LDS Interaction Framework

The North Temple group has just published a case study describing an interaction framework built for developing web applications.

The Interaction Framework (IxF) is the result of a collaboration between members of the Interaction Design Team in Church’s Information and Communication Systems Department. The goal of IxF is to make development and prototyping faster, to ensure best practices in UI design and ultimately to save sacred tithing funds and make the user experience better for the folks who use our apps. We are excited to formally announce this project and introduce you to some of the work we’ve been involved in.

• wade
• 1 response
•  Graphic design, User interface, Web

Hulabalub tech and design event guide

Local artist, developer, and entrepreneur Jason Lynes has launched a new project called Hulabalub. It is a free registry for technology and design events. He’s done some excellent work making browsing and posting a smooth and pleasant experience.

Hulabalub is the definitive guide to every tech and design event in the world.
Our unique filtering lets you search and subscribe to all conferences, lectures, parties, even dinners and drinks, further filtered by location, speaker, topic.”

• wade
• 2 responses
•  Business, Graphic design, User interface, Web

Conference Scheduler

When an internal technology conference succeeded beyond estimation and drew more interested than imagined, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints decided to expand the schedule, presenters, and audience the following year by including all domestic employees and local university institutes. To accomodate the dramatic increase in size, an advanced scheduler was required.

Working together with three independent teams of developers, we also took the opportunity to use the tool as a case study to highlight the pros and cons (a “bake off”) of several cutting-edge technologies such as asyncronous javascript, Google Gears, and FLEX. The app presented an exciting challenge of creating something that was flexible and powerful and yet was ridiculously easy and obvious to use. My primary goal was to allow the user to browse the catalog (searching by authors, times, and tags), flag sessions of interest, and “window shop” different time slots, and then register their personalized sechedule all within a single screen.

• wade
• 2 responses
•  Graphic design, User interface

New Omniture.com Launched

The Omniture Creative Services team recently redesign and launched a new version of the Omniture.com homepage, and all new category and product page designs.

The goal of the site design was an increased focus on brand to demand, and a way to interactively show the Omniture Online Marketing Suite. This was accomplished using a new JQuery javascript, and a tiered rollover design. Also new are a person-based offer box, and multi-tabbed Brand box area. Site is tagged with 8 Mboxes for using Omniture Test&Target.

While the goal was increased Brand and design, the new site actually offers MORE areas for demand—63 links to offers in total!

• Vuel Egham
• 5 responses
•  General, Graphic design, User interface, Web