Feature Analysis

Many apps are designed to solve a problem or accomplish task, such as managing health condition, creating to-do-list, finding work. The solutions that app developers offer reflects how they believe users and other stakeholders understand the problem. Each individual developer may have different ideas but analyzing many together can reveal average typical ways in set think about problems their solve. Building on content analysis, interface concept of affordances, speculative design, this article offers new method we call “feature analysis” analyze what same tell us relationship between design ideology. By counting classifying features apps, feature analysis enables researchers systematically answer questions developers’ choices reflect existing cultural norms, assumptions, ideologies.