Mobile-d approach-based persona for designing user interface

Abstract

Nowadays, many people use social media in different aspects of their life. One of the most important fields is education, where both faculty members and students communicate frequently to facilitate collaboration between them. In this paper, we aimed to design and develop a new interactive academic, social application called Shake Hand, to reduce the gap that exists between faculty members and students and to improve the users’ experiences with one another. The proposed design is based on Mobile-D approach by dividing the application’s functionalities into three releases. Persona was used to collect the requirements and help analyze and visualize the target user to design interface that meet and fulfill their needs. The proposed application offers two main functions: hosting discussion forums and exchange services, and addresses many academic and social needs. The usability testing approach was applied to measure the performance, productivity, and satisfaction of the user. Our contribution demonstrated in this paper is to measure the user’s productivity by mapping the design implication of cognitive process to the user interface of the application. The output of the mapping is a set of guidelines which guide the designer through the designing of a mobile application in a distracting environment.