Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
3 personas
Persona 1:
Matt
Background
Age: 27
Occupation: State patrol officer
Attributes
Experienced iPhone User
Experienced driver,
Drives a lot to go out, visit family, friends etc.
Uses iPhone as navigation system, finding locations, new restaurants, best deals, etc.
Interested in new technologies
Paid of his brand new car already
Has to stay in budget because just bought new house
Very organized person
Smart and careful with money and interested in investing in the stock market
Goals
Get promotion and build a successful career
Going back to school and complete his masters
Buy new car
Persona 2:
Julie
Background
Age: 24
Occupation: Violinist, Member of Bellevue symphony orchestra and Private Violin instructor
Attributes
Experienced iPhone User
Experienced driver
Drives a lot for private violin lesson and practice for her Orchestra, visit family, meet friends, shopping etc.
Interested in new things
Uses iPhone as navigation system, finding locations, new restaurants, best deals, etc.
Spends lots of time for driving to work
Likes to talk and meet friends
Spends most of her connected time on social networking (like tweeter and face book), music and media site etc.
Use her car a lot however doesn’t have much knowledge of car and its maintenance
Saves money for a new car and travel
Smart but not very organized
Goals
To be a famous violinist
Wants to travel to Europe in two years
Buy a new car
Persona 3:
Josh
Background
Age: 30
Occupation: Mechanic for city bus transpertation
Attributes
Experienced iPhone User
Experienced driver and mechanic
Drives a 10 mile drive to work and back 5 days a week and goes fishing on the weekends, which he sometimes drives a far distance to the rivers where the fish are.
Interested in new things
Uses iPhone as navigation system, finding locations, new restaurants, best deals, etc.
Likes to work on vehicles outside of work for extra money on the side. He saves up money to buy new tools and equipment for his garage.
He is very organized in keeping up to date on regular and preventive maintenance on his vehicles. He understands that keeping up on this will save him money in the long run and extend the life of his vehicles.
Saves money for travel.
Goals
To have a full garage of all the equipment that you would have in mechanics garage.
After he has a full garage he would like to buy or lease a property where he could run an auto mechanic shop of his own.
Would like to go on a nice vacation far away and nice.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Week 8 reading assignment
This chapter is about the process of building the successful site without doing "extra stuff" like :
asking too much information for users( email address, phone number etc). It is better idea ask only information that is really needed; asking fewer optional items will give better result. We will get more submissions if ask less unnecessary data that might scary or confuse users. Users want to know value or what they get in exchange of providing information.
Web site can look good, visually appealing but making web site engaging and flashy does not really bring better results unless it is "pure branding" web site. It mostly destructs and annoys. User most often looking for better constructed and usable web site where they can find answers and "make things done" The exception is web developers' portfolio site or entertainment sites like music, movie, games etc.
Web site has to look professional but it does not have to contain huge images and flash animation, as well as music etc. Main purpose of web site is provide to users whatever they are looking for.
http://sixrevisions.com/usabilityaccessibility/privacy-and-the-user-experience/
http://www.usabilityfirst.com/about-usability/information-architecture/
http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol7/design_no4.htm
asking too much information for users( email address, phone number etc). It is better idea ask only information that is really needed; asking fewer optional items will give better result. We will get more submissions if ask less unnecessary data that might scary or confuse users. Users want to know value or what they get in exchange of providing information.
Web site can look good, visually appealing but making web site engaging and flashy does not really bring better results unless it is "pure branding" web site. It mostly destructs and annoys. User most often looking for better constructed and usable web site where they can find answers and "make things done" The exception is web developers' portfolio site or entertainment sites like music, movie, games etc.
Web site has to look professional but it does not have to contain huge images and flash animation, as well as music etc. Main purpose of web site is provide to users whatever they are looking for.
http://sixrevisions.com/usabilityaccessibility/privacy-and-the-user-experience/
http://www.usabilityfirst.com/about-usability/information-architecture/
http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol7/design_no4.htm
Monday, November 29, 2010
iphone apps project
Our team came up with three ideas for creating iphone or smart phone app:
1.car application: helps collect all the information about one's car like: expenses, gas, mileage etc; set up reminders when any technical checks needs to be made like oil change etc. So one can keep track on all the financial and technical aspects of the car, collect statistics, informations. This application helps collect information, analyze it and helps to take better care of the car. This is organizer for the car.
2. Photo editing app that is created to let user edit pics made with iphone like sign, fame, send, organize them.
3. shopping cart for a local grocery shopping.
Jonas :"Then when your ready to go shopping you have the option to have it delivered or you can pull up a map of the store when you get there. So you can just see all the items you need on your shopping list on the map. Then you can just go straight to the items on the list and be out. Instead of looking for where everything is in the store. That or if you just need to find an item in the store you can look it up and find on the map of your store instead of looking for someone to point it out for you."
1.car application: helps collect all the information about one's car like: expenses, gas, mileage etc; set up reminders when any technical checks needs to be made like oil change etc. So one can keep track on all the financial and technical aspects of the car, collect statistics, informations. This application helps collect information, analyze it and helps to take better care of the car. This is organizer for the car.
2. Photo editing app that is created to let user edit pics made with iphone like sign, fame, send, organize them.
3. shopping cart for a local grocery shopping.
Jonas :"Then when your ready to go shopping you have the option to have it delivered or you can pull up a map of the store when you get there. So you can just see all the items you need on your shopping list on the map. Then you can just go straight to the items on the list and be out. Instead of looking for where everything is in the store. That or if you just need to find an item in the store you can look it up and find on the map of your store instead of looking for someone to point it out for you."
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