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The Human Factors in Information Design Organization is having another redesign contest!  Last year, we asked you all to redesign the coffee vending machine in the Adamian building on campus.  The esteemed panel of judges evaluated your submissions based on creativity, simplicity, and ease of use. This year, we are asking you to redesign a different interface you can find on campus.

Have you ever ordered a cheeseburger in the Lower Cafeteria of LaCava (sorry vegetarians, we aren’t trying to marginalize you)?  Well, go and check it out and see if you can come up with an easier process to order a cheeseburger.  We want you to create a prototype showing the following interaction:  order a cheeseburger with all the toppings.

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Submit one entry per person to fitek_dani@bentley.edu by February 13, 2009 to qualify for one of the two prizes.

Contest Prizes:

• First Prize: $150
• Second Prize: $50
• Third: Steel hFIDO water bottle
• Honorable Mentions: hFIDO T-shirt.

We are looking for low to medium fidelity prototypes as well as a brief explanation of your design. The prettiest design isn’t always the winner, so it doesn’t matter if it’s pen on paper or something fancier.

In case you can’t read the specific options in the pictures, here they are…

Burger Fixings:

Free:

• Swiss Cheese
• American Cheese
• Lettuce
• Tomato
• Onion

Extra:

• Onions $0.15
• Peppers $0.15
• Mushrooms $0.25
• Bacon $0.60
• Ham $0.50

We do ask that all submissions be made electronically, so make sure you know how to use a scanner.

MS PowerPoint is a fairly effective prototyping tool.  If you’ve never made a prototype before, I suggest you use that.

1st Place – Mike Jenkins

Mike earned himself a Nintendo DS with two Brain Age games. Look for our next contest for your chance to win a great prize, as well as bragging rights.

2nd Place – Drew Condon

3rd Place – Dan Fitek

Sorry for the delay in posting these.  I finally have a few moments of free time now that the spring semester is over.

Help out your fellow students taking HF 755 by participating in this online usability test. All the students in 755 will analyze the results of the test, and you can win a $20 Amazon gift card. It should only take about 15minutes.

http://www.webusabilitystudy.com/Inventors/

There’s a lot that can be done to make this coffee vending machine more usable.

Create wireframe sketches of your design, and write up a 1 page maximum explanation.

The person who creates the best design will win a Nintendo DS Lite with the Brain Age game.

Submissions will be judged by an impartial, diverse set of judges based on the following criteria:

• Creativity
• Simplicity
• Ease of use

Email your submissions to me by March 17, 2008.  My email is fitek_dani@bentley.edu

Have fun with this!