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UXR
User Experience Research
At the first stage of user experience design, I had conduct 8 interviews with CVD(Color vision Deficiencies) people individually. To figure out how's their daily life and how they revolve the problems about color issues. And trying to understand if there's some opportunities that I can help them with information and communication technology. At the same time, the research part also means to realize the related publication studies.
UXD
User Experience Design
According to the user needs, I concluded 3 design features.a. CVD people need a tool to help them understand what the exact color is, and represent colors with other assistive way. To complete tasks of daily life, support them building sense of self confidence.b. CVD people need a filter to enhance color contrast, and also raise the readability of informations. Colors with low contrast will makes them confuse and unreadable. c. CVD people need a tool to tell them the culture meanings behind colors, and build the relationships between meanings and colors. Helping them perceive the sense of color psychology.
UXT
User Experience Test
We found 15 CVD people to test the ColorMe APP, to realize the whole user experience. The UX test included personal date, 3 task manipulations, and a SUS questionnaire. Each task had its own context description, let user easily get into the specific scenario we set. Users needed to use ColorMe to solve their problems. After each task, uses were asked to fill in the experience questionnaire. Then we will have a quick interview.
UX design process
Despite of lacking perception on certain colors, people with CVD can rely on shapes or textures to distinguish colors. Also, previous experience about colors helps them to understand what these colors are. Thus, ColorMe visualizes the confused colors with shapes or textures, and brings up memories by retrieving images with the same color. ColorMe utilizes the camera of smart phones combining with image processing and augmented reality technologies to establish a user-friendly app that helps alleviate the obstacles encountered by people with CVD.
Eyes for People with Color Vision Deficiency
