[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff) wrote:
Loren is right. CSS layout allows for a lot of options here. The right
side won't necessarily drop off first, if a liquid layout is used
specifying widths in percentages. Here's an example of liquid layout,
if you want one:
http://tinyurl.com/4p8nwl
Resize
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Liz) wrote:
One aspect of previous and next that bears mention here is
that conceptually they could be considered a pair. If the design
situation calls for both regularly, it's sort of like the situation
with rewind play/pause and forward wherein they're
hardly even
Good one Chris.
Here's one for the Web's best.
http://www.businesslogs.com/design_and_usability/the_webs_best_interface_design.php
This one is very interesting. 10 Futuristic User Interfaces
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/17/10-futuristic-user-interfaces/
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:59
Awesome Tracy!
Thanks all! Feel free to keep them coming. I'm sure we all can benefit from
this.
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I cannot declare right now due to lot of projects I am engaged in, but
in general I think that some info about technology could increase
volunteer coders number ;]. Is IxDA coded in pure PHP, some PHP
framework or maybe in Perl, Python or RoR?
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http://www.designbygrid.com/
web only and a bit more design than interface, but still some
great sites there.
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There's always the opposite: http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com
Tim
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Brett Lutchman [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Hey gang, does anybody know of any good sites that host best interface
design images or sites?
I'm not talking about best sites in general, but a location
The research I've read seems quite explicit: people don't tend to look at
things on the right :)
(things are sidebars, adds, and other things like that...)
Tim
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Chris Wright
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do people have any opinions on these?
i know left hand is
I've been a member for more than a year and I've only commented a
few times because of the wackiness.
The fact that the website and the list are out of sync is akin to
having someone moving your furniture around when you're not looking.
Disconcerting. I never feel 100% certain I know what's going
I'd take that motivation up a level!
User goal: to make a movie about their daughter's 5th birthday and not feel
stupid when doing it :)
Need: upload and edit movies on computer
Technological requirement: lots of RAM, fast and big HD, good graphics card.
Tim
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 4:02 AM,
...#4 our list administrators moderate the first two posts from each
new subscriber - but I cannot post without waiting for moderation
yet, after writing four or five posts.
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Wow, I never expected my question to spark such an intense discussion
but I've been reading all the replies with great interest.
As regards context, I was deliberately a bit vague because I was
looking for general rules rather than a solution to a specific
situation but we are currently designing
http://konigi.com/
It's a great site with a tagging system so you can look for specific
examples e.g.
http://konigi.com/interface/tags/faceted-navigation
Enjoy,
Alex
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Brett Lutchman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey gang, does anybody know of any good sites that
thanks for the input everyone.
i think i'm going to move it back to left.. i don't have any great reason
for it being right, bar than doing something different.. and i don't think
thats a good enough reason alone to break with something that works..
though i totally agree that without
Hi everybody
I'm working on an intranet project. Does anybody can point me any sites with
screenshots of intranets with good interfaces?
Thanks
HugoNS
Web Consultant
// Lisbon Lab http://blog.lisbonlab.com
Welcome to the
Hugo,
Take a look at Steptwo.com.au and look through to the section on their
Intranet Innovation Awards. Lots of good info there.
Steve
2008/9/19 Hugo Neves da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everybody
I'm working on an intranet project. Does anybody can point me any sites
with
screenshots of
Kordian, only the first post gets moderated. That's a features of
Mailman. second it is coded in PHP, but maybe Jeff can explain more.
The out of sync nature of the list is really only relevant if you are
using email w/ web. But if you use RSS with web you never experience
it. YOu also don't
I can agree to certain extent that browser window sizes are issues
when right menus are concerned. But looking at the trend a lot of
companies are opting to look different and it is this vision that
prompts them to change in the way we perceive or interpret user
experience.
Most of the browsers
Nick wrote:
As an aside, I'm sending this from my web-based version of home email
(it gets complicated). I fill in a text field to write this, then if I
go bottom left, the most obvious button is actually 'inbox', which
loses my inputs. I've done that more than once. So why am I looking to
I was personally a bit confused when i installed Firefox 3 and used
the Find feature for the first time. The widget order is:
Find: (? search string) [Next] [Previous]
This broke my mental model of the direction in the document.
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On Sep 19, 2008, at 6:07 AM, Tamlyn Rhodes wrote:
I didn't go straight for this solution is LukeW Etre's eye-
tracking study which showed that a form works best when the primary
action is on the left, aligned with the form fields.
That's also just one study, which contradicts years of HCI
I can't help but think in pictures, so I mocked up two more or less
efficient ways that both perspectives could work well, here:
http://tinyurl.com/3k2d92
Obviously, they're 5 minute mockups, but perhaps it might help
clarify the two different views. In the first case, it would seem
pretty
Brian,
But wouldn't this layout work better than any of those three?
http://gallery.me.com/jackmoffett#100025
On Sep 19, 2008, at 1:50 AM, Bryan Minihan wrote:
In the first case, it would seem
pretty silly to put the Previous button to the left of Next, while in
cases 2 and 3, Previous
Jack,
Yeah, that's probably the design I would wind up with, myself =]
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Welcome to the
Smiley Cat has a gallery of just well done elements of web sites:
http://www.smileycat.com/design_elements/
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The primary goal is getting concerned with the lives of others.
Listen to McLuhan opinion on global village (AKA Facebook) at 15 minutes
in this TED talk on rivalry between TV and computers.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/peter_hirshberg_on_tv_and_the_web.html
I call this primary goal
Caroline,
great explanation; I've got only one doubt - your thesis assumes
that users in every moment see only one thing they are just looking
at. They notice button when they look directly on button.
I have the impression that - at least more advanced - users notice
distinctive, characteristic
Does anyone know of any studies that weigh various password strength
requirements (e.g. minimum 8 characters, one capital letter, one number
of symbol) with users' ability to remember the passwords?
Or, on a more practical level, reports that track password strength
requirements vs. increased
From my time at Yahoo (admittedly 2003-2005) working with search
quantifiably, we found that a big box improves visibility (i.e. more
queries) but doesn't improve number of words in query (despite an old
Neilson book suggestion). Adding type in the box reduces usage (you know,
the type search here
Hi Meredith,
There is a lot of information in the area. In the 70's IBM did a lot
of research on this (as well as others). It mostly came out of IT and
human factors publications. I would imagine that in the era of
homeland security this is getting some additional funding.
When I worked in this
I'm sorry, but the cynicism is quite startling here. Can't it just
be as simple as 'ambient intimacy'? It's a different model than
Twitter or Plurk, but it really feels the same to me.
Further, it is feature rich in a very approachable way for people
like grandmas and uncles without the
When I worked in this field, we used to explain that usability and
security, at the extremes were two opposite ends of a continuum.
Adding to one nearly always compromised the other. I know it is a bit
simplistic, but it works as a quick explaination.
Thanks, Mark. I am quite familiar with
On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:07:12 +0100, Tamlyn wrote:
I like Oleh's suggestion of showing a summary of previous choices with
an option to edit each. That's something we do elsewhere on the site
and it seems to work.
I think that speaks to what I think is a generally accepted principle
of user
On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:50:23, Bryan wrote:
I can't help but think in pictures, so I mocked up two more or less
efficient ways that both perspectives could work well, here:
http://tinyurl.com/3k2d92
Bryan, that's great. It's been pointed out more than once that we're
discussing the issues
Well, the reality of the stringent password policy issue is that
people will find lazy workarounds unless they are invested in the
liability. Meaning... if it is their credit card that will be used,
they 'may' be concerned and motivated. I did quite a bit of
ethnography on this and collected a
Dave wrote:
Kordian, only the first post gets moderated. That's
a features of Mailman. second it is coded in PHP, but
maybe Jeff can explain more.
All new members are moderated by default, and as I understand it they
remain that way until an administrator manually turns off that setting
in
How do you post or start a new topic to the discussion.
thanks
Nathan
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Bryan: going to mockups was such a brilliant move!
Talking and talking and talking about design, art, or any craft,
should be left to critics - i.e., failed designers / artists /
craftsmen.
My suggestion:
http://icograma.com/qd/next-prev-100026.gif
--
Santiago Bustelo // icograma
Buenos
Okay, this isn't strictly speaking about password usability...but
it's an issue that concerns me. It's my belief that this represents
the usability end of the continuum.
My bank (yes, that's right...my *bank*) uses a method that they swear
is extremely difficult to hack (in fact, the switched
Brett brings up another possibility - has anyone ever implemented
passphrases or graphical passwords on their websites? I've never seen
them on the web (only in non-web applications, like passphrases for WEP
keys).
I'm curious if there are any downsides to passphrases in particular. I
don't think
I think you just found out.
:)
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Nathan Philpot
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How do you post or start a new topic to the discussion.
thanks
Nathan
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I think you just did it.
Matt.
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Nathan Philpot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do you post or start a new topic to the discussion.
thanks
Nathan
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Send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
Yes, we KNOW, it makes sense to do it through the web but there were
interaction and technical issues during the design phase that led us
to this temporary decision of not having it directly in the Web
interface.
-- dave
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Sorry about that, what I meant was, How do post a new discussion on
the ixda.org. If it turns out that I can't, here it is.
I know of a recruiter in Austin, TX looking of IxDs. Anybody
interested let me know and I can't pass you the info.
thanks
Nathan
On Sep 19, 2008, at 2:49 PM, Matthew
On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:51:58, Sachin wrote:
Most of the browsers are viewed with maximized windows and with
options of adding a tab within the browser window the users by
default would maximize the windows. This will not allow the right
hand side menus to go out of the browser windows. Moreover
Actually, what happens if we respond to a digest version from client?
Can we jump into a conversation we receive as a digest directly from
our email client or do we need to come to the site?
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hitting reply to a digest email will do a few things:
1. you will get the right address, no worries.
2. it will quote your entire digest ... usually considered bad form
and against the guidelines
3. it will keep the subject line the digest heading info ... against
the guidelines
Options:
1. do
Dave wrote:
hitting reply to a digest email will do a few things:
This isn't right. Please don't reply directly to digest e-mails;
you'll get the wrong address and your reply won't make it to the
discussion list. The new thread digests come from a separate digest
address, specifically to
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