Scott McDaniel — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:52:40 GMT

Nice article! :)

My first impression was that re-finding might be a special case of of Known Item searching. What would you say are some of the searching approaches or UI requirements that would differentiate them?

For any re-finding task, a history of visited pages or previous searches would help.

You can also use the approaches to generate more specific design guidelines. See this article that my wife and I wrote for User Experience.

Scott McDaniel — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:36:16 GMT

I think my last comment got lost in the ether. If so, this one can be deleted.

Nice job on the article! As a comic artist and an interaction designer I’m always interested to see project like this. Comics are often seen as a second class medium, something that Scott McCloud argues against quite well in Understanding Comics. Did you encounter any resistance to using them along the lines of comics being “kids stuff”?

I’m also curious as to whether you and the artist went through a thumbnail/storyboard process to work out the pacing, panel placement, and story elements before beginning on the final artwork. It’s a process that serves the same purpose as paper-prototyping in UI design or playtesting in game design. Finally, are the complete comics available online in any form?

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