Stephen Anderson offered an inspiring presentation from the IA Summit.
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Tags: [adaptive, adaptive interface, interaction design, information architecture, IA Summit 2007, Partial Recall, Stephen Anderson]
If you live in the DC area, there’s a good local event you might want to check out tomorrow:
Wondering where to get your coffee, bagel, and IA conversation tomorrow? Join us in Bethesda at 10:00 am for a resume panel discussion and workshop. Bring your resume for one-on-one feedback from panelists and experts. Refreshments will be available. A $5 donation will be appreciated.
On a related note, I’d encourage you to check out a great resume tool created by a former classmate of mine.
Sponsored by the User Experience Network, DC-IA, and UPA-DC.
WHEN: Saturday, April 21, 2007 10 am to 12 pm
WHERE: Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center, 4805 Edgemoor Lane, Bethesda, MD 20814 (Bethesda Metro Station or Bethesda Center parking garage)
REGISTRATION: http://www.upa-dc-metro.org/registration/event/eventreg1.php
QUESTIONS: events@upa-dc-metro.org
Rashmi is the creator of SlideShare.
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Tags: [Rashmi Sinha, SlideShare, User Experience, PowerPoint, Slideshow, Partial Recall, IASummit2007]
A new storyboard template was released by Martin Hardee last week. This templates focuses on phone conversations. Click the image below to access the file.
Tags: [Martin Hardee, Sun Microsystems, design, comics, design comics, storyboard, HCI, usability, task analysis, information architecture, Partial Recall]
In a recent post I prematurely touted a template that could be used to storyboard user experiences using a computer-based product. Martin Hardee had provided slides depicting a specific scenario. However, I am pleased to pass along news that Martin has graciously offered 3 templates that user experience professionals might use for communicating design to a variety if audiences.
Below are the 3 templates that you can use. Please be sure to give Sun Microsystems credit for the use of the template (hat tip to Martin Hardee). I have taken the liberty of converting the Open Office file format to the MS PowerPoint file format.
Tags: [Martin Hardee, Sun Microsystems, design, comics, design comics, storyboard, HCI, usability, task analysis, information architecture, Partial Recall]
Other than Calvin and Hobbes, I’m not much of a comic guy. There’s been a number of contributors in the web design arena who have advocated using comics to communicate a user’s experience interacting with an information system (web or client). Typically, I think of the folks over at OK/Cancel, but I know others, such as Dan Brown, are influenced by Scott McCloud.
Today I came across a post by Martin Hardee of the Sun Design Team. His team has been using comics to convey user experiences with the sun.com site. Interestingly, he has provided a template that is freely available to use, provided you have access to Sun’s Office suite (OpenOffice is freely available). Unfortunately, I am unable to install OpenOffice on my work machine, so I’ll have to look at the template when I get home.
As I mentioned to Martin, since I’m an information architect without the gift of artistic design, I am eager to use any existing templates. I’m a visual learner by nature, so having the ability to succinctly depict user experience issues to technical teams or end users alike in a visual (versus text) format is something I hope to do more of in the future. I truly hope that the template will provide some good images like that seen below. Thanks to Martin and Sun for graciously allowing me to copy content from his blog and repost it here.
Tags: [Sun Microsystems, Martin Hardee, web design, storyboard, comic, Partial Recall, task analysis, Scott McCloud, Brownorama]
This from Dan…
“During my talk at the last UX Week in August, I mentioned Edward Tufte, who has done lots of work in the area of information visualization. (You may have seen PeterMe‘s review of Tufte’s new book Beautiful Evidence on his site – here, here, and here.) Tufte’s work can inform how we
develop user experience documentation.Tufte will be giving his workshop in the DC area Nov 14-16 this year at the Marriott Crystal Forum. I *highly* recommend this session. The session is a full day, and costs $360. This includes ALL FOUR BOOKS!
You can learn more about his workshop here:
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/coursesIf you do attend, please let me know! Perhaps DCIA will host a happy hour in which attendees can share what they learned!”
Tags: [Edward Tufte, Tufte, visualization, Beautiful Evidence]
I know, I know. I’m late to the game. I was not able to attend Adaptive Path’s UX week in DC last month. Fortunately, there’s a wiki containing great sessions notes.
Tags: [wiki, Adaptive Path, ux, user experience, conference, usability, information architecture, interaction design]
The Library of Congress has posted its webcast of Peter Morville’s July 20th talk on Ambient Findability. You can view the 45 minute webcast here.
Tags: [Ambient Findability, Peter Morville, findability, usability, information architecture, Library of Congress, video, webcast]
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