Where is Wally’s lab ? plan.epfl.ch: best IA practices in academic context Natalie Meystre,...
-
Upload
alicia-hall -
Category
Documents
-
view
217 -
download
0
Transcript of Where is Wally’s lab ? plan.epfl.ch: best IA practices in academic context Natalie Meystre,...
![Page 1: Where is Wally’s lab ? plan.epfl.ch: best IA practices in academic context Natalie Meystre, VPSI-EPFL 02.2015.](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032606/56649e875503460f94b8a3c4/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Where is Wally’s lab ?plan.epfl.ch: best IA practices in academic context
Natalie Meystre, VPSI-EPFL
02.2015
![Page 2: Where is Wally’s lab ? plan.epfl.ch: best IA practices in academic context Natalie Meystre, VPSI-EPFL 02.2015.](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032606/56649e875503460f94b8a3c4/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
How to find somebody at EPFL ?
![Page 3: Where is Wally’s lab ? plan.epfl.ch: best IA practices in academic context Natalie Meystre, VPSI-EPFL 02.2015.](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032606/56649e875503460f94b8a3c4/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Situation
• EPFL: Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne• ~5’000 employees, ~9’000 students• Main campus in Lausanne: a lot of buildings and levels
![Page 4: Where is Wally’s lab ? plan.epfl.ch: best IA practices in academic context Natalie Meystre, VPSI-EPFL 02.2015.](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032606/56649e875503460f94b8a3c4/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
EPFL map
![Page 5: Where is Wally’s lab ? plan.epfl.ch: best IA practices in academic context Natalie Meystre, VPSI-EPFL 02.2015.](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032606/56649e875503460f94b8a3c4/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Campus 1978 - 2014
![Page 6: Where is Wally’s lab ? plan.epfl.ch: best IA practices in academic context Natalie Meystre, VPSI-EPFL 02.2015.](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032606/56649e875503460f94b8a3c4/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
• A web application to help people find places and other people’ s offices.• Existing data: maps by the infrastructure department + people directory (name, phone, office)• Start 2005
IT project
![Page 7: Where is Wally’s lab ? plan.epfl.ch: best IA practices in academic context Natalie Meystre, VPSI-EPFL 02.2015.](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032606/56649e875503460f94b8a3c4/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
IT developers team issues
• To build an application combining these data on a dynamic plan (OpenStreetMap)• How to calculate an itinerary ?• How to manage levels ?• How to maintain updated informations ?
• ... and many other features to add …
![Page 8: Where is Wally’s lab ? plan.epfl.ch: best IA practices in academic context Natalie Meystre, VPSI-EPFL 02.2015.](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032606/56649e875503460f94b8a3c4/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
IA team issues
• A data visualisation issue• How to make it usable ?• How to market it ?• How to convince people to use it instead of their usual tools (googlemap…)
![Page 9: Where is Wally’s lab ? plan.epfl.ch: best IA practices in academic context Natalie Meystre, VPSI-EPFL 02.2015.](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032606/56649e875503460f94b8a3c4/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
IT delivering
• A debugged application !• A homepage stuffed with features
![Page 10: Where is Wally’s lab ? plan.epfl.ch: best IA practices in academic context Natalie Meystre, VPSI-EPFL 02.2015.](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032606/56649e875503460f94b8a3c4/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
IA delivering
• How to convince the project manager to go further ?
![Page 11: Where is Wally’s lab ? plan.epfl.ch: best IA practices in academic context Natalie Meystre, VPSI-EPFL 02.2015.](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032606/56649e875503460f94b8a3c4/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Some cases ‘against’ IA
• Too expensive• Slow the delivering• Too subjective• Too late• It’s a designer issue (colors & icons)
If an application has no bug and all the features are present, the work is done !
![Page 12: Where is Wally’s lab ? plan.epfl.ch: best IA practices in academic context Natalie Meystre, VPSI-EPFL 02.2015.](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032606/56649e875503460f94b8a3c4/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
IA method
To do a user testing
• With few simple usecases to test a few users• Simple method (observation and notes)• Quick deliver (failded / success)• No bad tricks (let’s the project manager choose the questions)
![Page 13: Where is Wally’s lab ? plan.epfl.ch: best IA practices in academic context Natalie Meystre, VPSI-EPFL 02.2015.](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032606/56649e875503460f94b8a3c4/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
plan.epfl.ch update
Improvments rather than changes
•Less elements on the main page•Better labelling•Less icons•Less colors•Organization of elements
![Page 14: Where is Wally’s lab ? plan.epfl.ch: best IA practices in academic context Natalie Meystre, VPSI-EPFL 02.2015.](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032606/56649e875503460f94b8a3c4/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Why are the users happy now ?
A truly pure user oriented app’
•Focus on the people’ s need (not institution’s )•Not academic at all
![Page 15: Where is Wally’s lab ? plan.epfl.ch: best IA practices in academic context Natalie Meystre, VPSI-EPFL 02.2015.](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032606/56649e875503460f94b8a3c4/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Find a person now
![Page 16: Where is Wally’s lab ? plan.epfl.ch: best IA practices in academic context Natalie Meystre, VPSI-EPFL 02.2015.](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032606/56649e875503460f94b8a3c4/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
THANK YOU.
QUESTIONS?
Please Contact:Natalie MeystreEPFL information architect & web services [email protected]