How to Design Potential Solutions for a Cross-Country Platform that Leverages Students’ Diversity: A User-Centered Design Approach – and its Challenges

Giulia D'Ettole, Thomas Bjørner*, Amalia De Götzen

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Abstract

This paper outlines a methodological perspective within the research question of how to design potential solutions for a cross-country platform that leverages students’ diversity to address their everyday challenges at the university level. Overall, students’ challenges can have different nuances based on academic, social, and psychological factors. This paper provides an applied approach into scenarios, personas, and blueprints. We used the double diamond design process model to design the multi-platform service. This paper will mainly focus on a case study from Mexico within its define and development stages, including suggestions for how to design potential solutions. Our study is based on interviews and workshops with 250 university students and 10 university staff members. Our findings reveal that the service blueprint work was an effective tool to provide an overarching view of the service and its components. The service blueprint allowed the design team to mentally zoom in and out during the design process and helped the larger team to generate new ideas and discuss current elements of the service being offered. However, the service blueprint is also time-consuming and demands significant structured coordination.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDesign, User Experience, and Usability. Case Studies in Public and Personal Interactive Systems : 9th International Conference, DUXU 2020, Held as Part of the 22nd HCI International Conference, HCII 2020, Proceedings
EditorsAaron Marcus, Elizabeth Rosenzweig
Number of pages12
Volume12202
Place of PublicationSpringer Cham
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2020
Pages415-426
ISBN (Print)978-3-030-49756-9
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-030-49757-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Event22nd International Conference on Human Computer Interaction - Copenhagen, Denmark
Duration: 19 Jul 202024 Jul 2020

Conference

Conference22nd International Conference on Human Computer Interaction
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityCopenhagen
Period19/07/202024/07/2020
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
Volume12202
ISSN0302-9743

Keywords

  • Persona
  • Scenario
  • Service blueprint
  • User-centered design

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