Bracketology (or the Study of Brackets)
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 by MarissaThis is the second article in a series on usability. Read the first article.
It was inevitable – my bracket has been decimated. But managing brackets in four different applications, I’ve learned that not only do I have no knowledge of college basketball, but also how to take Bracketology to a whole new level.
An NCAA tournament bracket needs tells you a lot in just a little bit of space. It needs to convey information about teams, regions, game details, and other news. And it needs to do it 64 times (65 if you count the play-in game).
So let’s set our monitors to 1024×768, and see how the final four perform.
