Contributions and limits of I-Doc User-Centered Design Methods: a case of study Ikwal.net

Samuel Gantier, Laure Bolka, Carl Cordonnier

The proposal raises the issues of an iterative design process of the I-Doc Ikwal.net app. The editorial approach of this artistic and educational transmedia project is to question vocational guidance choices through a gender perspective concerning teenagers between 14 and 18 when they have to make vocational decisions in France. The research involves asking young adults to conceptualise and create photographic or audio-visual scenarios based on their personal experience at home, at school, through the media or their mentors.

Through creative workshops, the students draw two hypermedia scenarios in response to the question “If I were a boy or a girl, I would do the job of …”. Then, the research concentrates on the user’s point of view through three steps: paper prototype, wireframe prototype and interactive interface prototype. The goal of these three user experience evaluations is to identify, on the one hand, the app’s usability issues and, on the other hand, how users manage or not, to make sense of what they do with the app in an educational context. The results seek to help authors and developers redraft the editing and interactive design.