Bar
Same as Venue.
Consumers
Those who use/consume a product or service. See Users
and Customers
Customers
Those who buy a product or service of a company. See Users
and Consumers.
Customization
The user is in control and is able to modify content and the
look and feel of content offered on a site. See Personalization,
also Notes about Personalization
and Customization
Editorial
Professional review made by the editorial team of the web site.
See Review.
Event
Can be an event where one or several bands/performers/DJs are
performing. May be hosted in a bar, club, gallery etc.
Information
on Demand Same as pull information. Opposite
of Information-proactively
Information-proactively
Same as push information. Opposite of Information
on demand
Lo-fi
prototype: Same as Lo-Fi Prototyping. It is a paper-based
prototype [cut, copy, paste, video segments etc] technique, for
testing with real user, to increase design quality. It is potentially
used in the development stage. It is [1] easy to build, [2] low
cost, [3] easy to change. It is one of the Rapid Prototype techniques
are based on the scenarios and in initial designs.
Nightlife
consumers Those who go to bars/clubs. See Users
and Customers.
Personas,
a kind of user profiles, or hypothetical archetypes, detailed
enough to include what a potential user would wishes to accomplish;
it is used as a interactive design method to help better focus
the user interface design process in goals and tasks of believable
potential users. The concept was developed by Alan Cooper in The
Inmates are Running the Asylum, SAMS (Macmillan Computer Publishing),
1999.
Personalization
It
is more technology and behavior driven. The site [computer server]
controls what the user sees, based on information about the user's
attributes and behaviors stored on the server. This data is used
to offer users content that is relevant to their unique interests
or needs. See Customization. Other
references discussing the difference between Personalization &
Customization see:
Pull
information. The web pages are examples of pull information;
users actively search for and retrieve information by clicking
on a link or a download button. Same as Information
on demand.
Push
information. Information that is proactively
delivered to specific user populations in a customized or personalized
manner. For example, e-mail notification, newsletter. The information
finds the user.
Review,
customer or user review. See Editorial.
Scenarios
It is a design tool used for incorporating tasks. It is a
concise description of a potential user performing some tasks
in a web system to achieve the user goal. It helps to test validity
of the design and its assumptions.
Structured
interview Requires a interview protocol (specific questions)
to be followed, making possible to compare aspects from several
interviewees.
SO
Significant other, for one of the persona, the sexual
identity of the significant other is unknown, so this term is
always used to refer to the person
Users
Those
who are the potential or currently users of an online or web-based
information system. In our interviews we would like to know more
about how someone (user) uses a web-based system. See Consumers
and Customers.
Unstructured
interview There is general topics, but the interview is completely
open.
