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Note Visualization pudu. Carolyn Holmes Stefan Ekerfelt Ryan Whiteley. Our Project. Build a prototype that: Works – we can demo it live with no hand-waving Visualizes Notes – shows notes at multiple levels of abstraction Has A Good UI – is usable, intuitive, and sensible.
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Note Visualizationpudu Carolyn Holmes Stefan Ekerfelt Ryan Whiteley
Our Project • Build a prototype that: • Works – we can demo it live with no hand-waving • Visualizes Notes – shows notes at multiple levels of abstraction • Has A Good UI – is usable, intuitive, and sensible
Value To The Customer • Reduce effort to find information hidden within notes • Search • Automatic organization of notes – context derived from algorithmical analysis of understood note content • Manual override of automatic analysis – to correct errors and preserve user control
Value To The Customer cont. • Specific to Notes – not a general folder system • Enough relevant detail to make navigation of notes intuitive • Keeps it high level as long as possible • Drills in quickly and appropriately
The Novelty • It’s pretty • It’s just for notes • Effective workflow gained through simplicity and specificity • It’s intuitive • Shows the user what they need to know about their own notes
The Risks • TIME – we might not finish • Short-staffed • Ambitious Design • Risk Management • Prioritization of goals • 0: It works! • 1: UI • 2: Feature Completeness • Search • Abstraction Levels • 3: Performance
Customers • Hypothetical • Primary: anyone in academia • Profs, students (young and old), teachers, counselors • Secondary: anyone else who uses notes • Business environment, home use • Actual • Course staff
Personas • Primary • Anderson • Sally the Student • Typical busy UW student with a full schedule • Pete the Professor • Absent-minded professor • Secondary • Milly the Mom • Household organization through notes • Bob the Businessman • Professional workflow, a doodler
Scenarios • Exploit functionality we should have • 12 total using all personas • ex. Sally is getting ready to study for midterms and wants to browse all her notes from Chem 142 for this quarter • Scenarios should never be leading • Design accommodates scenarios, not the other way around