Re: [IxDA Discuss] Form Validation
I agree with Caroline on the need for UIs to exercise sufficient restraint when people are entering data. When designing interactions on web pages, I often refer to a little guy I keep in my head, who's a concierge in a high-class hotel, and imagine how he'd behave. A great concierge, maitre d', or waiter etc. doesn't trouble you for too much information. If they need a signature, it's made as easy as possible. Imagine if there's a mistake. They don't peer over your shoulder as you sign your credit card chitty in a restaurant. They give you a pen, and stand back giving you time to fill in the data. If there's a mistake, they'll wait an appropriate length of time and then more than likely apologise themselves for the mistake. If you were in a posh restaurant and the waiter was watching the pen as you totted up the tip, and jumped with Actually, it's $15.90 in as soon as you wrote the wrong digit, you'd just feel hassled. Surely it's no different online. - Ben (Caroline wrote) I've watched users working with forms like this. My concern is that they pretty much all (no matter how web-savvy) seem to jerk away from the screen in surprise as the ordinarily docile page suddenly starts changing on them before they've even typed anything much in the field. This worries me. For years, I've been advocating doing validations as soon as you can, but there seems to be something 'too soon' about interrupting the user's typing process to warn them about an error. It seems particularly bad on Mint.com - can't type a whole email address before it starts barking at me. So my current advice is to refrain from interrupting the conversation in this way. Let the user complete their entry as they naturally would, and only seize back control of the page when they've returned control to you. For example, by clicking on something else. *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] The applicability of NLP to interaction design.
Hah, I think I need to remember that the world is running out of space for three letter acronyms! Natural Language Processing certainly sounds very interesting and in an engineering world that's abstracted and represented in algebraic variables, I can certainly see an instant benefit for what I'm doing in understanding the material (if *nothing* else). Lisa I've taken your recommendation of Herb Clark's book and will grab it from Amazon forthwith. I suppose my take on Neuro Linguistic Programming (given the limited time I've spent looking at it) is that its techniques are based upon an model of the patterns that our minds follow - how we learn, retain information, behave, etc. which, assuming it is accurate, would be good for our overall understanding of humans. So in this respect, it might be able to help to remove a part of the uncertainty in any design that I undertake. My 'pretend its magic' (can you tell I've been reading?) aim for what I'm going to be doing is that I can use behavioural patterns so that out applications can be to our field what Derren Brown is to 'mind reading' (If you haven't heard of him, I suggest you go to Amazon and grab a DVD / unbox video - it is absolutely fascinating - and great entertainment to boot!). I gather his methods are partially rooted in the same sort of theory that Neuro Linguistic Programming is. It could be that it is a red herring - and human psychology as a whole is something I just need to look at more. After all, I have virtually no understanding of any sort of social science - I trained in Physics and Naval Architecture, so I've a very steep learning curve ahead of me in IxD. Re-reading this, perhaps I need to temper my enthusiasm and start slowly ( http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C01D844) =] Thanks, all, for the input! Alex. *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Style guides
Hi, Maybe someone know where I can find style guides for windows? Thanks a lot. Regards Darek Paciorek PS. Sorry if my english is bad. *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] SEO and Usability
If you optimize for humans, you will be optimizing for the search engines as well... Optimizing for the machine, on the other hand, leads to crappy, awkward text, and if you ask me is toeing the line between blackhat and whitehat techniques. What Fred says above should be the rule of thumb, accessibility for humans first lead to better SEO. Regards, Luis -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing great user experiences for Products:References, resources, books, discussion threads, websites etc
From: Timothy Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I've spent the last 4 years working in the user experience field for websites and mobile phone interfaces. Now, I'm embarking onto a new medium for me: consumer products. : : I'm looking for references, resources, books, discussion threads, websites etc that talk about usability testing, design guidelines and general advice for designing great user experiences for consumer products such as TVs, kitchen appliances, digital video recorders, household appliances etc. Hi Tim You might be interested in our textbook (Stone, Jarrett, Woodroffe, Minocha: User Interface Design and Evaluation) because it includes discussion of some consumer products as well as web sites and traditional computer interfaces. I think it would mostly be relevant for the way that it supports your feeling that (Disclosure: I get a nice warm feeling when people buy the book but the royalties go back to the Open Unversity). You might also be interested in 'Dynamics in Document Design (Karen Shriver) because she has an extended discussion of programming a VCR. But I'd recommend it anyway for the excellent advice on design of documents, especially those associated with consumer products. Best, Caroline Jarrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01525 370379 Effortmark Ltd Usability - Forms - Content - Original Message - To: IxDA Discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 12:58 PM Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Designing great user experiences for Products:References, resources, books, discussion threads, websites etc : Hi all. : : : I believe the principles of designing great user experiences are by : and large the same, but I'd like to learn more about how it, and : perhaps some of you are already working with this medium and have some : advice to offer. : : Please feel free to send me the references directly or through the list. : : Thanks. : : Tim.. : : : : *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* : February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA : Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ : : : Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! : To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe : List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines : List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help : This message has been comprehensively scanned for viruses, : please visit http://www.avg.power.net.uk/ for details. : : *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] SEO and Usability
I'm not an SEO expert by any means, but reading all this talk about how CSS will effect SEO results really SCREAMS to me my point that designing for SEO is a flawed methodology for total success. It seems the Search Engines actually need to optimize for the real world more than we need to optimize for them. Yes, they control the critical mass, but they are also a responsive system in and of themselves. If people are unhappy with their results over time they will change their systems to make people happier. The fact that a technology like a search engine (and a search engine that isn't even in our design domain) is something that we even consider is troubling to me to no end. This is NOT the same thing as considering accessibility which is about protecting the rights of human beings who are not of the critical mass (majority), who need protecting by that very fact. This is about favoring technology over human beings in total which to me is beyond unacceptable. I am now officially throwing my cap in the wing of anti-SEO. Fortunately designing hardware and embedded software means this doesn't really effect me to much ... ;) -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24134 *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] SEO and Usability
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 07:29:53, dave malouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not an SEO expert by any means, but reading all this talk about how CSS will effect SEO results really SCREAMS to me my point that designing for SEO is a flawed methodology for total success. It seems the Search Engines actually need to optimize for the real world more than we need to optimize for them. I don't think anyone here is saying that SEO-focused design is good design. I certainly agree with you that it is not. What we're saying is that designing and structuring content for human relevance will have the side effect of also being highly relevant to search engines. While the search engines aren't perfect, Google at least does a very good job of mimicking how humans determine relevance, which leads to good, relevant search results for users. If you have two Web pages that talk about the same topic but are structured differently, both humans and search engines will judge them differently. The page that has the topic in the title, subtopics in headers, and uses consistent terminology will be easier for humans to read and comprehend compared to the page that is unstructured and inconsistent. Similarly, a search engine will rank the structured consistent page higher than the unstructured inconsistent page. So it's happy times for everyone, human and machine alike. : ) Where the imperfections of search engines come through is where the blackhat SEO folks get their bread and butter... keyword stuffing, duplicate content, etc... Google's getting smarter about that sort of thing, though, and people are getting penalized in the rankings for pulling that kind of crap. I am *very* against that stuff. I wouldn't even call that SEO... hell, I'd call it cheating. I am now officially throwing my cap in the wing of anti-SEO. Fortunately designing hardware and embedded software means this doesn't really effect me to much ... ;) Heh... This is more a Web IA problem than a pure IxD problem, so that's definitely true. : ) - Fred *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing great user experiences for Products: References, resources, books, discussion threads, websites etc
*Don't Make Me Think* by Steve Krug is another good one (I have it sitting next to *Why We Buy* on my bookshelf at all times.) *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] SEO and Usability
Search engines are just one way for retrieval and indexing information, this the problem with SEO: it has a very limited technological scope based on a single model of information retrieval. A bit like a cancer for the cure, SEO makes pages easier to rank in search engine results but then nobody said that the page was relevant for me in first page. There's an aspect of SEO which is very interesting indeed: keyword searching, taxonomy and linguistic trends, but few are the SEO's who even understand what a taxonomy is all about. Many times the purpose of SEO is to put the page in the first positions so that more people come to a page where they can click on the paid ads for other pages: a bit like the salmon lifecycle, which goes all the way against the stream so that they can lay eggs, die, then when everything is washed downstream, eggs hatch, baby fish eats mum and dad's flesh and when they are adults they go all the way against the stream again for no purpose in life but populate the rivers. The success rate of most SEO campaigns out there are measured by the position of the web page in the results page, which definitely produces more traffic (another old model: traffic). It is a surge tactics, which might work for the owner of the site, but from the user perspective, if you are lucky to get a page with good content, good for you. Personally, I don't use Google anymore, I go straight to Wikipedia and then go to the links they have there. I also use Digg, which seems to me the emerging model for search, something SEO hasn't thought of yet, after all SEO is aimed for short-term results. Nevertheless, there are serious SEO consultancies out there, it is hard to spot them because there are too many failed web designers waving the SEO banner. Cheers, Luis I'm not an SEO expert by any means, but reading all this talk about how CSS will effect SEO results really SCREAMS to me my point that designing for SEO is a flawed methodology for total success... -- dave -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Cramming what we do into a few hours
Hi Baruch: I've been in that spot many times. The goal as I see it is to: 1. Get them to see the value of our work 2. Don't overwhelm them with details 3. Calm their fears that this will be disruptive by explaining how the work fits into the overall project process. Some years ago I developed the LUCID Framework for interaction design. I've found it to be a useful schema for presenting the work. I'd be happy to share it and other materials I have if they would be helpful. Charlie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24171 *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Cramming what we do into a few hours
Hello everyone, My company has given me the opportunity to teach incoming technical and project management type folks about what it is that we do. The goal is to help these folks understand where we come in in the overall product development methodology. I have about 2-3 hours to give these folks a sense of what our profession is about, our activities and the value it adds when properly incorporated into a project. So I am curious: given those admittedly loose parameters what topics should I be sure to cover? Thanks Baruch Sachs *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Cramming what we do into a few hours
I do this every 6 months for our new engineering classes. If I have only an hour, I cover roughly what Dan outlined. If I have a second hour, I dedicate it to something interactive. I'll start with something small, like a group design crit of one view in an app. Then I walk them through the process as if we were to design the thing correctly from scratch (e.g. after a contextual inquiry, a design research team came up with the following. Let's make somethingon the whiteboard.) Eventually it becomes design-by-committee and some opinion wars break out. That's when I have people recall the last time that happened to them, how much it sucked, and how we as IxDs/UX professionals can help avoid them and be more effective. Below the surface, the talk is a sales pitch for how my team can make their jobs much easier. Oh! And depending on how set-in-their-ways/experienced your audience is, you'll want to play up the fact that there is no right way to implement the process, e.g. you recognize that full-blown contextual inquiries are not always necessary or feasible, that the design process is itself designed for each product group depending on personalities, roles, etc. - Nasir *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] FW: The death of web usability testing as we know it?
quote While you can use it for this, to my knowledge its main purpose is to test campaign effectiveness. While I haven't used Offermatica in particular, I have been involved in campaigns where we did A/B testing with a limited audience. What we did was to test two different creative treatments/messages. It was pretty helpful, as one message converted significantly better than the other. When we launched the campaign nationwide, we did so with the campaign that converted better. Obviously. : ) I think the key to successfully using a product like this is to use it for something with an extremely limited scope. I'd never, EVER use it for a whole Web site. There are just too many confounding factors in that sort of situation that prevent a product like this from giving actionable information. Sure, it would give you data, but any conclusions you'd draw from that data would be basically made up. Now, if there is a particular area of the Web site that has a particular conversion or activity of interest, then that might be a situation in which such a product can yield actionable information. - Fred /quote When I was with GSI Commerce, we began to use Offermatica for exactly this purpose. At the time it could not be used to evaluate a workflow; the architecture was that you would designate an area of a tested page as an m-box, then put two or more variants in play and analyze their results. Multiple campaigns could be evaluated at a single time, but the data became suspect if the campaigns overlapped. One of the other shortcomings was that the page architecture had to be consistent; only the contents of the m-box could change. They could be different sizes, but your layout had better accommodate that or the whole page would get wonky (which happened a few times). It was not by any means a way of testing experience or workflow; and unless they have significantly improved their system architecture, it still isn't. All you can do is see if one way of treating one section of one page is better than another way. Hardly a substitute for usability testing or good interaction design, and probably not a particularly valuable tool. Dante Murphy | Director of Information Architecture | D I G I T A S H E A L T H 229 South 18th Street | Rittenhouse Square | Philadelphia, PA 19103 | USA Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.digitashealth.com *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Cramming what we do into a few hours
If it were me, I would use a simulation exercise to illustrate the value of usability...nothing too involved, but 15-20 minutes to grab their attention and create interest in the topic. I am reminded of a scene from 'Men in Black' in which Will Smith's character and some military types are required to take a written exam but they are not given a hard surface on which to write. The 'real' test is to determine which one of them is resourceful enough to pull a nearby table over and use it as a writing surface. The application to usability has to do with *not* assuming that the end-user of whatever we are designing is resourceful enough to figure out things that are painfully obvious to us. Another possibility... Create a timed problem-solving exercise in which teams of 2-3 people have to figure out why a given product is selling poorly and generating heavy customer service call volume. Keep in mind that the audience will forget everything that you say and they will lose, file, or throw away any paper that you put in their hands. What they *can* keep is the idea that usability is worth paying attention to. They could also come away with the understanding that they ignore usability at their own peril. Hello everyone, My company has given me the opportunity to teach incoming technical and project management type folks about what it is that we do. The goal is to help these folks understand where we come in in the overall product development methodology. I have about 2-3 hours to give these folks a sense of what our profession is about, our activities and the value it adds when properly incorporated into a project. So I am curious: given those admittedly loose parameters what topics should I be sure to cover? Thanks Baruch Sachs *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] SEO and Usability
Luis said: 'In fact, abundant use of div and span tags wouldn't be the problem but substituting semantic markup by them: a span classed as header2, instead of an H2 tag, for example.' Yes, Luis, I think you've said it better than I did. That's exactly the sort of thing I meant. I wholeheartedly agree with Fred about structure and consistency. Well-structured semantic markup yields huge benefits in searching as well as presentation, and all of this relates to faster page loads, better accessibility and a more positive user experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24134 *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Form Validation
I'm with Caroline - Mint is disturbing! I was experimenting with error fields and after some debate decided to do it this way (granted this form is simple, sorry about the non-Englishness!): https://www.net-apotek.no/site/shop/register.html ... click on the 'register' button and all field labels with a problem turn red. There's also an error message at the top of the page for two reasons - firstly the field with an error may be below the fold so the user misses it, and secondly for accessibility particularly a screen reader user. I just felt phrases like 'Name is required' are a bit pointless - it says 'Name', people know what a name is and if you didn't complete the field it was more likely that you missed it rather than misunderstood. Fields that require a bit of explanation or special requirements have the grey text under the label clarifying the info required. There were about 2 instances where we felt a customised error message would be better but we tried to keep things as simple as possible which definitely helps with maintenance and translation issues. There is a mistake on this page *blush* ... the asterisks next to the email and password fields shouldn't be there, they're left over from the previous error control method. This site has a sister B2B site which has more complicated forms and we'll be using this error message control style... *fingers crossed* for the user testing!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24099 *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Leading websites using Web 2.0
I am particularly fond of schematic's website .schematic.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24104 *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Cramming what we do into a few hours
There's a fun demonstration technique called [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's the gist. You demonstrate usability techniques by running a few quick task-based tests with volunteers from the crowd serving as participants. The rest of the audience picks a web site and provides the tasks. The drama unfolds as the participants do things on the site while the audience watches everything projected on a screen. Paul Marty (Florida State University) and Michael Twidale (University of Illinois) developed the technique with museum and library web sites in mind, but it could probably be adapted for any type of site. I've seen them run sessions at conferences and the audience has a blast. The volunteers do, too. Full paper here: http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1260/1180 Abstract: This article documents the authors%u2019 attempt to develop a quick, inexpensive, and reliable method for demonstrating user testing to an audience. The resulting method, [EMAIL PROTECTED], is simple enough to be conducted at minimal expense, fast enough to be completed in only thirty minutes, comprehensible enough to be presented to audiences numbering in the hundreds, and yet sophisticated enough to produce relevant design recommendations, thereby illustrating for the audience the potential value of user testing in general. In this article, the authors present their user testing demonstration method in detail, analyze results from 44 trials of the method in practice, and discuss lessons learned for demonstrating user testing in front of an audience. While I agree completely with Jakob Nielsen that user testing is not entertainment (http://www.useit.com/alertbox/user-testing-showbiz.html), [EMAIL PROTECTED] seems like a fun and engaging way to introduce usability concepts to an audience because they actively participate in the exercise. Plus, you can take a break from the PowerPoint deck for a little while. 2-3 hours seems like a long time. Good luck! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24171 *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Cramming what we do into a few hours
For those of you who requested the LUCID Framework materials, I've put a link on my website so you can download the initial paper. Point your browser at: http://www.cognetics.com/lucid/index.html and click on the link that invites you to download the introduction. LUCID was a framework for interaction design that I worked out with some of my colleagues including (Whitney Quesenbery Scott McDaniel). The LUCID Framework is based on six stages. I am currently working on a new revision which is more iterative. I hope to do some of that work collaboratively with interested colleagues as soon as I get a website set up. Your comments and ideas are gratefully welcomed. I have more material -- for example PPT slides for all the stages but didn't want to overwhelm people with too much stuff. Tom -- I really like the usability at 90mph idea. Especially if you get a website with real problems and some good tasks. Charlie The LUCID Framework is a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24171 *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] A question in this year's business trends
Hi all! Hope everyone had a fantastic holiday season. I was looking through the blogsphere today and happened upon an interesting article and than upon some interesting questions. I posted these thoughts on my site as well, but I wanted to ask the IxDA group if they had any thoughts. My post: I read an interesting article today that was featured on the Catalyze bloghttp://www.mycatalyze.org/Blogs/CatalyzeBlogsCurrentWisdom/tabid/1006/BlogID/28/EntryID/937/Default.aspx. The articlehttp://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/article_page.aspx?ar=2080l2=13was put together by the McKinsey Group, and was featured in their quarterly newsletter. I started to read through it, and realized that these trends have been around for at least some time. After reading Wikinomicshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikinomics, I thought these were already fairly well known, at a bare minimum in the web sphere. Pardon the pun. In all seriousness, I would think that the topics would be last year's trends to watch. So I came up with a couple of questions? Who usually sees the bus coming first. I want to believe it's the folks who like myself and my team keep an eye out for what's next, what works, and how to make things work better. Also, how long does it take for these ideas to penetrate other industries or schools of thought? Thoughts? Happy Friday! Lis http://www.elisabethhubert.com *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Leading websites using Web 2.0
That's brilliant. Really slick, clean. A little overwhelming, however, when you view it from a high level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=24104 *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
