Designing a Bicycle User Experience

"How might we design for how everyday people feel while riding a bike?" This transdisciplinary project uses human-centered design as a lens to examine how planners and designers can make bikeways that elicit positive emotions and experiences for the everyday person. See www.bicycleuserexperience.com for the website housing the full concept. This project started as a BA Environmental Studies thesis at The New School and project in Parsons graduate course Designing for Usability.

Urban Design, Research, Cycling

2016

Persona Example: Erica

Translated Template for a Persona for Everyday Biking

Translation of Nielsen's 10 Usability Heuristics to street design for everyday biking

People's basic needs of safety, functionality and reliability are met on this bike path in Amsterdam. The bikeway then builds off this and goes further: by going through the famous Rijksmuseum, people get an enjoyable experience and are many are left in awe.

Featured street: 5th Avenue in New York City. How "usable" is this street for everyday biking? A heuristic evaluation can help us find out.

Overview of Heuristic Evaluation for a street in New York City

User Experience Map: Step by step analysis of person's pain points and positive parts of experience riding bike on a route

Snippet of Script for Hybrid Directed Storytelling / Interview Session

Using Directed Storytelling with Community Members to Develop Personas

Exploration of Possible New Methods to Translate to Everyday Biking

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