I think our project was a great success and was a good insight into the issues of human computer interaction. Everything was well documented in the team’s blog and a concrete design concept has been achieved.

If we were to redo this project again I feel that it could have been improved though the use of feedback from actual target users as well as personas developed with the concept in mind. Time constraints were also a major issue with the project and trying to achieve everything the team set out to do in this period was a challenge, with more time available our concept could have been developed further with more extensive documentation on the blog covering every aspect.