Comments on: You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato, Let’s Not Call the Whole Thing Off: The Challenge of User Experience Design in Distributed Learning Environments http://mfeldstein.com/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomato-let%e2%80%99s-not-call-the-whole-thing-off-the-challenge-of-user-experience-design-in-distributed-learning-environments/ What We Are Learning About Online Learning...Online Fri, 18 May 2012 06:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Colin Clark http://mfeldstein.com/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomato-let%e2%80%99s-not-call-the-whole-thing-off-the-challenge-of-user-experience-design-in-distributed-learning-environments/#comment-1128 Colin Clark Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:56:15 +0000 http://mfeldstein.com/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomato-let%e2%80%99s-not-call-the-whole-thing-off-the-challenge-of-user-experience-design-in-distributed-learning-environments/#comment-1128 Nathan, Thanks for your comments. I'm the technical lead for the Fluid Project. We do indeed use existing JavaScript tools, jQuery in particular. It's a fantastic tool and has saved us a lot of time and effort. We're also sharing our work back with the jQuery community by helping to make the jQuery UI widget set more accessible. That said, our code plays nice with other toolkits. If you're using YUI or one of the other great libraries out there, you shouldn't have any trouble using them alongside Fluid components. Fluid components are designed to fill the gaps in existing widget sets: interactions that are flexible, accessible, and carefully designed. We're not out to build yet another foundational JavaScript toolkit; we want to adapt and enhance wherever possible. Ben, I agree with you that there's a real opportunity to create innovative new user interfaces. Our users--teachers, students, instructional designers, and so on--should definitely be an integral part of the design process. Jutta's post touches on some of the ways we're engaging users through research, interviews, workshops, and participatory design in Fluid. Nathan,

Thanks for your comments. I’m the technical lead for the Fluid Project. We do indeed use existing JavaScript tools, jQuery in particular. It’s a fantastic tool and has saved us a lot of time and effort. We’re also sharing our work back with the jQuery community by helping to make the jQuery UI widget set more accessible.

That said, our code plays nice with other toolkits. If you’re using YUI or one of the other great libraries out there, you shouldn’t have any trouble using them alongside Fluid components.

Fluid components are designed to fill the gaps in existing widget sets: interactions that are flexible, accessible, and carefully designed. We’re not out to build yet another foundational JavaScript toolkit; we want to adapt and enhance wherever possible.

Ben,

I agree with you that there’s a real opportunity to create innovative new user interfaces. Our users–teachers, students, instructional designers, and so on–should definitely be an integral part of the design process. Jutta’s post touches on some of the ways we’re engaging users through research, interviews, workshops, and participatory design in Fluid.

]]> By: Dave’s Whiteboard » Blog Archive » Career choice, or, wherever you go, there you are http://mfeldstein.com/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomato-let%e2%80%99s-not-call-the-whole-thing-off-the-challenge-of-user-experience-design-in-distributed-learning-environments/#comment-1127 Dave’s Whiteboard » Blog Archive » Career choice, or, wherever you go, there you are Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:39:26 +0000 http://mfeldstein.com/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomato-let%e2%80%99s-not-call-the-whole-thing-off-the-challenge-of-user-experience-design-in-distributed-learning-environments/#comment-1127 [...] Michael Feldstein at e-Literate has a guest post by Jutta Treviranus. You Say Tomato… looks at designing the user-experience interface for distributed learning. Treviranus notes that UI designed is often left to programmers and often happens at the end of the development process. [...] [...] Michael Feldstein at e-Literate has a guest post by Jutta Treviranus. You Say Tomato… looks at designing the user-experience interface for distributed learning. Treviranus notes that UI designed is often left to programmers and often happens at the end of the development process. [...]

]]> By: Nathan Garrett http://mfeldstein.com/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomato-let%e2%80%99s-not-call-the-whole-thing-off-the-challenge-of-user-experience-design-in-distributed-learning-environments/#comment-1126 Nathan Garrett Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:19:49 +0000 http://mfeldstein.com/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomato-let%e2%80%99s-not-call-the-whole-thing-off-the-challenge-of-user-experience-design-in-distributed-learning-environments/#comment-1126 Ben, the post above *is* about innovating a better front-end. Could you explain what you mean by authentic learning pedagogy? I don't understand how applies at all the post above about better UI design. Ben, the post above *is* about innovating a better front-end. Could you explain what you mean by authentic learning pedagogy? I don’t understand how applies at all the post above about better UI design.

]]> By: Ben Wilkoff http://mfeldstein.com/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomato-let%e2%80%99s-not-call-the-whole-thing-off-the-challenge-of-user-experience-design-in-distributed-learning-environments/#comment-1125 Ben Wilkoff Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:45:06 +0000 http://mfeldstein.com/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomato-let%e2%80%99s-not-call-the-whole-thing-off-the-challenge-of-user-experience-design-in-distributed-learning-environments/#comment-1125 If the UI is such a problem. Why don't we innovate and simply create a better one. Why don't we rely on the pedagogy of authentic learning and not on the IT background of the people who are building the back end. Anyway, thanks for your extensive post here. If the UI is such a problem. Why don’t we innovate and simply create a better one. Why don’t we rely on the pedagogy of authentic learning and not on the IT background of the people who are building the back end. Anyway, thanks for your extensive post here.

]]> By: special education and technology http://mfeldstein.com/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomato-let%e2%80%99s-not-call-the-whole-thing-off-the-challenge-of-user-experience-design-in-distributed-learning-environments/#comment-1124 special education and technology Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:38:23 +0000 http://mfeldstein.com/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomato-let%e2%80%99s-not-call-the-whole-thing-off-the-challenge-of-user-experience-design-in-distributed-learning-environments/#comment-1124 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]> By: Nathan Garrett http://mfeldstein.com/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomato-let%e2%80%99s-not-call-the-whole-thing-off-the-challenge-of-user-experience-design-in-distributed-learning-environments/#comment-1123 Nathan Garrett Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:28:11 +0000 http://mfeldstein.com/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomato-let%e2%80%99s-not-call-the-whole-thing-off-the-challenge-of-user-experience-design-in-distributed-learning-environments/#comment-1123 The fluid project seems to be posting some nice controls, but I'm not sure why existing projects like YUI aren't being used. Generic GPL javascript frameworks are fantastic, and have saved me much time and effort. The fluid project seems to be posting some nice controls, but I’m not sure why existing projects like YUI aren’t being used. Generic GPL javascript frameworks are fantastic, and have saved me much time and effort.

]]> By: horizon software international Trendy Here! http://mfeldstein.com/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomato-let%e2%80%99s-not-call-the-whole-thing-off-the-challenge-of-user-experience-design-in-distributed-learning-environments/#comment-1122 horizon software international Trendy Here! Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:04:54 +0000 http://mfeldstein.com/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomato-let%e2%80%99s-not-call-the-whole-thing-off-the-challenge-of-user-experience-design-in-distributed-learning-environments/#comment-1122 [...] You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato, Let’s Not Call the Whole Thing Off … This is a guest post by Jutta Treviranus for the On the Horizon series on distributed learning environments. Jutta established and directs the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC) at the University of Toronto, … credit : http://mfeldstein.com/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomato-let%E2%80%99s-not-call-the-whole-thing-off-the-challenge-of-user-experience-design-in-distributed-learning-environments/ [...] [...] You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato, Let’s Not Call the Whole Thing Off … This is a guest post by Jutta Treviranus for the On the Horizon series on distributed learning environments. Jutta established and directs the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC) at the University of Toronto, … credit : http://mfeldstein.com/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomato-let%E2%80%99s-not-call-the-whole-thing-off-the-challenge-of-user-experience-design-in-distributed-learning-environments/ [...]

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