An affair to remember - technology and user experience
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Presentation |
Introductory/Intermediate
Methodology and Business
Room:
Lab 6
Timeslot:
17.09.08 13:00
Speakers: Kristin Halvorsen, Yngvar Sørensen, Lene Pettersen, Harald Kuhr and Bernadette Ann Eirheim
Many developers find the user experience uninteresting. "It's easy. Just skip the interface design phase and make everything beige. You can't go wrong with beige", some might think. This presentation will look at the theory behind great user experience. We will cover and kill some myths, talk about conventions, intuition and user intentions, as we go through the "classification process model" and give an overview of the laws of interaction design.
As we go along, we will show a best practice case study; how two senior Swing developers and a usability specialist transformed good user experience principles into a successful photo editor.
The Photo Editor is developed as part of the new version of the Escenic Content Studio CMS client. Content Studio is used daily by more than 400 media sites worldwide, with several thousand end users, and is tailored to support modern newspapers' online publishing routines.
The goal was to create an intuitive, task-oriented photo editor that fulfills 95% of our typical users' needs. These tasks include correcting image orientation, crop for aspect or composition, simple image adjustments as well as obfuscating incriminating details.
Required experience
None
Expected audience
Developers, Project Managers, UX-specialists
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Kristin HalvorsenKristin Halvorsen works as a Business Manager for Digital Business Innovation at Objectware AS. She holds a M.Sc. in computers and information systems from the Norwegian Technical and Scientific University (NTNU). Her focus is on the business value of good user experience. She leads the continuous development of Objectware Experience Framework - a methodology, tools and techniques framework to assure the alignment between business, users and technology. She lectures in eBusiness at BI the Norwegian School of Management.
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Yngvar SørensenYngvar is a senior consultant and Swing expert at Bouvet ASA with Java experience since 1997. His primary fields of interest are AOP, rich user interfaces and interaction design. He is actively involved with the Norwegian JUG (javaBin).
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Lene PettersenLene Pettersen works as an interaction designer and information architect at Bouvet ASA. She holds a Bachelor degree (hovedfag) in Social anthropology from University of Oslo, within cognitive anthropology. She also studied film at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and holds regularly lectures about our surrounding world and ways of grasping and bringing meaning to reality. She lectured earlier in ethnographic film for undergraduate students at the University of Oslo.
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Harald KuhrHarald works as a senior developer at Escenic AS, and is the lead developer for their rich client offering, Content Studio. He has been working professionally with Java technologies since 1998, as consultant as well as in-house product development. The last couple of years he has been a member of the board of the Norwegian JUG (javaBin), as well as giving talks at javaBin, JavaZone and contributing to the java.no site.
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Bernadette Ann EirheimBernadette is the usability specialist at Escenic AS, and works with user experience and user interface design for the Escenic products. She has a masters degree in HCI (human computer interaction) from Heriot-Watt University in Scotland and has been working with user experience in Norway since 1994 and has experience working with UNIX interfaces, web and windows interfaces for Microsoft and Apple platforms. She was active in getting the first two usability conferences in Norway, Yggdrasil organized.