Hello. My name is Hajin Choi.
I create interactions that facilitate communication between people, information, and system.
I create interactions that facilitate communication between people, information, and system.
I'm graduating in December 2010 with a master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction
at Carnegie Mellon University where I also earned the BFA in Communication Design.
I'm currently seeking for a job in the field of User Experience and/or Interaction Design.
at Carnegie Mellon University where I also earned the BFA in Communication Design.
I'm currently seeking for a job in the field of User Experience and/or Interaction Design.
My interest lies in Interface and Information Design because I'm excited about...
1) creating means for people to have effective, pleasant and enriching experiences in getting their job done and interacting with others, and
2) dealing with complexity and turning raw data and resources to something purposeful and meaningful.
I consider problems are opportunites.
Born in Seoul, Korea, have
called Pittsburgh home for four years now/Soft-spoken and extremely optimistic/Love walking aimlessly in nice weather while listening to music/Enjoy alone time as well as good convo with good company/Drink lots of coffee/Laugh a lot :)
called Pittsburgh home for four years now/Soft-spoken and extremely optimistic/Love walking aimlessly in nice weather while listening to music/Enjoy alone time as well as good convo with good company/Drink lots of coffee/Laugh a lot :)
I'm fascinated by how well-conceived designs,
coupled with technologies, can bring benefits to our everyday lives.
coupled with technologies, can bring benefits to our everyday lives.
When solving problems, I always try to grasp the holistic picture and the details using my analytic and intuitive mind with right balance.
BookQuest
Web Interface for Book Collectors
CHALLENGE
As a team of 6 interdisciplanary people, we were asked to design a web interface that allows book collectors to display their collection online. It was emphasized that our design ideas be grounded on the research data we had gathered throughout the semester from various class assignments where we applied different HCI methods.
QUESTIONS
Why are collectors attached to their books?
How can an interactive system enhance the value of their collection?
How can an interactive system enhance the value of their collection?
SOLUTION
We came up with "BookQuest" that supports the book collectors' needs of making conceptual connections among books. This is based on the major findings from the contextual inquiry that they consider the idea of one-book-leads-to-another intriquing and reflect such links in the physical stacking of books. However, this physicality inherently limits having one book from belonging to multiple stacks. Our design addresses this issue with "My Quests" page composed of multiple sets of "Links".
Scenario
This scenario captures some of the needs found in research data on book collectors. We used this to decide which aspect of the interface to design and to communicate our design ideas in a more engaging way.
(Drawn by Melissa Acosta)
(Drawn by Melissa Acosta)
Homepage
Once logged in, a user sees the personalized homepage with his or her collection, recent activities, and newsfeed.
Adding a Book
After searching for a book, users can decide either to simply add it to the collection or to enter additional information about the book using the right side of the pane. Based on the research findings that the book collectors enjoy sharing their new acquisition with friends, we added the notification feature (see the bottom left image). We also made the confirmation message clearly appear on the top of the page once a book has been added to provide users with visibility of the system's status, (see the bottom right image) which we found lacked in one of the existing book-related services, Librarything.com.
My Collection
My collection is comprised of three sections: featured, public, and private books. Users can easily drag and drop books to move them across these different shelves, which allows them to curate their online presence in a way that reflects their preferences.
Book Page
A single book page displays its metadata (book cover, author, publisher, etc.), and associated tags and quests.
My Quests
The section for links and quests is where users keep track of the relationships they establish among their books in the collection and weave their own stories out of them.
Tags vs. Quests (a set of links)
This shows an illustration of the difference between the two methods of organizing books in BookQuest: Tags, as seen in many other websites, are logical groupings that exist without a "beginning" and "end". They group books together by a single attribute. Books can belong to multiple tags, which allows for flexibility in users' organization. Links are different; they are logical paths users build through his or her collection (e.g. the order users read the books). When a user creates a related series of links, it becomes a quest.
PROCESS
This flow model shows the breakdown we considered most significant among others (the enlarged portion of the image), which led us to create the concept of links and quests.
I sketched out wireframes and then developed them in Adobe InDesign which allowed our team to have discussions on details of our design ideas.
MY ROLES / SKILLS USED
Leading design discussions, Low- and high-fidelity wireframing, Branding, Visual design /
Data modeling, Think-alouds, CogTool, Survey (TAM, Technology Acceptance Model) data analysis
Adobe Photoshop, Illustator, InDesign
DURATION
Jan–Apr 2009
(3.5 months)
(3.5 months)
COURSE
Human-Computer Interaction Methods
TEAM MEMBERS
Melissa Acosta
Adam Borochoff
Brad Barbin
Richard Chen
James Murray
Adam Borochoff
Brad Barbin
Richard Chen
James Murray
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