My presentation at the IA Summit 2007 went very well and I had some great feedback.
I would like to again thank the IA Institute for their support via their Process Grants, the University of Baltimore Department of Information Arts & Technologies, and my coworkers at User-Centered Design, Inc..
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seele :: Mar.27.2007 :: Academics, Design, General :: 1 Comment »
KDE makes the DailyWTF again: Don’t Wait Till the Last Minute
seele :: Mar.22.2007 :: Asides, KDE/Kubuntu :: Comments Off
I was feeling creative for lunch today:
Z: spinach and salmon, sesame and seaweed, shitake and spinach, carrot and cucumber and avacado, strawberry and banana.
seele :: Mar.22.2007 :: General, Life :: 5 Comments »
An update on the project I am mentoring for the OpenUsability Season of Usability:
One of the first activities this project was to create a set of User Profiles and Use Scenarios to better understand the GeeXboX target audience and how they use it. Concurrently, Francesco (our intern), conducted an interfact review to identify potential problems in the interface. This resulted in the ability to create a list of interface goals and priorities to base the design and project development schedule.
This major milestone is a completed report on the User Survey conducted during February of the GeeXboX user base. The user research seemed incomplete and we needed more information about our users, and so a User Survey was created to help answer some basic questions about usage as well as provide the opportunity for feedback and comments about functionality and suitability. You can find the report on the OU GeeXboX project page.
Our next steps are to take the information from our user research and results of our user survey and see how this information may change our initial project goals. This will follow with story boards of screen flows and wireframe designs, progressively including more details as the lower details are worked out. Final designs will be in enough detail for developers to use as prototypes and interface examples.
Good work Francesco!
seele :: Mar.19.2007 :: General, Open Source, Usability :: No Comments »