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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