Bachelor's Thesis Lukas Langlechner

Applying Human-Centered Design Techniques to Design a Task-centered Project Management Tool

Abstract

Collaboration in teams is playing an increasingly important role. Planning, distributing and monitoring tasks is one of the main aspects that the coordinator has to perform. To facilitate that, many different tools exist, which are usually centered around a specific coordination approach. Since the usability of such tools plays an important role in the process, designing a new tool should center around the real approach the team wants to use. To achieve that, the tool has to be designed with the users and their preferred approach in mind.

Approaches, that try to involve users early in the development process, are called human centered design approaches. In this thesis, these approaches are compared to develop a specific approach for the design of a new task-centered project management tool. With this approach, a concept, implemented in a paper prototype, is being designed and evaluated.

Keywords: Human-Centered Design, Project Management Tool, Coordination, Collaboration