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.

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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.

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!

I just started a new blog and it’s a collection of resources and websites that I like. Take a look at it if you have a chance. Hope you get some form of inspiration out of it.

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Peace

It is always such a joy to work with a client that not only appreciates quality, beautiful work, but seeks it out. The physicians at Granite Peaks Gastroenterology in Sandy are experts in their field and have brought together state-of-the-art technologically and medical excellence to provide a fully-integrated digestive health center. To complete the automation and access of information, they needed some powerful digital tools. For them, I had the pleasure of designing and developing a website to highlight their services, physicians, staff, and facilities, and provide online bill-pay for patients. The project also included a staff intranet and a custom content management system and administration console.

More info on eye tracking research can be found here: http://www.useit.com/eyetracking/

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Here is the info from NUCHI:

What is NUCHI?
The Northern Utah chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI). *Yes, it’s a mouthful!*

Time & Location
7:00pm Thursday, June 26, 2008 at NextPage, 13997 S. Minuteman Drive, Draper. (map)

Topic
See a demonstration of a TOBII eye tracking system used in software usability analysis. Join in a discussion of what this technology can find that other methods can’t.

Also, see a new application of the Microsoft Ribbon technology and how it is being applied to navigate complex clinical software. This software is being developed with Microsoft Expressions Blend and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). This process is intended to let designers build the software interface and interaction and pass it directly to developers.

Carl Bechtold is an Intermountain Healthcare Human Factors Engineer on loan to the GE/Intermountain partnership. That partnership is developing an Enterprise Clinical Information System (ECIS) for Intermountain and commercial deployment through GE Healhtcare.

http://ixdautah.collectivex.com/main/summary

“The IxDA is all about bringing interaction designers together. The life a designer is a busy one and we may not all be able to meet face to face as often as we’d like. This group site will help local IxDA members communicate, share ideas, inspire each other and hopefully help facilitate friendships around our passion for great design.”

What else do we assume about the web?

Maybe some of the assumptions will spark some ideas for your projects.

I look forward to seeing your responses.