Since the last blog post there has been instructions to become more ‘visual’ and to look at how to best present the concept to engage people and really get the points across. There is a really great video about presentations here which gave a number of insights into what to do as well as what not to. It is little surprise that the presentation of the video is very good and engaging. On the back of that some books have been ordered to try and really push the presentation skills to be the best they can be. ‘Made To Stick’ by Chip & Dan Heath and ‘The Back of the Napkin’ by Dan Roam.

The concept itself has been through ‘what it does’ phase and has progressed to the more visual and more enjoyable phase of UI development. They are yet to be tested, that is the next phase, but the elements have been influenced by some existing elements that can be found in leading applications so hopefully they will only need some tweaking.

The best way so far to convey what the project does was to write an FAQ as it would appear on a website. This allowed real questions that could be asked by people will lower levels of technical knowledge to be anwsered in a way that alleviates their concern and also enlightens others to the purpose of the project. Whether this will be included in the final report is yet to be determined but it is entirely possible.

The project yet to gain a name but the working title should contain the words ‘content aware’ as the main feature is dependant on what information is displayed on pages. Perhaps an acronym like C.A.R.S – Content Aware Relational Suggestions.

This is a shot of the development of the UI and UX.

More images to follow.

This led to a new service that would enable people to become much better at navigating the internet to find things they like or need. The premis is an in-browser interface that dynamically ‘reads’ the current page a user is on and then provides recommendations based on the content. This may not sound that innovative but in fact it is very if you consider that the information suggested will be web wide and not just site wide. Coupled with that the fact that it will list every type of media from entire websites to articles and images to music and films based on a user’s preferences. This allows people to navigate quickly to related items based not on a keyword they typed in to search, but based on other content that exists in the page that keyword led them to.

Below are a few simple scenarios and conceptual illustrations to visualise this idea. They are by no means final and the interface will undoubtedly change.

The next step is to investigate different perspectives of using the service and where it can be used; on a mobile phone perharps.

The important change is that there is now some belief in this project and concept as well as a real feeling of pleasure from persuing this course,