Partner Activities

Types of Activities

Oracle Global Design Partners (GDP) members may participate with User Experience (UX) team members in activities at various phases of the product lifecycle. Examples of these activities include:

• Structured interviews
• Web surveys
• Site visits and observations
• Focus groups & wants and needs analyses
• Early prototype reviews
• Usability tests

Activities with End Users

The majority of GDP activities require participation from end users of an application. End users are the people who actually use (or will use) a product to get their job done. Activities with end users enable UX engineers to:

• Understand the profiles, roles, detailed task flows, and pain points of end users to design user-centered applications
• Diagnose and fix potential usability problems in early prototypes that end users "test-drive" in our labs
• Measure performance on released products to identify next generation enhancements and plan for redesign

Activities with Other Roles

Some GDP activities are suitable for other (non-end-user) roles, such as roles in information technology or management. Examples of these activities include:

• Interviews to understand organizational structures, business processes, and high-level wants and needs in a system
• Discussions about early concept technologies or features (often centered on a prototype)
• Surveys to gauge how Oracle products are working in an organization and to identify key issues