[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] IxDA Colorado - User Experience education: from workshops to conferences to degrees

2009-11-16 Thread jason zietz
Want to learn (or learn more) about User Experience Design -- Interaction Design, Usability, and related fields? In this meeting, we'll sort through our choices for education in User Experience fields -- ranging from free to thousands of dollars -- from seminars to conferences to college degrees.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] IxDA Colorado - User Experience education: from workshops to conferences to degrees

2009-11-16 Thread jason zietz
/maps?q=1011+Walnut+St.%2C+2nd+floor+above+Brasserie+TenTen+restaurant%2C+Boulder%2C+CO+80302+%28Boulder+Digital+Works%29 ) On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:41 PM, jason zietz mydogisaro...@gmail.comwrote: Want to learn (or learn more) about User Experience Design -- Interaction Design, Usability

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Register vs. Sing-Up vs. Join Us

2008-07-14 Thread Jason Zietz
For some good data on this subject, check out Smashing Magazine's two-parter on Sign-Up Forms: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/04/web-form-design-patterns-sign-up-forms/ AmirBehzad Eslami wrote: Hi, I'm developing a new website for a client. The website, like many other websites,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] what would you call this, a submenu, subtab, or something else?

2008-06-09 Thread Jason Zietz
Thanks, everyone, for the feedback thus far. Let me clarify why it's important that I come up with a common terminology that people understand: I'm writing installation instructions for a client that provides a service that works with different blog services, so being able to call something

[IxDA Discuss] what would you call this, a submenu, subtab, or something else?

2008-06-06 Thread Jason Zietz
Apologies if this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find anything related in the archives. I checked my Designing Interfaces book as well and came up empty, so now I seek the guidance of the collective. http://anxiousplanet.com/ixda/SubmenuOrSubnav.gif What would you call Current

Re: [IxDA Discuss] what would you call this, a submenu, subtab, or something else?

2008-06-06 Thread Jason Zietz
A bit of clarification: I'm writing instructions, hence the need to know what to call these things. What would you call Current Design in this example? A link? That could work, but a link could be anywhere on the page. I could call it a Navigation Link, but that sounds awkward.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Deliverables and Developers

2008-03-04 Thread Jason Zietz
I view design deliverables in the same way as I view whatever it is that I'm designing: I'm building something for *someone*, so in order to get it right, I must consult with them and understand their needs. It's more important to me that I deliver something that conveys functionality and

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Offtopic: What music do you listen to while you design

2008-02-26 Thread Jason Zietz
I HIGHLY recommend The Mercury Program and Mogwai. Both are especially good in the morning with coffee. I never think of fun topics to talk about (frequent complaint at work), but have been wondering what folks like to listen to while they work, if anything. I recently found an online

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Default value in chekbox

2008-02-23 Thread Jason Zietz
Is it better to use a All choice selected by default in a set of checkboxes or to leave all of them unselected in order to include all the choces. It depends. Having All selected by default has the potential to require the user to perform extra steps in order to complete the task in a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Verifying a user is human

2007-11-29 Thread Jason Zietz
I've seen this type of solution used before, and while it requires more work for the user, it's often less work than trying to interpret the letters in a CAPTCHA system. reCAPTCHA is a nice CAPTCHA implementation that uses (mostly) actual words for verification. And it's a nice way to