December 7th, 2006
One of the features of the “My Stuff” eportfolio is the ability to ‘tag’ items put into the application. A tag is a (relevant) keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (like picture, article, or video clip), thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification of information it is applied […]
December 6th, 2006
…is no small task! Big version This retains the warmth from the yellow but feels a little washed out to me. The limited colours available in the OU brand pallette really restrict the designs you can create if you need to be accessible. But I’ve been having a go. Big version This moves more into […]
October 10th, 2006
No activity for nearly a month? I must be busy. Here are 40 or so screens I prepared for the first focus group for the OU ePortfolio “My Stuff”. I worked right up against the clock on this one so what you see is more ‘big picture’ than anything else. I’m now in the process […]
September 12th, 2006
A plain ole’ homepage. A plain ole’ homepage with some added components. Gives a flavour of how a user might customise their homepage by adding in bits and pieces that they want to see. Just added this one. Another alternative. Less duplication – but still some! – see Thanh’s comment below. This builds upon the […]
September 12th, 2006
A reminder of the overall structure we’re going for. The links dont go anywhere BTW. I copied the source direct from my wireframe. My Stuff New New UploadFile (Anthony’s suggestion) New Page Record (Thanh’s suggestion) New Page Basic New List New Education New Training New Personal Summary New Page: Interests New Referee New Page: Course […]
September 12th, 2006
Here are my ePortfolio designs. Please comment on them using their reference number. You are not commenting on the wording, just the overall look and feel! 001 A plain and simple design using a few brand colours, official fonts and big “web 2.0” type. 002 Building on 001, this adds a little more design but […]
August 15th, 2006
A simple global navigation bar. Too cold? Too hot? Or just right?
August 9th, 2006
Thanh rightly pointed out that there is some important stuff at my other ePortfolio URL. One such item of stuff is the piece on the ePortfolio terminology. The reson it’s over their an not a blog post is because it’s not complete and lives outside of blog chonology. In fact it’s pretty much there to […]
August 9th, 2006
Backpack, Flickr, Google Notebook, del.icious, Google Spreadsheets, Writely, Google Mail (Gmail), Google Page Creator, Basecamp, Blogger, Ta-da list and YouTube all contribute to my thinking around the user interface for the OU ePortfolio project. Anything you think I should take a look at? Let me know.
August 8th, 2006
This is the first in a series of 20,000 scenarios whereby the user wants to create a set for his recent Geography fieldtrip and then add stuff to that set. What’s missing? Create set The user gets to add a new set before adding anything to it. Kind of like making and labelling a box […]