I just posted this to my UI design class discussion board: Awe-inspiring info design…though the current menu is now only 6 pages 😦 “Two years ago, Calvin Trillin wrote an article for the New Yorker about Shopsin’s, an eccentric eatery in the West Village with about 9 billion menu items… Shopsin’s has moved to another …
Category Archives: Blackboard Posts
Prototyping; GUIdebook
Found some interesting or otherwise time-passable things on the web related to prototyping and our discussion on Wednesday. A List Apart runs deep-dish articles on web design. This article shows how paper is good for tabbed interfaces, widgets, and usability testing. He also suggests keeping a glue stick handy. A List Apart: Articles: Paper Prototyping …
Links: file-naming conventions
I remember reading a columnist in one of the Ziff-Davis mags, back in the mid-90s, lamenting the busting of the old 8.3 file-naming conventions that DOS imposed. With the new Win95 long filenames-with-spaces convention, he predicted that people would actually lose more files than find them again. He used as an example their production process, …
Drafting scenarios and stories
This post discusses the following readings: Gruen, D., Rauch, T., Redpath, S., & Ruettinger, S. (2002). The use of stories in user experience design. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 14(3&4), 503-534. Head, A. J. (2003). Personas: setting the stage for building usable information sites. Online, 27(4), 14-21. <<In class, we wrote sample story/scenarios, and I …
Article critiques: scenarios, stories
This post discusses the following readings: Go, K., & Carroll, J.M. (2004). The blind men and the elephant: Views of scenario-based system design. interactions, 11(6), 44-53. Gruen, D., Rauch, T., Redpath, S., & Ruettinger, S. (2002). The use of stories in user experience design. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 14(3&4), 503-534. I thought the best …
Keeping Found Things Found
A web site focused on collecting and managing personal information, from the U of Washington I-School, with some help from Msft. I haven’t compared their publications list with our syllabus to see if there’s any overlap. Keeping Found Things Found “The classic problem of information retrieval, simply put, is to help people find the relatively …
How is it possible? More on email
The readings that prompted these postings were: Lehikoinen, Juha, Antti Aaltonen, Pertti Huuskonen, and Ilkka Salminen. Personal Content Experience: Managing Digital Life in the Mobile Age. Chichester, England: John Wiley, 2007. [48-51, 84-94, 127-157] Whittaker, Steve, and Candace Sidner. “Email Overload: Exploring Personal Information Management of Email.” Paper presented at the Conference on Human Factors …
More on email overload
Yet more reaction to this article: Whittaker, Steve, and Candace Sidner. “Email Overload: Exploring Personal Information Management of Email.” Paper presented at the Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, April 13-18, 1996, 276-283. From a records management POV, I had these thoughts: People are so overwhelmed when they’re in the …
Email overload, content management
As verbose as I am in class, you should read my postings on the Blackboard discussion boards. Oh wait, you can’t. Oh wait, you can — if I re-post them here. It’s not as narcissistic and self-involved as it sounds, though it’s that, too. I spend goodly bits of time and brain energy writing my …
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