A very short presentation given on the Hinxton Genome Campus, March 1st, 2012.
The audience were developers and researchers who are part of either EBI Interfaces or the Hinxton Sequence Forum
1. EGA data access - HSF/UXD
EGA data access
The Amazon warehouse experience
Francis Rowland
EMBL-EBI External Services
2. EGA data access - HSF/UXD
An archive of genotype and phenotype data
The European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA) is a protected
repository for data from numerous genotype experiments
EGA homepage
(Oct 2009)
3. EGA data access - HSF/UXD
Mine your Helpdesk for issues
It can be a fantastically rich source!
“It’s hard to know what is
available and how to get it.”
“When something is available via the
website, getting access to it and
downloading it is laborious.”
EGA Helpdesk
Jeff Almeida King (left)
4. EGA data access - HSF/UXD
A functional but user unfriendly interface
Ignore this red circle... check out
that long list of compressed files
the user had to click on!
EGA data downloads
(Oct 2009)
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We didn’t use the shopping
cart metaphor literally...
hodgers | Flickr
CC BY-SA 2.0
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... but we did incorporate
some of the concepts
Products - data packages
Checkout - selection & request procedure
Where’s my stuff? - data package status
Delivery - FTP / Aspera download
8. EGA data access - HSF/UXD
Typical EGA Dataset page
Are these data available to me to download?
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Ideas for the user account page
Rich information
10. EGA data access - HSF/UXD
Success...
Since redesign, “sales” are up 350% and
usability issues are down 97%
Editor's Notes
Introduce myself and Antony\nWe work in an organisation where there are silos... we’re not the only ones, right?!\nThis is about working across those silos\n
More about sketching ideas an concepts: interface elements, scenarios, etc\nNot about beautiful drawing skills (although that’s a great skill to have!)\nSketching is about rapid communication \n\nWho works in UX?\nWho in the audience regularly uses sketching as part of their work?\nWho thinks they’re pretty good at sketching? :)\n\n
More about sketching ideas an concepts: interface elements, scenarios, etc\nNot about beautiful drawing skills (although that’s a great skill to have!)\nSketching is about rapid communication \n\nWho works in UX?\nWho in the audience regularly uses sketching as part of their work?\nWho thinks they’re pretty good at sketching? :)\n\n
More about sketching ideas an concepts: interface elements, scenarios, etc\nNot about beautiful drawing skills (although that’s a great skill to have!)\nSketching is about rapid communication \n\nWho works in UX?\nWho in the audience regularly uses sketching as part of their work?\nWho thinks they’re pretty good at sketching? :)\n\n
More about sketching ideas an concepts: interface elements, scenarios, etc\nNot about beautiful drawing skills (although that’s a great skill to have!)\nSketching is about rapid communication \n\nWho works in UX?\nWho in the audience regularly uses sketching as part of their work?\nWho thinks they’re pretty good at sketching? :)\n\n
More about sketching ideas an concepts: interface elements, scenarios, etc\nNot about beautiful drawing skills (although that’s a great skill to have!)\nSketching is about rapid communication \n\nWho works in UX?\nWho in the audience regularly uses sketching as part of their work?\nWho thinks they’re pretty good at sketching? :)\n\n
More about sketching ideas an concepts: interface elements, scenarios, etc\nNot about beautiful drawing skills (although that’s a great skill to have!)\nSketching is about rapid communication \n\nWho works in UX?\nWho in the audience regularly uses sketching as part of their work?\nWho thinks they’re pretty good at sketching? :)\n\n
More about sketching ideas an concepts: interface elements, scenarios, etc\nNot about beautiful drawing skills (although that’s a great skill to have!)\nSketching is about rapid communication \n\nWho works in UX?\nWho in the audience regularly uses sketching as part of their work?\nWho thinks they’re pretty good at sketching? :)\n\n
More about sketching ideas an concepts: interface elements, scenarios, etc\nNot about beautiful drawing skills (although that’s a great skill to have!)\nSketching is about rapid communication \n\nWho works in UX?\nWho in the audience regularly uses sketching as part of their work?\nWho thinks they’re pretty good at sketching? :)\n\n
More about sketching ideas an concepts: interface elements, scenarios, etc\nNot about beautiful drawing skills (although that’s a great skill to have!)\nSketching is about rapid communication \n\nWho works in UX?\nWho in the audience regularly uses sketching as part of their work?\nWho thinks they’re pretty good at sketching? :)\n\n