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Higher Education Web Symposium || University of Pennsylvania
The first and only web design conference for IT Professionals working in Higher Education. Join us and meet world renowned experts in the fields of usability, user centered design, CSS, AJAX and many others. Designers, Developers, and Project Managers will all be able to benefit from the content presented over the course of this busy day.
User Experience Design
Through these ten tempestuous years, I've found the infamous three circle diagram to be a great tool for explaining how and why we must strike a unique balance on each project between business goals and context, user needs and behavior, and the available mix of content.
Eye-tracking studies: more than meets the eye
Based on eye-tracking studies, we know that people tend to scan the search results in order. They start from the first result and continue down the list until they find a result they consider helpful and click it — or until they decide to refine their query.
The Site Map: An Information Architecture Cop-Out
Spending those constrained resources on the symptoms only delays the inevitable. A design cop-out usually needs continual updating, whereas fixing the root problem can nip it in the bud and release long-term resources.
Interactive Factory :: Alen
Alen is an artist and designer trapped in a business-driven world. His primary interest continues to be data-driven user interfaces for education, gaming and publishing.
Ubiquity for Firefox
Enable on-demand, user-generated mashups with existing open Web APIs. (In other words, allowing everyone (not just Web developers) to remix the Web so it fits their needs, no matter what page they are on, or what they are doing.)
Interaction Design: It's All About the Subtleties
Folders from Venus and Labels from Mars. With the introduction of Google's GMail, the Gmail designers wanted to approach email differently. They started by collecting all the messages in a conversation into a single email "message". Now, the entire conversation would occupy only one line of the inbox, giving the user one-click access to every message in the discussion.
Gradebook2 in Sakai
We have begun this effort by implementing a new tool that closely mimics the current tool's basic functionality (support for numeric grades including points and percentages) with some significant new functionality (extra credit, drop lowest grade item, grade item weighting, excuse individual grade record, etc.) and ease of use improvements and a more flexible and extensible UI strategy. This tool shares data model objects with the old tool, which should largely address compatibility issues with other existing tools that make use of the original Gradebook1 to aggregate grades.
RESTful Sakai: Entities, SData and Widgets
My purpose is to examine certain concrete technical expressions of the drive to create a next generation Sakai, known as Sakai 3 or less prosaically as “3akai.” In particular, I discuss the new emphasis on content addressability, clean URL spaces and web services embodied by a re-factored Sakai service known as the the entity broker that embraces RESTful design principles and mircroformat-style APIs.
Alan Kay
Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design.
Douglas Engelbart
Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925) is an American inventor of Swedish and Norwegian descent.[1] He is best known for inventing the computer mouse
The Sakai PDA portal
Sakai has a portal for small devices since 2.4. It is pretty bare bones but it does several neat things:
1. it flattens the tool/site hierarchy so that they can coexist in the same breadcrumb
2. it serves up an iframeless experience
3. it elides many elements from the portal that would be noise in a small screen
The Essential Website Usability Checklist
This post is a simple 13-point usability checklist for webmasters. Ever good website must be able to answer 'yes' to each of these points. How does your site measure up?
Open Source Design Pattern Library
The Library is a place for communities to create, collaborate on, and share their open source user interface design patterns. Our current members include the communities involved in the Kuali Student, Moodle, Open Collection, Sakai, & uPortal.
The Five Competencies of User Experience Design
When attempting to answer the third question, I use a framework I discovered early in my career: The Five Competencies of User Experience Design. This framework comprises the competencies a UX professional or team requires. The following sections describe these five competencies, outline some questions each competency must answer, and show the groundwork and deliverables for which each competency is responsible.
Design for Emotion and Flow
The psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1990) has described focused attention as “psychic energy”. Like energy in the traditional sense, no work can be done without it, and through work that energy is consumed. Most of us have experienced a mental/emotional state where all of our attention (or energy) is totally focused on an activity. Csikszentmihalyi (1990) named this state “flow,” based on how participants in his studies described the experience.
Corners of Sakai 2 - Skinning Site Types
There is more to this that am aware of, but for our purposes here, the only thing that matters is that the site type is emitted as a class in the portal markup, allowing us to do different things to a portal depending on the site type.
Five Amazing Color Palette Generators
When looking for inspiration today, it's easy to become overwhelmed with the number of choices available for generating color schemes, but here are five apps we find truly inspiring.
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