living with technology and other stuff
I found this post on The Spectrum of User Experience over at the Information Architects Japan site. Nice visualization of forces and how they interact. Although I’m often weary of putting any one thing in the middle. I guess I’m just an anti centrist.
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Design and the Elastic Mind
Stop what you are doing right now and go check out the MoMA’s Design and the Elastic Mind online exhibit.
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Initial research around the application, service. Interviews of stakeholders and customers. Reviewing competition.
Gathering information in outline form can be an extremely helpful way to quickly collect short bits of information like product names and then group and sort them under different headings. I almost always start my projects here. It really helps me see the logical connections between the information and helps me ask questions about the classification and naming systems that are already in place.
User interface flow diagrams are created to model the interactions that a user has with a product or service. The diagram primarily will reflect the behavioral view of a single use case along with some optional pathways.
Paper prototyping is a variation of usability testing where representative users perform realistic tasks by interacting with a paper version of the interface that is manipulated by a person ‘playing computer,’ who doesn’t explain how the interface is intended to work.
A wireframe is a basic visual guide used in interface design to suggest the structure of an interface and relationships between its pages. Typically, wireframes are completed before any artwork is developed.
This documentation describes the behavior of a system. The documentation typically describes what is needed by the user as well as requested properties of inputs and outputs.
It is a technique used to evaluate a product by actually testing it on users. This can be seen as an irreplaceable usability practice, since it gives direct input on how real users use the system. This is in contrast with usability inspection methods where experts use different methods to evaluate a user interface without involving users.
Use cases describe “who” can do “what” within the system being designed. The use case technique is used to capture a system’s behavioral requirements by detailing scenario-driven threads through the functional requirements.
Observing how people interact with products, services and experiences in order to come up with new solutions. User studies can help reframe a problem in a new way. They can also help see things that have gone unnoticed before.
Details how content is/should be used on a site, how to increase value
Records type/location of site content, recommends action for each item
Plans how content should be re-purposed/created for a site, who should do it, etc.
Outlines how search should work for a site, what technologies can be used, how it integrates with other sites
Plans how the search system will ingest queries and produce a Search Engine Results Page, plus the interface design for that page
Outline how to design a taxonomy(ies) for a site, and how they will work
Detailed model of the taxonomy(ies) using customer data
Overall plan for how an ECM can be used on a customer’s site
Plan that details content types and content elements within a content management system
Details the entire lifecycle of content for a site, from creation to archive
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Touchwall Demo from Joel on Vimeo.
It seems a little large if you ask me, otherwise I love the concept. Schematic has been making some amazing progress in the multitouch arena. They are still eons behind the work that Stimulant is doing. They really should just merge in to one company Schemulant
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