Blackboard’s User-Centered Design
One of my posts made it to the corporate blog.
Tags: [Blackboard, Partial Recall, usability, interaction design, information architecture, ui, ux, ixd, user experience]
ACU To Go Foward With iPhone Application Development
As a follow up to my previous post, Abilene Christian University announced that they will give iPhones or iPod touches to incoming freshman next year. What this announcement likely means is that there will be considerable pressure put on the university’s web developers to successfully integrate existing systems and external tools into one seamless experience for users. A demo is provided at acu.mobi (which they explain is best viewed in Safari as it’s designed for the iPhone).
I am heartened to read one quote from Christopher Gibbs, a programmer at ACU, when he states:
“There are a number of challenges when it comes to creating applications for the iPhone. I won’t go into all of them but the biggest is usability. Some people say content is king, well I say usability is king. This is true with any program or website but especially true on the iPhone, where you have a very limited interface.”
Some pressure might come from the administration on down in terms of what should be available, but I hope the team gets a lot of bottom up participation (i.e., students, non-tenured faculty, etc.) when they try to work on the how – how to implement features and functionality in both a usable and desirable way.
The United States is playing catch up with Europe in terms of our level of maturity with mobile devices, but this trend will certainly play out nicely in the education arena, particularly given the high rate (45% of teenagers of teenagers in 2005) already using mobile devices for a variety of needs.
Tags: [Abilene Christian University, iPhone, ubiquitous computing, e-learning, educational technology, Partial Recall]
A Vision of Ubiquitous Computing
I know I am an Apple fanboy (still holding out for the 3G iPhone), but I was inspired by the vision put forth by Abilene Christian University. Here’s a portion of their vision:
“In the spring of 2007, a group of educators, technologists, and administrators at ACU crystallized these ongoing discussions, producing a case for a new emphasis on mobile learning based on ubiquitous information access through powerful, portable, converged devices. Made possible by the broad capabilities offered by a new generation of these devices, we see the future of the university coalescing around the new opportunities that mLearning is bringing…”
The University is in the process of testing the iPhone to determine if the device helps students gain knowledge and get the most from their collegiate education.
As part of this vision, the University posted “Connected: The Movie”, which portrays the following:
“What might a university look like with a fully deployed program of converged devices like the iPhone? Connected is one possible vision. This fictional day-in-the-life account highlights some of the potential benefits in a higher education setting when every student, faculty, and staff member is “connected.” Though the applications and functions portrayed in the film are purely speculative, they’re based on needs and ideas uncovered by our research – and we’ve already been making strides to transform this vision of mobile learning (mLearning) into reality.”
Frankly, the possibilities put forth by this video make me want to go back to school! This vision also seems more readily achievable than Apple’s famous Knowledge Navigator concept video from 1988.
Tags: [Apple, iPhone, Abilene Christian University, ubiquitous computing, user experience, e-learning, educational technology, Partial Recall]
Games in Education
Although a majority of my career has been spent working as a contractor for the federal government, I’m now working for a company in the e-learning industry. Therefore, I’ve begun to follow technology issues as it relates to education.
Mark Wagner of the EdTechLife blog linked this interesting video [Quicktime movie] about how educators can incorporate games to facilitate learning. He created a webcast about video games in education, with interviews of Henry Jenkins, James Paul Gee, Clark Aldrich…
Gaming is getting much more traction in the education arena. There are some fantastic ways that students can learn while also having some fun. Hopefully this video will encourage you to see the possibilities.
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Tags: [Mark Wagner, EdTechLife, educational technology, video game, game, education]
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Usability Professionals’ Association The UPA supports those who promote and advance the development of usable products, reaching out to people who act as advocates for usability and the user experience.
Usability.gov Your resource for designing usable, useful and accessible Web sites and user interfaces
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UX Magazine UX Magazine sets out to explore, promote & discuss the multiple facets of user experience one article at a time.
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Alex Rudloff Alex is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and technology enthusiast located in Washington, DC.
Armchair Reconnaissance Although I understand the validity of both the need for information security and information sharing, I feel we need to be ever so careful with how we use the proliferation of social software that has grown in the last few years.
ASIS&T The Information Society for the Information Age
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Authentic Boredom Cameron Moll, Freelance New Media Pioneer
Bloug Louis Rosenfeld, Pioneer Information Architect
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D*I*Y Planner Paper, productivity & passion
DC Information Architects Where Information Architects Connect
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Donna Spencer Information architecture, user-centered design, usability, and much more
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Jeffrey Veen Founding partner of Adaptive Path
Jesse James Garrett JJG started Adaptive Path to help people solve user experience problems.
John Battelle Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more.
Jon’s Radio Jon Udell, InfoWorld writer, analyst, and developer
Keith Instone IBM, User Experience Design team
Kevin Rose Kevin Rose, former G4/TechTV host, current host of Diggnation
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Lifehacker Lifehacker recommends the downloads, web sites and shortcuts that actually save time.
Martin Hardee Usability, Design & Other Stuff
Micro Persuasion Steve Rubel explores how new technologies are transforming marketing, media and public relations.
Noise Between Stations Victor Lombardi is a principal at the Management Innovation Group
Off the Top Thomas Vander Wal, Principle, InfoCloud Solutions
Periodic Design Jason Wishard, User Interface Designer
Peterme.com Links, thoughts, and essays from Peter Merholz
Robin Good What Communications Experts Need to Know
Semantic Studios Peter Morville’s Column About Information Architecture and Strategy
SimpleBits Dan Cederholm founded SimpleBits, a tiny web design studio that creates simple, readable, usable interfaces balanced with a standards-based methodology.
Stopdesign Douglas Bowman is an influential designer whose highly publicized and hugely successful redesigns of sites like Blogger, Wired News, and Adaptive Path have pushed him to the forefront of standards-compliant web design.
TechCrunch TechCrunch is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing every newly launched web 2.0 business, product and service.
Thinking and Making Information architecture, user experience design, and the new architecture of business
TWiT This Week in Tech
Usability News The British HCI Group is the longest-established and largest national group in Europe devoted to HCI.
Usability Professionals’ Association The UPA supports those who promote and advance the development of usable products, reaching out to people who act as advocates for usability and the user experience.
Usability.gov Your resource for designing usable, useful and accessible Web sites and user interfaces
User Experience Network UXnet was formed to help make connections between the people and organizations that represent User Experience disciplines, and to encourage interchange and cooperation.
UX Magazine UX Magazine sets out to explore, promote & discuss the multiple facets of user experience one article at a time.
UXMatters Insights and Inspiration for the User Experience Community
Veerle’s Blog
Web 2.0 the Enterprise On the other hand, some organizations allow for the bottom-up vetting of ideas. Why not use a voting mechanism like that employed by Digg to allows employees to participate in a “suggestion box” approach – suggestions to better the company – both in t
Web Developer’s Handbook developing web-sites, exploring own imagination
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Zeldman’s Daily Report Jeffrey Zeldman, Founder and Creative Director, is an internationally known web designer and author, architect of the web standards movement, and creator of some of the medium’s best-known brands.
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Effective Culture Change in the FBI I believe the primary reason for failed IT projects and a revolving door of CIOs at the FBI is primarily due to the agency’s culture, not failed technologies or poor CIO leadership.
Egocentrically Altruistic Web 2.0 I think true Web 2.0 is more than a technology, a company, a concept, or a service. Web 2.0 is simply providing an intuitive rich user experience that can be both egocentric and altruistic.
Fair Access, Security, and Innovation To combat technology and cybersecurity issues, the government should institute policies that promote technology diversity and should allow citizens to conduct business with the government using any technology available to them.
No Scam Here – I Got the iBook! Then I stumbled across an “internet marketing” promotion. You may be familiar with them – “get a free iPod by getting 6 of your friends to sign up and register for X.” This promotion, offered by the Internet Opinion Group, used a different busines
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43 Folders 43 Folders is Merlin Mann’s site about personal productivity, life hacks, and simple ways to make your life a little better.
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Alex Rudloff Alex is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and technology enthusiast located in Washington, DC.
Armchair Reconnaissance Although I understand the validity of both the need for information security and information sharing, I feel we need to be ever so careful with how we use the proliferation of social software that has grown in the last few years.
ASIS&T The Information Society for the Information Age
Audioscrobbler What I’m listening to…
Authentic Boredom Cameron Moll, Freelance New Media Pioneer
Bloug Louis Rosenfeld, Pioneer Information Architect
Boxes and Arrows Boxes and Arrows is firmly devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of graphic design, interaction design and information architecture, large and small.
D*I*Y Planner Paper, productivity & passion
DC Information Architects Where Information Architects Connect
del.icio.us See my bookmarks!
Digital Web Magazine Digital Web Magazine is an online magazine intended for professional web designers, web developers and information architects.
Donna Spencer Information architecture, user-centered design, usability, and much more
eHub eHub is a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy…
eLearning Post Explore news, views and stories around Corporate Learning, Community Building, Instructional Design, Knowledge Management and more. Elearningpost’s mission is to provide quality e-learning and knowledege management content that attracts a diverse and emer
Elegant Hack Christina Wodtke is the founder of Boxes and Arrows, an online magazine of IA and is president of the Information Architecture Institute
Findability Peter Morville’s thoughts on Ambient Findability and design of findable objects
Flickr My photos
GanttHead The Online Community for IT Project Managers
Getting My Bearings James Melzer, Information Architect
Green Chameleon Green Chameleon started out in May 2000 as a personal website of Patrick Lambe. Patrick is Principal Consultant at knowledge management consulting firm Straits Knowledge.
Green Onions Dan Brown, User Experience Lead
Guy Kawasaki Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Forbes.com. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc.
IA Slash Jess McMullin
InfoDesign Understanding by Design
Information Architecture Institute The Information Architecture Institute is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to advancing and promoting information architecture.
Information Week
InfoWorld
Interaction Design Association
Jeffrey Veen Founding partner of Adaptive Path
Jesse James Garrett JJG started Adaptive Path to help people solve user experience problems.
John Battelle Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more.
Jon’s Radio Jon Udell, InfoWorld writer, analyst, and developer
Keith Instone IBM, User Experience Design team
Kevin Rose Kevin Rose, former G4/TechTV host, current host of Diggnation
Leoville Leo Laporte, former host of G4/ TechTV
Library Clips John Tropea shares from a librarian’s point of view
Lifehacker Lifehacker recommends the downloads, web sites and shortcuts that actually save time.
Martin Hardee Usability, Design & Other Stuff
Micro Persuasion Steve Rubel explores how new technologies are transforming marketing, media and public relations.
Noise Between Stations Victor Lombardi is a principal at the Management Innovation Group
Off the Top Thomas Vander Wal, Principle, InfoCloud Solutions
Periodic Design Jason Wishard, User Interface Designer
Peterme.com Links, thoughts, and essays from Peter Merholz
Robin Good What Communications Experts Need to Know
Semantic Studios Peter Morville’s Column About Information Architecture and Strategy
SimpleBits Dan Cederholm founded SimpleBits, a tiny web design studio that creates simple, readable, usable interfaces balanced with a standards-based methodology.
Stopdesign Douglas Bowman is an influential designer whose highly publicized and hugely successful redesigns of sites like Blogger, Wired News, and Adaptive Path have pushed him to the forefront of standards-compliant web design.
TechCrunch TechCrunch is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing every newly launched web 2.0 business, product and service.
Thinking and Making Information architecture, user experience design, and the new architecture of business
TWiT This Week in Tech
Usability News The British HCI Group is the longest-established and largest national group in Europe devoted to HCI.
Usability Professionals’ Association The UPA supports those who promote and advance the development of usable products, reaching out to people who act as advocates for usability and the user experience.
Usability.gov Your resource for designing usable, useful and accessible Web sites and user interfaces
User Experience Network UXnet was formed to help make connections between the people and organizations that represent User Experience disciplines, and to encourage interchange and cooperation.
UX Magazine UX Magazine sets out to explore, promote & discuss the multiple facets of user experience one article at a time.
UXMatters Insights and Inspiration for the User Experience Community
Veerle’s Blog
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Web Developer’s Handbook developing web-sites, exploring own imagination
WebWord Usability and Human Factors for the Internet
Zeldman’s Daily Report Jeffrey Zeldman, Founder and Creative Director, is an internationally known web designer and author, architect of the web standards movement, and creator of some of the medium’s best-known brands.
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Effective Culture Change in the FBI I believe the primary reason for failed IT projects and a revolving door of CIOs at the FBI is primarily due to the agency’s culture, not failed technologies or poor CIO leadership.
Egocentrically Altruistic Web 2.0 I think true Web 2.0 is more than a technology, a company, a concept, or a service. Web 2.0 is simply providing an intuitive rich user experience that can be both egocentric and altruistic.
Fair Access, Security, and Innovation To combat technology and cybersecurity issues, the government should institute policies that promote technology diversity and should allow citizens to conduct business with the government using any technology available to them.
No Scam Here – I Got the iBook! Then I stumbled across an “internet marketing” promotion. You may be familiar with them – “get a free iPod by getting 6 of your friends to sign up and register for X.” This promotion, offered by the Internet Opinion Group, used a different busines
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Alertbox Jakob Nielson’s column on Web usability
Alex Rudloff Alex is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and technology enthusiast located in Washington, DC.
Armchair Reconnaissance Although I understand the validity of both the need for information security and information sharing, I feel we need to be ever so careful with how we use the proliferation of social software that has grown in the last few years.
ASIS&T The Information Society for the Information Age
Audioscrobbler What I’m listening to…
Authentic Boredom Cameron Moll, Freelance New Media Pioneer
Bloug Louis Rosenfeld, Pioneer Information Architect
Boxes and Arrows Boxes and Arrows is firmly devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of graphic design, interaction design and information architecture, large and small.
D*I*Y Planner Paper, productivity & passion
DC Information Architects Where Information Architects Connect
del.icio.us See my bookmarks!
Digital Web Magazine Digital Web Magazine is an online magazine intended for professional web designers, web developers and information architects.
Donna Spencer Information architecture, user-centered design, usability, and much more
eHub eHub is a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy…
eLearning Post Explore news, views and stories around Corporate Learning, Community Building, Instructional Design, Knowledge Management and more. Elearningpost’s mission is to provide quality e-learning and knowledege management content that attracts a diverse and emer
Elegant Hack Christina Wodtke is the founder of Boxes and Arrows, an online magazine of IA and is president of the Information Architecture Institute
Findability Peter Morville’s thoughts on Ambient Findability and design of findable objects
Flickr My photos
GanttHead The Online Community for IT Project Managers
Getting My Bearings James Melzer, Information Architect
Green Chameleon Green Chameleon started out in May 2000 as a personal website of Patrick Lambe. Patrick is Principal Consultant at knowledge management consulting firm Straits Knowledge.
Green Onions Dan Brown, User Experience Lead
Guy Kawasaki Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Forbes.com. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc.
IA Slash Jess McMullin
InfoDesign Understanding by Design
Information Architecture Institute The Information Architecture Institute is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to advancing and promoting information architecture.
Information Week
InfoWorld
Interaction Design Association
Jeffrey Veen Founding partner of Adaptive Path
Jesse James Garrett JJG started Adaptive Path to help people solve user experience problems.
John Battelle Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more.
Jon’s Radio Jon Udell, InfoWorld writer, analyst, and developer
Keith Instone IBM, User Experience Design team
Kevin Rose Kevin Rose, former G4/TechTV host, current host of Diggnation
Leoville Leo Laporte, former host of G4/ TechTV
Library Clips John Tropea shares from a librarian’s point of view
Lifehacker Lifehacker recommends the downloads, web sites and shortcuts that actually save time.
Martin Hardee Usability, Design & Other Stuff
Micro Persuasion Steve Rubel explores how new technologies are transforming marketing, media and public relations.
Noise Between Stations Victor Lombardi is a principal at the Management Innovation Group
Off the Top Thomas Vander Wal, Principle, InfoCloud Solutions
Periodic Design Jason Wishard, User Interface Designer
Peterme.com Links, thoughts, and essays from Peter Merholz
Robin Good What Communications Experts Need to Know
Semantic Studios Peter Morville’s Column About Information Architecture and Strategy
SimpleBits Dan Cederholm founded SimpleBits, a tiny web design studio that creates simple, readable, usable interfaces balanced with a standards-based methodology.
Stopdesign Douglas Bowman is an influential designer whose highly publicized and hugely successful redesigns of sites like Blogger, Wired News, and Adaptive Path have pushed him to the forefront of standards-compliant web design.
TechCrunch TechCrunch is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing every newly launched web 2.0 business, product and service.
Thinking and Making Information architecture, user experience design, and the new architecture of business
TWiT This Week in Tech
Usability News The British HCI Group is the longest-established and largest national group in Europe devoted to HCI.
Usability Professionals’ Association The UPA supports those who promote and advance the development of usable products, reaching out to people who act as advocates for usability and the user experience.
Usability.gov Your resource for designing usable, useful and accessible Web sites and user interfaces
User Experience Network UXnet was formed to help make connections between the people and organizations that represent User Experience disciplines, and to encourage interchange and cooperation.
UX Magazine UX Magazine sets out to explore, promote & discuss the multiple facets of user experience one article at a time.
UXMatters Insights and Inspiration for the User Experience Community
Veerle’s Blog
Web 2.0 the Enterprise On the other hand, some organizations allow for the bottom-up vetting of ideas. Why not use a voting mechanism like that employed by Digg to allows employees to participate in a “suggestion box” approach – suggestions to better the company – both in t
Web Developer’s Handbook developing web-sites, exploring own imagination
WebWord Usability and Human Factors for the Internet
Zeldman’s Daily Report Jeffrey Zeldman, Founder and Creative Director, is an internationally known web designer and author, architect of the web standards movement, and creator of some of the medium’s best-known brands.
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