Infusion 1.3.1 - 1.5 & FLOE design roadmap and tasking draft

January '11 - mid-February '11

Uploader

• Enumerate possible errors
• Write up friendly error messages
• Provide wireframes for errors

UI options

Activities in the following sections don't necessarily follow in strict sequence and may overlap

Immediate

• Iterate design of text display, contrast/colour, some interaction, and layout options into UI options panel
• Meet with developers to discuss what's possible within the next iteration

Upfront research

• Benchmarking state of the art in web, desktop, mobile
• Literature review of user interface preferences
• Fleshing out user states and contexts
• Fleshing out landscape of alt-trans-cust
• User research
  • Contextual inquiry (see how students at schools use (O)ER now)
  • Shadow students using (O)ERs

Conceptualization

• Map out things on landscape of alt-trans-cust that UI Options might/should handle
• Brainstorming (feed in benchmarking, mind map, landscape, states & contexts, user research, etc.)
  • w/ smaller group of designers
  • w/ larger group of designers + developers
• (Short) scenario narratives

Design

• Wireframes and prototyping
  • Interface preferences panel (mini-preferences?)
  • Preferences configuration page (full preferences?)
  • Contextual preferences (JIT preferences?)
  • Preferences profile "wizard"

Throughout

• SMEs check-ins: ideas/brainstorming, refining/feedback
  • Chat w/ Clayton @ Colorado U
  • Chat w/ Mary Kerfoot
  • Chat w/ instructors @ schools (for students w/ or w/out disabilities)

Style suggest

• Header/footer, draft 1
• Icons + other graphic assets, draft 1
• Colour palettes, draft 1
  • Defaults
  • High contrast
  • Inverted
  • Colour blindness
  • etc.
• Typography, draft 1

Documentation

• Walk through current documentation
• Draft an information architecture/documentation map

Demo portal

• Scenarios / Use Cases - Feb 2 - 3
• Develop an information structure - Feb 7 - 9
• Identify information pieces required. - Feb 7 - 9
• Generate some initial sketches. - Feb 10 - 11
• Pass through of text (component descriptions, etc.)
• Identify graphic pieces required.
• Identify demos required.
  ...
• High fidelity mockup of portal, using style suggest - Feb 21 - 25

Builder

• Decide on selection interaction - done
• Decide on download interaction (re: communicating building progress) - done
• Pass through of text (component descriptions, instruction text, etc.) - Feb. 2-3
• High fidelity mockup of builder, using style suggest - Feb. 7

mid-February '11 - April '11

Demo reconceptualization

Documentation (cont'd)

• Wireframe/layout new documentation landing
• Wireframe/layout new API, tutorial, overview

Demo portal (cont'd)

Style suggest (cont'd)

• Header/footer, draft 2
• Icons + other graphic assets, draft 2
• Colour palettes, draft 2
  • Defaults
  • High contrast
  • Inverted
  • Colour blindness
  • etc.
• Typography, draft 2

April '11 - May '11

UI Options (cont'd)

User testing

• Write up user testing protocols
• User test with students and UIO'd OER

Main Fluid/FLOE site

Inclusive Learning Handbook

Style suggest (cont'd)

• Header/footer, draft 3
• Icons + other graphic assets, draft 3
• Colour palettes, draft 3
  • Defaults
  • High contrast
  • Inverted
  • Colour blindness
  • etc.
• Typography, draft 3
• Component styles and design, draft 1