[IxDA Discuss] Topic: Interaction Design Pattern - Chessboard layout
Hi! I'm in the process of finding pros and cons for a specific menu system based closely on this pattern described here back inn 1999: http://www.uidesign.net/1999/papers/Chessboard.html What is not clearly stated in the Uidesign paper is that if you select a topic in the left hand menu it sticks to that choice until you make another choice in the left hand menu. Same goes for top menu. So choosing a subject in the left menu and then clicking a infotype in the top menu. It will display that subject in selected info type(top menu). Selecting another infotype in the top menu, the subject will stick and it will show the same subject just in another info type. (and the same, the other way around) This closely resembles a conventional menu system, and that is why I'm in great doubt about this solution. The site in question is a huge statistical information site. It targets everybody* (I know, i know, but it's a governmental site, and has to do so by law)* It will have 25 choices down the left hand side menu and 7 across the top menu (25x7 menu items) I am put to the task of evaluating this solution and are looking for some comments. Have anybody seen successful implementation of this type of pattern? Please; any comments is wellcome. Cheers :)tom Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] REMINDER: NH UPA Holiday Party - 12/17
This is just a reminder that the NH UPA holiday party will be held this Wednesday at The Music Hall in Portsmouth. Please rsvp to i...@nhupa.org if you plan on attending. I hope to see you there! ~~Original Announcement~~ 2008 is coming to an end and NH UPA has had an amazing first year as an official UPA chapter. As a thank you to all our members who have supported us by attending meetings, volunteering and presenting we want to invite you to the annual NH UPA Holiday Party! We have a terrific night planned with good food, drinks and surprises! This will be a great opportunity to combine celebrating the holiday season with getting to know your fellow NH UPA members better. This year's Holiday Party will be held at the beautifully renovated Beaux Arts Lobby in The Music Hall in Portsmouth. If you haven't seen the striking new design of the Music Hall Lobby, trust me, you're in for a real treat! We've worked hard to get sponsors for this event to secure this wonderful venue and provide a great spread as well as a free round of drinks for everyone! When: Wednesday, December 17th 6:00-8:00 PM Where: Beaux Arts Lobby in The Music Hall (http://themusichall.org/support/lobby_2008.asp ) 28 Chestnut St. Portsmouth, NH 03801 Parking Map: http://www.cityofportsmouth.com/transportation/downpark.htm RSVP REQUIRED: Space is limited for this event so don't delay in sending your RSVP to i...@nhupa.org . OUR SPONSORS: About PixelMEDIA PixelMEDIA is an award-winning professional services consultancy focused on internet enablement. PixelMEDIA provides the strategic, creative, and technical expertise needed to increase revenue opportunities and reduce costs. Founded in 1994, PixelMEDIA’s solutions include branding and transactional websites, application and portal design and development, user interface design, multimedia design, hosting, and website management. PixelMEDIA's customers include industry leaders such as ECCO Shoes, Logica, Computer Associates, Nokia, Cbeyond, and Fidelity. More information on PixelMEDIA can be found at www.pixelmedia.com. About Mad*Pow Mad*Pow is an experience design agency based in Portsmouth, NH. The company merges the science of human factors with the art of digital design to deliver powerful interactions that help clients increase customer satisfaction, improve conversion, maximize retention, and cut costs. The company’s services include e-business strategy, user research and analysis, interaction design, visual design, and interactive media production. Mad*Pow works with global industry leaders, including Google, Fidelity, Monster, Timberland, Aetna, and Autodesk. For more information, please contact Josh Corringham at 603.387.8307 or j...@madpow.net or visit www.madpow.net. About UIE User Interface Engineering (www.uie.com) has an expansive library of resources specializing in web site and product usability. One of most popular resources are the UIE Virtual Seminars. The December 2008 UIE Virtual Seminar will feature Josh Porter of Bokardo on Designing for Sign-up. If you have difficultly getting visitors to request your newsletter, subscribe to your service, or join your community, this is the seminar for you. Josh will will describe the steps you can use to create the motivation for people to care about your product, using techniques employed by successful sites, such as Netflix, TripIt, and BlinkSale. As a special to NHUPA members, we'll include a complimentary archive of this seminar when you register. Use the promo code NHUPA at http://www.uie.com/events/virtual_seminars/ **Don't forget to RSVP if you plan on attending** I look forward to seeing you at the party! Best, Kyle Soucy President, NH UPA --- Kyle Soucy Founding Principal, Lead Consultant Usable Interface Usability and Interface Design Consulting Phone: (603) 205-0315 Email:kyleso...@usableinterface.com Website: http://www.usableinterface.com Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA Infrastructure Initiative, re-launched
Hi Liz, Can you summarize the present IxDA feature list of Infrastructure Initiatives you are considering, and identify the key IxDA areas you're looking to improve upon? This would help a lot in understanding how the community can help out with this initiative. Thanks, Rich On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Elizabeth Bacon li...@elizabethbacon.comwrote: Dear IxDA Members, I'm pleased to be re-launching an initiative dedicated to delivering next-generation infrastructure for IxDA.org. -- Joseph Rich Rogan President UX/UI Inc. http://www.jrrogan.com Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Reminder: [EVENT] Chicago IxDA - December Meeting - Wednesday, December 17th
Just sending out a reminder for this week's upcoming Chicago IxDA event... here's a recap Hope to see you there! The December Chicago IxDA event should be a jolly good time. The event will be on Wednesday, December 17th at 6:30 PM and located at Elephant Castle. We'll be networking and sharing design war stories over this past year. Come have a drink, relax and enjoy the friendship of your fellow IxDA-ers. Elephant Castle is located at: 185 N. Wabash Ave. Chicago, IL 60601 Phone: 312-345-1710 Please RSVP below by noon on Friday the 12th, so we can let the bar know how much space we'll need. Thanks! To RSVP: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pKwbS7NpPcWmqW164jEbMfw Happy holidays! Jason Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Select items in a paginated list
Vishal, Two solutions come to my mind: 1. Create an endless scroll - instead of multiple pages, the user scrolls and more records get loaded on the same page itself. This will obviously not work for very long list -but so would the selection feature you are talking about - it's much more difficult with long lists. Gmaill contacts list does this. 2. Create a bucket where selections are displayed, this selection bucket would be visible to user in every page, making it clear that selections from previous page are maintained. Regards Alok Jain (AJ) On Dec 15, 2008, at 12:24 PM, Vishal Iyer wrote: I have a paginated list of items. The user selects an item by clicking on a checkbox. The checkbox selection, by default only applies to the items on that page. So if you select 5 items on the first page and then navigate to the second to select a few more, the items on the first page do not get considered for any actions while still on the second page. I'm working on an 'expert' tool, where the desire is to be able to select items on multiple pages (assume there is no way to filter all of results on the same page). The most obvious solution is to mod (using ajax) the checkbox in such a way that it maintains the state across pages. Is there anything else out there that would solve this in a better way? --Vishal Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org 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 ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Select items in a paginated list
Why are the items being selected in the first place? Could the selection be used or applied before moving on to another page? If the selected items might span many pages, could the process be broken up into smaller pieces that are performed per page? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36441 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] IxDA Dublin, Irelan d: Holiday Drinks! – Thurs, Dec. 18th. 7 p.m .
Howdy Folks, Please join us for IxDA Dublin Holiday drinks at the Octagon Bar in the Clarence Hotel in Temple Bar (http://www.theclarence.ie/octagonbar-dublin http://www.theclarence.ie/octagonbar-) this Thursday the 18th of December at 7pm. Let's get into the spirit of the season, sit around an open fire and share stories from our adventures in 2008. The Octagon Bar, The Clarence Hotel, 6-8 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2. Please contact me at 087 618 5655 with any questions. -- All the Best, Seamus Byrne Senior User Experience Designer WestGlobal Mobl: 087 618 5655 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Topic: Interaction Design Pattern - Chessboard layout
Hi Tom, I've used and am presently using this style of navigation, (or an equivalent where first level runs down left side). I believe your question is, what persists in the body area given navigation selections, (is this correct?). If this is your question, generally if you choose a menu item that is terminal (meaning there is only one screen directly related to that menu item, (albeit this screen could have tabs/be a wizard etc)), that screen will refresh and persist in the body area until an other terminal menu item has been selected. In this case it is simpler to consider screens and navigation to these screens. N level navigation is simply an organizational concept to get to individual screens/functionality. Thus a screen will persist in the body area until another screen has been chosen, regardless if the navigation to the screen is in top nav, or left nav. Rich On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Tom Halsør t...@kulp.no wrote: ** What is not clearly stated in the Uidesign paper is that if you select a topic in the left hand menu it sticks to that choice until you make another choice in the left hand menu. Same goes for top menu. So choosing a subject in the left menu and then clicking a infotype in the top menu. It will display that subject in selected info type(top menu). Selecting another infotype in the top menu, the subject will stick and it will show the same subject just in another info type. (and the same, the other way around) This closely resembles a conventional menu system, and that is why I'm in great doubt about this solution. The site in question is a huge statistical information site. It targets everybody* (I know, i know, but it's a governmental site, and has to do so by law)* It will have 25 choices down the left hand side menu and 7 across the top menu (25x7 menu items) I am put to the task of evaluating this solution and are looking for some comments. Have anybody seen successful implementation of this type of pattern? Please; any comments is wellcome. Cheers :)tom Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help -- Joseph Rich Rogan President UX/UI Inc. http://www.jrrogan.com Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Rosenfeld Media Offers Big Holiday Discount
All, So I just got this email, and knowing that a lot of you folks are joining or have joined UXBook Clubs, and with the Holidays right around the corner - check these savings out... Use Discount Code HAPPY to get UX books under your Chanukah bush, XMas Tree or whatever else you want to put it under :-) - From Lou Although most of our customers prefer to do business with us directly, many of you opt for purchasing Rosenfeld Media books via Amazon.com's Marketplace program. We're happy to work with you that way, and apparently you're happy too. We just received our hundredth Amazon customer rating: 95 5s, and 5 4s. Not bad, considering 5 is the most positive rating. We take service seriously, so we're thrilled (special shout-out to Karen Corbett, our customer service maven). But as much as we'd like to claim all the credit, kudos are also due to PSSC, our fulfillment center in Ypsilanti, Michigan, who work hard to get our orders out the door in a timely fashion. To celebrate this milestone and the upcoming holidays, we're doing something cheesy: offering a discount code good for 30% off our books and webinars, good until midnight EST December 24: HAPPY. The only catch: it only works when you buy directly from us (sorry, we don't quite have the ability to get Amazon to match our discounts!). http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/ ~ will Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems Will Evans | User Experience Architect tel: +1.617.281.1281 | w...@semanticfoundry.com aim: semanticwill gtalk: semanticwill twitter: semanticwill skype: semanticwill Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Select items in a paginated list
Thanks All. That pretty much covers all possible options. One other that came though pm was to faux paginate using JS. Technical limitations aside, its probably not a good idea to take actions on elements you can't see. So I would either stick with the detault behavior or use a container to store items. Mark, I agree with your logic. It is the context that lends itself to the container approach. The list is long- could be dozens of pages even with a large # of items on a page. Its also one of the primary actions in the tool. Repeating it multiple times will not work in this instance. -Vishal On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Mark Young m...@vizmo.com wrote: Why are the items being selected in the first place? Could the selection be used or applied before moving on to another page? If the selected items might span many pages, could the process be broken up into smaller pieces that are performed per page? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36441 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org 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 ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Ixda.org crowdsourcing for a presence UI
I'm working on some presence related design patterns for the social design patterns collection I've been building for Yahoo and I expect to post drafts of them at http://designingsocialinterfaces/patterns.wiki in the near future (within about a week). When I do, I'll drop back by this thread to see if anyone has suggestions, comments, requests or ideas; and also just to find out if the patterns are useful. -x- On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Damon Dimmick damon.dimm...@gmail.comwrote: Ali, I'd be interested as well. Pop me a line. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35185 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help -- Christian Crumlish http://xianlandia.com Designing Social Interfaces http://designingsocialinterfaces.com/patterns.wiki Yahoo! pattern detective http://design.yahoo.com Yahoo! Developer Network evangelist http://open.yahoo.com IA Institute treasurer http://iainstitute.org Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Ixda.org crowdsourcing for a presence UI
typo in that url, sorry. it should be http://designingsocialinterfaces.com/patterns.wiki On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Christian Crumlish x...@well.com wrote: I'm working on some presence related design patterns for the social design patterns collection I've been building for Yahoo and I expect to post drafts of them at http://designingsocialinterfaces/patterns.wiki in the near future (within about a week). When I do, I'll drop back by this thread to see if anyone has suggestions, comments, requests or ideas; and also just to find out if the patterns are useful. -x- On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Damon Dimmick damon.dimm...@gmail.comwrote: Ali, I'd be interested as well. Pop me a line. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35185 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help -- Christian Crumlish http://xianlandia.com Designing Social Interfaces http://designingsocialinterfaces.com/patterns.wiki Yahoo! pattern detective http://design.yahoo.com Yahoo! Developer Network evangelist http://open.yahoo.com IA Institute treasurer http://iainstitute.org -- Christian Crumlish http://xianlandia.com Designing Social Interfaces http://designingsocialinterfaces.com/patterns.wiki Yahoo! pattern detective http://design.yahoo.com Yahoo! Developer Network evangelist http://open.yahoo.com IA Institute treasurer http://iainstitute.org Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
