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Workflow Diagram

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Below is a workflow diagram I created to help get developers and end users on the same a page on a project. Specifically, this workflow is for an online system that works very much like an LMS. Users interact with the system (similar to taking a test). Their responses are manually graded by two reviewers, and then those evaluations are calibrated. Students receive a machine generated report. The data is flexible enough so that other reports can be created fairly quickly Sample workflow

Card Sorting

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I really like card sorting. I think it’s one of the most powerful tools not just in UX, but in IT in general. It makes the abstract concrete, and there’s something about the nature of it that just helps users find their own connections, without prompting from ‘us.’ I was working on a little Intranet project at the Center for Educational Leadership. The Center has very 4 distinct teams, so figuring out a common IA and navigational schema is always tough. I took terms from the highest navigational levels of a few systems (live website, network drives, other shared tools)...

Paper Prototyping Example

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When I was the IT Manager for the Rat City Roller Girls, we embarked on a project for both changing the structure and the hosting platform of their knowledge. They had actually begun the organization using a set of chat forums. This worked well for quite some time – for each new subject, they’d create a new forum topic, rather like a file on a network share. Then, they got big. It just didn’t scale anymore. There were too many forums, it was too hard to find things, and the UI wasn’t very good. So we worked together on coming...