User:Carly4B/User experience design

Accessibility
Accessibility of a system describes its ease of reach, use, and understanding. In terms of user experience design, it can also be related to the overall comprehensibility of the information and features. It helps shorten the learning curve associated with the system. Accessibility in many contexts can be related to the ease of use for people with disabilities and comes under usability. '''In relation to web design, there are regulations, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), that need considered to make sure people with disabilities are able to access information on sites. This can include things like color choice and differentiation and having alternate text available to describe images. '''

Getting ready to design
After research, the designer uses the modeling of the users and their environments. User modeling or personas are composite archetypes based on behavior patterns uncovered during research. Personas provide designers a precise way of thinking and communicating about how groups of users behave, how they think, what they want to accomplish and why. Once created, personas help the designer to understand the users' goals in specific contexts, which is particularly useful during ideation and for validating design concepts. '''In this sense, the persona can be set up as a fictional user that would be experiencing the designed product allowing the designer to see the product through the targeted user. The characteristics shouldn't come from assumptions about the audience but from observations and the detailed research. ''' Other types of models include workflow models, artifact models, and physical models.

'''Added chart to help readers understand the design process better. It shows how the designer needs to get feedback from their audience and target user in order to refine the product and give the best possible experience to the end users.'''