Note Visualization pudu Carolyn Holmes Stefan Ekerfelt Ryan Whiteley

Our Project Build a prototype that: Works – we can demo it live with no hand- waving Visualizes Notes – shows notes at multiple levels of abstraction Has A Good UI – is usable, intuitive, and sensible

Value To The Customer Reduce effort to find information hidden within notes Search Automatic organization of notes – context derived from algorithmical analysis of understood note content Manual override of automatic analysis – to correct errors and preserve user control

Value To The Customer cont. Specific to Notes – not a general folder system Enough relevant detail to make navigation of notes intuitive Keeps it high level as long as possible Drills in quickly and appropriately

The Novelty It’s pretty It’s just for notes Effective workflow gained through simplicity and specificity It’s intuitive Shows the user what they need to know about their own notes

The Risks TIME – we might not finish Short-staffed Ambitious Design Risk Management Prioritization of goals 0: It works! 1: UI 2: Feature Completeness Search Abstraction Levels 3: Performance

Customers Hypothetical Primary: anyone in academia Profs, students (young and old), teachers, counselors Secondary: anyone else who uses notes Business environment, home use Actual Course staff

Personas Primary Anderson Sally the Student Typical busy UW student with a full schedule Pete the Professor Absent-minded professor Secondary Milly the Mom Household organization through notes Bob the Businessman Professional workflow, a doodler

Scenarios Exploit functionality we should have 12 total using all personas ex. Sally is getting ready to study for midterms and wants to browse all her notes from Chem 142 for this quarter Scenarios should never be leading Design accommodates scenarios, not the other way around

Level 1: Category View

Level 2: Thumbnail View

Level 3: Note View