redesigning LORIS – a feature highlight of project MORIS [updated]
by Phil on Apr.19, 2010, under tech
Earlier today was IxDA Waterloo’s monthly meeting, and this month we did a UX Show and Tell. Apparently this is something that’s pretty popular at other local IxDA meetings, where the attendees share tidbits on projects they’ve worked on, things they’re working on now, etc. Jon and I decided we should share something and decided on giving our fellow UXers a feature highlight or Project MORIS.
Project MORIS was the final project to a directed study on User Interface Design that Tyler Burton, Jon Fritz and I completed in the Fall of 2009 at Wilfrid Laurier University under the supervision of Dr. Angele Hamel. We decided to analyze the current registration system used at WLU called LORIS. After our analysis, we created a prototype of a new interface for LORIS using Visual Studio with Windows Forms and C#.
For the presentation we spent a few minutes whipping up a slideshow that gives a quick overview of what features of LORIS that Project MORIS was designed to fix. We intended to show a live demo of the application, however we ran out of time (presentations were limited to 6 minutes) so I decided to post both the slideshow and the application on the web. This way anyone who wants can check out the application or see a quick highlight of what we aimed to fix.
You can read a bit more about it on my About page, or just download the files here:
Presentation: Redesigning LORIS [.ppt]
Presentation: Redesigning LORIS [.pdf]
Application: Project MORIS [Requires the .NET Framework 3.0]
Leave your thoughts or questions in the comments and I’ll get back to you!
April 20th, 2010 on 9:07 pm
Last night after our presentation, one of the attendees told us about a similar project from some students at the University of Waterloo called uwlive courselect. You can check out the online demo of their work here:
http://www.uwlive.ca/courselect/
April 22nd, 2010 on 12:38 pm
LORIS would be so much more pleasant to use if it had a UI like that.
April 22nd, 2010 on 12:39 pm
You would fix it right before I graduate.
April 22nd, 2010 on 12:40 pm
Neat presentation. It’d be great if you could post a PDF of the slide deck as well as the PowerPoint file.
April 22nd, 2010 on 12:44 pm
@Adam: Haha, don’t feel too bad. They aren’t actually interested in our design, so it won’t be changing as far as I know.
@Dave: Yeah, too bad the school’s not interested.
April 22nd, 2010 on 12:52 pm
@Jake Thanks! Post is updated with a PDF version.
April 28th, 2010 on 7:38 pm
Nice design! It looks clean and organized. The splash of colour looks good without being overpowering.