1. Team Betamax Adam College Doug Ellwanger Jeremy Freeman Jonathan Tse Dec 7, 2006

2. Motivation Frustration with Olin portals Scattered content High technical knowledge Dissimilar requirements

3. Project Goals Unified Olin information source Intuitive, friendly interface Customizable content

4. Learning Goals Interface design process Teamwork Web programming

5. Main Scenarios Adding new content RSS feeds, bookmarks Weather, sports Customize layout Find contact information

6. Personas Cross-section of Olin students Assumptions technically confident adept at using the internet not always buzzword-savvy

7. Gordon Junior ECE Ypsilanti, MI 20 years old Mildly conservative

8. Haley First-year Undeclared (E:Bio) Redwood city, CA 18 years old Apathetic

9. Isabel Senior E:Systems Danbury, CT 22 years old Liberal

10. Low-fi Prototype

11. Low-fi Evaluation Primarily evaluating ease of use and feature visibility Results “Configure Me” non-optimal Classes not visible enough Search option includes Olin? Personal opinions on Calendar

12. Prototype Changes Search bar conformity Different label for configuration Configuration drop down E-mail/calendar highlighting

13. Version One

14. Heuristic Evaluations “Better than Blackboard” Bugs Most problems were consistency related

15. Major Heuristic Evaluation Problems and Actions Taken Too “cute” or “overly verbose” Simplified & standardized dialogue “Configure Me” moves items on screen Tabbed Configure interface Search results are confusing Tabbed Search interface Irreversible Actions Added undo feature

16. Incorporating Feedback Added academic calendar and Olin links Increased information on e-mail and personal calendars Added more Google results Fixed bugs

17. Prototype Demo

18. Future Progress Increasing drop size area Edit bookmarks and other boxes (back-end) Customized color scheme Saving user preferences

19. Lessons Importance of visualizing change Communicating buzzword/jargon-free ideas We’re members of our own user group Defining end of the user interview process Being extremely aware of mental model of users

20. Questions ?