Hi JD,
That sounds like a really good exercise, certainly meaty enough and
realistic enough to teach some valuable truths. And it gives me one
thing I hadn't previously considered for the list of lessons worth
learning:
* Content is often imperfect and inconsistent.
Thanks for sharing
John
On 29 Jun 2009, at 22:00, JD Vogt wrote:
Hi John,
I designed and instructed a class last Spring at Virginia Tech,
"Designing UX for the Web," and it was meant to be a very hands-on
sort of class. One of the assignments (mid-term) was for the students
to assume that they had landed an architectural firm as a client who
wanted a redesign of their website - with a particular emphasis on
improving the portfolio section.
My objective was to get the students thinking about the flow of
moving from the home page to detailed information about a particular
building project. Something we as professionals are often asked to do
- move people from broad content to details so that decisions can be
made.
The content was based off of a real architectural firm's site with
about 60 building projects of varying detail. However, they had to
accommodate the fact that sometimes there was a page of info on a
given building, sometimes there was only a paragraph. Sometimes
there was one photo, sometimes there were 6. Imperfect content, just
like the real world.
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