IFD:Designing For Action/Carlo, Johannes, Sven

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Description

“Plain Bookmarks”

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

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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.


Prototype

<videoflash type=youtube>WNjGp-gkiNQ</videoflash> Short demonstration video of how the bookmarks live search is working.


<videoflash type=youtube>f_zAZgPOanI</videoflash> A video showing the first version of a partly functioning prototype built using HTML, CSS, Javascript (JQuery), PHP and MySQL.

Testing Prototypes

Results

All users understand the application easily. Marking of individual images, textsamples or just a word many people liked.

Problems

add bookmarks:

  • the fields "type" and "size" in the box "Adding Bookmarks" were not conclusive (prototype #1)

find bookmarks:

  • finding with live search - no list of all bookmarks (prototype #2)

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 useful 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