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===Cennydd Bowles=== | |||
I like the focus of what you're tackling - it's a tighter problem than just 'bookmarking', and this often means you can be more confident about your solution. I can attest that managing citations and references is still very much an unsolved problem! | |||
Your research mentions lots of user requirements. It would be useful to explain how you learned these - did participants simply ask for these explicitly, or did you draw these requirements out by prompting them and interpreting their answers? | |||
The prototypes show a number of different ways to use the system; drag and drop, contextual menu etc. This allows flexibility but (counter-intuitively) can actually make systems harder to use if the user isn't sure which route they should use for which operation. Which methods do you think users will rely on the most? Which methods would they use the least? Are those methods still valuable if most people avoid them? | |||
A bit more information on your paper prototyping would be useful, but it looks like you've responded well to your testing, and your solution shows some promise. | |||
===Eric Reiss=== | |||
I'm delighted to see your prototype in action; the demo I saw in Weimar only hinted at what you folks were doing. Well done - I really enjoyed the video. | |||
My concern is still with the scalability of this "spiral notebook" metaphor. Although the individual pages can be limitlessly long, the problem is the actual NUMBER of pages. In truth, although the metaphor is nice, you are basically creating an hierarchical filing system - folders and pages. The key to your project, as I see it, is your ability to tag and file individual content elements rather than pages. You've come a long way, but I'm not convinced that this would solve my personal bookmarking problems (hundreds of bookmarks in 70+ folders). However, if I were to decide to collect content related to a specific client/project on which I was working, this solution might work; one notebook per project, much the way the drawing program Penultimate works on the iPad. | |||
But all in all, Vera, congratulations to you and your team on a VERY solid project! | |||
==thanks for feedback== | |||
I set the focus on students. A big result of researching and tests was, that students needs a place where they organize their researching results. Students complain often about disorder on their working place. The system should lead the students to a tidy kind of work. | |||
The important things from researching results | |||
students use external programms to save information | |||
afraid to lose important information | |||
all users want tidyness | |||
I think drag & drop is very common. But many students use the touchpad on their laptops... and this people mostly don't like drag & drop. Many students have said to me, that they more frequently use shortcuts for copy and paste. But they can't learn so fast using shortcuts. And thats the reason for my opinion. The contextmenu is the best alternative to drag & drop. |
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