Jan Dittrich
Everything is best for something and worst for something else – Bill Buxton
I mainly doing interaction design and user research.
I publish term-wise a collection of HCI-related classes at the uni
If you are bored, feel free to read the bookmarked pages
Current Projects
- Develop lightweight user research methods
- Werkmodul HumanCenteredDesignResearch Teaching concept. Students learn to use needfinding and evaluation research techniques by designing for the university's library.
Old Projects
- Literature Research and case studies for my Bachelor's Thesis on intuitive interaction for novel interface paradigms. The NEtspeak-Interface Redesign served here as an example of an innovative interface which is nervertheless intuitively usable.
- Crowdsourcing@mozilla 1, 23: Mozilla Crowdsourcing is a international team of students redesigning Mozilla's outreach to the UX-Designer community.
- Bimanual Interaction Research @ Media Computer Science Weimar. Paper published at MobileHCI 2012 (Coauthor)
- Usability for Search Interfaces: Netspeak Netspeak is a search engine for words in the context of a sentence.While the normal use requires the user to lear a wildcard syntax, the novel design allows just to click on the words in question to get a list of alternatives.
- IFD:Designing For Action-Werkmodul: Concept for a Werkmodul, teaching the basics of Interaction Design: user research, best Practices, prototyping and testing. Mozilla publishes a series of blog posts about the course: project start
- Icon Design
- FirefoxMobile-SmartTabs How can we ease the recognition of webpages by creating good represenations? Was a little project in order to improve the tabs in Firefox Mobile.