User:JanD

Jan Dittrich

Everything is best for something and worst for something else – Bill Buxton

I mainly doing interaction design and user research. If I don't I may be busy with javascript programming, statistics, cognitive psychology or lazing in the Ilmpark.

I publish term-wise a collection of HCI-related classes at the uni

If you are bored, feel free to read the bookmarked pages

Current Projects

• Develop lightweight user research methods
• Werkmodul HumanCenteredDesignResearch 3: Secure Communication Teaching concept, Teaching. Students learn to use needfinding and evaluation research techniques.
• Needfinding and Requirements for eLearning

Old Projects

• User Research for the Medienwiki
• Werkmodul HumanCenteredDesignResearch 2: Share and Remix Teaching concept, Teaching. Students learn to use needfinding and evaluation research techniques.
• Werkmodul HumanCenteredDesignResearch Teaching concept. Students learn to use needfinding and evaluation research techniques by designing for the university's library.

• User Research for a project on sustainable consuption
• Literature Research and case studies for my Bachelor's Thesis on intuitive interaction for novel interface paradigms. The Netspeak-Interface Redesign served here as an example of an innovative interface which is nervertheless intuitively usable.

• Crowdsourcing@mozilla 1, 23: Mozilla Crowdsourcing is a international team of students redesigning Mozilla's outreach to the UX-Designer community.

• Bimanual Interaction Research @ Media Computer Science Weimar. Paper published at MobileHCI 2012 (Coauthor)

Interface-Entwurf Netspeak

• Usability for Search Interfaces: Netspeak Netspeak is a search engine for words in the context of a sentence.While the normal use requires the user to lear a wildcard syntax, the novel design allows just to click on the words in question to get a list of alternatives.

• IFD:Designing For Action-Werkmodul: Concept for a Werkmodul, teaching the basics of Interaction Design: user research, best Practices, prototyping and testing. Mozilla publishes a series of blog posts about the course: project start

• Icon Design

• bringing usability to touch

• FirefoxMobile-SmartTabs How can we ease the recognition of webpages by creating good represenations? Was a little project in order to improve the tabs in Firefox Mobile.