Sherwinpedia http://sherwinpedia.com Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:19:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Tiered, Adaptive Front-end Experiences http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sherwinpedia/~3/fpsCYMqmZyI/tiered-adaptive-front-end-experiences http://sherwinpedia.com/design/tiered-adaptive-front-end-experiences#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:18:28 +0000 Sherwin http://sherwinpedia.com/?p=1038 More detail]]>

This is a tact I’ve been taking with work recently. Tailor for newer browsers and degrade in older ones (IE in particular).

I really like the TV analogy. People don’t make shows in black and white just because some TVs are still black and white.

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Wireframe Checklist @ Viget

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Description:

This project involved designing an interface for a presentation tool used for high level presentations. The presentation complexity required the use of 4 or more screens to display documents and mapping information.

Skills Employed:

Design, UX, IxD

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Design
The tool was to be used in presentations to upper management. Taking place in a dark room over multiple screens, I opted to go for a darker background to reduce overall eye strain and enhance the presentation of important data.

Interaction Design and User ExperienceI was engaged by people who were implementing the tools and were present for such presentations. They filled me in on how the tool was going to be used, the user expectations and the kind of information that was to be displayed. I designed the tool to use conventions familiar to standard business users. This resulted in the creation of a tool bad akin to Windows, and the use of a compact, tree based navigation structure for the presentation of files.

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I was invited to design a tool that would be used during stakeholder meetings to plan a new urban development.

Skills Employed:

Design, UX, IxD

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Design
I was given some information on the community, and used that to guide the design of the interface. That information is still confidential.

Interaction Design and User ExperienceI worked alongside subject matter experts and relevant stakeholders to design the various interactions. They provided me with the desired input and highlighted the goals of their urban design exercises on which I based the design. There is an algorithm that drives the generation of the charts.

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A very useful spreadsheet to use when evaluating your app.

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Interesting coming soon page for a forex service.

MahiFX

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Loved the book.

The Old Man and the Sea book cover t-shirt.

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Asking participants about future actions will lead to idealised answers.

2) Don’t ask how they would design a feature.

Users are not designers.

3) Don’t ask the user to provide reasons.

Asking a user to give a straight up answer about their choices will not always reveal the true nature of the problem.

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