Week 05 Blog Assignment

First, let me say that most of you responded with insight to Week 04’s blog assignment. I appreciate that you took the assignment seriously! Well done!

For this week, we turn to Chapter 4, “Support the User’s Mental Model.”

As you begin to think about project #4, what is the user’s mental model with respect to an object's personality and surrounding interactions? 

How might this mental model contrast with the implementation model of the programmers? (Don’t get too involved with this one.) 

A short answer (a few sentences) for each question should suffice. (Obviously you can read the answers of other people and paraphrase what they wrote, but that doesn't help your understanding very much. TRY to answer these questions before looking at the responses of your peers.