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Understanding Design Rationale in HCI

Design rationale builds communication among team members, allowing them to reuse design knowledge from one situation to another. However, design rationale may be rejected if it is seen as subjective. QOC (Questions, Options, Criteria) is a design rationale technique that uses questions to identify key design issues, options to provide possible answers, and criteria for assessing and comparing options. It provides justifications for the design and alternative designs based on considerations like consistency, models, data, and theory.

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Understanding Design Rationale in HCI

Design rationale builds communication among team members, allowing them to reuse design knowledge from one situation to another. However, design rationale may be rejected if it is seen as subjective. QOC (Questions, Options, Criteria) is a design rationale technique that uses questions to identify key design issues, options to provide possible answers, and criteria for assessing and comparing options. It provides justifications for the design and alternative designs based on considerations like consistency, models, data, and theory.

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A. How can a design rationale benefit the design interface and why might it be
rejected by software developers and design teams?

Design rationale builds the most important factor in design interface and that is the
communication. Communication among members will lead to brainstorming on how to reuse the
design knowledge from one situation to another situation in similar needs. When approving
interface design where two distinct levels overlap seamlessly, this is essential. Design rationale
might be rejected if it is subjective. Without the communication of the members of the design
team, it may lack vision and will be impossible to impose. 

B. Explain QOC (Questions, Options, and Criteria) design rationale using an


example to illustrate. (5 sentences with or without graphs or images)

Figure1: The vocabulary of the QOC notation, used to represent Design Space Analyses.1

  Design Space Analysis is an approach to representing design rationale. It uses a


semiformal notation, called QOC (Questions, Options, and Criteria). The main constituents of
QOC are Questions identifying key design issues. Options providing possible answers to the
Questions, and Criteria for assessing and comparing the Options. 2 Design Space Analysis also
takes account of justifications for the design (and possible alternative designs) that reflect
considerations such as consistency, models and analogies, and relevant data and theory. A
Design Space Analysis does not produce a record of the design process but is instead a coproduct
of design and has to be constructed alongside the artifact itself. (Taylor & Francis. (n.d.))

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Duke, David & Harrison, Michael & Good, J & Coutaz, J & Nigay, Laurence & Salber, Daniel & Faconti, GP & Paterno, F & Duce,
David & Blandford, Ann & Barnard, Philip & May, Jon & Young, RM & MacLean, A & Bellotti, Victoria & Bernsen, Niels & Jensager,
F & Lu, Shihchung & May, M & Verjans, Steven. (1995). Integration Techniques for Multi-Disciplinary HCI Modelling: A Survey.
10.13140/RG.2.2.14811.57126.

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Questions, options, and criteria: Elements of design space analysis. Taylor & Francis. (n.d.). Retrieved September 27, 2021, from
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