Hi All,
As the unofficial librarian, I am calling out to all IxDA members that are
authors. For the IxDA conference in Savannah, Dave M came up with the
brilliant idea of making sure that the SCAD bookstore was carrying as many
IxD, IA, UX related books and has asked me to compile a list to send
Chris wrote: The theory behind design thinking d-schools is, to
me, this: Design is important. Too important to be managed by those
fuzzy people who actually do design. It's time for designers to step
aside and allow themselves to be led by a new generation of MBAs who
have taken a couple of
I totally agree with what Jay Kumar is saying, that suddenly so many
companies are offering usability that it's getting unreal.
It also quickly becomes obvious that these companies do not know what they
are talking about when they start to refer to Usability Test as User
Acceptance Test (UAT),
- What: Sprint #5 for improving the usability of FLOSS
- When: Friday Nov 2nd - Sunday Nov 4th, 2007
- Where:
I didn't see the books of Malcolm McCullough (one of our esteemed
keynotes) up there. Please be sure to include them all, but a focus
on Digital Ground.
Another book is Christina Wodtke's, Information Architecture:
Blueprints for the Web.
Jared Spool has 2 titles:
Web Site Usability
In leui of publishing my list back up to the group - I have created a
google document and published it. I have also gotten more
recommendations and they have been added.
http://tinyurl.com/ywpmpw
Check out the list, and send me corrections or additions. Bribes to
get your book higher on the list
Facilitating discussion is what I would like to happen in F2F events
here in Toronto. Well, the first one did not quite become a F2F,
we'll try again :)
Referring to the departmental conflicts ... teamwork and ownership
gets foggy and lost whenever groups get beyond a certain number (I
don't know
Hierarchy to me is a liberator from that question of who owns what, and
as a result what parts need to match up with others. If done properly,
a hierarchy can free us from confusion and let us focus on our
specialties without becoming isolated.
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Intuitect has been working on developing support for RIA as a new
feature set for Intuitect Professional (its Visio add-on). We are
currently enrolling volunteers for our beta testing, which will take
place in January.
Our RIA support (first version) will include:
application variables
Why are some of the titles in bold?
-r-
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Dumping Agile in the mix...
My overwhelming experience has been that regardless of what design
deliverable ID's creates, having proximity, dialogue and iteration with
various stakeholders, during the design cycles is the key to success.
Throwing design deliverables over the wall, regardless of
Web site usability is task oriented, meaning that usability testing
measures the efficiency of how users (who fit a specific persona or
profile) complete a desired task. Testing is done one person at a time,
not as a group, and each participant's behavior and actions are
carefully observed and
Lots of good answers here... but so far not one person has said that,
in their experience, engineers don't understand UXD documentation.
David's distinction between value and understand is good: do
engineers understand our documents but still dislike them?
This is what I really wanted to
I can't help but plug my book here, Communicating Design. It covers 10
different UX documents, and is written in part from the perspective
mentioned earlier in this thread: we need to apply user-centered
design techniques to our own artifacts.
More info at: www.communicatingdesign.com
We now
Christopher,
My previous answer to your question was that getting the engineers to
participate in the design process was essential to them getting the
essence of the project -- a holistic understanding without which they may
easily stray during the development phase. To answer your question more
Some points to address from a number of respondents.
Steven Pautz:
I don't look at development experience (or any other ancillary skill) in
a negative light, as long as it's positioned as ancillary. I have no
interest in a candidate who markets himself as a Project Manager on his
resume, or
Hello,
I wonder, does anyone know of / carried out / read any research into users'
familiarity and ability with slider controls?
This sort of thing for example:
http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/SliderDemo (although I don't
particularly like their implementation of them).
My
Thanks Will and Jean-Anne for the thoughtful advice! JA, I'll definitely be
contacting to hear more about your Berkeley iSchool experience. Thank you!
Here's my specific dilemma (if anybody out there has an opinion!), and why
I'm trying to figure out if I need to get an MFA/MS/M.Des degree:
I
I think part of this is driven by the quality of the artifact itself.
We've actually done usability testing on our artifacts with the
engineers and visual designers using them to find out how we can
improve them. After all, our artifacts are the product/service we're
creating for our
Amen to both of Janna's and Joseph's comments. And I'll take Joseph's
comments one step further and say that in the most successful situation
I've worked in regarding UX documentation, the engineers weren't just
involved in the application design process, we actually designed the
UX documentation
Can someone explain how this conference works? Looking at the site each day
has a handful of half day tutorials and full day tutorials.
For example, all these people are scheduled for full day tutorials on Day
One from 8:30-4. Do they each talk all day long? Do you have to just pick
one to
I'm looking to interview people regarding the following prototyping
tools for my prototyping book coming early next year:
* iRise
* Axure
If you use these products for prototyping and want to be interviewed
for the book, please contact me off-list.
Cheers!
Todd Zaki Warfel
President, Design
What prototyping tools are in your toolbox?
Cheers!
Todd Zaki Warfel
President, Design Researcher
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For reference, do a search on the www.kayak.com site. They do a great job
with sliders.
On 11/1/07, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I wonder, does anyone know of / carried out / read any research into
users'
familiarity and ability with slider controls?
This sort of thing for
I generally go from whiteboard -- camera -- 11x17 graph paper --
client -- photoshop -- code/developer. Depending on the project
and developer, I may skip the photoshop step.
Beck
On 11/1/07, Todd Zaki Warfel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What prototyping tools are in your toolbox?
Cheers!
i can't link to direct experience with this type of control for web
interfaces. they've existed ever since AJAX caught on and i've only seen
them implemented properly in very limited circumstances.
a few social networking sites use(d) them in lieu of spin controls or normal
drop down elements to
On 11/1/07, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder, does anyone know of / carried out / read any research into users'
familiarity and ability with slider controls?
I'm trying to put together a rating tool, users rate a product on a scale of
1 to 10, and it seems to me that a slider fits the
I'll throw in a vote for Basecamp. I use it all the time and love it.
On 11/1/07, Mike Scarpiello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Looking at two - Basecamp and Marketing Central. Has anyone used these, or
can you suggest alternatives?
Thanks.
http://www.marketingcentral.com/index.html
Photoshop, HTML, CSS, ASP, XML, Access... Hopefully moving to Blend
soon.
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Most recently used FLASH; have also used HTML, clickable PDF, and paper.
FLASH along with annotated wireframes was really successful.
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Whiteboard, paper, colored pencils, Dreamweaver, Axure, photoshop,
Flash...
What about yourself Todd?
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What prototyping tools are in your toolbox?
I use OmniGraffle PDF for simple prototypes, and occasionally Flash. Then
I often screencast the interactions with narration using Snapz Pro X. I call
it a protocast.
Clients love it, and it gets the point across extremely well.
-r-
I read Todd Warfel's post and think this is a great use of usability
testing. I actively ask for feedback on wire frames from our developers but,
as you might exepct, never get any. They are too busy writing the next lines
of code.
In lieu of that, I've adjusted my documents to address any
Paper/Pencil
Photoshop
Director
HTML (Dreamweaver, CSSEdit)
Jack L. Moffett
Interaction Designer
inmedius
412.459.0310 x219
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In our society,
the scarce factor is not information,
it is time to attend to information.
- Herb Simon
Use sketchbook/fireworks a ton and then into flash/flex. They have a
new Flex extension for FW that has made my life easier. Also use the
various Flex explorers out there to get rough code built.
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Well thank you very much - I tried to do a good job. Glad you like
it :-)
will evans
user experience architect
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617.281.1281
On Nov 1, 2007, at 3:08 PM, Mike Scarpiello [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
For reference, do a search on the www.kayak.com site. They do a
great job
Visio and Flash - love using flash for its components.
•Sini
On Nov 1, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Todd Zaki Warfel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
What prototyping tools are in your toolbox?
Cheers!
Todd Zaki Warfel
President, Design Researcher
Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully.
For reference, do a search on the www.kayak.com site. They do a great job
with sliders.
Just don't implement them in a set of sidebar filters like Kayak does. Many
people either never notice it, see it but ignore it, or only adjust only one
or two options. Most of what Kayak offers goes
Strange - I think Kayak is great.
On 11/1/07, Robert Hoekman, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For reference, do a search on the www.kayak.com site. They do a great job
with sliders.
Just don't implement them in a set of sidebar filters like Kayak does.
Many people either never notice
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I have been using Axure and recently discovered two other tools - Intuitect and
Jumpchart. They sound like they make the prototyping process easier but haven't
got my hands on them yet.
Todd Zaki Warfel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What prototyping tools are in your toolbox?
Cheers!
Todd Zaki
Common guys - cut me some slack :-)
Actually Roberts right - all the social networking stuff I designed
goes unused and I've learned alot since then.
will evans
user experience architect
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617.281.1281
On Nov 1, 2007, at 6:24 PM, Mike Scarpiello [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Robert: I use OmniGraffle PDF for simple prototypes, and
occasionally Flash. Then I often screencast the interactions with
narration using Snapz Pro X. I call it a protocast.
Thats interesting. Do make a distinction between iterative
designing, and deliverables? I would describe your Protocast
Here are a few that I use:
Adobe Acrobat
Microsoft Word
SmartDraw
Inspiration
InDesign
MockupScreens
GUI Design Studio
Visio
PowerPoint
Excel
Magnets with UI objects and a magnetic whiteboard
Chauncey
On 11/1/07, Todd Zaki Warfel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What prototyping tools are in your
Our user testing has shown something similar to what Robert H.
mentions... most users did not interact with sliders on the page on
their own. A few didn't notice them. The ones who did understood
their relationship to the data but did not interact with them. Our
implementation was similar to
Our user testing has shown something similar to what Robert H.
mentions... most users did not interact with sliders on the page on
their own. A few didn't notice them. The ones who did understood
their relationship to the data but did not interact with them.
On the flipside, however, the
You can purchase the magnet paper at Staples and other large office
supply stores and then print out GUI objects using an ink jet (don't
use a laser printer - you might destroy it). The office supply places
also small whiteboards that are magnetic so you can use the magnetic
GUI pieces and also
apologies for the typos, long day.
I'm not entirely sure what I'm asking either, I was interested in your
process more than anything. Maybe I should turn it around and explain
where I'm coming from.
It helps me to make a distinction between creating a design and then
communicating that design.
Sweet - I'm gonna have to try that out. Thanks for the tip!
-r-
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On Nov 1, 2007, at 4:55 PM, Chauncey Wilson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can purchase the magnet paper at Staples and other large office
supply stores and then print out GUI objects using an ink jet (don't
I was wondering if any of you has had experience using a tool to
quantify the frustration of the user while using an interface (in our
case a web application or website). This tool is to be used during
usability testing, of course.
Do you have any links to research, products and samples?
Robert, as it says at the top of the document, bold titles are authors
who are speaking at the conference.
William cleared this up offlist - I just didn't notice it at first. Thanks.
-r-
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Gee, I just love quantifying qualities /irony But, in this case,
have you considered adapting the medical Wong-Baker visual pain
scale? there's a pretty good article on it at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_scale
there's a 10 point measurement at
http://www.anes.ucla.edu/pain/FacesScale.jpg
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