Artefact 1 (Plans and Ideas)

Below is the plans for artefact 1 and ideas.

I intend to analysis the data found from this questionnaire using a series of tables and charts. I will then review the results and statements to come to a conclusion for the research. This will give me an insight into the audience’s opinions and also an understanding of if interaction is a key element. It will also help to create the next two artefacts as they are based around the structure of how design theories and interaction can affect the viewer’s perception.

I chose to manufacture a questionnaire as part of the research as it will offer a chance to get other opinions on the topic and analyse the different variables. This is the first of five artefacts and will be the foundations to my primary research. The research will enable me to understand the audience and their thoughts on web applications on both mobile and desktop, but mainly seeing the interaction of content. Interaction is a factor in web design and helps to engage the audience and keep them interested. This data will help to see if it does or doesn’t work. In addition taking into account the different structures and design theories. This may support the research in the report or may show it to be a different outcome. I aim to see how websites interest the viewer, and does this develop into an addiction. The questionnaire proved a perfect way to start the research.

I began the development of my questionnaire by analysing existing questionnaires and surveys to see the ideal way to produce one that gets background research, answers the question in hand and weighs up all the possible variables. I used a range of different types of questions such as multiple choice. This produced different types of answers to analysis. It was split into sub sections with the opening questions giving a bit of background to the participant. The next set of questions consisted of multiple choices and a variety of questions for the participant to express their opinion. This open answered question will help to gain the different views which will give accurate data to analysis. To ensure the questions met the needs of the topic I also looked at a few practitioners to see how they approached the market and used questionnaires to achieve a set of data. That was accurate and weighed up all the different variables.

In distributing the questionnaire I chose to hand it out to a selection of people. I first split it into two groups of 50. This being people who use computers on a regular basis and people who don’t. This would test if interaction in websites appealed to both people who are well equipped on computers and people who aren’t. After this I ensured I got a mixture of both genders and all age groups. This would clarify if these two factors have any input in the interaction side or if they don’t affect the results at all. The plan was to distribute the questionnaires across the majority of age ranges and both genders with a selection of computer literate and non-computer users. This was to check all possible effecting variables that may be a part of the equation. I discovered that the best way to do this was send a chain mail to people through Hotmail or social networks whilst to get the extra forms filled out I would approach others with a one on one method.