IFD:Designing For Action/Carlo, Johannes, Sven

Description

This project is presented by Carlo Enke ● Johannes Loder ● Sven Sommerlatte.

The main focus was to ease the arrangement of bookmarks and an auto-complete-like search through saved bookmarks. In addition to the auto-completion there will be the possibility to rank each page by their relevance to the user.

A bookmark consists of a screenshot of the page, its title, url, favicon, current date and the relevance to the user - rated by the user. The clou is, most data will automatically be added. Last visit, visits and frequency of use will be updated over time.

Interviews

Result

Respondents...

• predominantly using the bookmark-toolbar -> most practicable and efficient
• arrange their bookmarks on-the-fly
• propose a relevance ranking
• want a clearly design -> overlay should be visible

Only a few of them use folders and those who do not use bookmarks, close the browser and "Save and Exit".

Problems

Respondents...

• feel ill-informed of other usefull plug-ins
• do not care about "advanced" bookmarking (e.g. tags)

The bookmark-toolbar is width-delimited by the users display and its resolution.

Goals

• enable a fast access to bookmarks
• automation of arranging/storing via meta-data
• focussing on usability
• sort bookmarks by relevance and the frequency of use
• no data loss

Non-Goals

• focussing on graphic fooling
• complicate bookmarking
• removal of the bookmark function