1. Creating compelling user interfaces Tristan Roddis, Cogapp DPLAfest 2106, Washington D.C.

2. The External Problem

3. Competition for attention Numbers are not enough!

4. The Internal Problem

5. Wine = content Glass = infrastructure Drinking = access

6. Wine = content => 32% Glass = infrastructure => 22% Drinking = access => 46%

7. It’s all about impact!

8. The Good News This is easy to do, given some prerequisites: 1)Put your text content into a modern search system (Solr, Elastic Search…) 2)Put you image content into a dynamic server (IIPImage, Loris, Djatoka...)* * ideally IIIF-compatible!

9. Aggregation

15. Video records from Youtube

16. Audio records from Internet Archive

17. Video records from Youtube Audio records from Internet Archive Digitised book records from Internet Archive

18. Video records from Youtube Audio records from Internet Archive Digitised book records from Internet Archive Page from Drupal CMS

20. Autocomplete

21. Faceted search

23. Date histogram

24. Geo-search

25. Subject-specific search

26. Text layout

28. Images

29. Interoperable images

32. IIIF viewers Different viewers allow different audiences to experience the same content in different ways Universal Viewer Mirador Internet Archive Book Reader Compare viewers at http://labs.cogapp.com/iiif/http://labs.cogapp.com/iiif/

33. New interfaces for interpretation Boschproject.org Visible Infrared Infrared reflectography

34. Gaming interface? labs.cogapp.com/transcriptinator labs.cogapp.com/transcriptinator

35. 3D virtual world? labs.cogapp.com/tc labs.cogapp.com/tc

36. Conclusion It’s not enough to put your data online You must engage your users to create lasting impact Searchable content and flexible images are a springboard for compelling interfaces I’d love to hear from you: tristanr@cogapp.comtristanr@cogapp.com

37. Questions? Tristan Roddis TristanR@cogapp.com @tristan_roddis www.cogapp.com TristanR@cogapp.com @tristan_roddis www.cogapp.com