The document provides an overview of the brainstorming process for a potential new service called "Footprints" that would help parents organize and preserve memories and photos of their children as they grow up. It discusses capturing memories across different devices and formats, organizing photos by a child's life journey, creating printed collages and albums, adding audio stories and tags, and sharing memories with family and friends while maintaining privacy controls. Personas and user scenarios were created to understand user needs and requirements which informed the conceptual design of the service.
Developmentally Appropriate Programming for Babies & ToddlersAmy Koester
Brooke Newberry and I gave a webinar for Infopeople exploring the developmental milestones of the youngest library patrons and how best to support their development through programming.
We can all pretend that we're helping others by making web sites and software accessible, but we are really making the experience better for our future selves. Learn some fundamentals of web and software accessibility and how it can benefit you (whether future you from aging or you after something else limits your abilities).
We'll review simple testing techniques, basic features and enhancements, coming trends, and where to get help. This isn't intended to be a deep dive, but more of an overall primer for those who aren't sure where to start nor how it helps them.
Insights:
- Broader context for how all users are or will be disabled, whether temporarily or permanently.
- Basic tests and best practices that can be integrated into development team workflows to make interfaces accessible.
- Introduction to standards and tools already available.
Developmentally Appropriate Programming for Babies & ToddlersAmy Koester
Brooke Newberry and I gave a webinar for Infopeople exploring the developmental milestones of the youngest library patrons and how best to support their development through programming.
We can all pretend that we're helping others by making web sites and software accessible, but we are really making the experience better for our future selves. Learn some fundamentals of web and software accessibility and how it can benefit you (whether future you from aging or you after something else limits your abilities).
We'll review simple testing techniques, basic features and enhancements, coming trends, and where to get help. This isn't intended to be a deep dive, but more of an overall primer for those who aren't sure where to start nor how it helps them.
Insights:
- Broader context for how all users are or will be disabled, whether temporarily or permanently.
- Basic tests and best practices that can be integrated into development team workflows to make interfaces accessible.
- Introduction to standards and tools already available.
Are you working too hard to stay organized and communicate effectively within your Habitat group? Well, there’s an app for that! Join Mike Resman, the president of the University of Minnesota campus chapter, for an interactive and informative discussion on the different (free!) technologies that your group could be using today. This session will highlight the various web applications that the University of Minnesota campus chapter is currently using and how they have helped the chapter to grow exponentially to over 200 paid members and an executive board of 15 officers. You’ll see some familiar faces, as well as discovering some pretty awesome tools you’ve probably never heard of before.
Behavior studies show that more and more people visiting libraries want to find materials and information on their own. This presents a challenge for librarians: how can they best help these self-directed readers? While many libraries use traditional strategies with book displays and bibliographies, today’s readers need more. This webinar will share the latest results of patron browsing behaviors and offer innovative practices to help you engage patrons with passive programming ideas and self-directed pathways.
#BeyondBookDisplays
Spark Talk: Guerrilla Professional Development #PLA14Amy Koester
This slide deck accompanied my 5-minute Spark Talk at the 2014 PLA Conference, where I talked about the benefits of branching away from paid, top-down "expert" trainings and instead allowing in-house staff to share their own expertise in guerrilla-style training events.
Book displays are a great way to highlight underused collections, increase circulation, and to encourage discovery in your library. In this free webcast with Susan Brown, director of the Chapel Hill Public Library and Nancy Dowd, co-author of ALA’ s best-selling book, Bite-Sized Marketing: Realistic Solutions for Overworked Librarians, we'll show you how you can create book displays that will leave readers asking for more.
This presentation was designed to present to teachers to encourage more technology in the classroom. Presented to Professional Learning Communities in Southwest Minnesota, March 2012
Definition of libraries as media mentors - a la ALSC's Media Mentorship white paper -- and good apps and programming ideas to use in your library youth department.
Are you working too hard to stay organized and communicate effectively within your Habitat group? Well, there’s an app for that! Join Mike Resman, the president of the University of Minnesota campus chapter, for an interactive and informative discussion on the different (free!) technologies that your group could be using today. This session will highlight the various web applications that the University of Minnesota campus chapter is currently using and how they have helped the chapter to grow exponentially to over 200 paid members and an executive board of 15 officers. You’ll see some familiar faces, as well as discovering some pretty awesome tools you’ve probably never heard of before.
Behavior studies show that more and more people visiting libraries want to find materials and information on their own. This presents a challenge for librarians: how can they best help these self-directed readers? While many libraries use traditional strategies with book displays and bibliographies, today’s readers need more. This webinar will share the latest results of patron browsing behaviors and offer innovative practices to help you engage patrons with passive programming ideas and self-directed pathways.
#BeyondBookDisplays
Spark Talk: Guerrilla Professional Development #PLA14Amy Koester
This slide deck accompanied my 5-minute Spark Talk at the 2014 PLA Conference, where I talked about the benefits of branching away from paid, top-down "expert" trainings and instead allowing in-house staff to share their own expertise in guerrilla-style training events.
Book displays are a great way to highlight underused collections, increase circulation, and to encourage discovery in your library. In this free webcast with Susan Brown, director of the Chapel Hill Public Library and Nancy Dowd, co-author of ALA’ s best-selling book, Bite-Sized Marketing: Realistic Solutions for Overworked Librarians, we'll show you how you can create book displays that will leave readers asking for more.
This presentation was designed to present to teachers to encourage more technology in the classroom. Presented to Professional Learning Communities in Southwest Minnesota, March 2012
Definition of libraries as media mentors - a la ALSC's Media Mentorship white paper -- and good apps and programming ideas to use in your library youth department.
Rock Star Design: How to create media for lessons that rock!Neela Bell
Are you feeling way behind the curve on visual learning, social media and video? Well, ditch that clipart and hold on tight … you're in for a whirlwind tour of what's awesome (and really easy) to add to your teaching toolkit this year, including; screencasting, soundtracks, infographics and 50 ways to use Twitter with your class.
Click! How to use smartphone photography to engage, empower and connect with ...Else Kramer - Photosopher
We live in a visual world where everyone has become a creator of images. This offers amazing opportunities for both individuals and companies to create content and to tell their own stories.
In this keynote presentation for Preziday.com I explain why you need visuals, what kind of visuals rate high on the engagement scale, and give a mini smartphone photography workshop. Want to know more about the visual revolution? Visit http://www.visualrevolutionaries.com/.
A presentation given at Centerville Presbyterian Church in Fremont, CA on March 13, 2011. It was a conversation for parents about the pros & cons of technology and some advice for how they might go about engaging their children in conversations about technology.
Similar to Footprints.. Childhood trails...memory tales (20)
3. Brainstorming
Initial Research Study
Persona Interaction
User Requirements
Conceptualization Process
Use – cases / Scenarios
UI Mockups
4. • Revisiting your own childhood
• Bridging two generations
• Capturing the life journey
• Ageless growing
• Personal Touch
• Maintaining Culture
• Tapping the excitement
• Preserving and remembering old memories
• Cherishing Parenthood
5. An initial ruckus with too many ideas flowing but no
discrete directions
6. We did a lot of brainstorming and identified
scenarios, features and prioritized them.
7. “Our core audience is any parent who’s
expecting a child or already has kid(s.”
Technology
• Tech Savvy Parents with No time
• Tech Savvy Parent with time and data
• Less Tech savvy Parent with data
• Not at all tech savvy with data
Kids
• Parents Expecting Kids
• Parents with Kids
• Parents with New born babies
Data
• Parents with Digital Data
• Parents with Hard Copy data
• No data
8. • How many kids you have?
• Do you capture memories of your kids …How often?
• Which format (sounds, videos, images..etc)
• How/where do you keep them?
• How often you revisit them?
• How do you share them…with family or friends?
• How do you organize those memories?
• What challenges do you face while handling this data…?
• Do you use any service(website, app, offline services) to handle, edit,
share, organize your data.?
• How often you facebook…twitter.. do you upload them?
…………………………………………………………………………….
• What do you think of a software which will help you to organise your
memories?
• How do you want see you memories… ?
• Does this make sense to you and are you going pay for any services?
9. I want to make collage I have lot of images of my
in this digital world. daughter on my computer ,
How do I do so ??? mobile and ipad. How do I
organize them as per her
life Journey ?
10. My son’s first birthday is
approaching. Is it so difficult to
create a collage with all these digital
photos ? Need it ASAP Huh!!!!
12. • We wish to preserve photos in a tangible manner
• Viewing the life journey at a glance
• Maintaining the storage of the memories forever
• Capturing the voice of our beloved ones as they narrate stories
• Ensure that the focus is on the privacy yet can be shared with
near and dear ones
• Motivation to grab all the precious moments in their lives if they do
not do so already
• Need a clean and simple way of encapsulating all the joyful moments
that are not diffused by unnecessary meta-data
13. Hey ! You know what a site Exactly I wanted to tell you
called “FOOTPRINTS” does the same ! It solved my
exactly what I need. I could problem and show me
make a personalized collage exactly what I need sorted
delivered to me. perfectly via a beautiful
journey.
14. Now I can use “FOOTPRINTS” to
create a personalize template for
every page of the collage , get it
printed and delivered within time.
Yipee !!
15. No matter what the device…
I can now see all photos as
per the right life journey
traversed so far.
16. We formed a user point of
view for the complete
project including various
operations and use cases
user will come across.
The user will have options
about how he can navigate
the website.
17. • Timeline view Paid Features
- Photos • Collage format Album
- Videos • Scrap Book with personal comments
- Audios • Set theme for albums
• Family Tree - Custom made by user.
• Editing Photos - select from pre-designed templates
• Tag photos • Add stories in your voices
• Tag content • Order Music card to suit for various
• Public URL occasions
• Profile Templates • Nursery Rhymes/ Story Collection
• Photo Editing
• Franchise