Mana', a VUI-based music app I created with my friends Malcolm Moore & Pallavi Banerjee, for our Inclusive Design class at the University of Maryland. The app aims to make the overall music experience more accessible and enjoyable for people with visual impairment.
Stock & Flow Diagramming for Adaptive UI: Repurposing a visual tool typically used by developers and to get cross-channel stakeholder buy-in.
Card sorting is a very useful tool when it comes to organizing websites and finding out how your users view the information space. Unfortunately, the tool that has gobbled up all the competitors doesn’t have a government terms of service, and it’s difficult to get approval to use within a federal agency. We didn’t let that stop us.
The poster will show how we planned the study, conducted the study, and analyzed the data as well as lessons learned. It will condense and visualize a lot of the content in this blog post (https://blog-nrrd.doi.gov/card-sort/)
We are presenting a high-level approach to analyze domains and business verticals and how annotation taxonomies are used to inform models on conversations between customer service agents / chatbots and consumers. The poster will illustrate the process and how the phrase taxonomies of intents are useful for machine learning and conversational AI.
We need to understand why IA is still important, still crazy, after all these years. We need to show our teams and our clients why IA matters‚ and we do do that by ensuring a focus on IA exists in projects. We disrupt the very nature of digital design by ensuring it addresses users, context, content, and a sense of meaningful place.
