Tension between simplicity and complexity
A blog about “The Dirtiest Word in UX: Complexity” may not sound like something related to our work on Synote, but it came to me via the JISC Rave-in-Context group discussion list. There are nuggets...
View ArticleALUIAR Story Board
A quick story board has been designed to demonstrate the basic functions for a typical student/user. The slides illustrate views from the current Synote website with the first of the improvements...
View ArticleSuggested Solutions to Synote ALUIAR Issues – 4th Meeting
The 4th meeting of the ALUIAR team was set up to finalise the storyboarding of the ideas suggested in previous meetings and to present the outcomes from the data gathering plus options for some...
View ArticleCollaborating with Rave-in-Context and how our projects differ!
Yesterday Liz Masterton and I sat down to discuss evaluations and Liz kindly showed me how her mock ups for the Rave-in-Context project templates would work on an iPhone, iPad and small laptop screen....
View ArticleAgenda for 6th ALUIAR Meeting.
White board notes The Agenda for the next meeting is as follows Apologies Outcome of Legal Discussions Overview of the present web site as per requests above Foot-pedal experiments Dates for user...
View ArticleALUIAR version of Synote undergoes final testing and evaluation
The final phase of the evaluation begins with our outside evaluator Dr Sarah Parsons, kindly stepping in to help us with the discussion around this demonstrator for researchers and the work that has...
View ArticleAgenda 7th ALUIAR meeting – 16th December 2-3pm Access Grid Room, Building...
Here comes the last of our meetings for the project before we need to finalise the evaluation interviews and set up all the transcripts on our newly named version of Synote for use by researchers! We...
View ArticleThree in One – Recap, Results and Recommendations
It has always been difficult to have a full team meeting and our last meeting was no different, but by using the University of Southampton’s iSurvey system we have managed to get results to some of our...
View ArticleHelp files and video
The final help files and videos are now in place. The Synote Researcher transcript (.doc file) can be downloaded. Help file (Word .doc download) This is also seen on the home page of Synote Researcher
View ArticleFinal Posting with a link to Synote Researcher download.
During the final meeting we discussed some of the lessons learnt when thinking about usability and the development of online applications. Here Yunjia, who is working on all things Synote, provides...
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