Archive for the ‘Blackboard Posts’ Category

Stuff and nonsense

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

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 ...

Prototyping; GUIdebook

Friday, February 29th, 2008

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 ...

Links: file-naming conventions

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

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 ...

Drafting scenarios and stories

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

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 ...

Article critiques: scenarios, stories

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

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 ...