OOI CI LCA REVIEW August 2010 Ocean Observatories Initiative User Experience Susanne Jul, Carolanne Fisher, Tom Auer, Chris Quintana Life Cycle Architecture Review La Jolla, CA

OOI CI LCA REVIEW August 2010 Agenda Release 1: End-User Product Description Release 1: UI Design Mockups Design Status: What’s Real, What’s Memorex 2

OOI CI LCA REVIEW August 2010 Release 1: End-User Product Description 3

OOI CI LCA REVIEW August 2010 Release 1: Product Description 4

OOI CI LCA REVIEW August 2010 Phased Release Plan  5 Limited Public

OOI CI LCA REVIEW August 2010 Release 1: UI Design Mockups Professional designers on professional mockups. Do not try this at home. 6

OOI CI LCA REVIEW August 2010 What’s Real: Conceptual Framework Separation of selection and manipulation Defining entities of interest can be decoupled from operating on them Persistent and shareable “workspaces” Definition of a set of entities of interest + views and representations + tools for manipulation Modularity of interfaces All elements are user replaceable Ubiquitous reification Everything is a manipulable element (data set, subscription, data representations, etc.) 7

OOI CI LCA REVIEW August 2010 What’s Real: Release 1 Target users Select IOOS modelers Workflows Login, search, subscribe, publish, monitor Information elements Catalog, data set, subscription, publication, view 8

OOI CI LCA REVIEW August 2010 What’s Memorex: Release 1 Visual design Colors, layout Information architecture What information element goes where Interaction design What widgets are needed where to do what 9

OOI CI LCA REVIEW August 2010 “Engineering” UIs Release 1 Login Search Subscribe Publish Monitor Future Releases 10

OOI CI LCA REVIEW August 2010 OO User Experience Steering Committee 11

OOI CI LCA REVIEW August Thanks ! Questions ?

OOI CI LCA REVIEW August 2010 Plan for Construction 13 R1 C1R1 C2R1 C3 Design Finalization of R1 look and feel, screenflows, information architecture Preliminary interaction design for search, subscribe, publish, monitor Finalization of interaction design for search, subscribe, publish, monitor, login Engineering UI designs Testing and Integration Empirical testing of designs with users Feasibility testing of designs with developers Empirical testing of detailed designs with users Feasibility testing of detailed designs with developers Empirical testing of implementations with users Implementatio n UI platform implementation (with COI) UI framework implementation (with subsystem teams) UI design implementation (with subsystem teams)