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ePortfolio user experience influences

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.

Scenario: My Geography Fieldtrip

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 […]

Web 2.0 interfaces

August 7th, 2006

An article where I compare and contrast popular web 2.0 user interfaces with the aim to coming to some conclusions about how to approach the ePortfolio user experience. Nb. This is in draft. More words to add. Flickr Flickr is the best way to store, sort, search and share your photos online. There is a […]

ePortfolio homepage sketches

August 4th, 2006

I shall be updating this page with lots of different sketches so if you’re commenting, please refer to the sketch number! #001 – Here’s everything A dashboard that gives prominence to the ‘add stuff’ function but allowing for browsing, searching and creating new stuff. Potentially too many options to decipher but once our viewer gets […]

ePortfolio user experience design

August 3rd, 2006

I am working on some user experience designs for the Open University ePortfolio system. Most of my work so far is available to view and I appreciate any comments you might have. What’s an ePortfolio? The title ePortfolio is misleading and needs to be dumped at the earliest opportunity since it (perhaps a little strong!) […]