Poster Presentation, Christmas & The Next Steps

Since the poster presentation, where the first prototype of the proposed university rugby portal was displayed, I have completed the Progress Report and submitted it to my tutor. Within the report, I briefly discussed how the project has been going, and outlined what I will/will not be completing within the remainder of the project. The main 'out of scope' task is the actual development of the rugby portal. As outlined in the initial project proposal, my project is based around goal-directed design, using in-depth user observations to design for the needs of the users. At the end of the project I will have compiled a design proposal, with supplementing documentation that could be passed onto a development team in order to make the portal a fully functioning system.

Over Christmas, apart from a few days break around Christmas/New Year's Day, I will be continuing with the project, moving into the 'Design' stage. By moving out of the 'Planning/Research' and 'Modelling' stage, I have obtained a good amount of valuable information about the users, now it is time to use this and incorporate it into the design of the system.

Uploaded Files

I have uploaded a few documents to support my poster/presentation, as they may been not visible on the actual poster. Below is one of the personas that I compiled from the information obtained within the user interviews. There is also a competitor analysis, which compares the features of the BBC Sport website, RuckU (a rugby social networking website) and the Oxford University RFC website.

Interview Matrix (Outlining Common Themes & Trends): http://sites.google.com/site/anstooy/Matrix.doc

Competitor Analysis: http://sites.google.com/site/anstooy/CompetitiveAnalysis.docx

Persona (Rugby Coach): http://sites.google.com/site/anstooy/Coach.doc

Poster, Presentation & Prototype Preparation

Since the last post, I have been preparing for the poster presentation session which is on Thursday the 10th. For my poster, I have tried to cover all the sections of the goal directed design process that I have based my project on. Touching on the scope & goals, the poster leads a cycle through research, user interviews and early design stages. The prototype that I have prepared is a static HTML wireframe system that will display a few tasks that the final system will complete, for example, adding the details to a player in a player profile.

As well as preparig for my presentation, I have also been going back to the data obtained through the user interviews and drawing more qualitative data out. I did this by compiling a matrix of all the data obtained and outlining different themes and trends that commonly came up throughout the interview process. The next step of the project is to move more towards the designing stages, taking into consideration user centred design tasks such as cognitive walkthroughs.