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 divicive topics. Developed and launched with two founders; an entrepreneur and a law professor.
Teaching
Interactive Information Design 2
Students observe interactions and information needs in a public space and design ways to improve them.
Shown: "MFan" concept for enhancing a visit to Boston's MFA, by Matt Salerno
Designing Infographics
Students work with datasets and information to find insights and 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 design principles through project work. They conduct user research, and develop a concept for a responsive web application that involves tracking something. Work includes coding a basic prototype, and UI design.
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.
