Design Ideas

 My moorefo1 Instagram account has design ideas I really should work on or develop. For instance, there is an idea named 'Quarter ounce of gold.'

Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf_hhMfj5li/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Art and Design

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I see a face when I look at the outfit. The bow at the bottom is the lips. It is very different and intetesting.

Design

 Good morning from Linden, Guyana!l

This old photo of me showed up in my Facebook memories:

That was a "no makeup" look. I really liked that scarf I was wearing on my head (I like scarfs in general). I recall that I was at my sister's place/house when I took the photo. I stayed there for a long time. 

I also recall that I had some good design ideas when I was there. I came up with ideas that I would "develop" in the future.

Sloppy clothing

Interesting post....

(Link to post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/juliehyne_professionalwomen-womeninleadership-styleforlife-activity-7096999629568839680-BU1-?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop)

Is this the reason why there is so much "sloppy clothing" for sale? It seems to be a brand.

The LinkedIn community had other interesting comments.

Trust

Trust in the Lord is important.

Two verses on trust:

Contracting Opportunities

I spent some time looking through contracting opportunities with the federal government. I am interested in learning more about their solicitations for survey services, writing services, and usability/design (I am available for work in these areas. For additional information on my background in survey services and usability, see Post on background in statistics and Post on design/usability experience). I found two interesting opportunities/solicitations - one for preparing patient satisfaction surveys and the other for Data Repository and User Interface Design. I wish I had information on the companies planning to submit proposals.

 Patient satisfaction surveys:

Data Repository and User Interface Design:

Article For Publishing, Customer Satisfaction And Design

I submitted an article for publishing yesterday. I hope the journal accepts it.

I found an interesting article that was all about considering the customer's satisfaction when designing a product (specifically the product's appearance, such as color and shape of the product) to increase the likelihood that the customer will purchase the product. The researchers used a Kansei Engineering approach, which focuses on human emotions or emotional needs in determining customer satisfaction. This meant that the researchers focused on affective design, an emotional design or design that satisfies the customers' emotions.

Kansei Engineering (KE) is defined as "translating technology of a consumer’s feeling (Kansei in Japanese) of the product to the design elements, which aims to produce a new product based on the consumer’s feeling and demand." KE is considered "the optimal method of identifying emotional requirements and accounts for the interactions between customers and products."

Kansei Engineering has been applied in various industries, including the automobile, electrical appliance, construction, and clothing industries. It was first used in the Japanese autombile industry by manufacturers such as Mitsubishi, Mazda, Toyota, and Honda. Some other adopters include Ford, Fiat, and Porsche.

The researchers used the design of a watch to illustrate their KE-filled approach.

I was happy to learn of KE.

The article:

How can manufacturers make decisions on product appearance design? A research on optimal design based on customers’ emotional satisfaction
By: Runliang Dou, Wei Li, Guofang Nan, Xiaoqiu Wang, Yanjie Zhou
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2096232021000123

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dashboard Design And Usability

I found another interesting paper on dashboard design.

Using Feedback Intervention Theory to Guide Clinical Dashboard Design
By: Dawn Dowding, PhD, RN, FAAN, Jacqueline Merrill, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, and David Russell, PhD
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6371234/

The authors recognized that dashboards could be used to provide feedback to staff to improve their performance. They used the Feedback Intervention Theory to inform the design of a dashboard. Usability testing/evaluation is used in the design process.

I am so happy that I returned to school to expand my knowledge of information systems (first a MS degree at UMBC and then my PhD studies). I learned a lot and was able to immediately apply the knowledge to improve my job performance. I am happy that I discovered usability. It is a good fit for me because I always championed the "voice of the user." Apparently, I was into design as well.

I have several years of experience designing screens/user interfaces (UI) for new software. I first worked with the UI Designer to ensure the UI would allow the user to complete all tasks/details included in the use case. Later, I prepared UI to go along with requirements for a financial area. I worked with subcontractors that represented the users as well as the users themselves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Open Government Data Portals And Gamification

I found an interesting paper on open government data portals:

Tailoring open government data portals for lay citizens: A gamification theory approach
Anthony Simonofski, Anneke Zuiderwijk, Antoine Clarinvala, Wafa Hammedi
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0268401222000421

I learned from the paper that most open government portals work best for expert users. The researchers proposed a gamification approach to "simplify" the portals for lay citizens. Games are the inspiration for gamification, which uses elements from games to improve the user's experience with the portal in a fun and more engaging way.

The researchers collected lay citizen's requirements for open government portals in order to consider user input for their design of a prototype of the gamified portal. The requirements provide insight into what the public wants the sites to include and how they should work (the researchers interviewed only 10 lay citizens). I thought the requirements would be useful for other areas, such as websites that provide online reviews.

I found the comparison between requirements by lay citizens and expert users interesting. Their requirements do conflict. Gamification improved the ease of use (or usability) of the portal for the lay citizens.

New Resume/CV

In one of my recent posts on LinkedIn, I mentioned that I was working on my resume/CV and having difficulties. "My background is complicated." I said. "It includes an internship in the middle of my career, design experience that intersects my BA experience, managerial experience from PhD coursework, and so on." I wondered whether I should use the services of a resume writer.

The externship/internship was such a rewarding experience. I did many things, thanks to the management at USPTO. I assisted with a usability study (the lab exercise part) for employees to evaluate video conferencing options. That experience was very useful to me (came in handy) during my PhD studies. The externship extended for several months longer than planned so I could say that it was a job. It is currently in the Education section of my LinkedIn profile because I got the externship through the school.

Writing a good resume is difficult. Even when I did not have much experience, I was unsure about what to include, what to place first, how best to describe my background, and so on. Then there was the issue of selling myself. I am from a conservative background. I felt uncomfortable about "talking up" my background. But this is required in the U.S.

I got very good at resume writing. I bought a resume writing book and studied the examples.

I don't think I could fit my background on a 2-3 page resume. Time will tell.

 

 

 

(Screenshots from LinkedIn. Related profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fahmeenamoore/)

Calendar I Designed

Today I am thinking of the calendar I designed in 2015 - I don't believe it was that long ago. I am proud of that calendar. It pulled together some excellent quotes/lessons. My aunt loved it too. She suggested that I market it to companies.

(Image for month of June from calendar. Document available at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sQd0-sxsdwA2zm5U-HnISlu4W7zOGs0PwYNaVjMS1gY/edit?usp=sharing)

I guess I should be thankful I was involved in UI design at the ICF/Lockheed Martin job. They suggested that the Analyst be involved in designing the user interface to go along with use cases.

Maybe I should have made UI design (or usability) one of the research areas/topics on my LinkedIn profile. It could replace video, but that is an important topic too. I tracked design-related activities/papers in a separate blog: http://moorefo1designresearch.blogspot.com/

Design

I am happy that I used my background in website design for selection a topic for my papers. The papers were pretty good and I thought the knowledge could be applied to other things.

Here I am working on websites (each blog has its own url that is pretty much a website). I made changes recently that improved the look and feel. HTML is not required for making changes.

My websites have a certain look and feel much like my writing has a certain style. It should be easy to identify the designer/writer. I guess no one should question whether I wrote my papers.