Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
27 results found in Design Methods.
- Persona Design (Design Personas, User Personas)
- A user-centered design technique in which designers create fictional but grounded profiles of representative users — demographics, goals, context, pain points — to guide design decisions when direct u…
- Prototyping (Prototype)
- The iterative creation of tangible, interactive representations of a design - ranging from paper sketches and cardboard mock-ups to functional software builds - used to explore ideas, elicit feedback,…
- Situated Play Design (SPD)
- Situated Play Design is a design approach developed by Altarriba Bertran and colleagues that treats play as something emergent from a specific social, physical, and cultural setting rather than someth…
- Storyboarding (Storyboard)
- A visual narrative technique, adapted from film, in which a sequence of sketched panels depicts how a user will interact with a product, service, or environment over time. Storyboards make abstract sc…
- Technology Probe
- A simple, flexible technology deployed in real-world settings to gather data about user needs, preferences, and interaction patterns. Unlike polished prototypes, technology probes are intentionally op…
- Theory of Change (ToC, Logic Model)
- An explicit articulation of how and why a planned intervention is expected to produce its intended outcomes - typically expressed as a chain linking inputs to activities, outputs, short- and long-term…
- Wizard of Oz (WoZ, Wizard of Oz Testing, Wizard of Oz Prototyping)
- A research and design method in which a human operator (the "wizard") secretly controls or simulates system responses that participants believe are automated. In accessibility research, Wizard of Oz s…