[Inqlude] [GSoC 2016] Improve categorization and search on Inqlude web site
Nanduni Nimalsiri
nanduni.12 at cse.mrt.ac.lk
Wed Mar 16 22:46:43 UTC 2016
Hi,
I was able to look into the site locally using 'inqlude view' and thank you
for the guidance.
I read your documentation on "I will travel... My story of Stanford's HCI
class". I felt very very interesting about that procedure which you
followed in designing the 'I will travel' website. Now I clearly understand
your intention of motivating me to focus more on design thinking to get
started with the project. After going through the resources which you
mentioned, I felt that the major part of the project task lies in the part
of designing.
I have known HCI as a design discipline which design interventions for
systems involving people and technology. When I googled it, I found these
words from Terry Winograd : "*HCI is the kind of discipline which is
neither the study of humans, nor the study of technology, but rather the
bridging between the two*", yet I suppose that I have many more things to
learn on HCI. In our university, we will be having a module on HCI during
my next semester which starts from April, so I am glad that it will teach
me many more things to complete this project successfully.
I really like the idea of design thinking and I would like to incorporate
this project with *Product Design Sprint. *I feel that the success of this
project lies on the completeness of different stages such as need-finding,
prototyping, designing and testing of the user interfaces, because this is
a project which mainly focus on offering a good user experience.
So I thought of allocating an adequate amount of time for the following
tasks.
- Need Finding
- Prototyping
- Start Building prototypes
- Ready for Testing
- User Testing
- Finalizing Prototype
*I have nine days left before the deadline for submitting the project
proposal. I won't be able to finish these tasks successfully if I am to do
them in a hurry within these few days. So I thought of including in my
proposal the approach that I have taken towards implementing these tasks
and how I am going to implement these tasks during the project period. *
For eg:
* Need Finding*
You have explained that there are three options (glance, change,
time) of design briefs that design projects could take on. I suppose
'time' design brief matches this project task since it is a matter of
redesigning.
*Prototyping*
I would be using storyboards and prototypes.
* Start building*
I will come up with design heuristics, feed backs and evaluation.
Here I will be focusing on Nielsen’s list of heuristics in his book
Usability Engineering and Shnedierman and Plaisant’s list of golden rules
in Designing the User Interfaces.
Further I will be creating implementation plans.
* Ready for testing*
Develop evaluation plans to evaluate both design and
implementation, test usability and functionality of system. Evaluate using
cognitive walkthrough, review-based evaluation, evaluating through user
participation etc.
I thought of including details about these approaches in my project
proposal like what's my plan, what will be the deliverable for each stage,
what will be the procedure for implementation of each stage etc. I also
came across with some concerns called *personas and scenarios* which will
be useful for designing good user interfaces. I thought of including them
as well in my proposal.
After going through your story with 'I will travel..', I felt very
interesting about that way of designing. At university, we are normally
used to do projects using 'Unified Process Model', so I am very eager to
try out this approach for designing phase.
I would like to know if you are expecting me to complete this design
process before proposal submission or if you are expecting me to come up
with a plan of how I am going to implement this process. What are your
suggestions on this? I am happy to hear your comments.
Best regards,
Nanduni.
On 16 March 2016 at 11:44, Nanduni Nimalsiri <nanduni.12 at cse.mrt.ac.lk>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was able to look into the site locally using 'inqlude view' and thank
> you for the guidance.
>
> I read your documentation on "I will travel... My story of Stanford's HCI
> class". I felt very very interesting about that procedure which you
> followed in designing the 'I will travel' website. Now I clearly understand
> your intention of motivating me to focus more on design thinking to get
> started with the project. After going through the resources which you
> mentioned, I felt that the major part of the project task lies in the part
> of designing.
>
> I have known HCI as a design discipline which design interventions for
> systems involving people and technology. When I googled it, I found these
> words from Terry Winograd : "*HCI is the kind of discipline which is
> neither the study of humans, nor the study of technology, but rather the
> bridging between the two*", yet I suppose that I have many more things to
> learn on HCI. In our university, we will be having a module on HCI during
> my next semester which starts from April, so I am glad that it will teach
> me many more things to complete this project successfully.
>
> I really like the idea of design thinking and I would like to incorporate
> this project with *Product Design Sprint. *I feel that the success of
> this project lies on the completeness of different stages such as
> need-finding, prototyping, designing and testing of the user interfaces,
> because this is a project which mainly focus on offering a good user
> experience.
>
> So I thought of allocating an adequate amount of time for the following
> tasks.
>
> - Need Finding
> - Prototyping
> - Start Building prototypes
> - Ready for Testing
> - User Testing
> - Finalizing Prototype
>
> *I have nine days left before the deadline for submitting the project
> proposal. I won't be able to finish these tasks successfully if I am to do
> them in a hurry within these few days. So I thought of including in my
> proposal the approach that I have taken towards implementing these tasks
> and how I am going to implement these tasks during the project period. *
>
> For eg:
> * Need Finding*
> You have explained that there are three options (glance, change,
> time) of design briefs that design projects could take on. I suppose
> 'time' design brief matches this project task since it is a matter of
> redesigning.
>
> *Prototyping*
> I would be using storyboards and prototypes.
>
> * Start building*
> I will come up with design heuristics, feed backs and evaluation.
> Here I will be focusing on Nielsen’s list of heuristics in his book
> Usability Engineering and Shnedierman and Plaisant’s list of golden rules
> in Designing the User Interfaces.
> Further I will be creating implementation plans.
>
> * Ready for testing*
> Develop evaluation plans to evaluate both design and
> implementation, test usability and functionality of system. Evaluate using
> cognitive walkthrough, review-based evaluation, evaluating through user
> participation etc.
>
> I thought of including details about these approaches in my project
> proposal like what's my plan, what will be the deliverable for each stage,
> what will be the procedure for implementation of each stage etc. I also
> came across with some concerns called *personas and scenarios* which will
> be useful for designing good user interfaces. I thought of including them
> as well in my proposal.
>
> After going through your story with 'I will travel..', I felt very
> interesting about that way of designing. At university, we are normally
> used to do projects using 'Unified Process Model', so I am very eager to
> try out this approach for designing phase.
>
> I would like to know if you are expecting me to complete this design
> process before proposal submission or if you are expecting me to come up
> with a plan of how I am going to implement this process. What are your
> suggestions on this? I am happy to hear your comments.
>
> Best regards,
> Nanduni.
>
>
>
> On 15 March 2016 at 22:07, Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Dienstag, 15. März 2016 09:15:26 CET Nanduni Nimalsiri wrote:
>> >
>> > I will soon try out the prototypes in mailing lists.
>>
>> I'm happy to see you move forward, but please take the time to understand
>> the
>> process and plan it.
>>
>> A good document explaining a way how to come to a good design is
>>
>> https://robots.thoughtbot.com/the-product-design-sprint
>>
>> I documented how I applied this method to a project at
>>
>> http://cornelius.github.io/iwilltravel/
>>
>> I think using a similar approach for the design of the Inqlude web site
>> will
>> give good results.
>>
>> --
>> Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> *Nanduni Nimalsiri*
> Undergraduate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University
> of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
> Software Engineering Intern, WSO2 Inc. (http://wso2.com)
> email : nanduni.12 at cse.mrt.ac.lk, nanduni at wso2.com
> blog : http://nanduni.blogspot.com/
> website: http://nanduni-nimalsiri.branded.me/
> mobile : +94714114256
>
--
*Nanduni Nimalsiri*
Undergraduate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University
of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
Software Engineering Intern, WSO2 Inc. (http://wso2.com)
email : nanduni.12 at cse.mrt.ac.lk, nanduni at wso2.com
blog : http://nanduni.blogspot.com/
website: http://nanduni-nimalsiri.branded.me/
mobile : +94714114256
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