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How course management systems impact teaching
Course management systems, like any other technology, have an inherent purpose implied in their design, and therefore a built–in pedagogy. Although these pedagogies are based on instructivist principles, today’s large CMSs have many features suitable for applying more constructivist pedagogies.
The Razorfashion Retail Experience - Razorfish + Emerging Experiences
Our team has developed an application built on the new Razorfish Touch Framework called Razorfashion. It demonstrates how we believe retailers can meet shoppers growing expectations for more engaging digital experiences in-store and provide a consistent, integrated experience across the multi-channel shopping ecosystem.
Thought Experiments for Sakai: Keep It Simple Like Twitter & Draw Good Boundaries Like Drupal
I draw some lessons here from Twitter and Drupal not to suggest that Sakai duplicate them, but rather that we hold those models in mind as we move Sakai forward. Even without these experiments, some of these ideas may be in our thinking about Sakai, so if they are familiar, take it as a vote of confidence. But if not, I'd like us to have at least thought through why we would not take them as inspiration or why we would choose another path.
Real or Imaginary: The effectiveness of using personas in product design
The principle aim of this pilot study was to assess whether using personas as a design tool in the product development process would lead to more user-centred designs. It can be justifiably claimed at the outset that there are positive benefits associated with using the technique and this claim is evident from the analysis of the student design work, the student survey and the focus group feedback from the students and their tutors.
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.
Potential Vignette Use Cases
This page captures VERY preliminary thinking/brainstorming from the 3akai UX working meetings. It will continue to evolve quickly as we iterate through out thinking. Please also feel free to add your ideas here.
Don Norman's jnd.org / user advocacy and human-centered design
I argue in favor of complexity, against the simple-minded notion that things should be simple. Simplicity is boring. We want richness and depth in our lives. Moreover, the world and our activities are inherently complex, so the tools we use must match that complexity. Arguments against compexity are misplaced, i argue (see my essay "Simplicity is not the answer.") We don't want confusion, perplexity, and confusion. Thatis, we want our complex tools and activities to be understandable.
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.
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.
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
Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning
Communicating Design is for everyone who creates, uses, or approves documentation during the web design process. Covering 10 of the most common types of documents, the book walks readers through creating and presenting each deliverable. It describes the document's essential contents, tips for preparing the document, strategies for managing risk, how to structure presentation meetings, and lots of other practical advice.
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?
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