Project Overview
This project consisted of a redesign for an Adobe Photoshop community, in order to present text and data in an understandable way, and provide an organized, findable layout, focused on community values and goals. To determine user goals, data mining was performed using Google Chrome plugin Web Scraper to extract data from threads within in the community. A text file was created from the data and was analyzed through textual analysis using Voyant Tools. Once the text was coded, the data were identified and analyzed by looking at pattern themes within the text. Inductive reasoning was used in the analysis process by looking at the specific text in order to draw general conclusions about the goals of the community. Once user goals, values, and needs were determined, a proposal of a redesign was created and explained. The following figure shows the results of the redesign project. You may read the full report by selecting the link on this page.
Skills Gained
Data mining and textual analysis skills were gained from this project, allowing me to improve products and services to increase the profitability of a company and meet user needs within an organization and / or its consumers.
