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Good digging, Bojhan. At this site:
http://davewiner.userland.com/outlinersProgramming
under the section 'VisiText', he writes:
VisiText was the first outliner to use the now-familliar expand and
collapse outline display.
Probably not the definitive answer to your question, Charlie, but a
I don't think it's fair to say that criticism doesn't bother
anyone. I think it's more fair to say that everyone handles it
differently. It all depends on how well developed you are yourself,
having learned certain techniques or epiphanies that move you along
the journey.
Some things that I've
Hi Jeff and all,
I would like to give this thread a constructive note.
Well written text is not about length, but about structure. Some topics
deserve long explanations. Long e-mails are tedious to read only if they
have no structure. The right structure allows skimming them without missing
any
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Don't want to repeat too much of what's been put here, but I just
discovered this great mac-only organization tool, Together. (sorry no
link, on iPhone)
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Who else out there is in Iowa? I know there are some other IxD'ers in
this part of flyover territory, and I'd love to know who you are.
- Dann
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Hello
Sorry if this is not the right way to start a new thread. I'm new to this
site, and couldn't find a way to start a new topic. I know the summary
sounds somewhat cryptic, but I'm not sure how else to put this. I know each
website has its own requirements, but I'm wondering if anyone out
Hi Ian:
Welcome to the list!
I think that the laying out the screen for quick comprehension is essential.
I just finished writing an article called The First 10 Seconds in which I
did some thinking about what happens when a visitor comes to a web site for
the first time. The design issue is can
Do you want to sell sugar for the rest of your life or do you want
to change the world? Steve Jobs
We're Temboo.
We're creating world class software that has the potential to
radically change the way people look at software creation.
But before we do that, we need some help. Our
Here is an interesting way of designing for screen size.
Look in the top right corner of this site to see the equivalent of a font
sizer for screen size.
http://www.dvda.org/
Has anybody seen this before? I haven't. Other than the fact that I don't
think it's very noticeable, it's an
My thought on this is why make the user choose? That's not a decision
most users will understand or feel the need to make.
I'm all for variable width layouts, but there are ways of automating
it so that the site adapts to the browser size without the user having
to tell it to.
Here's an ALA
Greetings,
I have a client that wants to put several coming soon pages on their
site. As in a link that points to a page called About us but the
only thing on that page is the text Coming Soon. Essentially links
to empty pages.
My initial gut feeling is that this looks un-professional (thinking
(try to) control your user's behavior
Create levels of importance in your design.
Create primary actions you want your user to fullfill.
Design to make these specific actions work.
Don't flood your user with all the options; just group'm and make the
most important one stand out.
If you put a
Hey!
I'm (still) looking for formal training in interaction/type design. I
noticed the KABK in Hague has a new course titled Interaction - Media -
Design.
Anyone here studied/is studying at KABK or in the Netherlands? I'm
interested in how things go around there in the field.
Also, what other
The simplest is the admonishment that you should not mislead or lie to the
user -- in the navigation - if you have links to pages - that go to Under
Construction or Coming soon - you are misleading the user - implying that
they will go somewhere to get useful information - when the links go to a
If it's a link to a feature - there is a very strong business reason to not
do it - it telegraphs to the competition what your future feature sets are.
They can than me-2 you perhaps faster than you.
If it's content and it's simply because marketing or pm or the copywriter
has not gotten around
In my experience, the coming soon page is a license to procrastinate
over putting up real content. It's easy for the client to forget that
there's nothing behind that About us link, because they never visit
their own site.
However, I think the main problem with coming soon is that it
IMO, unless the direction of transfer is unmistakably clear, I'd use
the word transfer instead of up/download or im/export.
The latter two assumes directional references too much.
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:17:06, Leandro Alves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I agree with Elizabeth, but I think that
On Mar 19, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Calvin Park 박상빈 wrote:
IMO, unless the direction of transfer is unmistakably clear, I'd use
the word transfer instead of up/download or im/export.
The latter two assumes directional references too much.
That's a bad thing? If my web app allows you to export a
Leandro Alves writes:
Well, I agree with Elizabeth, but I think that download/upload is best
used when relative to storing data.
Well, I didn't say anything that disagreed with that. :-)
My main point was that it's not a matter of choosing between import/export and
upload/download, because
Heyup Vlad, I've been collecting IxD schools on this map
http://platial.com/ixdamaps/map/56336
I cant seem to get KABK.nl up right now to add it to the list. Can
you register on the map site and add it when you get a chance, plus
any other resources you come across in your research
all the best
Look in the top right corner of this site to see the equivalent of a font
sizer for screen size.
http://www.dvda.org/
Has anybody seen this before?
This technique used on the most trafficked page on the planet.
http://www.yahoo.com/ (Page Options link).
:)
-r-
On the whole I agree with Calvin, here...but what's wrong with using
move? It's simple and clear as long as you specify the to and from.
In fact, I think it's good discipline to remind ourselves that no
matter what we use, it is highly probable that our users do not have
the same knowledge
Also, there was this Business Week article a little while ago.
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/10/1005_dschools/index_01.htm?chan=innovation_special
report -- d-schools_special report -- d-schools
If you follow the Read this Article link eventually you can find
a sortable list of all the
Katie Albers writes:
On the whole I agree with Calvin, here...but what's wrong with using
move?
Because upload and download, import and export, usually copy the item, rather
than moving it.
Elizabeth
Welcome to the Interaction
i disagree.
they typically mean 'transporting' an item - i.e. data transport or data
exchange.
this is not the same as a file system operation such as copy (which
duplicates an file) and move (which relocates a file).
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Elizabeth Buie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings
I'm looking for public internet based websites (not fat client) that
feature drag and drop functionality. Anybody have any favorite examples
to share? Several email portals have one (like AOL) but I'm looking for
some in the public domain.
Thanks,
David
David B. Fine
If it's actually a coming soon used before launching the whole
website I'd say okay - but then again - you'd better put in some kind
(even the littlest) of content that describes how a user could get
some more info about your company, contact-address, etc.
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I've been very happy with 1and1.com. They seem to have the best small
business plans.
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Welcome
Europe is loaded with good IxD programs:
In the Netherlands there is Delft, Einhoven and Utrecht.
In Sweden there is Malmo and Umea
In Denmark there is CIID
In Italy there is Domus, Rome, and I think Venice
In Germany there is Pottsdam
In UK there is RCA
And to Allison's point this does not
I've had a pretty bad time with 11 in the uk - don't know if the American
version is different.
Their control panel is very hard to use, and billing is very confusing (they
use contract numbers all the time rather than useful references like domain
names). It's also hard to cancel and move away -
K10k.net used to have a widget like this on their frontpage, though
they seem to have removed it.
// jeff
Eva wrote:
Here is an interesting way of designing for screen
size. Has anybody seen this before?
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Posted from the
i led the original design and development of myheavy (now heavy 2.0).
among the features was an itunes for video that we developed in early
2006, which allows you to drag and drop video from another user's profile
into your own libraries, or move them between your libraries or even
re-arrange the
No worries :) I'd have to admit that Dreamhost performance can be a bit
ropey sometimes.
When I last looked into moving somewhere for my own web app I came up with
Slicehost - they look like they know what they're up to:
http://www.slicehost.com/
Joe
I have nothing but great things to say about Media Temple. They rock. They
are nice - have a problem and customer service answers on the third ring.
They have an amazing up-rate - and the prices for shared servers is really
good - like $20/month
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Joe Lanman [EMAIL
jQuery has a very nice drag and drop ajax/js dom library for drag and drop -
think about iGoogle - home page - set it up - any widgets can be picked up
and moved to other places (pre-determined).
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Fine, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings
I'm looking
No doubt - another thing (I get nothing for this endorsement) - great
playground/dev platform - that scales. You can add rails, mysql, json, solr
- lot's of stuff - and when you get big - they can scale right up with you.
Some really big name design firms/ux people/e-commerce places use it too - I
jquery is very nice and we use it in some places but like most of these
libraries, it's very heavy.
the myheavy/heavy 2.0 was written using prototype, which is more bare bones
and light weight.
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:24 PM, W Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
jQuery has a very nice drag and
I'll second MT. I've been with them for a couples years now and it's
great. A little more expensive than Dreamhost, but you get what you
pay for
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:23 PM, W Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have nothing but great things to say about Media Temple. They rock. They
Yeah, K10K is on MT, Design is Kinky, UX Magazine .. most of the big
design news sites.
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:32 PM, W Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No doubt - another thing (I get nothing for this endorsement) - great
playground/dev platform - that scales. You can add rails, mysql, json,
If I upload a file to my web site or a photo sharing site, it still exists on
my computer. If I download music to my iPod, it still exists on my computer.
If I download a software upgrade from Apple or Adobe, it is still on Apple's
site or Adobe's site to be downloaded by others.
If I export
i misread what you wrote. thus, i was incorrect.
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Elizabeth Buie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I upload a file to my web site or a photo sharing site, it still exists
on my computer. If I download music to my iPod, it still exists on my
computer. If I download
What everyone else said and...
If content is really coming soon, the client should be able to (at least)
pony up a real date and post on the page too - like the famous movie line:
coming May 31st to theatres near you. That will at least let people know
when they should check back. And the client
I'm trying to get away from dreamhost. They've had a couple of periods
of severe problems over the last couple of years. Also, I've found
drupal on their servers to be significantly slower than on site5.
Thanks for the 11 warning.
Expression Blend User Interface Designer
Founded in 2000, Entellium is a global software company that develops
on-demand Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software for small and
midsize businesses. Entellium software helps sales teams balance the
everyday needs of sales professionals with
On Mar 19, 2008, at 12:06 PM, David Malouf wrote:
HCI and IxD in that IxD seems to
be taught as a design discipline/practice and HCI is taught as a
research/academic program. I'm sure there is a ton of gray; but in
the US the design programs in HCI are not nearly as strong, or if
they do
One of the designs-to-avoid postcards in the IxDA handouts from Cooper
Interaction Design is a very simple and compelling picture of an open
door leading to a brick wall.
A page consisting solely of the text Coming soon is a brick wall. A
more acceptable alternative is to put the coming soon text
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Kristof Versluys
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Got the desktop wallpaper layed out in 3 color-coded zones:
(1) main / (2) work / (3) play
On the desktop, only folders are allowed. No file-clutter!!
Actually no real folders, just shortcuts to folders on
Brilliant. Good call Paul.
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Paul Eisen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the designs-to-avoid postcards in the IxDA handouts from Cooper
Interaction Design is a very simple and compelling picture of an open
door leading to a brick wall.
A page consisting solely
Can anyone recommend methods for performing usability tests on large,
complex applications with lots of conceptual dependencies?
We're running into issues in our design of a test. We want to test
Section B of our application, but Section B doesn't make a lot of
sense unless you've already been
You may or may not be at liberty to do this, but my first action in a
case like this would be to examine how much of that complexity was
actually necessary and how much resulted from the development
process. I've seen more cases than I care to think about in which
that kind of examination
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Fine, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking for public internet based websites (not fat client) that
feature drag and drop functionality. Anybody have any favorite examples
to share?
Similar to iGoogle, there's Netvibes (my start page of choice -
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San Jose, CA or Newton, MA
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Senior Interaction Designer
Interaction design attempts to improve the usability and experience of
the object or system, by first researching and understanding certain
users' needs and then designing to meet and exceed these needs. In this
role, you will create visual and behavioral
I'd say B is really your only option ... all others involve some
compromising of the test quality and results.
B's difficulty is really just logistics. A lot of people have weekly
schedules, so scheduling two appointments, one for one day and then
again next week, might work.
In any case,
In the discipline of IxD, the word has been used to define a possible
action perceived by a user within some environment (Norman 1988). In the
classic example, the affordance of a door with a flat metal plate is
push. The affordance resolves to a verb, an action to be performed.
However, of
Hi Meredith,
I've done two-hour sessions, though not by choice. It's do-able if you take
a break in the middle. I would walk the participant over to a break room, so
I could be sure they had a little exercise, let them pick out something to
drink, show them where the bathroom was, etc. That way,
Hi Meredith,
Agree on B.
But would like to add, that if you know what the dependcies are from A
to B, that would help a great deal.
So from understanding the dependencies and based on the resources and
time available ( which I rarely have enough) I would narrow down on
the most important tasks
Hi, Christopher! If you think is difficult to define Affordance,
try to translate it to other languages, like Portuguese!
I've discussed that with my students back in Brazil and in China,
and -- in the translation process -- I came with the idea of
purpose. But that's just me!
...
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