Galaxy Trucker Cheat Sheet
Overview
This project was pursued as a group project for IE 5760, Human Factors in Product Design, taught by Prof. Michael Dorneich, to learn how to design usable instructions. We chose Galaxy Trucker because the group liked board games, and we recognized Galaxy Trucker as a game ripe for clarification when it comes to rules. The project entailed:
- User testing with the existing rule book;
- Affinity mapping of user feedback;
- Identification of three main goals,
- Aiding recall of the rules pertaining to game components,
- Making the game phases more visible, and
- Minimizing the amount of navigation and memory load required to find the answer to common questions; and
- Creating a new reference sheet inspired by user feedback and best practices based on existing research.
Project collaborators were Thomas Lenz, Visruta Aiyer, Isabelle Clement, Heeral Chumber, and Carleigh Mach.