<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I have created some storyboards and prototypes. I thought of sharing my prototypes with you first to get your ideas so that I can come up with proper modifications prior getting feedback from a set of users. I am very happy to hear your suggestions.</div><div>The prototypes are attached below. </div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Nanduni.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 March 2016 at 04:16, Nanduni Nimalsiri <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nanduni.12@cse.mrt.ac.lk" target="_blank">nanduni.12@cse.mrt.ac.lk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Hi,</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I was able to look into the site locally using 'inqlude view' and thank you for the guidance. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">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.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">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 : "<b>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</b>", 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. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I really like the idea of design thinking and I would like to incorporate this project with <b>Product Design Sprint. </b>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. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">So I thought of allocating an adequate amount of time for the following tasks. </div><ul style="font-size:12.8px"><li style="margin-left:15px">Need Finding<br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">Prototyping<br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">Start Building prototypes</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Ready for Testing<br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">User Testing</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Finalizing Prototype</li></ul><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>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. </b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">For eg: </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b> Need Finding</b></div><span style="font-size:12.8px"> 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. </span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> <b>Prototyping</b><br><div> I would be using storyboards and prototypes.</div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b> Start building</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> 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.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> Further I will be creating implementation plans.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b> Ready for testing</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> 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.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">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 <b>personas and scenarios</b> which will be useful for designing good user interfaces. I thought of including them as well in my proposal. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">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. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">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. <br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Best regards,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Nanduni. </div></div></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 March 2016 at 11:44, Nanduni Nimalsiri <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nanduni.12@cse.mrt.ac.lk" target="_blank">nanduni.12@cse.mrt.ac.lk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div><div>I was able to look into the site locally using 'inqlude view' and thank you for the guidance. </div></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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 : "<b>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</b>", 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. </div><div><br></div><div>I really like the idea of design thinking and I would like to incorporate this project with <b>Product Design Sprint. </b>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. </div><div><br></div><div>So I thought of allocating an adequate amount of time for the following tasks. </div><ul><li>Need Finding<br></li><li>Prototyping<br></li><li>Start Building prototypes</li><li>Ready for Testing<br></li><li>User Testing</li><li>Finalizing Prototype</li></ul><div><b>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. </b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>For eg: </div><div><b> Need Finding</b></div> 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. <div><br></div><div> <b>Prototyping</b><br><div> I would be using storyboards and prototypes.</div></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b> Start building</b></div><div> 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.</div><div> Further I will be creating implementation plans.</div><div><br></div><div><b> Ready for testing</b></div><div> 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.</div><div><br></div><div>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 <b>personas and scenarios</b> which will be useful for designing good user interfaces. I thought of including them as well in my proposal. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Nanduni. </div><div> </div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 March 2016 at 22:07, Cornelius Schumacher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:schumacher@kde.org" target="_blank">schumacher@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Dienstag, 15. März 2016 09:15:26 CET Nanduni Nimalsiri wrote:<br>
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> I will soon try out the prototypes in mailing lists.<br>
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</span>I'm happy to see you move forward, but please take the time to understand the<br>
process and plan it.<br>
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A good document explaining a way how to come to a good design is<br>
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<a href="https://robots.thoughtbot.com/the-product-design-sprint" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://robots.thoughtbot.com/the-product-design-sprint</a><br>
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I documented how I applied this method to a project at<br>
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<a href="http://cornelius.github.io/iwilltravel/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://cornelius.github.io/iwilltravel/</a><br>
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I think using a similar approach for the design of the Inqlude web site will<br>
give good results.<br>
<span><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Cornelius Schumacher <<a href="mailto:schumacher@kde.org" target="_blank">schumacher@kde.org</a>><br>
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