Thought this Google OS post [1] hasn't been posted but would be of interest:
the most used features in Microsoft Word 2003 […]:
1. Paste (11% of the usage)
2. Save (5.5% of the usage)
3. Copy
4. Undo
5. Bold
These five commands account for 32% of all the command usage
in Microsoft
From the same article:
Beyond the top 10 commands or so, however, the curve flattens out
considerably. The percentage difference in usage between the #100
command (Accept Change) and the #400 command (Reset Picture) is
about the same in difference between #1 and #11 (Change Font Size),
according
hmmm? is missing. I live on backspace. ;)
but otherwise, it seems about right to me. I do do a lot of table
work in most of my word docs, but I imagine that is an industry
thing.
-- dave
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http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/02/most-frequently-used-features-in.html
Alexander Baxevanis wrote:
So suppose you took care of the 5 most used commands, a far bigger
challenge is to organise a flat (in terms of usage frequency) list of
500 commands. And that's why such sort of
2. Save (5.5% of the usage)
This is the one which worries me. I find myself hitting Ctrl-S every
few sentences or seconds.
How can software restore the trust of the user?
-- Claude
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the most used features in Microsoft Word 2003 […]:
1. Paste (11% of the usage)
2. Save (5.5% of the usage)
3. Copy
4. Undo
5. Bold
That's funny. I would've thought that this list should have started...
The most used features in Microsoft Word 2003 are […]:
1. Typing in words
2. Reading
Hey Ashley
I know that predicament. Here in Portland I have the same issue
education wise. I've been looking at RPI in NY and Bentley College in
MA. They do have online classes/degrees. Although the one thing I
would caution is that you won't get the same class experience with
these. But
On 2/19/08, Loren Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did anyone else see Daft Punk rocking out at the Grammys? They played the
coolest instruments I've ever seen - four multitouch screens with various
graphical elements controlling an array of synth and software backend. (
You've touched on
Just a quick note about the RPI Distance Learning classes... this is a
long-established high level distance learning program, degree-granting,
including high level engineering degrees (HCI stuff came later). I think
this year or next it will celebrate its 20-year anniversary.
(disclaimer: I used
Hi
I’d appreciate pointers to websites that do a good job of presenting basic
info about a disease and esp. what you can do about it
(prevention/detection).
I’d especially like to see sites that don’t rely so heavily on text to get
across prevention tips, screening tests, symptoms to watch
This is a big part of what my company does...we do probably ten-twenty
of these a year. Here's a recent one about atherosclerosis that
includes animation, motion graphics, and video.
http://www.usagainstathero.com/
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James said: I was shocked to find that only about 10% of blind
people in the UK use screen readers, mainly due to inhibitive costs
and the (generally) complicated set-up involved and learning process.
The number may be a bit higher here in the states, James, but all the
same issues apply.
There
Also, not sure if the JazzMutant Lemur has any connection to the
League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR), but another great
resource if you are interested in novel musical instruments:
http://www.lemurbots.org/videoandaudio.html
The artist Bjorn Schulke has also created instruments
As some of you know, a small group of people recently got together via an
IxDA Basecamp acct to try to come up with definitions for common terms,
including UCD, ACD, and genius design.
This has proven more than a little frustrating, as expected. So far, we
haven't even all been able to agree that
Sony BlockJam: http://www.sonycsl.co.jp/IL/projects/blockjam/
contents.html
Yamaha Tenori-On: http://www.global.yamaha.com/design/tenori-on/
What I like about each of these interfaces is that I feel like I
could figure out pretty quickly how to use them to make some pretty
cool sounds,
Have you seen the Reactable and what Bjork has been doing with it?
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/08/bjork_reacTable
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVVULBXvmxk
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Thought maybe I could garner some opinions on the usability of
password enforcement techniques.
Recently, I've noticed a trend towards more secure passwords for
many things, and that's a good idea. However, I've also noticed that
certain web sites take that to an extreme, disallowing the
At the Adaptive Path UXi conference, they spoke almost specifically
about this - the fact that new webapps are coming out that try to give
20% of the functionality that 80% of the users will use instead of being
everything for everybody. They used Writely as an example (which has
since been
Hello,
just wondering... does anyone of you has information about interaction design
studies applied to theatre?
I've tried to put up a show using human-machine interaction principles a couple
years ago, and the results were astonishing.
I'd like to keep on working in this sense of direction.
Hello!
What do you mean when you say that you put on a show using HCI?
You incorporated HCI in the script of the play that you wrote, and
perhaps also in the stage instructions to the set designers and the
director?
Or:
You were yourself the director and/or the set designer and you
snip
I for one think that the Less is More mentality makes a lot of sense,
because the interfaces get so complicated that even veteran users get
lost going for features that would be somewhere around 26-50 on the
'most used' list.
-- Marty
Well, since I often get official communications from
Hey Kenny,
I worked in the field (computer security) for a couple of years. In the
simplest terms, the continuum is between ease of use, and security. Just as
you state... the extremes are not good. Easy to use = easy to crack. Hard to
crack = hard to remember. Forcing any or all of those criteria
I know I was taught by a shockingly sane network engineer that the
easy way to develop hard to crack passwords was to choose a regular
word of the right length in your native language and then substitute
number(s) and punctuation marks as appropriate and capitalize either
the first or last
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The problem with this trend (and I'm seeing it as such, too, Kenny)
is that it presumes that more security is always better. But in many
use cases (blogs, mailing lists, software tech support), such
stringent security can be ridiculous and inconvenient.
Security is not just protection. It's also
What I find interesting about all of these interfaces is that they aren't
immediately self-explanatory. The user needs to play around with them
before discovering how it can be used. At first, I thought this was
categorically a design flaw, but after further thought it seems that
avoiding
It's interesting how most sophisticated user interfaces aren't immediately
self-explanatory.
There's often a healthy tension between how learnable an interface is and how
capable it is of providing nuanced control.
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one of the most intriguing interfaces i've ever used for making music
is software called PD (pure data)... sort of like Max/MSP, but with
less initial structure.
it's all about playing, discovering ... there's almost no manual and
you start with a blank screen.. you can build your own UI with a
http://www.buzzmachines.com/
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Be sure to check out this
The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
http://www.nime.org/
There was a course at NYU-ITP about sound as an interface to communicate
states, direction, etc.
Currently there is a course around building interfaces for musical instruments.
you sure that owning four lemur's borders on fiscal
irresponsibility? i'm thinking its more jealousy that someone has
four of them. ;)
personally i don't know if i would have included really any of the
items listed as being unique IxD. the novation itself is nothing
revolutionary. just a keyboard
Hi Maria,
I have no knowledge of information pertaining directly to interaction
design and theatre, but if you haven't already done so, I recommend
reading:
Computers as Theatre by Brenda Laurel
http://www.amazon.com/Computers-as-Theatre-Brenda-Laurel/dp/0201550601
Personally, I find that
Our client, a leading Biotech firm (voted ³top employer in biotechnology² by
Fortune magazine 10 years running) is seeking an experienced User Researcher
and Experience Designer well versed in user-centered design methodologies,
preferably with portal/web application experience.
The User
yes but passwords like those you describe are prone to hacking as they
contain dictionary words that some brute force password crackers use to
increase their chances of cracking passwords.
On Feb 19, 2008 3:10 PM, Anthony Hempell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another strategy is to create memorable
These organizations are in New York, but they are very open and friendly. great
champions of interaction design in theater.
http://www.troikaranch.org/
http://www.gertstein.org/
Feel free to contact both of them (and tell them I sent you!) they should be
able to point you towards
Another strategy is to create memorable Name/Number combinations that
are part of a larger set that can be mined for almost infinite
password ideas, such as:
Car make / year (Cadillac77 or Mustang!56)
Athlete / number (Jordan23 or Gretzky!99)
etc
On 19-Feb-08, at 12:00 PM, Katie
You might want to get really old school and check out Brenda Laurel's
Computers As Theatre. It's a blast from the past, but at its time
way ahead of everything else.
http://www.amazon.com/Computers-as-Theatre-Brenda-Laurel/dp/0201550601
There's quite a bit of crossover from the theatre --
Yeah. Depends on what your securing and from whom. Good combo is the
old biometric plus passphrase plus mutating challenge-response. But 99.9
don't require it since most people will willingly give up their pw
through social engineering and cmps capable of brute force are too
busy
I'm as against bloatware as the next person, although feature overkill is
sort of like pornography: you know it when you see it, which means the
definition remains completely relativistic.
However... I am someone who uses the deep features of software, and usually
without reading the manual. I
The problem with (and yet, advantage of) software is its near-infinite
plasticity. In the physical world, a device such as a bicycle attains
design maturity (in terms of both form and features) fairly quickly and
remains largely unchanged thereafter. [If anything, designers try to
simplify its
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:06:55, dave malouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the document writing front, I LOVE using Buzzword.com
This webApp is a great example of elegant and engaging design. Not
too much, and not too little.
I love this tool.
-- dave
Hi
In response to Dave's message I decided
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