As unit 4 is about getting the results of all the research and interventions together and understanding what was the knowledge gained, I started to think about how I can get all my evidence together, I decided to look at all the results of my interventions and surveys and analyse them while looking at it closely.

Intervention1: In detail

After observing the filled worksheets from my participants, I noticed quite a few things that I learnt from them when I examined them closely, such as the fundamentals of art which were drawn/ understood the most accurately by the age group, I noticed that the drawings were drawn in way which also spoke their occupations. Many people associated the words on the worksheet with drawings of things and icons, even though there were no instructions provided for that, and the references also do not indicate towards any drawings except patterns. Several patterns such as bricks, swirls, and triangles were the most common. Despite there being a column specifically for color, color was used consistently throughout the worksheet. Indian cultural references can also be seen with Mehendi (Henna) patterns.

Intervention 2: In detail

To do a more technical intervention, I decided to mix in concepts of card sorting and solitaire, all the terms were generated by AI when asked about the most important terms in interface design, I wanted to gage which were the things which the users preferred the most when it came to apps in general, the features they wanted to did not want. The priority sorting really helped me in understanding which features were more important than the others, and I examined everyones responses together, it became every clear as to which were the features which were commonly more preferred, as highlighted in the image above, such as Naviation Items, Color choices, Readability, Feedback Option, Graphs and charts etc.

Intervention 3: In detail

This intervention helped me specifically nail down why certain interfaces features where more suited to this age groups’s needs, such as the preferences, space, unity and emphasis, and as this exercise required the participants to tell me why they chose “this” specific option, and did not choose the others, and gave me incite into particular preferences of the participants. Overall I believe that there are several takeaways from each of the interventions, from the first intervention I believe I explore fundamentals of art from a more subjective lense, which gave me insight into which fundamentals of art did the participants understand, and responded better to, as it was quite subjective and open ended, I was able to know more about their preferences on a surface level. The second intervention was built on the basis of secondary research and delved directly into interface design, and pointed out the preferred features in levels of priority, and ruled out the design features which did not seems important. After seeing both these interventions I decided to to do a third intervention which was a blend of both art and ui. Each option of the questions was linked to a fundamental of art, based on their meaning and defination as seen in intervention 2, and was able to point the specifics that made which design was better over the others and why. I believe throught these interventions, I will be able to specifically point out design guidelines when it comes to the 55-70 age group. More can be explored in this area moving forward