InfoCamp 2010: Exploring UX, Design, and Development in Libraries and Beyond

Table of Contents

Saturday InfoCamp 2010

Keynote: @walkingpaper: UX and Libraries

Session 1: @nickf: Mobile UX/IA

What is UX

What is the traffic document required for creating new products.

How do you do discovery

Know the business

What are the technical hurdles for mobile

How important is strategic design

Use sketching to show the interaction to determine how things should work.

How to demo functionality.

Don't use red in sketches

Use metal template sytems.

Design Commission

Show pictures of cats and dogs

Use the tools to make product development easy

Do not do IA without the Build process

Need to clarify gaps by going through the development together.

Create a feature as a team

Do not think of a hand-off as a completed project

Ensure that testing is built in

Set up a test harness

Put together analytics

Put together A/B by default

How do you select native vs. web

Lunch: Value of User Testing

Use lean startup

Minimum viable product

Create something that demos

TODO Prototype first with mock data

Minimize testing as a task for QA

Don't use traditional 30 page functional specification documents

Use people to talk to get work done

List of things people need to do doesn't have priority

Define the goals for people

Don't use documentation

Layer in new functionality

Work with prototypes

If design is providing new UI (non-reuse UI) there is a failure

Product should be demoable and killable early

Process

Determine high level data consumption
Note the current business goal
Note the user goal
Determine 1 sentence summary
Do not define an implementation or UI

Session 2: Donald Brinkman: Big History, Deep Zoom, and Long Tail

Books: 2266, You are Not a Gadget, Vilem Flusser

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2666_(novel)

You are Not a Gadget, Lanier

Vilem Flusser

ChronoZoom: Interactive timescales of Cosmos, Earth, Life, Huma

Zoom as the future of search

What could be done to position search results in some output?

Yearbooks search for showing the number of counts

Create a POC that shows visualization of yearbook pages that is interactive based on OCR.

Should be done without a specification.

Example: Roman history

David Christian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Christian_(historian)

Use part of a lecture, site, and promotion.

Using Big History in High School

Live Labs: Pivot

Session 3: @changeorder: Design a product

Create a yoga appliction

10 minutes: Research and discussion

10 minutes: Design prototype

10 minutes: Use product and iterate

Session 4: UX Research for Mobile

Sunday InfoCamp 2010

Tasks

TODO Strategic UI Mission

TODO Create visualization of projects and technologies

What are the overlap between data on site, projects…

Core focus is data discovery and mining

Wireframes, comps, and functional specifications are not requirements.

Work closely with Product to determine

These are mostly Agile principles for product development.

TODO Work with Creative on fast prototype

TODO Revise the mandate of the TPC Search application

Move away from commoditization of product development

Author: Jason Walsh

j@wal.sh

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