Solution Overview

With the Metadata Tagging Tool we aimed to address the user experience issues by focusing on creating a simple and consistent design throughout the interface. We began the process by conducting preliminary interviews with a few of the core users of UCWISE. The interviews allowed us to assess the needs and goals of the user, which aided us in the development of representative personas and scenarios to base our design around. The most prominent issue that needed to be addressed with our interface was the need to accommodate the user that is pressed for time. In order to solve that problem, we came up with an interface that has separate areas of metadata categories so that the user can quickly and easily navigate to the specific type of metadata tagging they wish to accomplish. We started out with three sections of metadata in our initial paper-based prototype, and finished our interactive prototype with four areas (Bookkeeping, Cognitive Learning, Topics, and Instructor Notes), implementing three of them; Topics was left out of our implementation because the UCWISE group still has not come to an agreement on how that specific type of metadata should be classified. To address the issues of simplicity and consistency, we presented a limited list of metadata to select from in each section and made the process of metadata selection, through checkboxes, the same across the entire interface.