D2L Discussion Topics (week 5)

  • Eliciting richer inquiry responses: issues with bias
  • Conceptual design exercise
    • Grouping personas: frequent vs infrequent calendar user; physical vs. digital media
    • Concepts
      • Master calendar
      • Simple event recorder for minimalist user
  • Information architecture exercises
    • Filtering vs. sorting
    • Combining: keyword, filtering, sorting
    • Value of showing the path to the current page (aka breadcrumbs)
    • Observation that the page provides many functionalities!
    • Some elements are listed multiple times
    • Needs evaluation to curate navigation features

Possible discussion points for this week:

  • How successful were you inquiries in obtaining details for design directions? What worked? What questions or requests were particularly helpful?
  • What was your process (project or rapid design exercise) for grouping elements and finding personas? How could you better document your process?