Milan -
I discuss OVID in the Object Modeling and User Interface Design book I
mentioned earlier and update it to use UML notation (Scott Insensee,
Dave Roberts and co used one of the earlier OO notations, I forget
which).
The OVID book is still available, BTW:
OMUID -
It sounds as they're looking for market segmentation rather than
personas. Personas should be built in a way that the fewest possible
can represent the needs of all. This facilitates efficiency in design.
Market segmentation and resulting profiles can be quite complex,
detailed and specific to
Recently, I was trying to find someone on Facebook, I typed his name
in the textbox, but... whatever the reason was, as a result I
received a bunch of people who's last name was Search...
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Hey.. This is an interesting topic since I have been in this position
myself before. I was able to convince my client that these many
personas would mean additional expenses in terms of development,
maintenance and management of requirements. But if your clients
aren't too concerned about their
I am sitting down to start some wireframes right now. First I will
sketch. Then finalize them in omnigraffle.
I recently test wireframes as an interactive prototype and found
several problems with the structure and layout of the site. The
wireframes changed significantly and the designer was
I work on a project where there is over 60 now and to be honest they
are all useful. It really depends on what you need them for.
If you are interested you can find a PDF poster of most of them here:
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I am working in a similar situation where we have limited page
templates built in a CMS and limited developers to help create more
custom pages.
My biggest suggestion is to do some analysis of what your needs are,
in regards to modules and templates. Use what you find to come up
with 2 or 3 page
I don't believe there is a such thing as too many or too few
personas. Each project has it's own unique requirements. My first
suggestion is to be thorough in your analysis of each role. The
system needs to meet everyone's needs.
If you believe you can effectively use only 3 personas then start
Generally, I am not a fan, but stackoverflow does something a little
different:
* They treat it as an alert
* They let the user dismiss it
It is, as you said, a visual distraction - but they use that property
to intentionally gain the user's attention.
http://stackoverflow.com/
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just a few off the top of my head.
http://www.swell.com
http://www.potterybarn.com and all their affiliated sites
http://www.brooklynindustries.com
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Hi Jay
Maybe the first step could be to start playing with Arduino (
http://www.arduino.cc/) a simple hardware board to control any type of
device.
Just search the web and you will find several experiences and tutorials how
to use it.
--
Tiago Correia
I've not been following the whole conversation, but of course even 15
personas would be preferable to 15 market segment/user needs analyses.
The point of personas is that they promote empathy - or would do if we
make them 'believable', hence the need for seemingly unimportant
details.
I wrote a
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Jay - Are you interested in designing software user interfaces for
hardware platforms or interested in designing hardware interfaces
(e.g. physical controls)?
If it's the former and you already have strong interface design
skills, then the transition can be relatively seamless.
If it's a
I am also a supporter of the guideline of graying out any fields or
controls that are not available in the current context, but can be
made available to the user by shifting the context. Among other
reasons stated above, another advantage is that tooltips can be
displayed on the inactive fields or
A couple of references to progressive disclosure have already been
made in this thread, and I wanted to point you to some of the applied
examples I've come across specifically regarding progressive
disclosure and progressive reveal:
The Xerox Star: A retrospective
Sunil,
Just returned from IRWD conference and had the chance to shop
various eye tracking solutions. Was totally blown away by the
accuracy and logical application of SMI. It's German technology and
the precision is definitely there.
I agree with Mike; I love peer input as much as the next person but
you have to involve target buyers in this discussion.
The examples provided here are a great springboard for mockup ideas.
Start by asking target customers to react to product page examples or
mockups (as opposed to just asking
I think this has been wholly answered, but I'll add my two cents:
- I always, always, always sketch first. I do a ton of sketching.
It allows me to get all of my ideas out (the what if phase), and
allows me to have more focus when I get into wireframing. Sketching
is portable, cheap and fast.
That's for everyone's input. All valid.
Navid, I really like your summation of personas you used with your
group.
The problem here as with most online initiatives is that the
marketing team is at the table. And it is an education challenge.
Personas are not a means to understand marketing
Thank you both so much for your answers.
I have also been accepted to UCL so now i'm even more confused.
I like the fact that both York and City have technical components but
I don't think that's the case for UCL, which seems to be more theory
based. But UCL is one of the top universities in the
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