[IxDA Discuss] System Usability Scale (SUS) for websites

some additional thoughts and insight for which I'd be very thankful. Thanks, best, Jens. [1] http://hell.meiert.org/core/pdf/sus.pdf -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Icons for Internal Links

with hypertext which doesn’t know any difference between “internal” and “external”. (The 11:25 pm short version.) Best, Jens. -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Yahoo and the browser back button...

in general, the “Back” button still seems to be one of the most popular navigation features (after hyperlinks and form buttons, according to Nielsen [1]). [1] http://www.useit.com/alertbox/percent-text-read.html -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Print Preview Page - Yes or No?

accomplished by using Print Preview (granted, I know many users WILL NOT do this). exactly for these reasons – it's a lose/lose in almost all cases. -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA

Re: [IxDA Discuss] GUI guidelines

/styleguide might mean a neat pool for inspiration. -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What is a Landing Page?

I'm curious what your feelings are regarding what a landing page is I think Wikipedia's somehow right when defining a landing page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_page. (Skipping my own thoughts for now.) -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What to do in an environment run by engineers??

There is NO qualitative research and both hardware-/software engineers think that their own opinion about the products matter. As a side note, on an abstraction layer for developers/engineers: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/DevelopmentAbstraction.html. -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Yahoo! Pipes

and the technical context it appears in. [1] http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/person.info?eyuid=Oig88bE5rW2hlIoLW.ezFT9NBw-- -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How do you use different version control systems for your designs?

and risky but rather unprofessional. [1] http://www.softimage.com/products/alienbrain/ [2] http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/ [3] http://subversion.tigris.org/ [4] http://www.perforce.com/ -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/ Welcome

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Initiated Save vs. Implicit Save

functionality). -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Can an interaction designer creat (great) interaction without (great) visual design skills?

My question: can an interaction designer create great working interaction without having visual design skills? Define great and elaborate without, please. ;) -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/ Welcome to the Interaction Design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Can an interaction designer creat (great) interaction without (great) visual design skills?

Can a [DESIGNER TYPE] create a great [PRODUCT TYPE] without having [SKILL TYPE]? It clearly depends, again. Unless you'd narrow down at least skill type. -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/ Welcome to the Interaction Design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Research on opening links in new windows?

thinking. (My bet is that most users do think web, not site, and I don't know any conflicting research apart from some edge cases either.) -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should external links really open in the same window?

links as external, especially when current document/sites fails in helping the user. [1] http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/html5/spec/Overview.html?rev=1.1046#the-a [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-hyperlinks/#the-target-new -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should external links really open in the same window?

for non-web documents [1] (albeit there might be other, rare exceptions […]). [1] http://www.useit.com/alertbox/open_new_windows.html -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post

[IxDA Discuss] Compared to What?

. While in turn, few people ask it (which still reminds me of the situation that some people, users, blame themselves for bad design/usability). Curious about your thoughts. -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/ Welcome

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Anyone worked with XForms

), documents like http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/XForms_Implementations and lists like http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-forms/ might mean more help. -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/ Welcome to the Interaction Design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Anyone worked with XForms

Anyone worked with XForms, or even better Lotus Forms for creating XForms? Do you mean http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/ (just comes to my mind)? -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Project Management with Scrum

and iterating in a very fast way. However, scrums are a tool that does not replace traditional project management (that's what I kind of read between the lines) though. -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/ Welcome to the Interaction Design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA Berlin/Germany - new local group

getting it local in Berlin/Germany! http://ixdaberlin.collectivex.com Congratulations! I knew it was a mistake to leave Berlin ;) Cheers, Jens. -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/ Welcome to the Interaction Design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fixed v/s variable width web pages

A great compromise is the combo method where its fixed above and/or below a certain resolution/ window size and variable inbetween. Exactly. :) (Flexible at first in order to show more content, then fixed in order to avoid legibility problems […].) -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Patterns for complaints

and channel and recompensing for error reports seems to be something that works in a few scenarios (and I shamelessly need to refer to Why paying for errors pays off [1] again). Cheers, Jens. [1] http://meiert.com/en/blog/20070120/qa-on-errors-and-why-paying-for-errors-pays-off/ -- Jens Meiert

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Guidelines for opening a printer-friendly page

browser functionality might not necessarily be the way to go, and since print style sheets are a piece of cake, at least when separating structure (HTML) from presentation (CSS) … -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/ Welcome

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA Digest Translation

when there is a clear, prominent note that they've been created automatically. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, huh? -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Acceptable download/performance time on flash sites?

design/UX principle ... Cheers, Jens. -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org

[IxDA Discuss] “The Most Frequently Used Featur es in Microsoft Office”

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] “The Most Frequently Used Featur es in Microsoft Office”

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] When/Where/How did you decide to be a designer?

to claim that mere decoration (that still appears to be confused with design too often) will become almost equally important as a crucial aspect of how to create pleasant experiences. -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/ *Come

Re: [IxDA Discuss] what are your fundamental tenets of design?

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. That is indeed an awesome quote, both so true and challenging. -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008

Re: [IxDA Discuss] what are your fundamental tenets of design?

/principles-of-art-design-and-decoration/ [2] http://meiert.com/en/blog/20071013/qualities-of-design/ -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today