![]() You will receive information from the Registrar on how to access your account, and/or your account will appear in this lookup tool or via a link from Tritonlink at that time. "Note, however, that most newly accepted students are automatically registered, after the SIR (statement of intent to register) deadline in mid-May, and prior to Orientation. īut, alas, what is this ACS server they ask me to choose? So I go to the bullet point "Don't know your username / ACS server?" From there I input the necessary information to get the username, and get this puzzling message: So, after seeing that all of the tax documents have been received, I go to the UCSD webmail (, in order to see my financial aid notifications. "The Financial Aid Office uses your UCSD E-mail account as the official means of communicating your financial aid status, including when your awards are ready for review. Today, I went to see my financial aid status, and under the FAQ, it states: ![]() So I got into UCSD (yay!), and have submitted my tax documents last week. On the other hand a much more detail-rich work flow in Nero created a cognitive overload for most users, leaving them confused and overwhelmed at most times.Hello folks. We found that a simple burinng software like iTunes, left many users wondering where they were in the work flow. We found that there is a both a maximum and limit to the number steps you can hide from users. Our findings included interesting implications for simplicity in work flow and UI design. We tested users who were both familiar and completely unfamiliar with the software. Given a task of burning a CD, we put several users through usability testing to see what really was going on with the software and how it was actually being used. We took a look at popular CD authoring software including Windows Media Player, iTunes, and several others. ![]() However, we decided to take it to the next level and analyze what we can improve on these work flows with a user-centered approach. This project simply asked us to compare the user flows for each of the CD burning software suites we have chosen. DeliverablesĬD Authoring Software Comparison Project Overview Although our ideas were not all used, what we had hoped it would accomplish, did accomplish: we drew attention to the importance of usability and the benefits of designing towards the user. The following quarters saw a change in the webmail service. Perhaps the most rewarding portion was that our professor would forward our work to the actual team that worked with the webmail service. In the end, we were able to add several features and remove several other features to improve user work flow. We ran usability tests on both lo-fi and hi-fi prototypes. The project included creating both lo-fi and hi-fi prototypes based on the UI analysis we did of the current interface of the e-mail system. Each user had their own unique way of approaching their e-mail tasks, but the trick was not to redesign for every individual user, but to redesign generally for all users but keeping in mind the most relevant and most common road blocks in the work flows of the users we observed. This proved to be a valuable experience in that we learned that there were definitely things to improve in the work flow. ![]() To begin with, we did user interviews and usability testing on the current e-mail system. We wanted to see what we could improve on the current system to making checking, reading, and composing e-mail faster and more efficient for the students who used it on a day-to-day basis. In this project we took a look at UCSD's student e-mail service, then called SquirrelMail, and put it under the usability microscope. This is the largest course project I've ever had to embark on. ![]()
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