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Sneak peaks på det kommende 1508.dk

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

I sidste uge lagde vi et link til vores foreløbige prototyper til det kommende 1508.dkTwitter. Interessen var stor. Mere end 200 har efterfølgende været inde og se nærmere på vores work in progress.

Og hvorfor nu begynde at linke til ufærdige stregtegninger over et kommende website? Det er der flere grunde til.

For det første: Why not! Prototyper over vores kommende website kan ikke siges at være vores største forretningshemmelighed. Derimod tænkte vi, at det måske ville være interessant for andre at følge med i, hvordan vi selv udvikler web. Specielt bliver det interessant at se, hvor stor udviklingen fra de første skitser til den færdige løsning bliver.

Feedback. Måske vi kunne få gode input fra dig. Fx, hvorfor er der ikke et videounivers? Hvor er Feedback-funktionaliteten? Hvor er prototypen over den mobile udgave osv”¦ Det kunne jo tænkes, at vi ikke havde overvejet alt og kunne blive klogere. Hermed ikke sagt, at det bliver brugerne som kommer til at definere vores kommende site.

Test-trial for vores kunder. Vi har længe tænkt på, at vores kunder løbende skal tweete eller blogge om processen med at udvikle eller relancere websites. Det er vores erfaring, at en af de største udfordringer ifbm. nye webprojekter for større organisationer er at skabe intern opbakning og opmærksomhed. Kun på den måde kan websitet (og den totale online tilstedeværelse) få den centrale placering i organisationen, som det i 9 ud af 10 tilfælde fortjener. Her er det oplagt løbende at være i dialog med både interne og eksterne interessenter, så gode råd, fordomme, irritationer o.l. kan tages i opløbet. Vi oplever dog også en vis frygt for denne åbenhed. “Vil det ikke blot medføre unødig brok?”, “Afdelingscheferne bliver jo sure, hvis ikke deres forretningsområde bliver en del af globalnavigation” osv. Min holdning er dog, at denne involvering i processen er det, der skaber gode resultater.

Nu tager vi vores egen medicin og glæder os til at evaluere, hvordan det kommer til at spænde af.

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Smagsdommer

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Normalt kan du få mig til at tale i flere timer om hvorfor wiki“™er er noget af det bedste der er sket for videndeling. Og normalt jeg er ovenud glad for at vi har en wiki som intranet her i 1508.

Men jeg bliver lidt støt når jeg får følgende besked når jeg logger ind i vores wiki.

Bad username or password?

Jeg synes da både mit brugernavn og mit password er godt. Det kan godt være jeg skrev det forkert, men derfor er det jo stadig et godt brugernavn. Der er vi i hvert fald uenige.

Der er stor forskel på om der menes forkert (altså ‘wrong’), ikke gyldigt (altså ‘invalid’) eller dårligt som de skriver her.

Man skal som designer af website og anden form for brugerinteraktion altid huske på at udforme sin feedback til brugerne på en måde så de giver mening, og er fuldstændig entydige.

Hvis det wiki”™en forsøgte at fortælle mig, var at det brugernavn og/eller password jeg indtastede var forkert, kunne det jo bare sige det. Den behøver ikke at fornærmer mig ved at agere smagsdommer.

…til alle jer der elsker whiteboards

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Når man bare har lyst til at tegne, er det rart at have nogle at dele det med :)

Twiddla.com er et virtuelt whiteboard, hvor du kan mødes med samarbejdspartnere, kunder eller venner uanset hvor i verden de befinder sig. Kommentér websites ved at tegne og skrive direkte på dem – eller brug et af værktøjerne til at konstruere en side fra bunden i fællesskab. Det er også muligt at embedde og afvikle widgets/html direkte på siden.

Twiddla screenshot

Det er ikke en ubetinget god brugeroplevelse, men det er super simpelt, og man kan komme i gang uden at oprette sig eller downloade noget (prøv en åben session i “The Sandbox“). Det virker dog til at der nogle bugs med widgets – jeg forsøgte fx at embedde en youtube video, der fyldte det meste af siden.  Mest af alt blev jeg forelsket i deres super kække feature list.

Enjoy!

  • Nu hvor vi er i gang med gratis online tools, der ikke kræver download, så tjek også lige: Pixlr.com: Et online billedredigeringsprogram ala Photoshop Lovely charts: Lav flowcharts, wireframes, diagrammer, sitemaps osv.  Keeping it simple!

Tøv ikke med at dele et link med os andre :)

One of the most valuable slides in this presentation

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

UXintensive Copenhagen, Adaptive Path

Monday I joined the first of a 4 day conference on user experience hosted by Adaptive Path’s Brandon Schauer. Each days put intensive focus on a specific subject, beeing Design Strategy this monday.

Now, Brandon Schauer didn’t reveal unknown secrets from the world of design strategy, but he delivered a professional and fluid presentation supported by this note: One of the most valuable slides in this presentation.

Serves well as inspiration…

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EuroIA2008

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Web 3.0 midt i red light district.

Tushinski Theatre

Hvis vi skal være helt ærlige, så var programmet til dette års EuroIA lidt i den tørre ende. Meeen der skal alligevel meget til før man takker nej til tur til Amsterdam, og gudskelov for det!

Konferencen var sat i smukke rammer i Tushinsk Theatre og første dag bød på indlæg så spændende som “Content Analysis: The Hows and Whys to understanding Your Content” og “Why Information Architects are Needed in the Kitchen”. Størst indtryk gjorde Claudia Urschbach fra BBC med sit indlæg om “What Semantic Web and Web 3.0 Mean for IA“.

Det fantastiske ved vores branche er, at den konstant udvikler sig. Hele essensen i en Informationsarkitekts dagligdag er forandring ““ at skabe forandring, omstille sig til forandring og kontrollere forandring. Web 2.0 er for længst en realitet, næste udfordring er Web 3.0, også kaldet The Semantic Web.

Modsat Web 2.0, der handler om mere håndgribelige ting som sociale medier og brugergenereret indhold – kommunikation mellem mennesker – tilføjer Web 3.0 endnu en dimension til internettet, hvor computere i højere grad bidrager til mere målrettede brugeroplevelser. For at computerne kan løse nye opgaver for os, skal vi præsentere viden på en måde, som er enkel og entydig at afkode for computere – dét er semantisk web!

Tim Berners-Lee formulerede det allerede i 1998: “The Web was designed as an information space, with the goal that it should be useful not only for human-human communication, but also that machines would be able to participate and help.

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De mere målrettede brugeroplevelser ligger ikke kun i intelligente søgeresultater, og ikke kun indenfor det enkelte website, men i delingen af viden på tværs af websites og applikationer. Vidensdelingen bliver mere teknisk, og kommer til at foregå mere automatisk ““ resultatet er en personliggørelse af hele web-oplevelsen.

Det stiller naturligvis også krav til IA”™ernes viden om et nyt sæt byggeklodser (Microformats, OpenID, API osv.), der ændrer måden vi fremover konstruerer websites. Desuden skal vi for alvor til at forholde os til mobilt internet, der i øjeblikket slår alle rekorder.Tendenserne i IA faget peger således på, at fremtiden vil kræve langt flere typer specialister, hvor vi tidligere primært har set IA specialister indenfor taxonomi.

Der er allerede rigtig mange gode blogindlæg og artikler derude om Semantic Web, så google det, når du har en ledig stund.

Med på vejen får du lige et par Buzz words, der kan etablere dig som internet guru til New Media Days: -        Ubiquitous computing -        Linked data cloud -        RDF, FOAF, SIOC, MOAT”¦

Det er ord der kan gøre en IA-chick som mig helt blød i knæene :)

It’s alive: New User Experience Network in Denmark

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

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User Experience Group Denmark is the formal name of a new network initiated by 1508 and Creuna. It consists of danish top agencies who work professionally with interaction, strategy and digital communication on a daily basis.

 The aim of user experience group is to share knowledge in order to profesionalize the whole area. For more info, check out this article in danish magazine markedsføring.dk. (written in danish, though).

 The responses have been overwhelming, showing a great interest amongst the invited participants. We look forward to the first meet up that will take place february 8th 2008.

Future posts from User Experience Group Denmark can be read on their blog www.uxgroup.dk

 wauv..

Euro IA Summit 2007

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

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We returned from Euro IA summit last Saturday. We have been busy since then. That is the reason why we have not published our thoughts about it before now.

However there”™s plenty of good reasons to spread the message: The conference this year was a great succes. Both in terms of content and quality, atmosphere, people and location there is no doubt that this was the best summit so far. The only thing to point fingers at – seen from our very narrow danish perspective – is the number of danish attendants. Last year Denmark was surprisingly well represented, this year we were very few.

Of course some presentations were more relevant to us than others, but generally speaking the professional/academic level was just perfect. I will not go through all the insights (and we did not go to all presentations), so this is just a brief note on the speakers who gave new ideas to include in our next projects.

Playful IA (Kars Alfrink)

Extremely interesting presentation on adapting ideas from game design to IA. We are currently designing a new intranet for a big danish company, and I believe we are going to adapt some of the ideas ““ eg. what happens when you think of an intranet as a game, with real challenges, tokens, rewards etc.? This could be a very obvious way to motivate users to participate and take ownership of the site.

How to (Really) localize an Information Architecture (Peter Van Dijck)

Peter presented a simple framework to address the questions that always arise when creating internatioal sites. It”™s not that the content of the presentation was new to us, but it was the kind of presentation that inspired me to go back home to produce the 6 generic questions and slides to use at client presentations.

Service Design (Claire Rowland)

Service Design is in growing demand in Denmark. It was very interesting to hear that the same is true outside Denmark ““ or at least in the UK. Just like the presentation Peter gave, the most interesting part of Claires presentation was the methods and the way of presenting them to clients.

There was many other presentations that deserves to be mentioned: The Core and paths: Designing from the inside out by Are Halland and the one about the new site for Heathrow Airport by Georgio Venturi and Jonathan Culling were also excellent”¦ and all the rest was good too”¦But this is all for now”¦ :-)

Enjoy the EuroIA2008 photoset on Flickr

Web Navigation 2.0. New design principles needed for content pages!

Friday, June 15th, 2007

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The graf above (Google Analytics - great software) points out an interesting shift in web navigation of today. The 28,87 % is the share of users landing directly on the Home Page of a Danish Trade Union. This means that 71,23% of all users on this Trade Union website skips the homepage and goes directly to sub pages of the site. Earlier on the share of users entering a site through the home page was much greater than today. One of the main factors in this change is the upcoming of search engines such as Google. Now people search for content and is directed to the relevant page immediately.  So why am I writing about this? Why is this interesting? Because this change in user behaviour should change the way we design for web.

Web Navigation 2.0, as I so webish called it in the headline, means that the need for navigational instruments and overview possibilities on sub pages is about to be redefined. I say this because users for the time being have no clue about the total content of a site when entering via a sub page. Besides what information they can get from the global navigation, content navigation and the sub page itself, there isn’t much overview. So I predict that related information, and visualisation of site content is going to be something we will hear a lot more about in the years to come. Agree?

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PS. I just found this great example: Apples new homepage. Take a look to the left of the Leopard-box. A great way to offer tons of information in very little space. Try to imagine news, calendar, hot products and vacant jobs on a corporate website in this form. Cool hhm?

Heavyhitters

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Si Scott One of the guys behind Non-Formats’ illustrations the Si Scott is an english illustrator with a nice typographic technique go check him out, but be aware the navigation could use some adjusting.

Precursor The Precursor site is up here because of the navigation, it’s (con)text based meaning you can write directly on the site and request a specific project very much like the old days when you were using DOS and amiga, can be confusing sometimes so be sure to read how to navigate the site.

area17Area 17 refers to the optical cortex of the brain where vision and creativity are processed. It also refers to our Interactive Agency where vision and creativity are realized” Arnaud Mercier’s company in NYC. A site with great work.

For the people who havn’t yet seen Adobe’ newsletter Edge go check it out it’s excellent. This month they go behind Big Spaceship’s Nike project and other projects.

Last but not least Goodby, Silverstein & Partners + Ken Garland

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eCommerse – I’ll teach you

Monday, October 30th, 2006

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Martin Thorborg, co-founder of Jubii and SPAMfigther, now unveils his experience with eCommerse. It’s published online and you can read most of it for free.

By Rudolf