Hey IxDA'ers,
This quote was influential and inspiring when I first encountered HCI in
school:
Usability is not only about improving the quality of the products, but also
improving the quality of the process by which products are made.
- Rough quote from _A Practical Guide to Usability Testing_
This begs the question that people will care about the _content
inside_ the carousel!
You could base your interaction design on existing design patterns
documenting carousels, but the usability of it does not cause people
to care about what the client is promoting nor compel them to click
Hi Allison,
RE: Overall Comparison Considerations
The comparison system has to work in the specific ecommerce
environment and it's constraints. So, you'll want to consider:
- how does site performance change as the number of items increases?
- how many facets are you displaying in the comparison?
Yes, really. After all these discussions this dichotomy still lingers. It
lingers on this list, it permeates the places I've worked, it keeps
invisible barriers between me and people who sit just feet from me and my
(UX) team. It will be something we will face for years.
How? Because it _does_
A project team has to represent, to communicate - explicitly and
implicitly - the services and value(s) constituting a business model
to potential customers.
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Posted from the new ixda.org
http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42957
Perhaps we could ask our clients or employers: I'm sure this product is
great, and I trust there's a market for it. But, why the need to make it a
bad experience?
Or, we could ask our bosses: Why the division into silos? It sure seems
tribal.
While most of the (human) world's ills can be traced
So, Robert, you won't be joining us? With the time and analysis you've
devoted to it, you're a good candidate for Official Conference Reporter.
It's a competition, so a critical voice is welcome. And, maybe there's a
discount for the Press.
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr
Robert asked:Who do these people think they are?
I believe the perspective of the Arctic Challenge is:
Who do you think you are?...Given that you enter and must be selected.
And, Are you good enough to compete?...Given that it's an arctic
competition, and the judges must be persuaded to select
A few years ago, at a lunch table at the 2006 IA Summit, a few of us hatched
the idea of the Arctic Challenge. While it seems decadent in today's market,
allow me to share some of the philosophical undercurrents.
1. If you meet the polar bear, kill the polar bear...
The seminal work for many IAs
Todd wrote: Part of the challenge is getting there.
I left that out of my other message, but this was another part of it. There
are barriers to getting there. There are barriers to entering. There are
barriers to participating.
It is a challenge on multiple levels. I think it's even been a
Time to work on your persuasion skills, patience, and what Peter Merholtz
refers to IA (in this case, IxD) Judo. And, use Stephen Anderson's
Eye-Candy is a Critical Business Requirement to build your case,
I think it's 0 seconds.
Seriously, we had this conversation in-house today and I am surprised that
(1) we are still building Flash intros; (2) that we'd build something (on
the web) that needs an intro, a (required) tutorial; and (3) that the we
slice the pie such that we look to solve the problem
Original question about 'how to force/ensure TC perusal prior to
agreement':Years ago (early 2000's) I was branded by this experience where a
TC dialogue box broke my expectations: After several attempts to click
through, I figured out i *had to* scroll all the way through the TC text
box before I
Since i've been called out regarding threesomes, I'll instantiate one here
and share the sentiment i expressed in my latest tweet:
Ode to the tweethaters: someone must sit behind the wave and declare the
idea of tide unproven, their skepticism of fluidity unchanged.
That came to mind after
Will, would you please tweet that so i can favorite it?
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Will Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Add your twitter to your sig - gain more followers, become rockstar, get
better job, move to Beverly Hills, get a healthy XXX addiction, check into
rehab, recover, go on
rather, not every need is evenly distributed.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am also very skeptical of the need for something like this.
Not everything is designed to meet a need.
-r-
Hi Jenn,
Apropos post to read, as I spent this afternoon looking at digital voice
recorders. I have to conduct phone and in-person interviews, so I'm looking
for a hardware solution to record from the phone. I want digital to archive
it on a Vista system. So far, I've found Sony and Olympus
Secret sauce revealed. And, the recipe shows to be too potent in its
simplicity for the many others - especially those with account teams - to
pull off.
Thanks for sharing, Jared.
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Jared Spool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 3, 2008, at 8:33 AM, Trost Ann-Marie
I just took the role of Director UX at a small interactive marketing agency,
and i need to show/tell/present to them what UX is and is not. It's a team
of one now that is growing to meet demand. (Our first addition joins next
week.)
The need:
The whole company - from graphic designers who are
This post is to request that M$ make a (public) pattern library for
Silverlight. And, to ask that if someone knows of one they can share it with
me.
The problem so far: I'm researching Silverlight and the substantial part of
it seems to be buried in *applications that require install*. I do not
if it's well architected, it shouldn't take that long to find them...
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Jeff Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave wrote:
Jeff, is there any way for us to get those early conversations
BACK into the database.
Sure. It'd probably take a little elbow grease but
Do you mean that the application will open a (web) browser for each task?
Or, do you mean that the application will have tabs for navigating, but all
navigation will reside in the application and you were just citing browser
tabs as a familiar example?
Navigation tabs are fairly well established:
re: Public pattern library for Silverlight:
The problem in short: I want to see Silverlight's portfolio. Building a
pattern library is a suggested solution for showcasing Silverlight work. The
specific PL execution means that it's in the parlance of interaction design,
which is a major portion of
directions.
Thanks.
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:12 PM, J. Ambrose Little [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Jay Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
re: Public pattern library for Silverlight:
The problem in short: I want to see Silverlight's portfolio. Building a
pattern library
Thanks Captain. I was hoping you'd respond since my obvious-dar is seriously
debilitated in the summer heat which enfeebles my web researching.
Yours Truly,
Captain Morgan
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Bryan J Busch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Captain Obvious says: Like on Flickr?
I'm looking for examples of image galleries based on rich technology,
especially Silverlight. Can anyone share examples?
Thanks.
--
Jay A. Morgan
Information Architecture Scenario-based design.
Design Patterns Mental Models.
@ Azmir:
The Pump Audio Soundtrack tool was exactly the kind of inspiration I was
looking for. A designer and I started sketching out concepts together last
week, and it's similar to that tool. It has a good mix of browse-filtering,
and I was in the search-then-filter mental set.
@ Santiago:
Hi Bryan,
re: seeing banner ads with your peripheral vision:
The human eye has different receptor cell types in the focal area than it
does on the places far from the focal area. the focal area is - you guessed
it - equipped with cells for precise observation. the parts of the retina
far from the
Hey IxDAers,
I'm designing a site that enables law firms to search law student profiles
to find job candidates, and have have to build the interface attorneys will
use to search the student profiles. I'm struggling with how to start the
search. Most fields have set values (state, law school name,
Hi Petra,
Realizing that users pave their own paths through an application is a
significant milestone in maturing towards sound design.
Applications/sites are usually designed around an *idealized* path through
the application, but the real paths users take often do not match the
idealized. You
Hi Gabriel,
Use a sliding scale weighted towards pay in the present and towards equity
in the future. Get the agreement in writing.
A bit more detail:
It's a new venture, so you want to realize some short-term value now and as
you progress. Getting paid today means that if they have to close the
Hi Morten,
I think spatial cognition will match what you're looking for. It's usually
called spatial cognition in the academic literature. So, memory is a part
of cognition, as are attention and perception. As you read about spatial
cognition in general, you'll find the research will then focus
Hi Jonathan,
I recommend you make a menu of services, and that you have a
simple-medium-advanced version of each service. Your skill and flexibility
will guide you in setting the scope for each project.
The menu of services:
Showcasing your work in a one-page document gives your teammates the
While I suffer the same predicament, I find it amusing that ask Why can't
recruiters read?. A common assumption is that users do not read when trying
to accomplish a task.
Whenever they contact me w/ Leonardo job or a J2EE job, I remind myself
that these users are motivated by incentives to find
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