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CONNECTEDNESS CONTROL COMPREHENSION This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. THE FOCI OF USER EXPERIENCE Flickr’s interface demonstrates numerous examples of control by direct manipulation. www.flickr.com Google Maps is an excellent example of immediate feedback as you control the position and zoom level of the map. iGoogle’s drag and drop interface adjusts the position of the other modules on the page as you control the layout of your page, making for excellent predictability. www.google.com Control is the primary focus of Interaction Design, with secondary considerations to comprehension and connectedness. n. the activity of managing or exerting control over something Control CONNECTEDNESS CONTROL COMPREHENSION interaction design CONNECTEDNESS CONTROL COMPREHENSION Comprehension is the primary focus of Information Design, with secondary considerations to connectedness and control. n. an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something Comprehension information design Megan Jaegerman’s revised poster “how to spot a hidden handgun” from Edward Tufte’s book “Beautiful Evidence” uses color and short visual noun-verb sentences to help someone comprehend how guns reveal themselves. http://tinyurl.com/42lwz4 Charles Joseph Minard’s poster of Napoleon's losses in the Russian campaign of 1812 shows amazing use of multi-variate data, allowing the viewer to comprehend causality. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard CONNECTEDNESS CONTROL COMPREHENSION information architecture Connectedness is the primary focus of Information Architecture, with secondary considerations to comprehension and control. n. a relation between things or events Connectedness Visual Thesaurus is a browsable dictionary & thesaurus, created by using a controlled vocabulary to connect related terms. www.visualthesaurus.com The structure of a user experience can be informed by a “mental model” which connects related user tasks into groups and connects features and content with those groups. tinyurl.com/5fs8rf Amazon’s myriad of social features connect users together in direct and indirect ways. bokardo.com/archives/how-social-is-amazon Navigation systems group (connect) related links together and create semantic connections between pieces of content. tinyurl.com/2qspl5 The capabilities of a user experience can be determined by connecting user needs to business goals through the medium of products & services. tinyurl.com/6rt84n This diagram is intended to encourage discussion about what UX practitioners do and the value they add. It is not intended to define a ROLE. It is not intended to tell someone what they can or can’t do or call themselves. No one discipline has exclusivity on any of the three areas. It was motivated by periodic discussions on Information Architecture lists about “defining IA” and the specific value that IA tools bring to the UX table. As the diagram shows, my hypothesis is that the primary focus of IA is to connect things, either at the micro or macro level. This is why the discipline emerged as a stand-alone entity when the web became the great connector in the 1990s. Richard Dalton, 25th September, 2008 mauvyrusset.org maps.google.com
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This work is licensed under a Creative CommonsAttribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.
THE FOCI OF USER EXPERIENCE
Flickr’s interface demonstratesnumerous examples of controlby direct manipulation.
www.flickr.com
Google Maps is an excellentexample of immediate feedbackas you control the position andzoom level of the map.
iGoogle’s drag and drop interfaceadjusts the position of the othermodules on the page as youcontrol the layout of your page,making for excellent predictability.
www.google.com
Control is the primary focus of Interaction Design, with secondary considerations to comprehension and connectedness.
n. the activity of managing or exerting control over somethingControl
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interaction
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Comprehension is the primary focus of Information Design, with secondary considerations to connectedness and control.
n. an ability to understand the meaning or importance of somethingComprehension
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Megan Jaegerman’s revised poster“how to spot a hidden handgun”from Edward Tufte’s book “BeautifulEvidence” uses color and short visualnoun-verb sentences to helpsomeone comprehend how gunsreveal themselves.
http://tinyurl.com/42lwz4
Charles Joseph Minard’s poster ofNapoleon's losses in the Russian campaign of 1812 shows amazinguse of multi-variate data, allowingthe viewer to comprehend causality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard
CONNECTEDNESS
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informationarchitecture
Connectedness is the primary focus of Information Architecture, with secondary considerations to comprehension and control.
n. a relation between things or eventsConnectedness
Visual Thesaurus is a browsabledictionary & thesaurus, createdby using a controlled vocabularyto connect related terms.
www.visualthesaurus.com
The structure of a user experiencecan be informed by a “mental model”which connects related user tasks intogroups and connects features andcontent with those groups.
tinyurl.com/5fs8rf
Amazon’s myriad of socialfeatures connect userstogether in direct andindirect ways.
bokardo.com/archives/how-social-is-amazon
Navigation systems group (connect)related links together and createsemantic connections betweenpieces of content.
tinyurl.com/2qspl5
The capabilities of a user experiencecan be determined by connectinguser needs to business goals throughthe medium of products & services.
tinyurl.com/6rt84n
This diagram is intended to encourage discussion about what UX practitioners do and the value they add. It is not intended to define a ROLE. It is not intended to tell someone what they can or can’t do or call themselves. No one discipline has exclusivity on any of the three areas.
It was motivated by periodic discussions on Information Architecture lists about “defining IA” and the specific value that IA tools bring to the UX table.
As the diagram shows, my hypothesis is that the primary focus of IA is to connect things, either at the micro or macro level. This is why the discipline emerged as a stand-alone entity when the web became the great connector in the 1990s.
Richard Dalton, 25th September, 2008mauvyrusset.org
maps.google.com
