Toasty Storyboard

Mood Board

Johnny Smith

John is a 75-year-old retired carpenter who still enjoys hikes in national parks and riding his Harley-Davidson. He looks forward to the local club raffle and a catch up with the boys on a Thursday evening. He also enjoys playing bingo, listening to local radio and watching old western movies with his wife Jill. As he gets older and has to visit the hospital more often, he prefers quick and efficient healthcare with simple, bold instructions and hospital signs. He aims to enjoy the rest of his life traveling a little and spending time with family, especially his grandchildren.

• Location: Hobart
• Toaster Usage: Unfortunately Johnny has never used a fancy new electric toaster
• Computer/Internet Usage: PC, Occasionally browses the Internet with the help of his grandchildren.
• Computer Skill: Novice user. Finds things too complicated on the computer to use. Has an email but doesn’t know how to use it properly.

Flowchart: Making Toast

Making Toast
1. Have bread and toaster
2. Plug in toaster
3. Switch powerpoint ON
4. Place bread in toaster
5. Select time frame for bread
6. Push lever down and wait for toast to pop up
7. Q: Is bread now toast to your perfection?
if NO - Go back to step 6
if YES - Remove from toaster
8. Spread your choice of topping
9. End by eating toast

Information Design & Instructional Design

Information design is the practice of creating order out of chaos by preparing and providing information to make sense of things. Information design focuses on the effectiveness of information, it is a visual method of explaining and interpreting complex data.

Instructional Design centers around creating instructional tools and ideas to encourage learning most effectively, considering the needs of the learner through their experience.

An example of Information Design is the cityrail network where it visually explains the paths of the track lines in Sydney. It is colour coded for easy reading and a legend to understand the track lines and other symbols.

Another example of is the use of visual graphs to display information about statistics.

Interactive Design

Based around various complex technology systems and devices, the area of Interactive design focuses on outlining the performance of products or systems that a user can interact and work with.
Designers in this field research users' behavior in learning through cognitive psychology where the user's understanding results through the experience, thoughts and senses.
Interactive, or Interaction design, works toward creating user-friendly systems designing around user goals and experiences.

A kiosk is an example of interactive design as it allows the user to interact with the software by choosing options.

Web 2.0

What Is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 can be referred to as the second generation of the World Wide Web. It is the shift in the way we use the Internet, making it possible for people to communicate, collaborate and share content online through web applications and communication tools such as blogs, podcasts, wikis and videos.



Examples of Web 2.0

- Facebook
A social networking site that helps you connect and share with friends, family and people from all over the world. People use Facebook to catch up with friends, upload pictures and videos and learn more about the people that they meet.



- Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers over the world where anyone is welcome to add information, cross-references, or citations.