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pictures from wednesday: user experience day. guests, speakers and location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience. guests, speaker & location.
Case Study: The Evolution of the National Cancer Institute’s Content: How We’re Embracing Future-Ready Content and Living to Tell the Story
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is the Federal Government’s principal agency for cancer research and training. An important part of NCI’s mandate is to provide accurate information about cancer to health professionals and the public. This case study will describe how NCI is evolving its content to move past its print heritage and embrace future-ready digital content. We’ll describe the processes we are using to:
Educate content owners and decision makers on the importance of future-ready content and some of the tough decisions that need to be made in this context.
Define the content strategy that provides a framework for content changes across the site.
Present content in more creative ways, with particular emphasis on infographics and videos.
Extend the use of intelligent content principles to unstructured web content
Leverage structured and semantically marked up content on the enterprise web site. We’ll present examples of our current content and share —via conceptual wireframes, content templates and actual new content—how we’re addressing the challenges of going from a print-centric world to a truly digital device-independent world.
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Yahoo! Trip Planner provides a complex editor in an overlay for scheduling an itinerary item
Designing Web Interfaces, by Bill Scott and Theresa Neil, Copyright 2009 Bill Scott and Theresa Neil, 978-0-596-51625-3
pictures from wednesday: user experience day. guests, speakers and location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience. guests, speaker & location.
photos from the Experience: Dev Conference at Fresh Tilled Soil on 2/27/14. An educational event focused on development, UX, team dynamics and creative team leadership. #expdev
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ZoomCharts Co-Founder and CEO Janis Volbergs gave a well received presentation at a UI/UX meetup event to talk about the array of progressive ZoomCharts features available today and the great things the team is coming up with for the near future.
Check out this overview of Volbergsâ presentation to discover why ZoomCharts is a world leader in interactive data visualization software:
The name of our product is ZoomCharts, and what we are producing is ZoomCharts SDK, which is the worldâs most interactive data software. We are a new startup established in Latvia just last year. The product, since March of this year, is available for purchase and has been purchased by many different customers from all over the world. The actual product is entirely new data visualization software development GIT, which puts in the center not the technology, but the person sitting behind the device that every one of us has in the pockets; users of mobile phones, users of iPads.
We wanted to make such a development toolkit that would allow developers to create interfaces that make it easy to access data, to analyze data, to interact with data. We are not a library that lets you create a chart, we are a library that lets you create an interface that then engages the user into an immersive, interactive data exploration venture.
To give you an idea of what sort of visualizations you can achieve using our development kit, we have products like the network chart. The network chart lets you visualize different networks of data, whether they are social networks, whether they are Internet of things networks. All of that you can visualize on any device you have, basically, whether itâs an iPhone, iPad, notebook, or touch TV. The interactive time chart lets you access big data with time and explore what happens within specific areas of that data without using any other interface component. We have also reinvented the pie chart and the facet chart.
What makes our SDK unique? First of all, itâs built to make data navigation engaging, so it wonât be just a boring chart or boring interface. It will be interesting for people to actually use your software that would include a ZoomCharts application. We also know that most of you like the performance of the application, so we put a lot of effort in creating this development kit such that it will be super nice looking and super fast on most contemporary devices. We have also added different aspects of how you can visualize different data in a compelling way. And for those of you who already have some applications or products, ZoomCharts helps you sell your product because when we show our products to actual consumers, when they see the interface built with ZoomCharts, they love it, and they can immediately see how they can use it for other purposes. So basically, what we are doing with ZoomCharts is accelerating the emergence of new ideas that couldnât have been done yesterday because there wasnât such development yet available.
I could talk a lot about it, but itâs better to show you some real life examples of how we have applied ZoomCharts to tackle some of the issues in the real world. With a product called myinstabank, the Internet account statements show a long boring list, and when you need to see the big picture, you just canât. All you get is just a list. Normally you would just use the export option to make some Excel charts. We found that we could use our interface to give all this information another meaning in the hands of users. We applied our charts to the already existing data within the Internet banks.
What we have here is a time chart. It shows you data aggregated by timestamps. So if you have any data that has timestamps, you can use the time chart. The picture is where most of the chart libraries end; it is the end product of their libraries. In our case, the chart is just the beginning of your venture because now letâs imagine you wanted to see what happened in the year 2012. What do you have to do? One click. You just click on it, and immediately the chart communicates with the banking database, retrieves more data for that period, and immediately aggregates data. No more dropdowns where you have to pick specific dates or unintuitive actions. The rest of the interface then responds to the time period you have selected. The list is there, but now itâs filtered for that one year you just selected. If you need some other information, just one click, and the interface is communicating back to the server and fetching data. Speaking about the pie charts, they immediately show you where your money is coming from, and how you spent your money. All our charts are interactive, so you can click on any slice to filter out the time chart. I said before that we have reinvented certain aspects of the pie chart and one of the key aspects that we have reinvented is, normally if you have a pie chart, you have a grey area that says âothersâ and you never know whatâs inside there. Well, we have fixed that problem. Just one click and it automatically expands. So now, using one pie chart, you can explore all the data.
All of this is interactive, so on iPad, you can use gestures to swipe in, swipe out, do all sorts of things. All charts come bundled with extensive API, which means that you can combine these charts with other JavaScript components that exist within your application to create an interface and an experience to your user that you are looking forward to. The time chart is big data ready because it comes with a very smart data cache and if you attach it to the data sources that handle a lot of data, whenever you do some navigation, it automatically reflects only data for that particular period of time, so there is no unnecessary data being fetched from your servers. Thus, you keep the loads small, the interface fluid, and the overall experience very nice.
One of the very unique products that we have within ZoomCharts is the network chart component. The network chart component lets you visualize different social, financial and other network structures directly within your device. In this particular example, what we did is fetch a subset of the IMDb database to show you how you can use the network chart to visualize information that is already there but in a totally different way. So imagine you get home and you would like to see a new movie but you are not really sure what you want to look for. You know that you like Al Pacino, so what you do is type in âAl Pacinoâ and immediately you see the actor and the top movies of his. This is the point where your joy of data exploration begins. With a single tap, you can explore what other actors are involved in that particular movie. And you can continue this exploration until you find content that youâd be happy to consume. What is good here is this moment of trust because you started with Al Pacino, you trust that person, you love movies with him, and now you can see that there is Andy Garcia that is linked to him. So you think, âhmm, if I like Al Pacino, they are linked in this movie together, maybe thatâs something worth watching today.â With a right click, you can instantly access more information about the movie, and watch a trailer or buy the movie. So what Iâm saying here is, using ZoomCharts as a core component of visual interface, you can let people discover your content, find something they like, and also buy it or consume it. So itâs not just seeing the big picture, but itâs interacting and consuming. And all of this is happening within one interface.
In the next year, weâre also thinking about expanding the charts to let cross device communication, which would mean that you would go home, take your iPad, open up this software, and when you find a movie that you want to watch, you would click âbuyâ or âwatchâ, and it would start playing on your TV. So, devices would be cross linked through using the ZoomCharts interface.
This chart comes with extensive API so you can apply different filters to the data. For instance, in this particular example, we have applied this IMDb filter here, so if youâre really are not looking at anything below 9, you can click on 9 and see that there are not that many movies within this subset. If you are not that kind of person, you can put the star limit to something smaller, and movies appear.
Another interesting aspect is the time machine within which you can filter out movies that are very old, or on the other hand, you can focus on movies that are contemporary. All of that can be easily configured for your application, for your customers, for your product, as you need it. You can style any aspect of your charts with pictures line, arrows.
Many companies, among which is Hewlett-Packard from the United States have already found usage for their cloud solutions to visualize all sorts of different things.
If you go to our webpage you can see other examples of ways you can use our charts. Our charts can be cross combined in very interesting ways. What you see here is Juliaâs social network and who her friends are. You can play around with the network and expand and see what other people are there in real time, but when you click again on Julia, a pie chart pops up and says what social networks Julia is using most. So in this user interface, we are already combining a lot of data that is easily accessible with just a few taps. And it doesnât stop there. So, she loves Facebook. We can click on Facebook, and the second level of the pie chart comes up. There can be unlimited levels. The second level shows which tags she is using within that social network. So now we know that Julia loves Facebook, and within Facebook, she loves to talk about love. Another thing you can do is click on Love, and you get this interactive time chart that says when exactly she is talking about love on Facebook.
In the close future, in a year or two, we are looking forward to integrating support for a number of new human-machine interfaces that are emerging. We are also looking forward to integrating voice control into our charts so you can easily zoom in, zoom out or do other sorts of navigational things.
There are many new chart types coming up, such as the GeoChart, which will let you easily put those interactive pie charts on a map so you can display different statistics for people within one chart.
We are also looking forward to creating a bunch of cloud services that would enable cross chart communication on the one hand, and other things that Iâm not really allowed to tell you now, but there will be some big things that you will hear about.
What is good is availability. As I mentioned before, the software is already available to download on our webpage. You can easily get a 30 day free trial to just play around with it. We are giving away free licenses also for non commercial projects, for students, for charities. But if you have a commercial project you would still need to obtain a developer license.
Check out ZoomCharts products:
Network Chart
Big network exploration
Explore linked data sets. Highlight relevant data with dynamic filters and visual styles. Incremental data loading. Exploration with focus nodes.
Time Chart
Time navigation and exploration tool
Browse activity logs, select time ranges. Multiple data series and value axes. Switch between time units.
Pie Chart
Amazingly intuitive hierarchical data exploration
Get quick overview of your data and drill down when necessary. All in a single easy to use chart.
Facet Chart
Scrollable bar chart with drill-down
Compare values side by side and provide easy access to the long tail.
ZoomCharts
The worldâs most interactive data visualization software
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VFX for Microsoft Surface: Icons extrude to represent quantitative data. Here, office populations are indicated by the height of the icon. To learn more about VFX for Microsoft Surface check out this IDV UX blog post.
Explore our homepage to learn more about Visual Fusion.
Graphic Recording from Lean UX NYC 2014 by Dean Meyers (@deanmeistr)
Speakers:
Melissa Perri
Lane Halley
Dave Snowden
During the tests we checked how much time and concentration cost using your phone. Times varied greatly but even the winner doesn't make the driving safe.
This is a photo of the staircase at the Travelstart office in Cape Town. The stairs have been cunningly designed to confuse and disorientate people (or as I am going to refer to them from here on, 'users').
Notice the two silver stripes on every step - they act as a visual reference point, showing the user where the edge of each step is. The stripes form a regular pattern, reassuring the user that they are stepping in the right place.
One step however, has no stripes. This small detail causes extreme disorientation, especially when it is dark, or for people with impaired vision (especially those wearing bifocal lenses).
Even though I know it's there, the invisible 'step of death' has caught me out many times. On the way down the stairs, your brain tells your foot to aim for the silver stripes. When you get to the 'step of death' you find yourself trying to stretch to the next step, even though you can see it is too far away. You then have to adjust in mid-step when you have finally spotted the invisible step.
Just another every day example of bad information design :)
Amex encourages you to check your application status online, but sends it's customers into panic mode when they see “cancelled”.
In reality, I'm waiting on employment verification which I mailed in… this usually takes 1-2 weeks to go through, but in the meantime, I imagine that Amex gets a lot of worried calls.
At the very least, it should instead read “Pending”, or something more verbose like “Pending – Employment Verification”.
VFX for Microsoft Surface: Users can intuitively draw an area of interest to collect intel on features falling within. To learn more about VFX for Microsoft Surface check out this IDV UX blog post.
Explore our homepage to learn more about Visual Fusion.
I'm not very tall (5'6") but I have to crouch down to approximate the eye level of a pygmy in order to read the card terminal display on the new ticket machine at Oldfield Park Station, Bath.
Other problems:
1. No canopy to protect you during rain (you're probably going to need to put that umbrella away in order to buy your ticket).
2. It faces east, so the screen catches the morning sun during the rush hour, which is when most people are buying tickets...
The Emergence of UX in an Agile World
As a provider of hearing solutions to hearing impaired people for almost 30 years, Cochlear is renowned worldwide as a technical innovator and as a great Australian success story. We share the story of our journey with Agile software development in an environment that is traditionally not comfortable with it. More compellingly we cover the emergence of user experience and user centered design and how it has integrated into almost every aspect of the product development and delivery cycle.
Keywords: Agile, UX, UserExperience, UserCenteredDesign, Process, Mobile, iPad
Target Audience: Developers, Managers, Thought Leaders, User Experience Architects
Speaker Information
Victor Rodrigues
Agile methods practitioner and evangelist with a passion for the total end user experience
Head of Audiological Software Development for Cochlear
Software Passion: "Supporting software teams to perform at their best and evangelising the total end user experience."
Links:
Twitter: @jeunj
Blog: beyondcomprehension.posterous.com/
Xerxes Battiwalla
Problem solver and bit-manipulator
Senior Developer, Cochlear
Software Passion: "My software passion: Making software simple and pain-free."
Website: www.xerxesb.com/
Twitter: @xerxesb
Blog: tumblr.xerxesb.com/
The YOW! 2010 Australia Software Developer Conference is a unique opportunity for you to listen to and talk with international software experts in a relaxed setting.
Here's why you should want to attend:
* concise, technically-rich talks and workshops delivered
without the usual vendor-hype and marketing spin
* broad exposure to the latests tools and technologies,
processes and practices in the software industry
* "invitation only" speakers selected by an independent
international program committee from a network
of over 400 authors and experts
* a relaxed conference setting where you get the rare opportunity
to meet and talk with world-reknowned speakers face-to-face
* an intimate workshop setting where you are able
to benefit from an in-depth learning experience
* a truly unique opportunity to make contacts and network
with other talented Australian software professionals
* you'll be supporting a great charity. Ten dollars from every registration will be donated to the Endeavour Foundation.
website: YOW! 2010 Melbourne
venue: Jasper Hotel, Melbourne
Editing a spreadsheet in Google Docs is very similar to editing a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel
Designing Web Interfaces, by Bill Scott and Theresa Neil, Copyright 2009 Bill Scott and Theresa Neil, 978-0-596-51625-3
Get Satisfaction is "people-powered customer service for absolutely anything".
More screenshots and UI design patterns at Patternry.com
pictures from wednesday: user experience day. guests, speakers and location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience. guests, speaker & location.
Graphic Recording from Lean UX NYC 2014 by Dean Meyers (@deanmeistr)
Speakers:
Jeff Gothelf
Lynn Teo
Thomas Wendt
pictures from wednesday: user experience day. guests, speakers and location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience. guests, speaker & location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience day. guests, speakers and location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience. guests, speaker & location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience day. guests, speakers and location.
pictures from wednesday: user experience. guests, speaker & location.