A note to say that over last two weeks I have been posting into a specific Weblog set up for the CBT project. I've been using that to place general musings of where I have got to and any ideas I might have. The most recent posting is for the 18/1/05.
Monday, January 17, 2005
Thursday, January 06, 2005
Prototyping and web interface design
Following my use of Powerpoint to produce a storyboard I decided to do a quick skim search of the web for articles and papers. This posting is simply a collection of sites as I trawled around looking at design tools for web interfaces.The tools break down into several key areas:
- Non computerised i.e.paper based (a favourite amongst the articles below)
- Diagramming methods e.g. DENIM, Visio, Smartdraw
- Graphic design tools e.g. Photoshop, Paintshop pro
- Presentation e.g.powerpoint
- HTML generator e.g. frontpage, dreamweaver
- Multimedia generator e.g. Authorware, director
- Software development e.g.visual basic
Sites visited include:
a) Website Development Philosophy is a company into developing.
b) This survey is quite useful.
c) DENIM a product we have met before. Its predecessor is mentioned in sketchhing storyboards to illustrate interface behaviours.
d) Paper as design article discusses disadvantages of passing across to 'expert'. This is also supported in an article entitled paper prototyping in interfacing and web site design .
e) User Experience Resource Collection amongst other links has a prototyping section which lists numerous links to other sites - lots listing paper as a preferred method.
f) The Art of UI Prototyping discusses the reasons for protoyping and the methods to undertake it.
g) Prototyping With Style is an article in a magazine asking What tools should I use for prototyping?.
h) SAP design site has several articles on prototyping including one on using prototypes.
i) Perils of prototyping.
j) This Topics in usability - prototyping page lists various resources including one on protyping using visio. Another article on visio is at
Visio - the interaction designer's nail gun.
k) Web design
l) Using Paper Prototypes as Interface Design Tools
m) This article talks about high fidelity prototyping
n) Short description of storyboarding multi-media
- Non computerised i.e.paper based (a favourite amongst the articles below)
- Diagramming methods e.g. DENIM, Visio, Smartdraw
- Graphic design tools e.g. Photoshop, Paintshop pro
- Presentation e.g.powerpoint
- HTML generator e.g. frontpage, dreamweaver
- Multimedia generator e.g. Authorware, director
- Software development e.g.visual basic
Sites visited include:
a) Website Development Philosophy is a company into developing.
b) This survey is quite useful.
c) DENIM a product we have met before. Its predecessor is mentioned in sketchhing storyboards to illustrate interface behaviours.
d) Paper as design article discusses disadvantages of passing across to 'expert'. This is also supported in an article entitled paper prototyping in interfacing and web site design .
e) User Experience Resource Collection amongst other links has a prototyping section which lists numerous links to other sites - lots listing paper as a preferred method.
f) The Art of UI Prototyping discusses the reasons for protoyping and the methods to undertake it.
g) Prototyping With Style is an article in a magazine asking What tools should I use for prototyping?.
h) SAP design site has several articles on prototyping including one on using prototypes.
i) Perils of prototyping.
j) This Topics in usability - prototyping page lists various resources including one on protyping using visio. Another article on visio is at
Visio - the interaction designer's nail gun.
k) Web design
l) Using Paper Prototypes as Interface Design Tools
m) This article talks about high fidelity prototyping
n) Short description of storyboarding multi-media
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Journal of Interactive Media in Education
Things you wish you had known when you were ....
Grainne Conole refers to the Journal of Interactive Media in Education on several occasions. Well worth a look as it has some excellent articles and it is free.
Grainne Conole refers to the Journal of Interactive Media in Education on several occasions. Well worth a look as it has some excellent articles and it is free.
Monday, January 03, 2005
10.03 Reflection on week 10
An extremely brief review of 'Week 10' some two weeks later than supposed. Been catching up slowly over this week. Now posted to my KMETP reflections journal
Sunday, January 02, 2005
10.01 Videostreaming
Interesting to note that Macromedia have information on their own Flash Video Streaming Service.
HAs anyone found free videostreaming services?
HAs anyone found free videostreaming services?
Saturday, January 01, 2005
JISC infoNet - LTSN - Sustainable eLearning
The JISC infoNet - LTSN - Sustainable eLearning has some interesting articles on the general approach of learning objects and sustainable elearning.
Week 10 - RADiCAL - Colston Symposium 2004
The Colston Symposium 2004 shows how a weblog could be used to support an online conference. I think it is a more elegant solution for RADiCAL than what we can achieve in WebCT. Perhaps something to aim for next year.
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