Synopsis: Full-scale research, design, and evaluation of a theoretical mobile application for two of the open-wheel racing series under the INDYCAR sanctioning body, the IZOD IndyCar Series and the Firestone Indy Lights Series.
Please note: This project is ongoing. Application prototype screenshots and associated documentation will be added as time allows, in order to reduce potential research bias to usability test subjects. Current documentation and screenshots will be accessible upon successful completion of all usability tests, but may be provided on-request to David.
CCR Mobile Device
Synopsis: The hottest technologies today are
small and wireless hand-held appliances with multiple functions. Provide a
comprehensive product design for a fictional company, considering the system
configuration and interface design that can facilitate such a bringing
together of these diverse platforms.
Moodini
Synopsis: Design a socially translucent system that conveys, allows, or delivers social-centered information by providing visual, verbal, or other interactive cues about the presence and activity of the participants. An example would be the system’s ability to convey attentiveness, emotional conditions, peer pressure, or other forms of communication that are often times implicit, as well as ambiguous, but very real. These psychological conditions are not easily conveyed in the virtual world of computer-mediated communication.
eLaCarté
Synopsis: Design an innovative interactive "information-intensive" application supporting user
activities performed while in a household kitchen. The entire project is driven by data gathered through fieldwork,
forming the basis to generate new requirements and shape design.
ChaCha.com Study
Synopsis: Perform an on-the-field investigation of how the basic ChaCha service is used and then use this data to envision and shape new design solutions that can deliver an enhanced user experience, capitalizing on advanced services currently offered or explored by ChaCha (e.g. mobile commerce, advertising), or create new opportunities (e.g. richer information delivery, multimedia).
Showtimes Experience Diary Study
Synopsis: Upon review of P.W. Jordan's Designing Pleasurable Products
book, choose, perform, and present one usability study method for a
newer software product.
Web Sketching Exercise: Redbox.com
Synopsis: Construct a prototype to represent a main function of a known web site, in order to gain further understanding of prototype methods when approaching a web site, not to create a new site. Focus will be on the elements and steps necessary to create a successful prototype and conduct a usability test
Synopsis: Review, enhance, and perform usability tests for the industrial design and interface of a proposed Multimedia Home Center. Device functionality extension with new on-screen functions, as well as physical affordances placed on the device itself. These additional system operations will be based on your understanding of the purpose of the product and its over-arching conceptual model.
Synopsis: Create any web site, service, or product from ideation to interactive prototype. This will include several phases from concept exploration through sketches, low fidelity prototype testing, digital prototyping, cognitive walkthroughs, to final interactive prototype. Various types of tests may be utilized based on the phase of the project (internal testing, cognitive walkthroughs, usability tests, etc)
Synopsis: Determine and design in detail a large, content-intensive interactive domain that justifies the adoption of a structured approach to design, using the concepts and terminology of Interactive Dialogue Modeling (IDM).
Synopsis: Building on the foundation of IDM, construct a detailed isometric map for a second large, content-intensive interactive domain that justifies the adoption of a structured approach to design, using the concepts and terminology of Interactive Dialogue Modeling (IDM).
Synopsis: Design and implement web based small clinic search system, including the proper design/creation of a relational database (using MySQL) and corresponding web functionality using PHP technology to query and properly display database information.
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