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Natasha – nd876@nyu.edu
Mike – mam1286@nyu.edu
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TuneTaps
The Shoes!
Design & Incorporating Bluetooth
Designing the Clip-On:
BEAUTY Final Presentation and Book
View in (Larger, Better Quality) PDF form: Beauty Book
BEAUTY is an exhibit design that explores beauty from social, scientific, and cultural viewpoints.
BEAUTY is an exhibit design that explores beauty from social, scientific, and cultural viewpoints.
Building the Model
With limited time, we did our best to convey the overall flow. It would have been great to build a mini version of each interactive and add more to-scale graphic panels to the walls. (And use a proper adhesive… not hideous hot glue -eck!) However rough, the model did help us visualize what we were imagining in the space. It was neat to put a camera at the visitor’s eye level in the model and take a picture– It looks like it’s full scale!
Bonsai: The Internet’s academic advisor
After taking all of the feedback I received to heart, I mocked up a clickable version of my site. If I had more time, I’d like to tighten up all of the layouts and really make it visually stunning. This is a mock-up for proof of concept so only key links work, but please do have a look:
Materials & Construction
Exhibition Design Reading Topics:
- Choosing Materials
- Portable Exhibitions
- Technical Drawings
- Construction
User Testing – The Feedback
WOW. I got some amazing feedback from my class- Thanks everyone!
After listening to an example of user testing suggested by the UX syllabus, I led a feedback session with the entire class. User testing is usually done with a linked wireframe, one person at a time. I asked the class specific open ended questions at each step of the site, and got a similar experience, receiving lots of thoughtful opinions at once!
The best thing I could have done was to record the audio of my session. With so much constructive feedback, It was great to listen to it again in detail. I was so helpful that I will record every feedback session I can from now on!
Here’s a summary of my questions & the feedback I received:
Will you fill out the entire form?
- Yes
- I wouldn’t fill out the time because It may reduce my chances of finding what I want
- It should be a sort later
- Categories of time
- Search by other criteria then filter by time
Can you tell me what you see here in the search results?
- Confused about the time parameter
- Reaction to layout: Netflix interface — Each row would be different types of movies
- When she sees a line of things she assumes they are similar and the next line is different.
- Sort by tab will make it better
- Sort tag vs pre-sorting
- Filter time once search results are presented
Any feedback on the sign up form?
- Get person’s level of expertise
- Get preferred learning style
- Sign up whenever – use
- Sign up WITHOUT bookmarklett
- Make every action cancelable
- Log in with Facebook & Twitter accounts
Would you know how to install the bookmarklett?
- Called something that says what it does
- Cancel button
- You have to drag for it to go away
- Keep the fun copy
- People don’t read anything
- Change the sign up language to allude to the installation of the bookmarklett
- Install the bookmarklett to create collections
- Collect your knowledge from the greater internet
- Make the user aware that they are signing up to use the bookmarklett
- Allow a user to sign up without the bookmarklett
Would you fill out the form after hitting the Collect bookmarklett?
- Why would you collect a 1 star lesson?… You wouldn’t.
- Don’t ask for a rating when collecting… only when editing materials
- Assume that the first person that tags content likes it and would give it 5 stars
Would you click the tell us more link? What would prohibit you from using it?
- Say “Tell us more” not “can you tell us more” – be more direct
- I’m not sure why I would do this?
- People love to talk about and rate shit…
- If it popped up it would be more scientific
- Use an iframe model where it pops up to the side. It will be there in real time to take notes, and you can even have a timer that automatically tags the site with the length of stay on the page.
- Integrate the types of reactions that people have during different parts of the content. Similar to iBooks where there is a “people often highlight” section showing the path of other users.
- I would want the interface laid in the screen and lets me take notes while viewing the content instead of waiting to tag it at the end.
- Collect info when people are looking at the content even if they don’t submit the form
- History – you would learn how much time YOU spend on different topics
- Delicious.com bookmark tagging — look at it
- I want to see my learning path
Collecting the cover image / categories:
- “The Pinterest model for education”
- Like the option to create your own board on Pinterest
Your collections scroll thru or select from list?
- The ability to share the collections with others or curate for a class is a nice feature
- Is there a way to sequence these things? — Needs the ability to reorder materials within the collection
- Give drag handles automatically to the person who is the collection “owner”
Give a way to Edit Notes
iFrame may work out as a better way for collecting
Greg suggested checking out Dropmark.com, and liked the ability I showed about screen-shotting the thumbnail on the page.
Tap Shoe Progress
I’ve been frustrated with the technical bluetooth stuff, so I needed to take a step back and focus on what I was REALLY doing. So, I went ahead and made a wired version of the tap shoes to check it out.
I learned a lot about how I tap dance– that I expect the toe tap to be on the tip of my shoe, and how often I use the tip of the toe. I also learned that this is much harder to map because the dancer is standing on the sensor in it’s resting state. There are many possibilities with this, so here’s a video of my progress:
More updates to come on where to go from here!
