That's a horrible website.
I couldn't see the product very well, and there is no way of viewing a
bigger picture or enhancing the zoom or anything.
usabilityprofessionals.com, my ass. There was no usability there.
On Oct 28, 2008, at 10:08 PM, Ellen Smith wrote:
The Usability Professionals
Hi Wills,
I thought GDD is one of the best IxD process ( and there's simple
diagrams in both books, but it makes great sense). If you expect a all
in one diagram, yes, that's definitly not that scale.
Cheers,
-- Jarod
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Will Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Um...
>
> http://www.troyworks.com/menu.html
>
Sorry, it's a bit hard for me to use it after some trying. there's
maybe some reasons
1. adapt to the normal menu design patterns
2. it's easier to read the in line mode instead of circle mode, which
may have big influnce on daily point/action work
But if i
Of *course* people don't read the T&Cs. They're too long and convoluted.
I sometimes think that's just how the lawyers like it. ;-)
A nice solution is:
1. A scrollable text field (or link to a T&C page/box) that you can skip
if you're so inclined. The legal responsibility for that is yours, just
a
I love radial / orbital menus which are related to pie. Especially when
dealing with deeply nested hierarchies as on windows/web, it's SOOO easy to
accidently mouse off a deeply nested menu, and then have to retraverse it,
to miss it again!
Even back in 2005 I had one on my site (still up). It's
The Usability Professionals Association (UPA) has a great poster
titled "Designing the User Experience".
Mine came with my membership. They can also be ordered at:
http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/upa_store/books_and_posters/index.html#poster
It's one of my favorites!
~Ellen Smith
Sr. In
Good Evening All
Not long ago, Bruce Mau, The Vancouver Art Museum and American Express
staged the Massive Change exhibit that I traveled to Vancouver twice to see.
It was profound in its support for the premise that design changes the world
and the need then to change design. You'll find more inf
Please join us at the next IxDA Silicon Valley F2F!
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
7:00-7:30 pm
Socializing
7:30-9:30 pm
Program
Cross-Cultural User Experience Design for Mobile User Interfaces and
Social Networking: What? So What? No What?
Aaron Marcus
Mobile devices and social networking are wo
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Andy Polaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think it's better to immediately try and show people what they can make
> and how to get started rather than show them images of models' and actors'
> made-up happy lives.
Disco.
Moo.com is EXACTLY what I'm looking for! Thanks so much. The Hero Box is
clean and unobtrusive. The call's to action are simple and effective.
I hadn't been aware of the methodology to allow a user to create and sign up
at the end, which Will Evans brought up. Thanks, Will. I'll read up on that.
It seems like no one actually clicked the link because there wasn't
any intro, simple some slides to introduce the value proposition.
Anthony, I think the best timing is one where there's sufficient
time for the user to read the material but at rate that you have
enough rotation so that you can sh
On Oct 28, 2008, at 1:46 p, allison wrote:
My point was that while interactive products need to have great
interaction, not every interactive product needs to have *visual*
design. What about the Metro card machines in the NYC subway system?
They're cute but the UI is pretty basic. Despite this
great point -- as there are also many ticketing machines that are well
designed, visually, but hard to use. Some because they use similar or
even the same slot for inserting ccard or ticket (that always throws
me off); or because the sequencing of steps is out of visual order
(e.g. not to
Hi Jerome,
Will's right. Design is both a noun and a verb. In the book
Toothpicks and Logos, John Heskett put it like this: "Design is to
design a design to produce a design."
The gut-based response you're talking about sounds to me like what
some would call "genius design," and what I call extem
I think it's better to immediately try and show people what they can
make and how to get started rather than show them images of models'
and actors' made-up happy lives.
As an in-between, MOO do a pretty good job of this: http://
www.moo.com/ There is a hero box animation that's relatively
A lot of companies are doing this now. It's much more acceptable than a
flash intro page. There are ways to do it with JavaScript too.
Never assume a user knows something.
Mario
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Anthony Zeoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I should have been more specific. It¹s th
Mark Canlas wrote:
> So you would advocate letting users set blank or English-word
passwords?
I actually wrote, "I would certainly not advocate weak passwords".
But your words left me thinking and I changed my mind.
For the advocacy to work, I will need some credibility. Something as
"Certified I
Amazon DOES have minimum password requirements:
>
I tried to change my current password to "easy"...
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http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=34957
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Responding to Mark's comment, there is a feeling that as designers,
we're helping to support a voracious appetite, deploy toxic
advertising and other not-so-healthy interests. Part of the idea of
human-centered design principles is to produce something that serves
humans in a positive way. However,
I should have been more specific. It¹s the Hero box on the home page, not a
flash splash page. We¹re trying to give the user some visual stimulation
that they can create photo books. The current UI and visual assumes the user
knows what a ³photo book² is and uses the image to try to convey to the u
"Personally, I would rather be boiled in hot oil while my fingernails are
pulled out through my nostrils than watch a flash intro." - Mario B.
I stand by that statement, but that is purely the opinion of myself as an
end user.
I know that we, as designers, are trying to push the edge on stuff and
> that there is a strong dependency on how/if the interaction will
work
Rein, what do you mean by this?
I'm under the impression that "how/if the interaction will work"
would be the main focus of an interaction designer's job... This
statement sort of sounds like, well, it's not...??
. . . .
O.
The hero box! That is so much different. that smilebooks flash thing doesn't
seem to offer alot of bang for the buck - just simple marketing benefit
statements -
Refocused on how easy it is to create one of those things in 4/5/6 steps
seems much better.
If you site is similar to smile
We may be talking about different things here. Never said strong
passwords are an "inconvenience".
Ali Naqvi started this thread asking: "Why cant a username
'ABS_4u' have the following password 'Malemodel_14?
Strong password: for passwordmeter.com's algorithm, 'Malemodel_14'
strenght is sufficie
Go to any Kinkos and sign into one of their self-serve computers.
Their terms and conditions make you scroll to the bottom of the
textbox before activating the buttons.
// jeff
bmclaughlin wrote:
> However, I am still looking for samples.
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Further complicating things our workplace are our titles, such as
"interacTIVE designers"--the ones who do the visual interface
design--and "interacTION designers", who do more of the IA work,
testing, etc.
Ah, the need for buckets to put people into...
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I think most companies who care about having great interaction
design would also have at least pretty good and probably great
visual design.
Have you used Craigslist in the last 5 years? What visual designer
would put the Craigslist design in their portfolio?
Yup. It's a great idea, servi
> Ah, but the question was (I think) whether they have great
interactions even if they don't have great visual design.
I understood the question to be 'Can the designer create great
interaction without great visual design skills?' This seems like a
difficult question to answer objectively withou
On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:49 AM, Andy Polaine wrote:
I think most companies who care about having great interaction
design would also have at least pretty good and probably great
visual design.
Have you used Craigslist in the last 5 years? What visual designer
would put the Craigslist design
On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Santiago Bustelo wrote:
"it is the job of every designer to blunt and, where possible,
eliminate the lawyer's attempts to sabotage your company's
products".
Or die trying.
Welcome to the Interaction
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081028-first-look-at-windows-7.html
Ars Technica's glowing 'first look' piece on Windows 7's UI revamp.
Compare and contrast all the things Vista did wrong with the "brave
move by the company" that is Windows 7.
If Peter Bright
I guess it might be clear by now, but just not a big fan of the flash intro
http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=29277 where we discussed before, though
in a different context.
Some quotes from others:
"Agh! No, no and no! I've spent a good many years trying to convince
clients to stop this p
understanding what the context is - a first time user hitting your website
what is the objective, goal, strategy? If the tactic you choose is Flash
Intro, and the Goal is to showcase your flash designer's mad skills, and the
objective is to annoy the first time or second time visitor - then flash
i
Reality Check - Card-issuing banks and VISA/Mastercard are NOT the
same thing.
While you are correct that two algorithms can measure the
strength/weakness of a password differently, the financial
responsibility is NOT ultimately with the user, but it rests
currently on the merchant and VISA/Mas
to Mark,
you have to keep in mind that my post was concerning Online Forum and
Job Application passwords. I did not mention B2B or any other site
where credit card information is needed.
Lets for instance say that I am a Nigerian mother wanting to discuss
children in a forum for mothers. Why should
hi,
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 13:25 +, james horgan wrote:
> actually i wanted to add something to what i was writing as this
> reminds me of the same problem i used to have as an industrial
> designer. Whether to call myself an industrial or a product designer.
I solved my design education in Ge
Hi,
I would say there is more than enough blame to go around than just
saying its Wall Street. I probably differ than most views here,
but in my book, its really greed based. That applies to all of us,
consumers, the
high ups on Wall Street, the get all the money they can CEO's, those in
*C
Andy wrote`No! Don't do that. Most of the world doesn't call it a
Zip code and every country has different formats. I hate it when I
get funnelled into a form using one country's terminology only.`
Exactly! And what do you do if you live in Karachi, Pakistan??
Karachi does not have a zipcode or pos
you could write `country of depature` instead of country of origin.
Depature and origin means two different things.
Ali
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So you would advocate letting users set blank or English-word passwords? The
user may think these are "secure enough". But what will they think when
their funds are depleted by someone who broke into their account?
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Santiago Bustelo
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Chri
Chris Vestal wrote:
> http://usa.visa.com
> It is not about security through "inconvenience" but there are
real technical reasons for strong passwords at least on e-commerce
sites.
Usually is about inconvenience *instead* of security. The most
commonly used security "metric" is how safe users feel
Design is both the act of creation (verb); [THE] Design is a deliverable.
To use the word response seems like a misuse of the word. If one starts by
defining a problem/space, proceeds through various brainstorming/ideation
activities/and produces some artifact - that artifact could be THE design,
I recommend zero seconds.
More seriously, what are you trying to "introduce", is an
"introduction" necessary, and is Flash the right tool for the task.
Once you can answer those questions, you'll see that the recommended
length is "what the introduction requires", no more and no less.
--
Jerome - No hoax, Charles Jorgensen of NASA has been work on
subvocalization technology for several years:
Even when reading or speaking to oneself with or without actual lip
or facial movement, biological signals arise. While using the NASA
subvocal system, a person thinks of a phrase and talks
I think it's 0 seconds.
Seriously, we had this conversation in-house today and I am surprised that
(1) we are still building Flash intros; (2) that we'd build something (on
the web) that needs an intro, a (required) tutorial; and (3) that the we
slice the pie such that we look to solve the problem
I recently saw an piece on the Discovery Channel regarding this
technology. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the show or
when it was on, except "a week or so ago". But essentially, here's
how it works, in a nutshell:
They (the scientists) discovered that when a person is speaking, his
A sensor that recognises subvocalization?!
My Google search, define:subvocalize, gives only 2 def'ns:
- Articulate without making audible sounds; "she was reading to herself and
merely subvocalized"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
- To form words or statements in thought and express them inwa
What¹s the recommended time to run a Flash movie introducing a site, its
content and available tools to a new user on arrival.
Example, see http://www.smilebooks.com/
I think this one runs for 8-9 seconds end to end.
Thanks!
--
Anthony Zeoli | ZAAH.COM
VP Product & Business Development
e: [EM
Yesterday one of my colleagues said that, when solving a problem, the response
IS the design. (That is, Response and Design are interchangeable synonyms.)
Really: Response = Design and Design = Response? Isn't it that Design
_leads_to_ the Response?
In my view, Design requires analysis and meth
> For mac, the equivalent would be Trampoline:
> http://www.old-jewel.com/trampoline/
Sweet — I already love it! Thanks for the tip.
I've used QuickSilver for at least a year now, but Trampoline is a
nice alternative for those core apps I open all the time. (Doesn't
work so well for folders, thou
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Wall Street has gotten itself and the rest of the world in a huge mess.
Could good design save the world? Some basic design principles not only
apply well to products and services, but also to policy!
http://danielmckenzie.com/blog/2008/10/what-wall-street-could-learn-from-goo
d-design/
-
If a user has ADHD, then there is software to help them keep (and
even create) strong passwords.
I usually just use this one: ••
;-)
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
To post to this list
I'm glad seeing interests for pie menus. They have some limitations
(ie.: screen space and number of elements) but present major
advantages offer linear menus. One I like is the possibility to use
marks for selection instead of pointing. Gordon Kurtembach made a
Ph.D. thesis on the subject, calling
I'll be honest. My first reaction upon clicking the link was to laugh
out loud. It's a combination between a tricorder and the tape player
I had when I was eleven.
My more measured response is to question the wisdom of mediating
field research with this kind of technology. When I'm carrying out
us
When I first saw the title of this thread, I processed the word "make" as to
create.
as in "Why should designers create more".
Before I clicked in to read the thread, I was already answering the
question.
"How can't we create more? It's what we do. It's what we love. It's in
our blood."
Of cour
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:51:29, David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> what gets me is how valuable this would be for more than UX, but
> extend it to almost any field observation recon auditing type
> activity.
The thing that amuses me is imagining the researchers working on this
project obs
These strong password requirements were not invented by evil
programmers designed to thwart the heroic efforts of usability
experts across the globe...
It is one of the minimum "due diligence" requirements (PCI) for
merchants who want to accept major credit cards online.
http://usa.visa.com/merc
Hi Mike,
Lateral movement is easier, shorter is quicker. The pie chart has a larger
area in terms of direction of travel i.e. there is more tolerance. The pie is
smaller but its nearer. See Fitt's Law for a mathematical view.
Ivor Tillier
Senior Web Producer
-Original Message-
http
This device really is a back stage pass. Just carry one of these to any event
along with a name-tag and your in.
Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network
-Original Message-
From: David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:51:29
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
what gets me is how valuable this would be for more than UX, but
extend it to almost any field observation recon auditing type
activity.
I likey!
I'd like to buy a set for my contextual research project class,
please. ;-)
-- dave
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I'm gonna start saving for one of these.
--
Brett Lutchman
Web Slinger.
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Must admit that the concept has me drooling.
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Fred Beecher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/28/08, David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/design_researchers_a_tablet_to_call_your_own_11556.asp
>
>
>
> Tal
Very recent suggestion I have provided in my current project, which I
felt reasonably good solutions to overcome this password remembering
hassle.
I agree with this issue, me also forgetting password for so many
websites and application where my password is not come into my
password generating pat
Hello everyone, I'm new to IxDA, glad to be part of this. I wanted to share
this interesting article:
http://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/pie-in-the-sky/
What are your thoughts?
- Mike
avisena.com
mikecuesta.com
--
It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
_
On 10/28/08, David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/design_researchers_a_tablet_to_call_your_own_11556.asp
Talk about a necessary niche. They're right, we really don't have a lot of
tools (though paper & pencil can be extremely flexible). This is
Hi Wendy,
I was on the hunt for some sample UCD/design process diagrams just last
week. Managed to compile a bunch (good and bad) into a slide deck. I'll
send along to you directly once I get on to my work computer. If anyone
else wants a copy of the samples, let me know.
There is, btw, a proc
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Mark Canlas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's the programmer-sympathetic counter to what you're saying.
> Users tend to choose the easiest-to-type passwords. These passwords also
> tend to be the easiest to break in to.
All of my strong passwords are easy to type
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/design_researchers_a_tablet_to_call_your_own_11556.asp
The folks over at Bressler Group under Robert Tanen came up with a
nifty tool for the field researcher on your Chrismakawanzisolkah list.
-- dave
--
David Malouf
http://synapticburn.com/
http://ixd
Something I feel VERY strongly about is changing the perceived value of
designers/design
in many companies, and consequently the compensation designers receive
relative to engineers, etc.
I plan to write several articles about this and hopefully have some
impact...
First entry - future ones will h
Mark Canlas wrote:
> No end-user is willing to take responsibility for a compromised
system.
Asking users to choose a password compels them to take
responsibility. Their cost/benefit judgement (strong vs. easy to
remember password in regard to their perceived value of what is at
stake) should be t
Hello Mark,
as I stated earlier the `regular expression` needed in order to
prevent misuse should allow a user to use the same digit in his/her
password as used in the username.
When I took the course PHP and MYSQL I learned that `regular
expressions` can be used in a userfriendly manner.
. . . .
actually, yeah... if at all possible, kinda need to have more insight
this week for work scheduling purposes.
On Oct 26, 2008, at 7:42 AM, Will Evans wrote:
Any update on Skiing at Interactions|09
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:47 PM, greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We should have the package
Here's the programmer-sympathetic counter to what you're saying.
Users tend to choose the easiest-to-type passwords. These passwords also
tend to be the easiest to break in to.
No end-user is willing to take responsibility for a compromised system.
None.
The potential cost of recovering/auditing/
Many of you might have tried creating an account online in order to
participate in an online forum or in order to apply for a job in a major
corporation.
Many times a password needs to consist of the following-
A capital letter
A digit or sometimes 2 digits
Minimum 8 Characters
The password must n
Um...
Jared - I read both of those books, and there is not UX process diagram in
them.
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Jarod Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.amazon.com/Inmates-Are-Running-Asylum/dp/0672316498
> Alan cooper's above book ( with about face ).
>
> Cheers,
> -- Jarod
>
>
*frog design and IxDA NY present:*
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A conversation with Nokia's Jan Chipchase on effective design research
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Date: Wednesday November 5th, 2008
Registration: 6:00pm (refreshments served) Please arrive by 6 to
http://www.amazon.com/Inmates-Are-Running-Asylum/dp/0672316498
Alan cooper's above book ( with about face ).
Cheers,
-- Jarod
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Will Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Buy Dan Brown's Communicating Design - it will get you on your way.
>
>
> . . . . . . . . . . . .
http://www.switched.com/2008/10/16/employees-can-now-clock-in-with-their-cell-phones/
"The methods for tracking employees have evolved as companies attempt
to reign in spending and increase productivity. 'The Man' never
sleeps, and pretty soon, the opportunity for the working man to
exercise his r
I have multiple uses for Twitter. Depending on the context (there's
that word again) one or several of those uses come into play at a
given time.
Stay in touch with friends and colleagues distributed around the
world: Will, Dan and Dave have all discussed ambient intimacy. The
casual contact and c
2 thoughts on the 140char count:
1. It has actually improved my writing and worsened my spelling.
2. Ya know, you can write across multiple tweets.
Cindy, great story. Ambient Intimacy is a great way of shoring up
long distance relationships for sure.
I guess Billy D or Rusty U.
-- dave
. . .
@ Andy. I am currently experiencing exactly this terminology problem
from a previous form someone made for our Newsletter management and
the system also by default used "ZipCode" for "Country" and that led
to problems, when you want to sort data and the list only allows
"equal", "greater than", etc
Buy Dan Brown's Communicating Design - it will get you on your way.
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Welcome to the Interactio
I am certainly not trying to make a case that it is a good idea to
force someone to scroll to the bottom to accept the T&C. I fully
agree there are better ways to handle this. And I also like the Apple
way of doing it.
However, the company is mandating that %u201Cthe user must reach the
end of the
Hi there,
We have a possible new project where we need to run some user testing
in Russia and Singapore.
If you are interested in working with us please call me on the number
below or drop me an email:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Regards
Joe Leech
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@ Andy Polaine %u2013 If I remember correctly, even though Apple
brings up another window to click Agree or not to, you still do not
have to reach the bottom of the T&C for the window to open.
Yes, that's right. But it does force an "Accept" or "Don't Accept"
decision before you can go any
Wendy,
Maybe it was my old IA Summit presentation about adding UX steps to RUP? In the
last part of that presentation I show how other companies than mine did that,
showing their diagrams and some annotations.
The slides are up at slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/pboersma/stux-ia-summit-2
WellI am glad I brought up the topic...
However, I am still looking for samples.
@ Andy Polaine %u2013 If I remember correctly, even though Apple
brings up another window to click Agree or not to, you still do not
have to reach the bottom of the T&C for the window to open.
@ Jay Morgan %u201
The Phone Book project in the UK (http://www.the-phone-book.com) do a
great project on short text writing. The winner one year was titled
"Everything I Had to Say the Day You Died". The rest of story was "...".
On 27 Oct 2008, at 20:41, Andreas Ringdal wrote:
Ernest Hemingway was once chal
If I remember correctly, when I got my new credit card with Virgin
Money, they had a T&C I had to sign, but they also had a human
version, which I actually read!
If I think of more personal services, such as getting a home loan
(anyone still get one of those these days?!) or a pension, draf
Ah, but the question was (I think) whether they have great
interactions even if they don't have great visual design.
I have a feeling that this is a self-selecting process, though. I
think most companies who care about having great interaction design
would also have at least pretty good and
If I remember correctly, when I got my new credit card with Virgin
Money, they had a T&C I had to sign, but they also had a human
version, which I actually read!
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
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That's awesome! Also, it should have a timer. Calculate how long it
would actually take to read and understand the terms and conditions
and then prevent the user from proceeding before that time has
elapsed. 45 minutes ought to do it. ;-)
// jeff
Santiago wrote:
> 1. Place a link or button labele
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