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Moodboard

Johnny Smith Moodboard
John is a 75-year-old retired carpenter who still enjoys hikes in national parks and ridding his Harley-Davidson. He looks forward to the local club raffle and a catch up with the boys on a Thursday evening. He also enjoys playing bingo, listening to local radio and watching old western movies with his wife Jill. As he gets older and has to visit the hospital more often, he prefers quick and efficient healthcare with simple, bold instructions and hospital signs. He aims to enjoy the rest of his life traveling a little and spending time with family, especially his grandchildren.

• Location: Hobart

• Toaster Usage: Unfortunately Johnny has never used a fancy new electric toaster

• Computer/Internet Usage: PC, Occasionally browses the Internet with the help of his grandchildren.

• Computer Skill: Novice user. Finds things too complicated on the computer to use. Has an email but doesn’t know how to use it properly.

Storyboard

Making Toast Storyboard

How to make toast

Step by step instructions for making toast:

1. Place toaster on a stable, hard and flat surface.
2. Plug toaster into a wall power outlet.
3. Turn power outlet switch on.
4. Insert one or two pieces of bread.
5. Look at cook setting (light-dark dial).
6. Is setting on medium 4-6? Set dial.
7. Depress lever and wait for ejection.
8. Check darkness of toast. Is it medium to dark brown?
9. Wait for toast to be cool enough to touch.
10. Test toast is safe to touch. Is it?
11. Remove toast and prepare.

Making Toast Flowchart:

Information/Instructional Design

What is information/instructional design?

As stated by Sharp, Rogers & Preece in their book Interaction Design: beyond human-computer interaction (2nd edition).

"The main aim of interaction design is to bring usability into the design process. It is about developing interactive products that are easy, effective, and enjoyable to use—from the users' perspective.".

It is the design of an educational system aimed and teaching and how to aid teaching.

Examples of information/instructional design



Science World British Columbia is a non-profit organisation which engages British Columbians in science and inspires future science and technology leadership. They offer online science experiments, games and learning experiences for their users.



Turbo Chef
TurboChef was once only enjoyed by commercial chefs. It now is available to all and has been designed with hundreds of professionals home chefs to achieve faster cooking without compromising quality.



Virtual Keyboard
Just as the name suggests virtual keyboard allows users to play the piano. It goes from middle c to upper f with different sounds including the flute, saxophone, pan pipes, strings etc. It also allows users to select a set of notes to be played with chord mode. A great tool for learning notes on a piano.

Interactive Design

Interactive design is the study of devices in which users can interact. As Dan Saffey stated it is

"The art of facilitating or instigating interactions betwen humans, mediated by products. By interctions, I mostly mean communication either one-on-one (a telephone call), one-to-many (blogs) or many-to-many (the stock market). The products an interaction designer creates can be digital or analog, physical or incorporeal or some combination thereof".

Great web design examples

Nike












Kitchen Connections












M.A.C Cosmetics

Web 2.0

What is web 2.0? it is a term that was officially coined in 2004 by Dale Dougherty during a team discussion about the future of the web. It is used to describe a second generation of the world wide web with the main purpose and aim of users being able to collaborate , facilitate creativity and information sharing.

Key Web 2.0 Applications

Blogs: a contraction of "web log" and refers to a shared online journal that consists of information, diary entries or links which are called posts. Most blogs allow users to comment below a blog entry. Examples include blogger, typepad, wordpress.



Wikis: is a website that allows easy creating and editing by visitor themselves. It is work from many different authors collaborating to create websites. The most widely known and used is the online encyclopaedia, wikipedia.



Tagging and Social Bookmarking: is a method for online users to save links to web pages that they want to share or to remember.



Multimedia Sharing: it is a service that facilitates the storing and sharing of multimedia. Examples include flickr, youtube, vimeo, odeo.



RSS and Syndication: allows users to find out about updates of content via RSS enabled websites, blogs or podcasts without having to actually visit the site.