Research & Design
Story map for new Dataverse features
Planning the integration of the DataTags classification system and other new features into Dataverse.
Dataverse UX & UI
Work in progress to improve usability, scaleability, and accessibility.
Consilience UX & UI
Consilience is an experimental web application that facilitates analysis and discovery of large document sets. It is based on a well-known article, and participatory design sessions with social science researchers.
Product design for political social media startup reASSEMBLE.co
Web application UX & UI designed to promote civil discourse on divisive topics. Developed and launched with two founders; an entrepreneur and a law professor.
Teaching
Interactive Information Design 2
Students learn observation and modeling techniques to understand and design for multi-channel systems.
Shown: "MFan" concept for enhancing a visit to Boston's MFA, by Matt Salerno
Designing Infographics
Students learn to analyze and work with datasets, and apply methods for giving form to information to design visual data stories.
Shown: "Explaining Henry: A 46 Year Quest to Produce a Male Heir" by Gil Pocaterra, "Evolution of Female Participation in the Summer Olympics" by Natasha Taylor
Interaction Design 1
Students learn and apply user-centered research and design principles through project work. They conduct research, develop prototypes, apply visual design to user interfaces, and code and test a basic responsive web site.
Shown: Memory Box by Tia Thompson
Publications
Forthcoming. In The 3rd International Workshop on Practical Reproducible Evaluation of Systems (P-RECS). A. Trisovic, P. Durbin, T. Schlatter, G. Durand, S. Barbosa, D. Brooke, M. Crosas
The paper explains the current situation for researchers, and how we address it in Dataverse software.
Decipher Vol. 1., 2019, by Jessica Barness and Amy Papaelias with Tania Schlatter
Speculative essay on design research repositories that came out of the AIGA Design Educator's workshop.
Morgan Kaufman, 2013, with Deborah Levinson
Digital design work involves constantly reconciling use and appearance. This isn't a new or novel struggle; it's inherent to designing, and evident in the gap between applications that look great and those that are highly functional. The book helps web application designers and developers understand visual interface characteristics, and how to make them appeal to, and communicate with people. Published in English and Chinese. doi.org/10.1016/C2012-0-00687-4
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Debby and I ran workshops based on the principles in the book at the International UXPA conference and Boston CHI.
