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Usability Work Update 2006-11-29

Usability Work Update 2006-11-29. Active Projects. PDS Home Page Redesign “Standard Volume View” Instrument Team Interviews UI Design for Vtool Web Usability Workshop. User-Centered Design Approach. Design must satisfy use cases that we want to support, in priority order

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Usability Work Update 2006-11-29

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  1. Usability Work Update2006-11-29

  2. Active Projects • PDS Home Page Redesign • “Standard Volume View” • Instrument Team Interviews • UI Design for Vtool • Web Usability Workshop

  3. User-Centered Design Approach • Design must satisfy use cases that we want to support, in priority order • Test with users to make sure they successfully perform the use cases • Refine the design based on test feedback • Make it work, then make it pretty

  4. Design Milestones • Discover users, roles, and use cases • Design page flow to support use cases • Create mockups for user testing • User testing and refinement • Final visual design (ooh, aah) • (And iteration among these steps!)

  5. Mockups and User Testing • Mockups are primarily textual • Less “chrome” to distract users from the interaction and flow • User testing: using VNC remote desktop software to allow remote testing

  6. Home Page Redesign Status • HTML mockups created for major use cases • Ready to begin user testing and refinement

  7. Problems to Solve • Somewhat confusing menus • Low fan-out (# of outgoing links) • Wasted real estate / Low data-ink ratio • Use cases not well supported • Dead-ends / No appropriate destination • Search quality

  8. Layout Changes Text search on every page Denser left menu Designated location for news items Role-based links on home page Larger design width

  9. Home Page Open Issues • Competitive analysis • Make sure we steal all the good ideas from similar data portals • What is an ideal search result?

  10. What’s Next • Design milestones incorporated into overall project plan, owned by Engineering, presented next • More new content for missing or dead-end destinations • E.g., Mars page (currently no outgoing links)

  11. Home Page: How to Help • Review use cases (at least the TOC) • Comment on mockups: flow, layout, but not visual design (yet) • Suggest good users to test against • Participate in or observe user testing • Help define “ideal search”

  12. New Volume View Status • Mockups for MOLA and CIRS converted from paper to HTML (mostly) • Almost ready to begin user testing • Need to finish use case document • Perform user testing as 2nd phase beyond home page redesign

  13. Volume View: How to Help • Feedback on use cases • Mockup review • Suggest additional (or different) data sets • Compare with your existing tools

  14. Questions?

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