Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should persuasion be left to marketers?
Yes, it sounds to me too that marketing should know a lot about persuasion. Of course, they may not know very well how to translate their knowledge into a web page design. Maybe this is where close collaboration helps - they know more about persuasion, we know better how to translate it into the design. Does that make sense? Sebi On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I design these things, and I'm confident in my ability to do it well, so why am I asking if I think persuasive elements should be left to Marketing? Well, because it seems like — and maybe I'm just dead wrong — that marketers would/should know more about persuasion than IxDs. I mean, their whole careers are about persuading people to do things they may or may not realize they want to do, right? So it seems like they would need to be masterful persuaders to succeed. -r- 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 -- Sergiu Sebastian Tauciuc http://www.sergiutauciuc.ro/en/ 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] Should persuasion be left to marketers?
Hello I have to do a proposal including timings for a solution in which there will be 300 end users of a new system aimed at improving efficiency in the work place(!). What percentage of these 300 do I need to observe in their place of work, interview and so on for the information to be representative of the whole? Many thanks! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31083 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] Master of Arts OR Master of Science
For Interaction Designers, I would tend towards M. Psychology (if there is one) or M. Design, depending on what your interest would be - Testing or Design? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31165 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] Should external links really open in the samewindow?
Perhaps we're getting to the heart of the question: Do we differentiate between sites (points of view) on the web? The issue isn't necessarily one of foreign-ness or designer-ego. As UxP/IA/IxD/whatevers, we are constantly grouping and naming things so that this big confusing world of ours becomes more managable. The mere fact that we now have technology that allows any page to be linked to any other page doesn't diminish our need to be able to differentiate one thing from another. Hypertext linking is not the end of usability - Quite the contrary, it seems. The assumption that the Web is a boundary-less continuuum is intellectually tempting, but kind of unrealistic - given the limitations power of our understanding. Ultimately, the question is whether we can - or need to - maintain perspective: Self and Other. Boundaries have value in and of themselves. Differentiating things is an essential step towards understanding the whole. Saying that a link is just a link is sort of like saying that a thing is just a thing. It is a tautology, redundant, true and relatively meaningless. A menubar navigation link is not a sidebar navigation link is not a contact us link is not an in-page anchor link is not a link to an external site, etc. They don't act alike and shouldn't. Context. Context. Context. Vulcan Mind-melds and Borg-like absorbtion by The Overmind (Resistance is futile...) are cool in a scary, Childhood's End kind of way, but for the time being I'll opt for useful, usable boundaries and frames. * If part of our mandate is to provide useful meta-information, then we should helpfully identify when we are guiding someone to info that is not in their current domain/POV. Especially since it's entirely likely that the new domain may display different structure, behaviors and terminology. John Vaughan http://www.jcvtcs.com BTW: We've all been frustrated when we encounter the counter-productive barriers identified in Whitney's example of unneccessary corporate information silo-ing: Yes, anything - anything at all (including UI design) - can be done badly. But that's why we have job descriptions. - Original Message - From: Whitney Quesenbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 7:45 AM Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should external links really open in the samewindow? On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Jeff Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I view sites that take it upon themselves to spawn new windows in about the same vein as sites that automatically resize my window or move it around. It's too presumptuous. Hear, hear. Rules can always be broken for a good reason, but start with the default that a link is just a link. I've spent hours watching people be confused, even if only momentarily, when anything else happens. It's not that they can't recover, it's that you've made them think about something that should not require thinking. It's also a much more serious problem for people using some kinds of alternate browsers, who may have much more difficulty navigating back to their site. In the same window, it's a simple, well-known action: BACK (or the equivalent key or voice command). In a new window, they have to switch to concentrating on navigation in order to figure out where the old window is, or what it's called, and how to get back to it. I've never understood why sites are so self-important that they must treat other sites as foreign bodies. If you don't want me to follow a link, why did you put it there? Why are you making people learn your particular convention for this link does something unexpected? I've even seen this behavior between different sections of corporate intranets, as though the XXX Department is in a completely different world. I watched while one user opened no less than 12 windows while trying to complete a single, relatively straight-forward task, but one which meant he needed to gather information from several sources. This is not to say that there is never a reason to open a new window, but not for simply linking to a new page. -- Whitney Quesenbery www.wqusability.com Storytelling for User Experience Design www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/storytelling 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 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] Master of Arts OR Master of Science
Two suggestions/hints... Talk to an academic advisor at each of the schools to get their opinion on the courses that would be fit for all of your future interests. They will also have info on the careers of the alumni, so you can see the types of jobs that graduates have been able to get immediately and also after 5 years. When I was in grad school, I tried to target the more theoretical classes. My reasoning was because there would not be another chance for me to go back and learn that stuff. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what happens in a more design-based program, but much of it seems like it's very practice based. And I can practice on my own. Also, why do you feel that the program you're in is not right for you? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31165 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] Should persuasion be left to marketers?
Interesting observation: I've picked up several books recently about designing for conversions and ROI, and they were all written from a marketing perspective. It seemed the authors were all marketers of some sort and were coming from an advertising and/or sales background. None of them came from an interaction design perspective. They all talked about online conversions exclusively, but only from a marketing perspective. -r- 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] Master of Arts OR Master of Science
Hi Allison, I think you point out a big misconception between design/practice-orientation and theory-orientation. The dichotomy is actually quite false for several reasons. Let's see if I can articulate it more clearly. Studio courses (where you get to practice in a very specific type of environment) are not free from theory, in fact, it is all about theory. It just isn't articulated as such in the syllabus. Are there readings? maybe, but not as a core part of the course. It is about learning theory in the crucible of harsh and frequent critique. In fact, it teaches you the theory necessary in order to even engage in critique. Critique is something not often spoke of in the UX community, but instead we speak of evaluation. The terms are close but very different in terms of process and goal. But if you are really going to learn color theory (cognitive and social), you can do this by reading a book and writing a paper about it, or you can learn it through application. A good design-based education is about relearning how to do and think. it is a huge multi-year period of behavior modification and I think it is this part that people don't understand. Sure you can practice in the comfort of your next job, but won't you just be continuing to use (at worst) or be effected by (at best) the nervous ticks, limps and stutters that you brought with you. Design education teaches you new ticks, limps and stutters. ;-) ok, everyone, here is my recommendation: Take a design course. Pratt has 2 classes that I would really recommend for people who don't get it, but want to understand what its all about. The classes are meant for people considering going into their Masters of ID (not the point though): 1) product design 2) Drawing for product design. 2 totally worth it classes that by themselves changed me from a UX Professional to an Interaction Designer in just 10 short weeks. if you decide you want to go to any grad program (or feel you still need it) after that, then go for it and at least you'll be able to make a better decision. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31165 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] Master of Arts OR Master of Science
Dave, Good explanation. I would be curious to see the syllabi (is that even a word?) for those two classes. Unfortunately for those of us that reside outside the NY metro area, I'd love to see if I can find classes locally that would have the same content. Thanks, David On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:56 AM, dave malouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Allison, I think you point out a big misconception between design/practice-orientation and theory-orientation. The dichotomy is actually quite false for several reasons. Let's see if I can articulate it more clearly. Studio courses (where you get to practice in a very specific type of environment) are not free from theory, in fact, it is all about theory. It just isn't articulated as such in the syllabus. Are there readings? maybe, but not as a core part of the course. It is about learning theory in the crucible of harsh and frequent critique. In fact, it teaches you the theory necessary in order to even engage in critique. Critique is something not often spoke of in the UX community, but instead we speak of evaluation. The terms are close but very different in terms of process and goal. But if you are really going to learn color theory (cognitive and social), you can do this by reading a book and writing a paper about it, or you can learn it through application. A good design-based education is about relearning how to do and think. it is a huge multi-year period of behavior modification and I think it is this part that people don't understand. Sure you can practice in the comfort of your next job, but won't you just be continuing to use (at worst) or be effected by (at best) the nervous ticks, limps and stutters that you brought with you. Design education teaches you new ticks, limps and stutters. ;-) ok, everyone, here is my recommendation: Take a design course. Pratt has 2 classes that I would really recommend for people who don't get it, but want to understand what its all about. The classes are meant for people considering going into their Masters of ID (not the point though): 1) product design 2) Drawing for product design. 2 totally worth it classes that by themselves changed me from a UX Professional to an Interaction Designer in just 10 short weeks. if you decide you want to go to any grad program (or feel you still need it) after that, then go for it and at least you'll be able to make a better decision. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31165 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 -- Art provokes thinking, design solves problems w: http://www.davidshaw.info 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] Confirm password field - Superfluous?
Hey Steven I personally hate the hint question and answer and can never imagine a useful scenario for it. I've put in a user name, thought of a password, now I need to think of a hint question and answer as well??! That alone would stall me significantly!! Retyping a password? Easy! Obviously I'm not certain of how this works on your site but you say that you will send them a username... in my mind that's already a cognitive burden as they haven't chosen it themselves and possibly need to cross reference an email to get that? The hint stuff on top of that seems a bit much! Also, think of the effort required if you use the hint question... if you do somehow remember the answer your job isn't over - was it caps or lowercase, did I break it into two words or one etc. On various accounts I have I've had to use this feature 3 times, and I've never used it successfully. Is there a technical/logistical reason why they can't just get an email to reset the password if they have forgotten it? I'm not against losing the 'Confirm password' field, and I like Elena's thought 'Or show the password until the user clicks enter and then have it resolve to asterisks, the way I've seen on some sites?' ... I've only seen this done with a drop down which obviously isn't helpful to you! A side thought - if this is a registration form, why convert the password to asterisks at all? On login I can understand, but is there really a need to do it at registration? It seems an accepted norm but I'm wondering why? I do it on my sites but now you have me thinking Steven! Quick question for Paul, before you changed your site to add the 'Confirm password' field, what was the field label for the password? Was it just 'Password' or did it give a hint such as 'Create password'? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31190 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] Confirm password field - Superfluous?
Why not let the user decide! Make the confirm password field optional and label it thusly. Only validate against it if it is not null! Cheers, Jacob 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] Confirm password field - Superfluous?
I really like the concept of allowing the USER to choose whether the password is obscured or not when they enter it. In most cases, I would expect that they would NOT obscure it (how many people register for things in places where they'd need it obscured from prying eyes). -Original Message- Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Confirm password field - Superfluous? Should you need support as ammunition against your resistence: Steven Chalmers wrote: ii) Since we are only showing asterisks or dots for each character the user doesn't know if they have typed the correct password or not. Is that a security issue? Can't you have a radial button to offer a choice of showing or not showing the password, the way (for example) my Mac does when I'm re-entering my network password? Or show the password until the user clicks enter and then have it resolve to asterisks, the way I've seen on some sites? Elena 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] Marking Required vs. Optional form fields
When creating a form, do you feel that it is more advantageous to mark the required fields, even if they are in the majority? I ask because I'm working on some guidelines for a client, and there is some debate about which way to go with this. After reading Luke Wroblewski's book, Web Form Design: Filling In the Blanks, I have to agree with his sentiment about indicating the MINORITY of the form elements: FROM 'Web Form Design': Many times there actually are good reasons for indicating what is required when updating or creating a record online. In particular, when a Web form has lots of input fields but only a few of them are required, indicating what has to be answered can be quite useful... Conversely, indicating which input fields are optional is useful when most questions require an answer but a few do not. Neither indicator is particularly useful when the input fields are either all required or all optional. In these circumstances, indicating required or optional fields adds unnecessary information to the form that people then have to pause and consider. Similarly, indicating the majority case (most input fields are required or optional) versus the minority case (just a few input fields are required or optional) increases the amount of information that overlies a form. I am trying to make the argument that in a form where all of the fields are required, or that 9 of 10 are required, indicating the OPTIONAL fields makes more sense to the user - they have to take in less information/aren't as distracted by the numerous red asterisks all over the form. The other side of the discussion feels that required fields should ALWAYS be marked regardless of any other factors (even if they are ALL required). I'd love to get some feedback and any research other than Luke's to support one direction or the other. Thanks! Marty DeAngelo User Experience Lead | D I G I T A S H E A L T H 229 South 18th Street | Rittenhouse Square | Philadelphia, PA 19103 | USA Email: mdeangel [EMAIL PROTECTED] digitashealth [d0t} com | www.digitashealth.com 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] Utility Links in footer/base of page
Many sites use them - utility links at the base of the content or lower on the page that act as a secondary navigation, particularly to things that aren't defined in the primary navigation (orphan pages, corporate links, etc.). For a project that I'm working on, the client has asked that these links be placed at the very bottom of the page - below the disclaimers, the legal jargon, the copyright. The pages in question - Site Map, Contact Us, Register for Updates - are truly secondary content NOT represented in the main navigation (well, register is). Unfortunately, these links can NOT be placed in the header utility links because of other required content. So, either we add them to the main navigation (which the client doesn't want to do) or they end up at the bottom. I know that people look for those links of very large sites - portals, large e-commerce sites, etc. because they know that it is often the quickest way to find links to the Site Map, Customer Service, Help, etc. However, I'm not sure that the paradigm has made the crossover to smaller sites and I'm worried that putting utility links at the absolute bottom of the page will essentially bury them where no one will ever find them. Does anyone else have any insights to this? Am I right that putting those links at the bottom will end up making them useless, or does that 'big site' philosophy of looking at the bottom of the page for secondary content links carry over to all sites? Marty DeAngelo User Experience Lead | D I G I T A S H E A L T H 229 South 18th Street | Rittenhouse Square | Philadelphia, PA 19103 | USA mdeangel [EMAIL PROTECTED] digitashealth [d0t] com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.digitashealth.com 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] Master of Arts OR Master of Science
A big source of confusion is equating what you can do as being the same as what you know. Many people will advocate devoting all your energies into creating a portfolio so you can demostrate you can do certain things. Showing is always powerful, but has its limits. In my experience, what you can show as an individual in a portfolio is not always a reliable guide to what you can contribute to a diverse team on a complex project. Portfolios showcase individual efforts, and tend to be either prosaic -- one person alone can only do something a given complexity, or highly conceptual -- some future idea that may be unbuildable as a practical matter, even if the idea shows great creativity. Real world design may involve many dozens of people contributing to the interaction design, even if one person claims the credit as the lead designer. Once you rely on portfolios to show group effots, you aren't really showing, you are telling, since it isn't possible to unpack the collaboration just by looking at it. The value of theory, or better still, the accumulated evidence of behavior, is that we can leverage insights from what we ourselves have't had the possibility to work on directly. We have reached the point in IxD where specialization is required to do most work that is interesting and path breaking. Teams of dozens of people with various skills -- understanding aesthetics, people and computer programming, are required. What one specializes in and how one contributes should be determined by which of these things one is most interested in. Personally, I am interested most in people, not art or technology. For me, beauty is fitness to purpose, not anything visual. People can love ugly looking things, and I think that's great. So when thinking about the value of portfolios, ask where are the people? Hopefully there will be more to show than a one-page persona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31165 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] Confirm password field - Superfluous?
Hi Stephen, I definitely vote for keeping the confirm password box. Especially if you are keen on lessening the load on your internal help desk for password resets. If you're allowing users to create blind-typed passwords then the rate of mis-typed passwords (without the user even realising they've mistyped) must increase. Unless you're going to allow this mac-style radio option suggested above which will allow them to see what they type. I'd be fascinated to find out if you reduced help desk calls without the confirmation. Tim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31190 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] Confirm password field - Superfluous?
I've always disliked double fields of any kind, especially double email fields which I just copy and paste. I always think, can we please not assume I'm stupid enough to mess this up? I've always felt the asterisks were unnecessary on sign up forms. How often do I sign up for a service with people looking over my shoulder ogling my password? Never. Make it a plain input form instead of asterisks. On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Steven Chalmers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: @ Jeremy White - Regarding availability of e-mail. Jeremy, you guessed correctly that these users do not have e-mail. I believe that the best way to justify my design is to consider the following design criteria (which I should have included in my first post): 1) This is a low security risk application 2) The users do not have e-mail 3) We want to lessen the load on our internal help desk for password resets. Steven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31190 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 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] Confirm password field - Superfluous?
If you want to lessen the load on internal help desk for password resets then I think you should keep the confirm password box or put something in for them to confirm that they entered the correct password. If this is a low security application, does it make sence to simply display the password when they create it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31190 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] Should external links really open in the same window?
I have encountered that condition where you left one site on activating a link. My question is, since one presumes that the web was designed to attract, capture, and retain the viewer's interest why would you allow them to leave - they might not come back for any number of reasons. If you open a new window, you still have them. Terry On 7/9/08, Trevor Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, The conventional wisdom is that a link should not open a new window, even if it's a link to another site. Neilsen listed this as number 9 in the top 10 design mistakes. But an unofficial survey around our office found that most people prefer links to new sites to open up in new windows/tabs. They said that new windows or tabs make it easier to explore links to other, possibly- irrelevant, but possibly-useful sites, and still come quickly back to the main site at any time, exactly where you left it. Some people said they *expect* sites to behave that way. Should the rule that links should always open in the same window be revisited? Does anyone know of any real study or data that relates to this? Trevor Thompson User Experience Architect 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 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] Zoomii: Google Maps -like interaction in a bookstore
So it was neat to use but would I use it to buy my next book...probably not. I would rather see related books together or other things like recommendations or comments which I feel Amazon does very well hence I will go there instead. If I could see my bookshelf and then get recommendations based on that there is some value...but would probably rather have that in an easier to consume list or something that I dont have to click a million times to scroll around. Forget the business idea...As far as the interaction, I think the click and drag functionality is flawed. There is not enough open area to click on when I want to move. A better interaction (since it is moused based anyway) is probably to move around based on mouse movement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=30949 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] Call for submissions for Boston CHI 2009
Hi, The first deadline for the CHI2009 conference is coming up fast (July 18 for workshops and tutorials). I'm the co-chair of the User Experience and Usability portion of the CHI 2009 conference and am inviting both design and usability colleagues to submit proposals for next year's CHI conference. We would like to have a strong New England representation at CHI 2009 in Boston so if you have any ideas and want to kick them around, you can contact me or the User Experience and Usability Co-chairs at the email at the end of this message. We are also looking for ideas about possible panels for the conference that would be of interest to user experience and usability practitioners. The message below highlights the types of proposals and dates and provides a link to the conference page with details. One thing that has changed is the review process. Rather than send papers out to the general CHI community, papers will now be read by colleagues with expertise in the particular area. Thanks, Chauncey Wilson Senior User Research AEC Revit Product Design The CHI 2009 User Experience and Usability (UXU) Committee would like to encourage practitioners to join us at the next CHI conference. The conference will be held April 5 - 9, 2009, in Boston, Massachusetts (USA). Although the CHI conference has always had a strong contingent of practitioners among its attendees, the criteria for acceptance of papers have tended to be similar to those of a journal, which has given the conference a reputation for being more academic than practical. This year, we are explicitly seeking to address the expressed concerns of practitioners that they want a stronger voice within the CHI community. After all, it is only by participating and collaborating with our friends and colleagues in the academic and research domains that we can move the profession ahead. Therefore, it is our goal as the User Experience and Usability co-chairs to increase the quality and quantity of UX and usability practitioner and researcher submissions, with the intent of benefiting both the practitioner and the research communities. We will strive to collect contributions in the fields of usability and user experience design that introduce innovative practices and research findings that can improve design practice. The CHI 2009 Call for Papers can be found at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/. CHI 2009 provides a variety of formats for communicating your usability and user experience work, including: • Workshops, proposals due July 18, 2008; Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/Workshops.html • Courses, proposals due July 18, 2008; Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/Courses.html • Papers and Notes, proposals due September 19, 2008; Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/PapersNotes.html • Video Showcases (NEW!), proposals due October 3, 2008; Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/VideoShowcase.html • Case Studies, proposals due October 3, 2008; Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/CaseStudies.html • Panels, proposals due October 3, 2008; Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/Panels.html • Interactivity, proposals due October 3, 2008; Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/Interactivity.html • Special Interest Groups (SIGs), proposals due January 7, 2009, Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/Sigs.html • Works-in-Progress, proposals due January 7, 2009; Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/WorkInProgress.html • Alt.Chi, proposals due January 7, 2009; Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/Alt.Chi.html • Student Design Competition, proposals due January 7, 2009; Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/StudentDesignCompetition.html • Student Research Competition, proposals due January 7, 2009; Details at http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/StudentResearchCompetition.html Our committee would like to invite user experience and usability practitioners to submit proposals for CHI2009 and help us make this a strong practitioner presence. The earliest deadline, for workshops and tutorials, is July 18, only 10 days away. If you have ideas for one of the presentation formats on which you would like some quick feedback, or if you have a great idea for an invited speaker, you can contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] We hope to see you at CHI 2009. Susan Dray, Dray Associates, Inc. Arnie Lund, Microsoft Corporation Chauncey Wilson, Autodesk, Inc. Elizabeth Buie, Luminanze Consulting, LLC Contact us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- IxDA Boston organisers: Lisa, Jesse, Harun Pauric local site: http://www.bostonixda.org Feed: http://boston-ixda.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
[IxDA Discuss] [Event] IxDA-SF Presents: VizFarm: CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Hello friends, We’re happy to confirm our community-driven, July event, VizFarm! IDEO has graciously agreed to sponsor and host the event on Tuesday, July 29, starting at 6:30pm. Please RSVP and pass on to others: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/872188/ We’ve received a number of early submissions, but we’ll need many more to make it a great event. We want the content to be diverse as possible, so whether you’re doing professional information design or you’re just excited about a diagram in a recent presentation, we want to hear from you! No submission is too great or too insignificant. For the privacy of IDEO’s clients, no photography or video will be permitted during the presentation (audio recording is allowed) so it’s a perfect opportunity to present your work that hasn’t yet been released. *** [IxDA-SF presents] VizFarm: SECOND CALL FOR PROPOSALS As people and businesses increasingly need to understand and evaluate vast amounts of information, information visualization has moved from a research topic to a mainstream technique. It’s now an interaction designer’s job to express all manner of complex information through graphics, animations and interactive interfaces. On July 29, IxDA-SF presents VizFarm, where you can have the opportunity to share your information visualization work with the local interaction design community. IxDA-SF will be hosting an evening of 5-minute presentations from local designers, showing off great examples of information visualization in practice. Have you done any information visualization work recently? Interested in giving a short presentation about the project, your process and the resulting work? Whether you’re doing professional information design or you’re just excited about a diagram in a recent presentation, we want to hear from you! Please email your proposal to sf-local at ixda.org describing the project, type of visualization work you performed and examples if possible. *** We’re looking forward to a great event! :) —the IxDA-SF team 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] Eye Gaze Patterns while Searching vs. Browsing a Website
Those involved in designing image rich websites would find this interesting: http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/91/eyegaze.asp Sorry if it was already posted here. R 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] Social sharing icons
Hello all, I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts (or even better, research) about the use of those little social bookmarking/sharing icons that are now so ubiquitous. Are people using them? Do *you* use them? Are they appropriate for all types of sites? They seem best suited to news sites and blogs, IMO, but I've started to see them on e-commerce sites too, which I guess makes a certain amount of sense. Also, how many is too many? I've seen sites where the icon set takes up two or even three lines, which seems a little bit ridiculous to me. And though I use a few social bookmarking tools myself, I have never used one of the icons on a blog post or news story to share something. I'm not a user of Digg or StumbleUpon, etc., though, so my own perspective may not be particularly relevant. All opinions and feedback appreciated. Thanks, Amy Silvers 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] Confirm password field - Superfluous?
If the users don't necessarily have email, then I don't think we can assume that these users have become accustomed to having to retype their password. After all, there are still people who hardly ever use computers, especially people without email. If the security risk is low, then I'll change my vote to give it a try. However as Torey implied, if it's low security, displaying the password as they type it may be fine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31190 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] Zoomii: Google Maps -like interaction in a bookstore
About half the time I spend in a book store, even if I came for something specific, I'm just browsing and hoping to come across something good. I liked how the back button allowed me to retrace my steps until I realized my steps were pretty short. Click click click click click click click... Good alternative when you're just browsing. I've never done that online before. This won't replace going to bookstore to browse, thjavascript:checkForm() Post to Listough, because I can't flip through the pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=30949 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] Should persuasion be left to marketers?
Uh, I may be stupid here, but how is it that consumers (users) mentioned below do not contribute to the profitability of the site? Their eyeballs quite literally ARE the profitability. Or is this a which came first, chicken or the egg question? Without eyeballs, do you have profitability? Let me amend that: Without Happy Eyeballs, do you have profitability? Chris On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 4:22 PM, mark schraad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO - different tasks require different perspectives and different goals for the site. In my situation where we have consumers (users) that do not contribute to the profitability of the site other than to attract the eyeballs for advertising, the user experience group's mission is somewhat in conflict with that of the ad sales group and to even some extent with the SEO group. Our goal is to match up the site to consumer's research and buying process, not to force them into what the industry or advertiser might be driving. We believe that if the site is compelling, the users will find their way to it, and the CPM's will happen over the long run. The ad folks often want us to design pages to accommodate and attract the advertisers. Meanwhile the SEO staff is wanting to make the page optimal for search engines. While there are similarities, designing for SEO, designing for advertisers, and designing for users will render different pages. Each of these three groups needs to bring their expertise to the table... and let executive management take on that 'god's eye' perspective and render judgement that balances those separate agendas. One of the most disturbing trends that I see is designer's rolling over on the user experience. I see designers that are all too empathetic with the pure goals of profit and the business... trying to take a short cut to immediate and short term profit that only destroys brand awareness, consumer loyalty and inevitably, the longer term sustainability and profitability of the site. This trend can be seen sites like about.com (and plenty of others) that used to have great information and now focus on attracting visitors from search engines and deliver very little value to users. Specific to your question, yes the design team should work to not only the constraints of the business, but the goals within reason. In our case I am using some extensive background in consumer behavior (research primarily from the psych field) and mapping our sites' functionality to typical consumer behavior in our target market. It effects both the interactions and information architecture. So far it has helped in managing the business model in a way that works for both the consumer's goals, and the monetization goals of the business (paper and conference talk to come soon I hope). Mark On Jul 6, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr wrote: Purely philosophical question: I've been studying social psychology a lot lately, and have become incredibly interested in the persuasiveness of sites and applications—how to make them more persuasive, what makes them so now, etc. But it makes me wonder: Should the persuasive elements of a site design be left to marketers? Assuming you work for a company who has a marketing department and a UX team that are separate from each other, how much should the UX team be involved in the design of persuasive elements? -r- 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 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 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] **VL-JUNK** Re: Confirm password field - Superfluous?
Since your users don't have email, it sounds like the plan is to use the hint (and response) to directly gain access to the account. So really you're creating two paths to sign in, and you're asking your users to come up with two passwords instead of one. First, consider dropping one of the two sign-in paths (i.e., just have the main password, don't put any strength requirements on it like minimum length, etc. OR just have the hint/response to sign in). The path you're down has a lot of cognitive load to sign up (remember username, create remember password, create remember hint and answer). Second, if showing the second password in plain text during sign up isn't a concern, why not show the main password that way too (or instead)? This should reduce the worry that you can't check if it was mistyped during sign up by not having that confirm password entry. Finally, if there's really not that much at stake, is a password even necessary? This may be too drastic, but maybe not. -Adam On Jul 10, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Steven Chalmers wrote: @ Jeremy White - Regarding availability of e-mail. Jeremy, you guessed correctly that these users do not have e-mail. I believe that the best way to justify my design is to consider the following design criteria (which I should have included in my first post): 1) This is a low security risk application 2) The users do not have e-mail 3) We want to lessen the load on our internal help desk for password resets. 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] [EVENT] Chicago IxDA, Pecha Kucha-Style - Wednesday, July 9th
Chicago IxDAs first Pecha Kucha went great. We have received a lot of great feedback from folks on the format. Thanks again to the speakers for volunteering to be the Guinea pigs. As mentioned at the event, Interactions '09 will have a lightning round that you could present your ideas. As always, if we are looking for organizations to volunteer a space. Send us a message if you are interested. If you have an interesting topic you would like to present, send us a line as well. Finally, during registration we ask folks to submit any job opening they have. Here is what we have heard: __ Arc worldwide is looking for a freelance experience planner with strong information architecture skills. Two month contract. Contact janna devylder at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Come join us and help define the future of travel worldwide! The Information Architecture group at Orbitz is a small, but diverse, tight knit, group of talented individuals who have a unique role in driving innovation at Orbitz. We partner with technology, visual design, product management, and the business to deliver user centered and business driving results. If you are interested in designing for one of the largest public facing software products this side of Silicon Valley, give us a call! Full time IA / ID / UXD position in Chicago Job title: Information Architect Location: Chicago, IL Company: Orbitz Worldwide Job type: Full time Orbitz Worldwide is looking for experienced Information Architects, Interaction Designers, Interface Designers or related User Experience Design professionals who are interested in staff or contract employment opportunities. An Information Architect at Orbitz Worldwide will work closely with multi-disciplinary teams in planning, designing, defining, testing and advancing the user experience for a wide range of web-based travel booking, management and marketing products. Information Architects at Orbitz Worldwide will work in a highly collaborative environment to ensure that Orbitz Worldwide's user experience reflects industry best practices, is highly usable, adheres to internal standards, utilizes advanced interface concepts, and is in alignment with Orbitz Worldwide's business goals. An Information Architect at Orbitz Worldwide will have excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal, project management and teamwork skills. They must also be organized, detail oriented, self-motivated and adaptable. All qualified candidates: 1) Will be able to demonstrate direct involvement in the definition and design of complex, dynamic, Web sites or applications. 2) Must have samples of common artifacts such as wireframes, site maps, process flows, schematics, functional specifications, etc. Samples can be digital or paper-based. 3) Direct experience in usability processes a plus. 4) Must have excellent communication, interpersonal and teamwork skills. 5) Must be highly proficient with Visio, Word, Excel and Windows. Qualified contractor candidates: 1) Must be based in Chicago area. Relocation is not an option for contract work. 2) Will work and attend meetings on site at downtown location. Amount of time spent on site is negotiable. Qualified candidates interested in being considered for full time staff or contract employment should forward their resumes to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Chicago IxDA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello fellow Chicagoans, Please join us on Wednesday, July 9th for our next Chicago IxDA gathering! This time we're turning the mic over to several members of the local community to espouse all things interaction design, under the caveat that they do it within six minutes and 40 seconds each (20 slides, 20 seconds each). What will we see? A wonderful mystery to unfold, join us! Topic: We don't know! It's Chicago IxDA, Pecha Kucha-style! Hosted By: Arc Worldwide When: Wednesday, July 9th Time: 6:30 - 8:00 PM (doors open at 6 if you want to come and hang out) Address: 35 W. Wacker, 25th floor Arc will be serving pizza, too! Please RSVP by filling out this form: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pKwbS7NpPcWnbcgwWPHc1dQemail=true We need to give names to the front desk, so please RSVP by Tuesday, July 8th. You will get a confirmation message after filling out the RSVP form with the contact phone number. Come and get to know your community! There's no easier way to network! ___ What we need: User Experience professionals, both contract and full-time, with a passion for understanding people and designing fabulous experiences for them via the Web and mobile. We're seeking the brightest, next generation of interaction design and usability talent who want to push user experiences beyond the expected. Our new User Experience professionals will define information architecture, interaction diagrams and page-level wireframes that
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Off Topic: how will rising gas prices affect e-commerce?
Actually, not that far offline. I think it all depends on how you define e-commerce. If you literally mean online shopping and financial transactions directly online, I'm pretty torn. It depends on if shipping costs increase the way commercial passenger costs have increased. If UPS, USPS and FedEx start raising rates, it might make going to the store more tolerable. On the other hand, going to the store means driving and paying for gas. In the end all products are going to cost more due to increases in logistics costs. Now, if you generally mean IT development. I think this is a good thing for us especially in collaboration software. Since so much has been invested in distributed teams, and the costs of getting people together are so high, it will be even more important to have the right tools and services to make telepresences practical across all sorts of organizations (size type). That's my initial thoughts. -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31262 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] Pencil Project
I did some quick mockups a couple of days ago. i think it has a lot of promise, but the stencil set is just to small for me yet. And I'd love a way to get some others imported. I'll continue to check it out, but it's just not enough for me to use yet. Regards, Ben On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Dan Saffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone played with this? http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/ The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use. Dan 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 -- Regards, Ben Vaughan 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
