The Information School of the University of Washington Information System Design Info-440 Autumn 2002 Session #11

The Information School of the University of Washington Copyright David Hendry (INFO-440 session /04/2002) 2 Agenda Admin/review Assignment #2 –Continue discussion… Site architecture –Exercise Break Assignment #3 –Review

The Information School of the University of Washington Copyright David Hendry (INFO-440 session /04/2002) 3 Admin Announcements –Anyone? Interactive design project Jarrett & Su - Building Tablet PC Applications: Chapter 1 (See electronic reserves) (Anna) Upcoming –Quiz #2: Nov 6 th [covers weeks: 3-5] –Design Exercise #3: Nov 13 th

The Information School of the University of Washington Copyright David Hendry (INFO-440 session /04/2002) 4 Process: Where we are now? Week 1: Introduction Week 2: Requirements Analysis, Part I Week 3: Requirements Analysis, Part II Week 4: Conceptual design Week 5: Interaction design, Part I Week 6: Interaction design, Part II Labs: Prototyping –Site maps, flow diagrams –Participatory prototyping Evaluation Information design Process, project management The literature, personalities, and history

The Information School of the University of Washington Copyright David Hendry (INFO-440 session /04/2002) 5 Methods –Affinity diagramming –Card sorting –Comics for summarizing workplace data –Conceptual models –Contextual inquiry, concentrating on interviewing –Design-space analysis –Focus groups –Inspecting objects (Norman’s vocabulary) –Metaphors –Personas –Site architectures (IA diagrams) –Scenarios –Task analysis –Trade-offs: Representation technique

The Information School of the University of Washington Assignment #2

The Information School of the University of Washington Copyright David Hendry (INFO-440 session /04/2002) 7 Assignment #2 Mark breakdown 40- Part I: content 30- Part II: site architecture & overall impact 10 – Part III: navigation & information design I’ll re-grade part II and III for teams that wish to revise and re-submit –Revisions are due by Friday (8 November)

The Information School of the University of Washington Copyright David Hendry (INFO-440 session /04/2002) 8 Grade Distribution

The Information School of the University of Washington Copyright David Hendry (INFO-440 session /04/2002) 9 Discussion (cont.) Challenges with taxonomy –Why two representations? –How to show original materials? Challenges with methodology –Will people really understand process? Social issues –Did the affinity diagram really help?

The Information School of the University of Washington Copyright David Hendry (INFO-440 session /04/2002) 10 Discussion (cont.) How do might the issues be combined across teams?

The Information School of the University of Washington Copyright David Hendry (INFO-440 session /04/2002) 11 Last time Site architecture blueprints –Site blueprints specify the structure of the system –Enough detail to implement the website –A physical representation

The Information School of the University of Washington Copyright David Hendry (INFO-440 session /04/2002) 12 Recap of system representations User flowSystem (logical) System (Physical) Task analysis * Conceptual modeling * Site architecture *

The Information School of the University of Washington Copyright David Hendry (INFO-440 session /04/2002) 13 Additional notation (from Garrett, jjg.net)

The Information School of the University of Washington Copyright David Hendry (INFO-440 session /04/2002) 14 Adaptations to notation (Q. David) 1)This symbol is used to represent…. and a left navigation is implied (1)

The Information School of the University of Washington Copyright David Hendry (INFO-440 session /04/2002) 15 ‘Clusters’ (Q. from Anna) News Shopping Search! SEARCH RESULTS News xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx … Shopping xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx … SEARCH RESULTS No results… Try again

The Information School of the University of Washington Assignment #3

The Information School of the University of Washington Copyright David Hendry (INFO-440 session /04/2002) 17 Assignment #3 Part I: Scenario for using My Yahoo! –Why and how would a person use it? Part II: Conceptual models & metaphors –Need to fill in the gaps –Think about the questions carefully and justify answers with evidence Part III: Site architecture –Focus on key parts

The Information School of the University of Washington Assignment #3: Questions?

The Information School of the University of Washington Copyright David Hendry (INFO-440 session /04/2002) 19 Next time Topics (catching up) –Participatory prototyping (theory) Returning –Project proposals Quiz #2