QCE Digital Solutions Unit 1 — User Experiences and Interfaces
Designing interfaces people can actually use.
Modules (78)
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User experience (UX)
2
User experience and the user journey
3
Why user experience matters
4
What is a user interface?
5
UX characteristic: affordance
6
UX characteristic: usability
7
The five useability principles
8
Accessibility features
9
Useability principle: effectiveness
10
Useability principle: safety
11
Useability principle: utility
12
Useability principle: learnability
13
Evaluating an existing digital solution
14
Common interface pitfalls
15
Recording pitfalls and useful solutions in an existing interface
16
Techniques for Testing - Expert Review
17
Known user
18
User characteristics
19
Different users, different needs
20
Age appropriateness of information
21
Observing users
22
Interviewing a user
23
Writing good interview questions
24
User need
25
From user characteristics to interface requirements
26
Solution Functional Requirements
27
Non-functional requirements
28
SRS content: user characteristics and technical environment
29
Prioritising requirements
30
Generating several interface design ideas
31
Sketching a screen layout
32
Annotating an interface design
33
Wireframes
34
Schematic diagram of an interface
35
Design Tool - Sitemap
36
Storyboarding a user's path through a system
37
Design Tool - Mock-ups
38
Interactive prototypes
39
Communicating a design to others
40
Design criteria for an interface
41
Comparing alternative designs with a criteria table
42
Interface element: buttons
43
Interface elements: text boxes and labels
44
Interface elements: menus, sliders and checkboxes
45
Layout and grouping on a screen
46
Consistency in an interface
47
UI design principle: alignment
48
UI design principle: balance
49
UI design principle: contrast
50
UI design principle: space
51
UI design principle: text formatting
52
Readable text and colour choices
53
Adding alt text to images
54
Captions and transcripts for audio and video
55
Feedback and error messages in an interface
56
Navigation and user flow
57
Applying UI design principles to an interface mock-up
58
What a graphical user interface (GUI) is
59
Creating a tkinter window
60
GUI Label control
61
GUI Entry control and .get()
62
GUI Button control and event handlers
63
Placing controls with grid() and pack()
64
Showing messages with messagebox
65
Evaluation criteria
66
Rating an interface against the useability principles
67
Evaluating an interface design
68
Techniques for Testing - User Testing
69
Writing a beta test scenario
70
Observing a beta testing scenario
71
Collecting user feedback on a solution
72
Documenting beta test results
73
Judging how well a system meets a need
74
Limits and improvements of an existing system
75
Recommending modifications from beta test results
76
Writing an interface improvement recommendation
77
Modifying an interface design
78
Reporting evaluation findings
Smaller journeys, one per content description
The same modules, split up so a class can take just the content description it's working on.
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QCE Digital Solutions Unit 1: User experience, useability principles and existing interfaces
Students learn what user experience is and why it matters, the five useability principles, and how to find pitfalls and useful solutions in existing interfaces.
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QCE Digital Solutions Unit 1: User characteristics and interface requirements
Students learn how user characteristics, gathered by observing and interviewing users, shape interface requirements and the user experience.
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QCE Digital Solutions Unit 1: Representing interface ideas
Students show interface ideas with sketches, diagrams, schematic diagrams, wireframes and mock-ups, and compare designs against criteria.
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QCE Digital Solutions Unit 1: Building interfaces that apply the useability principles
Students build interfaces using interface elements, layout, UI design principles, accessible text and media, feedback and navigation, including a tkinter GUI.
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QCE Digital Solutions Unit 1: Evaluating interfaces and recommending improvements
Students evaluate interfaces against the useability principles using expert review and user testing, then recommend and make evidence-based improvements.
Printables for this journey
Every module above has its own free printable worksheet with an answer key. These crosswords and word searches cover the same terms:
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VCE Innovative Solutions Crossword: Impact of Emerging Trends in Digital Systems and more (Part 1 of 2)
10 clues · Impact of Emerging Trends in Digital Systems, Characteristics of Creative and Innovative Solutions, Functions and Capabilities of Digital Systems, Ideation Techniques and more
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VCE Innovative Solutions Crossword: Gantt Charts and Project Management and more (Part 2 of 2)
10 clues · Gantt Charts and Project Management, Design Tool - Mock-ups, Design Tool - Storyboards, Design Tool - Sitemap and more
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VCE Innovative Solutions Word Search: Impact of Emerging Trends in Digital Systems and more (All modules)
20 words to find · Impact of Emerging Trends in Digital Systems, Characteristics of Creative and Innovative Solutions, Functions and Capabilities of Digital Systems, Ideation Techniques and more
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Years 5–6 Creating Digital Solutions Crossword: Defining problems and requirements and Designing algorithms with branching and iteration (Modules 1–10)
10 clues · What is a problem a digital system can solve?, User need, Writing a problem statement, Functional requirements and more
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Years 5–6 Creating Digital Solutions Crossword: Designing algorithms with branching and iteration and Designing user interfaces (Modules 21–30)
10 clues · Branching inside a loop, Algorithms that use sequence, branching and iteration together, Drawing a sequence in a flowchart, Drawing a decision in a flowchart and more
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Years 5–6 Creating Digital Solutions Crossword: Designing user interfaces (Modules 31–40)
10 clues · Interface element: buttons, Interface elements: text boxes and labels, Interface elements: menus, sliders and checkboxes, Layout and grouping on a screen and more
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Years 5–6 Creating Digital Solutions Crossword: Designing user interfaces and Building visual programs (Modules 41–50)
10 clues · Communicating a design to others, Evaluating an interface design, Modifying an interface design, The visual programming editor: stage, sprites and scripts and more
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Years 5–6 Creating Digital Solutions Crossword: Building visual programs and Evaluating digital solutions and their impact (Modules 61–74)
10 clues · Using a variable as a counter in a loop, Decisions inside loops in a visual program, Building a button with 'when this sprite clicked', Switching screens with backdrops and show/hide and more
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Years 5–6 Creating Digital Solutions Word Search: Defining problems and requirements and Designing algorithms with branching and iteration (Modules 1–20)
20 words to find · What is a problem a digital system can solve?, User need, Writing a problem statement, Functional requirements and more
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Years 5–6 Creating Digital Solutions Word Search: Designing algorithms with branching and iteration and Designing user interfaces (Modules 21–40)
20 words to find · Branching inside a loop, Algorithms that use sequence, branching and iteration together, Drawing a sequence in a flowchart, Drawing a decision in a flowchart and more
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Years 5–6 Creating Digital Solutions Word Search: Designing user interfaces to Evaluating digital solutions and their impact (Modules 41–74)
20 words to find · Communicating a design to others, Evaluating an interface design, Modifying an interface design, The visual programming editor: stage, sprites and scripts and more
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VCE Software Development U3O1 Crossword: Data sources and files to Graphical user interfaces (Modules 114–124)
10 clues · Reading an XML file with ElementTree, Validation: why data is checked on entry, Types of validation check, Existence checking in code and more
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VCE Software Development U3O1 Crossword: Graphical user interfaces and Object-oriented programming (Modules 125–141)
10 clues · GUI Label control, GUI Entry control and .get(), GUI Button control and event handlers, Placing controls with grid() and pack() and more
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VCE Software Development U3O1 Word Search: Data sources and files to Object-oriented programming (Modules 114–141)
20 words to find · Reading an XML file with ElementTree, Validation: why data is checked on entry, Types of validation check, Existence checking in code and more
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VCE Software Development U3O2 Crossword: Project reasons and the brief to Needs, requirements, constraints and scope (Modules 12–24)
10 clues · Brief feature: originality, Breaking a project into tasks, Gantt chart: sequencing tasks, Gantt chart: time allocation and more
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VCE Software Development U3O2 Crossword: Analytical tools and the software requirements specification and Legal requirements for copyright, ownership and privacy (Modules 52–71)
10 clues · Purpose of a software requirements specification (SRS), SRS content: requirements, constraints and scope, SRS content: user characteristics and technical environment, SRS content: analytical tools depicting existing systems and more
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VCE Software Development U3O2 Crossword: Ideation and evaluating design ideas to User experience and software design (Modules 86–109)
10 clues · Mood boards, Design criteria for an interface, Comparing alternative designs with a decision matrix, Efficiency of a solution and more
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VCE Software Development U3O2 Crossword: User experience and software design and User interface design principles (Modules 110–119)
10 clues · Accessibility features, How UX characteristics affect software design, UI design principle: alignment, UI design principle: balance and more
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VCE Software Development U3O2 Word Search: Project reasons and the brief to Needs, requirements, constraints and scope (Modules 2–24)
21 words to find · Stakeholders, Project reason: increasing productivity and efficiency, Project reason: reducing costs, Project reason: addressing gaps in the market and more
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VCE Software Development U3O2 Word Search: Analytical tools and the software requirements specification to Ideation and evaluating design ideas (Modules 52–85)
20 words to find · Purpose of a software requirements specification (SRS), SRS content: requirements, constraints and scope, SRS content: user characteristics and technical environment, SRS content: analytical tools depicting existing systems and more
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VCE Software Development U3O2 Word Search: Ideation and evaluating design ideas to User interface design principles (Modules 86–119)
20 words to find · Mood boards, Design criteria for an interface, Comparing alternative designs with a decision matrix, Efficiency of a solution and more
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VCE Software Development U4O1 Crossword: Code repositories, APIs, libraries and AI assistants to Beta testing (Modules 125–171)
10 clues · Keeping API keys secure, Validation versus verification, Alpha testing, Commenting out code to isolate a bug and more
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VCE Software Development U4O1 Crossword: Beta testing and Evaluation strategies and criteria (Modules 172–182)
10 clues · Observing a beta testing scenario, Documenting beta test results, Recommending modifications from beta test results, Writing evaluation criteria for efficiency and effectiveness and more
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VCE Software Development U4O1 Word Search: Code repositories, APIs, libraries and AI assistants to Beta testing (Modules 115–171)
22 words to find · Branches and merging, What a library is: standard vs third-party, Random numbers with import random, The math module and more
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VCE Software Development U4O1 Word Search: Beta testing to Project plans, progress and effectiveness (Modules 172–198)
20 words to find · Observing a beta testing scenario, Documenting beta test results, Recommending modifications from beta test results, Writing evaluation criteria for efficiency and effectiveness and more
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VCE Data Analytics U3O2 Crossword: Research questions and project planning to Collecting primary and secondary data (Modules 3–31)
10 clues · What a research question is, Research question feature: clarity, Research question feature: measurability of data requirements, Research question feature: feasibility and more
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VCE Data Analytics U3O2 Word Search: Research questions and project planning to Evaluating designs and design tools (Modules 3–146)
21 words to find · What a research question is, Research question feature: clarity, Research question feature: measurability of data requirements, Research question feature: feasibility and more
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VCE Data Analytics U4O1 Crossword: Data quality and testing visualisations to Recording and assessing project progress (Modules 85–105)
10 clues · Visual inspection of a data visualisation, Confirming a chart represents the data, Evaluation criteria, Time frame of an evaluation strategy and more
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VCE Data Analytics U4O1 Word Search: Audience and developing infographics and dashboards to Recording and assessing project progress (Modules 63–105)
20 words to find · Pagination of an infographic or dashboard, Clarifying data refresh requirements, Visual hierarchy in a visualisation, Clarity of message in a visualisation and more
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Years 7–8 Data & Information Crossword: Using digital tools and conventions and Sharing online and managing projects (Modules 87–99)
10 clues · Applying heading and style conventions in a document, Adding alt text to images, Choosing a file format for sharing content, Sharing a file online with permissions and more
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Years 7–8 Data & Information Word Search: Using digital tools and conventions to Digital footprint and privacy (Modules 87–124)
20 words to find · Applying heading and style conventions in a document, Adding alt text to images, Choosing a file format for sharing content, Sharing a file online with permissions and more
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Years 7–8 Creating Digital Solutions Crossword: Defining and decomposing problems and Designing and tracing algorithms (Modules 3–47)
10 clues · Interviewing a user, Decomposing a problem into sub-problems, Decomposition diagrams, Non-functional requirements and more
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Years 7–8 Creating Digital Solutions Crossword: Designing and tracing algorithms to Evaluating digital solutions (Modules 50–125)
10 clues · Choosing test data for an algorithm, Storyboarding a user's path through a system, Comparing alternative designs with a criteria table, Running a Python program and more
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Years 7–8 Creating Digital Solutions Word Search: Defining and decomposing problems to Evaluating digital solutions (Modules 3–125)
21 words to find · Interviewing a user, Decomposing a problem into sub-problems, Decomposition diagrams, Non-functional requirements and more
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Years 9–10 Data & Information Crossword: Interactive content with emerging tools to Data privacy and the Australian Privacy Principles (Modules 83–132)
10 clues · Emerging digital tools, Selecting a tool for an audience and purpose, Embedding audio and video with HTML, Navigation and hotspots in interactive content and more
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Years 9–10 Data & Information Word Search: Data compression to Data privacy and the Australian Privacy Principles (Modules 6–132)
21 words to find · Redundancy: repeated data that can be shortened, Lossless compression, Lossy compression, Run-length encoding: encoding text and more
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Years 9–10 Creating Digital Solutions Crossword: Defining and decomposing problems to Evaluating solutions, impact and innovation (Modules 6–132)
10 clues · Decomposing a problem into a hierarchy chart, Prioritising requirements, Truth tables for AND, OR and NOT, Logical operators in a flowchart decision and more
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Years 9–10 Creating Digital Solutions Word Search: Defining and decomposing problems to Evaluating solutions, impact and innovation (Modules 6–132)
20 words to find · Decomposing a problem into a hierarchy chart, Prioritising requirements, Truth tables for AND, OR and NOT, Logical operators in a flowchart decision and more
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Crossword: Understanding Digital Problems and User Experiences and Interfaces (Modules 60–81)
10 clues · Prescribed and self-determined impact criteria, Personal impacts of a digital solution, Economic impacts of a digital solution, Why user experience matters and more
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Crossword: User Experiences and Interfaces and Algorithms and Programming Techniques (Modules 82–148)
10 clues · Recording pitfalls and useful solutions in an existing interface, Known user, User characteristics, Age appropriateness of information and more
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Word Search: Understanding Digital Problems and User Experiences and Interfaces (Modules 1–81)
22 words to find · What makes up a digital problem, The four elements of computational thinking, Human needs, wants and opportunities, New and re-imagined digital solutions and more
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Word Search: User Experiences and Interfaces to Programmed Solutions (Modules 82–380)
20 words to find · Recording pitfalls and useful solutions in an existing interface, Known user, User characteristics, Age appropriateness of information and more
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