PhotoCaring mockup
As context for the Graphical User Interfaces course, we used the elderly home insights we discovered in our User Research course for developing concepts for the GUI final project. Why elderly homes? As the course syllabus explains:
Creating a concept with an application specific GUI for an eldercare context with multiple user groups (patients, doctors, nurses and visitors) with their respective information needs represents an interesting basis for the students to create highly tailored and relevant interfaces for a demanding target group. The students will have to develop, design and prototype tools and experiences that have impact and show empathy towards the different user groups needs and contexts.
After a lengthy and intensive concept development process and user testing at the elderly home, Jacob, Ash and I presented PhotoCaring for our final presentation.
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Baby Name Voyager by Martin Wattenberg
Today marked the beginning of two weeks with Shawn Allen of Stamen Design who will be teaching us Interactive Data Visualization. From the course syllabus:
Each day the world produces untold amounts of information. Interactive data visualization is a practice that aims to distill and communicate that information to people in visual forms that are easy and fun to explore, understand, and use.
In this 2-week module, students will investigate the roles of intuitive user interfaces in data visualization. They will learn how metaphors are used to convey unfamiliar information, and how mental models aid in the interpretation of complex visual displays. They will then use a bottom-up, iterative process to create interactive displays of UN data using Adobe Flash.
Along with an introduction to Adobe Flex Builder, ActionScript 3 and the UN data set, we were presented with an overview of some well known data visualization projects. Keep reading to see my favorite ones…
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