Implementation of Goal-Directed Design in Designing User Interface for Job Seeking Website

Abstract

This research focuses on designing user interface for a website that will provide people with formal and informal education a platform to post and seek jobs. The goal of the website is to reduce the dependencies and unemployment in different communities. This research paper aims to work on how to implement the Goal-Directed Design (GDD) method in designing the user interface. This paper will discuss in detail implementation of the 5 phases of the GDD method instead of the entire 6 phases in designing the user interface. Moreover, the work will also be discussing the research method used to gather the users’ desires and expectations from the product/website. The study used qualitative research methodology, and due to limited resources at hand, the researcher had access to a hand full of volunteers to conduct the field research, who were able to gather sufficient data needed to implement the GDD design method. The study commences the interface designing by identifying user objectives and behavior and translating them into the user model of the interface designed for job posting and seeking website. System Usability Scale (SUS) measurement parameters of usability testing were used to test the usability. The finding shows an average usability acceptability score of more than 77.5. Therefore, it can be concluded that the usability of the design is serving its purpose is in a good category. What this paper didn’t talk about was how the design is to be translated into codes. As in developing the actual website because the study of this paper was focused only on the designing of the user interface and delivering a prototype.