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I am redesigning a custom file browser for an app.
- In the name of user experience, stop right there, turn back, and
don't ever think about doing that again.
Reason? You may try as hard as you want now, but in a few years, new
version of OS will come, improving the common dialogs, and your
One of our Government of Canada clients, located in Ottawa, requires
the services of an Interaction Designer (Web front-end developer) for
a contract that runs until March 2010. The ideal candidate will:
have experience with user-centred design;
have created mock-ups and user
Rob:
I've been an IxD professional for more than 10 years and an amateur
urban planning geek for many years as well. In grad school I took
some architecture and planning classes to fill out my IxD and overall
tech experience in preparation for working in this area.
It's odd that you bring this
One of our Government of Canada clients, located in Ottawa, requires
the services of an Interaction Designer (Web front-end developer) for
a contract that runs until March 2010. The ideal candidate will:
have experience with user-centred design;
have created mock-ups and user
Hi,
Has anyone tried developing PC based prototype for touch gesture UI
using laptop touchpad?
The problem situation is:
The laptop touchpad record the movement as relative, so if I move my
finger from left to right on touchpad, the mouse cursor reaches the
right edge of the monitor.
Then when I
I know this is more an emotional design example but I think it is a
good example:
Transmission, by George Walker, is a proposal to insert a
transmitter into the road at the site of each non-motorist
(pedestrians or cyclists) fatality, communicating the name of the
person killed and the number of
Chris -
'They' and 'their' are increasingly popular as singular personal
pronouns. There is even a Wikipedia page on the subject (so it must be
trueg) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
Certainly 'they' and 'their' are much less clumsy than 'he or she' and
'his or her'.
Regards,
Hi, Chris.
I still use the icon view for *some* folders even though I have been
using Windows since the late 1980's (version 1 of Windows was several
years late which set the scene for many following releasesg - I had a
brief encounter with version 2, but Windows really didn't take off until
3.1
Hi Rob,
Not so much an answer to your question, but instead another interesting
example :)
I don't know if you are familiar with the work of the late Hans Monderman,
but if not, you should definitely take a look at his work. Basically, making
things *seem *more dangerous makes drivers slow down
Speaking of Hans Monderman, he's featured in the book Traffic by
Tom Vanderbilt, which is a great and fun to read book that talks a
lot about the human factors of driving. It made me think of how the
lessons of interaction design could be applied to the design of
intersections and roundabouts.
You might be interested in CityID's work:
http://www.cityid.co.uk/
Particularly their Journey PDF:
http://www.cityid.co.uk/Images/City ID journey.pdf
And this follow-up post in Creative Review (Designing a Legible
City):
http://bit.ly/RcKn0
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Dave -
Sorry for the delay in replying but I was away last week (in a cottage
with no WiFi!).
Christopher Alexander was an architect that wrote the book that gives us
the term 'design pattern'. However, his interest was towns and
buildings, so I don't recommend that you rush out and buy it. Not
Hi all,
Great responses!
You've given me lots of resources, books links - will keep me out of trouble
for a while.
No less important, is the way to approach the relevant authorities. Really
important to find the right person who understands and is prepared to
champion the issues (basically: the
Here's your correction, William - a gallery of real built spaces on
Alexander's principals, from his website: http://www.patternlanguage.com/picturegallery/picturegallery.htm
He was a real working architect with college campuses, numerous public
buildings and private residences to his
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Joan Vermette jayeff...@mac.com wrote:
Here's your correction, William - a gallery of real built spaces on
Alexander's principals, from his website:
http://www.patternlanguage.com/picturegallery/picturegallery.htm
He was a real working architect with college
HeathWallace, a specialist in creating on-line solutions, is looking
to fill a 3 month contract position. Primarily the role will involve
the construction of wireframes, user flows and site maps using
existing research.
Applicants should send their resumes to
chicago.jobs.2...@heathwallace.com
Here's how I rationalize the their idiom: heshe makes it
plural and, thus, their. It's still wrong. My inner nun says to
translate it into Latin and see how it works. (Or choose any other
language besides English, say, Russian or Japanese.) And partner
seems so cold, while significant other
You'd have to modify the drivers, which are proprietary, at least on
windows, you might have more luck with using linux and googling for
how to switch touchpad to absolute mode (you'll probably need some
skills with gcc though...).
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Apparently, it is also called tablet mode, or stylus mode. Good luck
searching!
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Welcome to
Does anyone know of any Recruiters in the UK that deal specifically
with Interactive Design Jobs?
Thanks
Michael
MD
www.creativepool.co.uk
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Hi, I have a list of items to sell on a landing page.
From left to right each item has a clickable thumbnail, the name
(big) followed by the description (small) and a big green button to
buy.
I want to highlight 1 sentence in the description (4 words in a
description of 30 words) and I want the
Michael -
If you join either london_usability or london-ia at groups.yahoo.com you
will see quite a few postings from UK agencies. Here are a few recent
posters:
http://aquent.co.uk
http://www.evolveconsultinguk.com
http://www.zebrapeople.com
http://www.abrs.com
Regards,
William Hudson
There are also some groups at LinkedIn where recruiters announce roles in
the UK:
UX http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=72842
IA http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=80164
UX Pros http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=38178
UX Jobs http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1438187
UIDG
Rob,
Checkout this recent post on Adaptive Path's blog. It's regarding a
city planning project where the designers used a use of concept to
communicate their idea to their stakeholders.
http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2009/07/05/use-of-concept-the-best-proof-of-concept/
Oh and if you're
Just pointing out that it's significantly less common.
Really? Because it sounded to me like you were stating some abolute rules
with neither credible citations nor a sophisticated theory of linguistic
evolution behind them.
Not at all. Sorry if it appeared that way. But please, let's not
Hi,
My company is looking for an external agency that can deliver a complete UI
specification for touchscreen mobile device.
If you know of a US agency that is suited for the job, please reply to me ASAP.
RFP for Writing UI Spec for Mobile Phone
Timeframe: 3 months work (start soon)
Due
When you've got this kind of question, it's usually best to start by
reconsidering the way you've cast the whole thing. Can you put the
info into two separate boxes (or otherwise divide them?). Then you
have the section where you ask for the person's data and the section
where you ask for
Building on that idea, you could have the label change to His Birthday
if the person selects that the SO is a male, Her Birthday if selects
that SO is a female. Not sure though what you would do with the
Self-Identifies As, maybe Other with a Their Birthday label (course,
then we get back to that
Since we're swapping links about improving the experience of cities, I'll
say:
- I'm fond of the Project for Public Spaces: http://www.pps.org/
- One great expression of PPS at work is the Chicago site:
http://www.placemakingchicago.com/
- Might be worth looking at the Cleveland Urban Design
I've often wanted to build a form with gender input as a slider rather than
radio buttons.
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On 22-Jul-09, at 6:08 AM, Rob Epstein wrote:
One would expect town planners and similar roles to be well versed in
usability, but as we see in our cities, public transportation and so
on,
this is not always so.
I think you'll find planners to be very well-versed in these concepts,
Marc Rettig
I've often wanted to build a form with gender input as a slider rather
than radio buttons.
You might enjoy this t-shirt:
http://nopitycity.com/shirts/gender-malefemaleother
Cheers
Caroline Jarrett
Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability www.formsthatwork.com
On 22 Jul 2009, at 19:00, Caroline Jarrett wrote:
Marc Rettig
I've often wanted to build a form with gender input as a slider
rather
than radio buttons.
You might enjoy this t-shirt:
http://nopitycity.com/shirts/gender-malefemaleother
There were some fascinating discussions over in
Thanks guys.
Well even really I was looking at even simpler solutions and
supporting data, mainly with an aim to justify/explain/promote
spending on website maintenance and development during the recession
what with budget cuts and all.
Clearly a website that is neglected causes a huge amount
These two fields seem very related. In fact, one could argue that
instructional design is really the precursor to interaction design.
Both involve in-depth needs analysis, both are focused on defining
user's needs and goals, both involve gathering user feedback via
usability testing. In my
I'd recommend Nick Cochrane(Zebra People) and Be Kaler Blake (Aquant)
for Web UX design, and Seak Pook (IC Software) and Bo Cheng (Evolve
Consulting) for mobile UX design.
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:08:55, Michael Tomes mich...@creativepool.co.uk wrote:
Does anyone know of any Recruiters in the UK
Their
Great thoughts here!
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I have worked with Trinsic Interactive (US agency) and they extensive
knowledge in UI specifications for touchscreen mobile devices.
http://www.trinsicinteractive.com/
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The Vista UX Guidelines have information that may help you make a
decision:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511280.aspx#listviews
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Note that the link above is incomplete, since the #listviews bookmark
didn't take in the hyperlink.
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From the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/automobiles/19design.html
And a blog reply from Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish (but not written by him):
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/07/ford-targets-imaginary-customer.html
(Frankly, a fairly uninspired
This is a good debate and both sides have some good points. Language
does evolve of course, but the results of evolution might be good or
bad. I might have missed a few of the messages, but I'm curious about
the distribution of reactions of users who read the constructions that
we are discussing.
Chauncey, you did a much better job at articulating what I was getting
at in my post. Of course (as has already been pointed out) the
audience matters but I worry about things like credibility and brand
image. I'd hate to give site users reason to question the site
sponsor's knowledge of grammar.
Just as I would expect the visitor to know Pinker's homonym
contribution to language cognition. ;)
aka
There's too many theirs there!
On Jul 22, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Adam Lerner wrote:
Chauncey, you did a much better job at articulating what I was getting
at in my post. Of course (as has
Hi Elizabeth:
A starting point - Customer Support on the Web: Don't Call Us,
We'll Call You
With some references at the end of the article -
http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2007/11/customer-support-on-the-web-dont-call-us-well-call-you.php
rgds,
Dan
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Hi all,
I was just wondering if anyone knew good examples of date search on
mobile web.Specifically talking about html driven stuff, not iphone
apps.
The difficultly with date based searches on mobile, I am realising is
error prevention (in the absence of relying on ajax) and fatigue at
the
Ok, so this turned into a three-part diagram, not two, and what I
thought were the characteristics in part-two turned into the
principles of part-three, but whatever, design is iterative
right? I'd really like to stress-test this again - comments please!
(this is what I wrong on Richard's blog)
As someone who harshed on Mr. Dalton last time, I gotta say that this
really came together.
My only comment would be that your qualities stack (base chemicals)
dichotomies is a framework, but not a complete list. I think there
are many more that could be
maybe news search is one of them, :)
Cheers,
-- Jarod
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Melissa Cooper melcoo...@exemail.com.auwrote:
Hi all,
I was just wondering if anyone knew good examples of date search on
mobile web.Specifically talking about html driven stuff, not iphone
apps.
The
TaT (u.s.) may help you.
Cheers,
-- jarod
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Patricia Mourthé patricia...@yahoo.comwrote:
Hi,
My company is looking for an external agency that can deliver a complete UI
specification for touchscreen mobile device.
If you know of a US agency that is suited for
I'd argue that the whole thing is an interface, not just intersections.
For example, did you know that the M4 motorway in the UK was designed not to
have any straight sections? The idea was to force drivers to maintain a
certain level of alertness and activity, to avoid zoning out as they might
Hi IxDAers; hope this has been shaping up to be a lovely, if not muggy, week
for all of you. Here's something cool + refreshing.and apologies for
cross-post.
Seeking a fulltime Sr Content Strategist for award-winning, large,
prestigious and longstanding global agency's NYC office. Local
I'd argue that the whole thing is an interface, not just
intersections.
Indeed. And I'd also add that it's not just about the design of
the driving experience, but also of the entire urban experience
(being a pedestrian, being a cyclist, using public spaces, etc.).
This is sometimes referred
uBid has an interesting solution: they appear to create filters out of
the search results once a user has narrowed the query somewhat, and
then they treat it almost like customizing (Choose Your New Car):
http://bit.ly/rcEfi
(If you click Edit on any of the choices under Modify Your Car,
the
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