[IxDA Discuss] Local Event - Columbus, Ohio
IDSA's Central Ohio chapter and Young Professionals section are teaming up with the Columbus chapter of IxDA (Interaction Design Association) for this month's Blender - a monthly get-together and happy hour to mingle with other designers and see what's going on in the community. Come join us for a drink, a chat and some music this coming Thursday, March 26 6-9pm @ Bristol Bar - 132 East 5th Avenue Columbus, OH Your local IDSA and IxDA representation will be there in full-effect. Make sure to bug us to fill you in on what we have coming up, and feel free to tell us anything thats on your mind. Please invite your friends and coworkers. Well see you there! 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] IxD Portfolio review resources
Can anyone suggest a resource for professional portfolio reviews? As so many of us have migrated from other fields, creating a straightforward portfolio is more difficult. The budding IxDA mentorship initiative may eventually provide an opportunity here, but I'm looking for something available now. Moreover, I haven't found much in the way of IxD-specific portfolio tips. (Thanks SCAD and this site for a couple good tidbits). Thanks for any help anyone can offer. A specific subquestion: why the anti-Flash bias? Posts on this site and others indicate that people don't like Flash portfolios. I must say that I don't understand; it's a perfect platform for interactivity and to present a wide variety of previous work in differing formats. What do you all think? - Jonathan P.S. Though this post is a sincere quest for more formal portfolio review resources, I'm of course open to any feedback on my own portfolio draft... http://www.sustain.us/portfolio_3/index.html 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] Feature discoverability
Hi Great topic. I've just been through the same thing and we actually usability tested affordances around double clicking (indirectly) on a topology diagram one of my clients has. We used four users, three of whom were regular users, one of whom hadn't touched the product in awhile and gave them tasks that would require them to see information supplied in popups to complete their task. The existing topo they use now had right-click functions (exposed through training sessions) but no double click functionality. Two of them accidently (I assume) found out we had integrated these detailed popup windows via double click in the version they were being studied on, but there were no hints given in the UI that this existed. My analysis was that due to some other bugs and/or frustrations while using the (in beta) new topology diagram, the users were clicking around quite a bit and were running across things accidently - like the double click. Either that, or they were already double clicking as some people do on the web unnecessarily. I was surprised that any of them actually found this feature given it doesn't exist in their existing version of the app. Anyhow, our attempt to make the affordance better around double-clicking was to consider one of these two options: Option 1: When this new feature gets released into the topology, the first click interaction (of any kind) interrupts to inform people of the added double-clicking features, using a popup or some type of diagram/screen shot directly above (z-index) the topology. You'd have the typical don't remind me again/remind me again in a month kinda stuff as your dismissal commands. Option 2: We put the same instruction content (mentioned above) ABOVE the topology map and pushing it down to give high visibility to this info . (the non z-index/stacking approach where the content is just there automatically right after the upgrade is made to the software.) This is hardly a new invention - many apps give tips (Dreamweaver anyone?) that you have to eventually dismiss. Those are ok, but often out of context (right info at the wrong time). In our case, hovering on an item already reveals more data (if you hover on an object, it's name goes from truncated to fully-spelled out). The pulse thing is interesting and worth exploring. thanks! Open to other's suggestions... Brian User experience and interaction designer (Boston/NYC) http://www.rhythmspice.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40362 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] Different form fields: mobile v. computer browsers?
Hello, We are creating a page which includes an input field asking for a user's e-mail address paired with a second field asking them to retype it to confirm. This page will also be offered for users visiting with a mobile browser and we have been debating whether to drop the confirmation field for mobile users since it would seem to be more of a nuisance in that context. Is the assumption that we should drop these luxury fields for users with mobile browsers a good one? On the one hand, it saves them time and effort. On the other hand, it may allow for increased user error when submitting e-mail addresses. Related to this, does anyone know of any good resources (free or paid) that collects best practices for IxD for mobile browsing? Thanks, Eric 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] Looking for best of breed date and time pickers
Anyone know of any great date AND time pickers out in the world. Thanks! Emma 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] [JOB]Los Angeles-Flash Developer, Interactive
Hello all, This position is located in West L.A. and is a senior position with an Ad Agency. They will pay very well for the right person. Check out the job description below and please respond if you fit the requirements below. My contact info is at the bottom. Thank you! Senior Flash Developer, Interactive Location: Culver City, CA Notes- They mostly work in AS3, Flash 10, have a custom built framework for AS3. However, they do have some legacy projects and/or clients that they need to build off their AS2 framework. As for Flex, it would be ideal if they have Flex experience. They do a fair amount of Papervison projects. They are also pretty much the digital agency of record for Adobe and do all of their flash design and development for them. Full Time Experienced (6+ years) The Senior Flash Developer must be passionate about programming interactive technologies and committed to building unique and innovative User Experiences. You've mastered Math Motion algorithms, Procedural Animation, AI and game engine physics and show great interest in the works of Keith Peters, Erik Natzke and Grant Skinner. You obsess over building the coolest navigation widgets and presentation interactions that feel real and respond intelligently to user interactions. Your work transforms client goals into compelling, usable, and media-rich Interactive Experiences ranging from Websites, Games, Applications and Widgets, to intelligent User Interfaces for mobile and the console. Our creative concepts, design, motion graphics, video and audio teams will challenge you to plan and build innovative projects for our well known clients, appreciated by millions and often awarded top industry accolades. Responsibilities: Strategic Work Lead the Interaction Experience of projects by implementing tactile, game-like, fluid, dynamic, physics based elements, interfaces and widgets that brings the creative work to life Plan and Architect interactive elements ahead of time along with the Creative and Art Directors Learn and Contribute to the BLITZ Flash Development Framework - Fabric Provide meticulous attention to detail when working with art directors and integrating media assets such as design, motion graphics, video, and sound Work with the User Experience team to author and maintain interaction and technical documentation through the life of a project Maintain well organized and clean project files and folders Maintain the highest coding standards and best practices by keeping up with the latest Flash Platform enhancements and techniques Be an active player in advancing the goals of the Flash Dept - contribute to the BLITZ code libraries and component productivity tool sets, do Research Development during down time Tactical Work Develop Interactive Experiences using Flash AS3 (and a little legacy AS2), with strong understanding of Object Oriented Programming techniques, RIA/SOA architectures, as knowledge of when/how/why to use Design Patterns Utilize strong performance optimization skills and the ability to help guide creative team towards sound creative solutions for flash Write clean, documented, reusable and scalable ActionScript code Optimize Code and Architecture for great performance and outstanding user experiences Qualifications: At least 3 or more years of interactive programming experience in an agency environment Strong Game Development Background, Math Motion, Physics and AI Interactive Agency Experience or Similar Expert understanding of theories related to interface design, usability and interactivity Expert understanding of Papervision3D and other available interaction libraries. Expert of latest Flash Player features such as Pixel Bender, Filters, Blend modes, Flash Type, Bitmap caching, Alpha Blending, Advanced gradient control An innovative, hacker mentality, and an interest in experimenting with new algorithms and technologies Passionate about pushing the boundaries of interactive technologies Proficient at Flash JavaScript Integration, External Interface Familiarity with localization techniques and the issues related to providing international (i.e. non-English) content within Flash Knowledgeable about tricks, workarounds and limitations of the Flash Player An obsession for high-quality deliveries Creative toolset knowledge (e.g. Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) Excellent communication skills Proficient at Flash Video Delivery and Integration of Sound, Motion Graphics, Animations and Transition sequences Proficient at Client/Server Integration (Flash Media Server, Remoting, XML, SOAP/Web Vincent DiMauro vdima...@tci-la.com office: 310.479.8830 x218 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Bowman leaves Google
For some designers his name is probably a curse word, because I have yet to meet a designer who likes Jakob Nielsen, but in his latest newsletter he has actually commented about this issue. Maybe he is following this thread. :) Nielsen argues a third way. I unfortunately don't have the newsletter with me and I don't see those comments on his website. If anyone else received his newsletter, can you please post Nielsen's comments on this thread? I think it will add to the debate. 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] Command line vs. menu driven interface
I've witnessed the insane efficiency of insurance reps working green screens. The entry barrier is huge, but after striving to learn it, most of them became extremely adept at making the software do what *they* needed. OS X enables searching for a command from the help menu. This inelegant hack lets me execute shortcutless commands without running through e.g. CS4's vast menus. If anyone here knows about a more elegant option, let me know The committed user can become more efficient using keyboard shortcuts. In the end, however, they're coincidental key-to-command mappings. Why not just tell the app what it is you want to do? (Reducing user errors and increasing feedback through a context-sensitive, suggestive command mode, of course. I don't use Ubiquity for many things, but for the things I do, it's unbeatable (Try amaz interaction design) Which other apps that mix a GUI a rich command mode should we all know about? 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] Interaction Design Programme (CIID) - call for admissions
The application process for next year's interaction design programme, run by the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design and the Danish Design School is well underway. This graduate programme is the successor to our current Interaction Design Pilot Year. It will offer students an intensive 12-month education in interaction and service design. Contingent on confirmation of funding, we will begin the programme in September 2009. For more information and the online application form, see: http://ciid.dkds.dk/admissions/ Deadline: Applications should be received by April 1st, 2009. Please contact us if an extension is required. PROGRAMME OVERVIEW The interaction design programme teaches students to apply technology to everyday life, through the design of software, products, and services. We believe in a hands-on and user-centered approach to interaction design. Students learn the programming and electronics skills needed to work with technology as a design medium. They conduct user-research and experience prototyping to provide real-world grounding for their concepts. Frequent work in multi-disciplinary teams encourages peer-to-peer learning. A diverse selection of visiting faculty exposes students to a range of expertise. Next year's interaction design programme builds on the structure of the pilot year. The twelve month programme is divided into three tiers: foundations, investigations, and the thesis. The foundations are short workshops that provides students with the skills they need throughout the year. The investigations give students the opportunity to pursue in-depth projects around a particular design brief. The thesis provides students with an opportunity to explore an area of their choosing, combining design work with reflection and knowledge generation. Additionally, students will participate in innovation projects: collaborations with industry on briefs of mutual interest. For more information on the current Interaction Design Pilot Year curriculum, see: http://ciid.dkds.dk/education/ A gallery of course information and student work from the Interaction Design Pilot Year is available at: http://dkds.ciid.dk/ WHAT WE LOOK FOR As an education concerned with the broad potential of design and technology, the interaction design programme is looking for a wide diversity of students. We welcome applicants from all over the world and from any background. You should be curious and creative; enthusiastic about design and working in a cross-disciplinary environment. Whether youre currently studying or working, you should be interested in the connections between education and interaction design practice. As this is a new programme, were seeking students with an interest in helping to shape the education and curriculum. We plan to have a class of approximately 25 students. CONTACT For more information about the interaction design programme, see http://ciid.dkds.dk/ or write to i...@ciid.dkds.dk. Please pass this information on to those who may be interested. Kind Regards, Alie. 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] the little pointy hand
Guillermo Torres wrote: If you are on a mac and press command-Tab to switch apps, you will see your cursor will change from the arrow to a pointing hand. We know this cursor is good for pointing out links or buttons, particularly for the web. At first I blamed the inconsistency on an oversight, which is common on web apps (Gmail only changes the cursor for underlined text, Reader doesn't). But this cursor is rarely used at the OS level; someone had to make the decision to make the switch. Do you know why? I can't. Apple's own [UI guidelines][1] note the 'Pointing hand' is for 'URL links'. On that basis, at least, it is definitely an inconsistency. The hand itself first appeared in [Bill Atkinson's][2] [HyperCard][3] (with the pointing hand icon designed by [Susan Kare][4]). In HyperCard, the pointing hand appeared whenever the pointer passed over an area that, if clicked, produced an immediate effect. This was (I believe) a way of distinguishing such areas from others that required a double-click to produce an effect, or took a click to make them active (eg a text-edit area). When you press Command-Tab and bring up the Application Switcher, each item in the list is clickable. (In fact, you don't even need to click: press Command-Tab to activate the Application Switcher; release the Tab key but not the Command key; move the pointing hand over an icon in the Switcher; release the Command key; you will switch to the application the pointing hand was hovering above.) It's difficult to call this a fully-formed reason for changing from the arrow to the pointing hand icon but I can imagine someone making the argument and winning, perhaps as an effort to make the clickable nature of the Application Switcher list more apparent to users. Now that the web is invading the desktop and applications are going online, is it time to ditch the hand, or keep it? Given how many millions of people rely on the pointing hand to tell them 'this is clickable', I'm not sure we have much say in the matter. For better or worse, the pointing hand is with us for a while yet. Regards, Brian Forte. [1]: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/userexperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGCursors/XHIGCursors.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002724-TPXREF101 [2]: http://billatkinson.com/ [3]: http://apple.com/hypercard [4]: http://kare.com/ -- words, edits, type, layout, code mailto:bfo...@betweenborders.com http://betweenborders.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] Different form fields: mobile v. computer browsers?
Hi Eric Is there a particular reason why you need to double check that the user has entered their email address correctly? I'm sure you're aware that when registering on most well known sites, the user is not required to type their email address twice - this is reserved only for passwords. I'd remove the email confirmation field unless you have a really solid reason for needing it... Harry -- http://www.90percentofeverything.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] UI Performance Testing Methodology
I am talking more on the technical performance side, keeping in mind the UX ramifications. For instance, a lot of UIs might be designed well from the design side but perform poorly (slow loading, refreshing a whole page vs a section on the page, etc) which ultimately negatively affects the UI. I have been asked to assist with the development of this methodology, using the UX to drive what we should be testing for. I have my own experience, but wants to get a broader sense of the topic. I sense that we do not often have the opportunity to influence this area.. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Chauncey Wilson chauncey.wil...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Baruch, Could you describe a bit more what you mean by performance testing of the user interface? There is benchmark usability testing, but also performance testing of widgets under different loads and system testing of various types of responsiveness. Thanks, Chauncey On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Baruch Sachs basa...@gmail.com wrote: Lookng for any resources available on methodologies for performance testing, focusing specifically on the User Interface...preliminary searches bringing up very little. Hoping someone can assist...thanks in advance! 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] Bowman leaves Google
Taken from Useit.com's latest newsletter. www.useit.com -- THE THIRD WAY: BETWEEN NUMBERS WORSHIP AND ARTISTIC INSTINCT One of Google's visual designers apparently quit in despair over having to prove every tiny graphics decision with clickthrough data, instead of having management rely on his artistic instinct: http://www.kottke.org/09/03/google-and-design I'd argue that both approaches are wrong. Moreover, it's a false dichotomy to choose between numbers and art. The third way is called insight, and is found through qualitative research. Of course, in reality, the very best design blends all 3 methods: qualitative insights, hard numbers, and pure aesthetic taste. But I think that qualitative should be the driving factor. It's obvious why taste shouldn't be the overriding factor: countless websites look great but don't sell. You have to moderate pure art with what customers need. It may be less obvious why the hard numbers should be secondary to soft insights. The reasons are that (a) you may measure the wrong thing, and (b) even if you measure the right thing, such as conversion rate, you can sub-optimize individual screens while undermining your long-term strategy and overall user experience. Putting A/B Testing in Its Place: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20050815.html Risks of Quantitative Studies http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040301.html To take the example of which of 41 gradations of blue to pick for a design element: yes, one of these will have the highest clickthrough rate, and thus be the local optimum for the design of that one page. But it's quite possible that another shade would be better for the overall look of the site and make the complete set of pages feel more like a coherent user experience, which would enhance user confidence and the site's credibility, and lead to long-term loyalty, as more people return to buy next year. And more important, while the best shade of blue might generate 0.1% more business than the second-best, it's almost certainly the case that there is some other aspect of the design that would lead to 50% more business if you could identify it. To do so, use qualitative research to observe deep user behaviors. The things you know to measure are rarely the ones with the big impact. The things you DON'T KNOW are the place to focus usability efforts. --- 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] Accordion Interaction
Your survey appears to be closed. The main difference between an accordion and closable/collapsible panels is that with an accordion only one panel's contents are visible at a time, thus if you open another panel, the first panel closes, whereas in closable/collapsible, you can view as many panels as you'd like at one time. If you open another panel, it opens but the first panel also stays open. Check out www.welie.com. I found his site very helpful when creating our design pattern library. Courtney -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of Christian Crumlish Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:14 PM Cc: disc...@ixda.org Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Accordion Interaction As promised a month or so ago, I've put together a survey about the accordion user interface element to help inform a design pattern I'm writing. If you have opinions about what makes an accordion an accordion (and whether it's really anything different from stacked panels or a reskinned tab interface or a tree widget), please come by and share your thoughts. The questionnaire is here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=lGHKygw2YwMI8yoom00Tzg_3d_3d ...and my blog post about it is here: http://yuiblog.com/blog/2009/03/23/survey-when-is-an-accordion-not-an-a ccordion/ (hoping those links don't break) Thanks! -xian- -- Christian Crumlish I'm writing a book so please forgive any lag http://designingsocialinterfaces.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 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] IxD Portfolio review resources
Hi Jonathan, I'm still not sure it's the right resource for you, but the Information Architecture Institute has a mentor program set up as well. http://www.iainstitute.org/en/members/mentoring/mentoring_program.php. As for feedback on your portfolio I would say that all the hover overs are a little bit much for me, this of course may just be my personal opinion, but I think you should either have clicks instead hovers OR have one control do one type of action and a different control do another. It was hard for me to read if my mouse hovered to a different location then I realized that I had to click to get the info to stay. Just didn't seem as clean. Good luck in your search! ~Lis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40439 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] UI Performance Testing Methodology
Performance or system responsiveness comes up often in usability surveys as one of the top 3 usability problems. There are a few issues here: 1. Consider both performance and performance variability. If a system has a great deal of variance in performance that lends unpredictibility to the user experience, that might be worse than a long, but predictable experience where you can do other tasks. 2. There are many factors that affect perceived responsiveness. For example, good progress feedback can influence the perception of responsiveness. 3. In your testing, consider realistic databases. You might have a small testing database, but gather data on the sizes of your customers databases. 4. Consider that performance can be too fast. There is some research showing that performance that is too fast or too slow will result in more errors than a mid-range response. 5. Direct manipulation and immediate control responses need to be responsive or people will feel like they are working in a tub of jello. 6. Perceived time will be influenced by the user's perception of the size and complexity of an operation. So, if you are loading gigabytes of photos, you will accept fairly slow response, but the same may not be true of operations that are judged as not so complex. 7. If you are looking at performance of your system, consider response time, response variability, scalability, and startup or launch time as three major buckets to consider. Chauncey On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Baruch Sachs basa...@gmail.com wrote: I am talking more on the technical performance side, keeping in mind the UX ramifications. For instance, a lot of UIs might be designed well from the design side but perform poorly (slow loading, refreshing a whole page vs a section on the page, etc) which ultimately negatively affects the UI. I have been asked to assist with the development of this methodology, using the UX to drive what we should be testing for. I have my own experience, but wants to get a broader sense of the topic. I sense that we do not often have the opportunity to influence this area.. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Chauncey Wilson chauncey.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Baruch, Could you describe a bit more what you mean by performance testing of the user interface? There is benchmark usability testing, but also performance testing of widgets under different loads and system testing of various types of responsiveness. Thanks, Chauncey On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Baruch Sachs basa...@gmail.com wrote: Lookng for any resources available on methodologies for performance testing, focusing specifically on the User Interface...preliminary searches bringing up very little. Hoping someone can assist...thanks in advance! 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] Bowman leaves Google
*takes Jared's strawman and sets it on fire* On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Jared Spool jsp...@uie.com wrote: So, if I understand correctly, you're speaking in an ideal world, where everyone already has the data they need when they walk in the room and everyone is on the same page with that data. Did I get that right? No, and you know it. I said no such thing. What I said was that the people in the room should be the vision-holders for the company. It is possible (even probable) that there are organizations where such people don't exist, or where they fail to do their jobs in this way. In which case you have a different problem. I then further postulate that people involved in a brainstorming exercise will reach a stage where the brainstorming begins to coalesce around a few accepted ideas/projections. Given that, I believe that the people in the room should be sufficiently familiar with their own product that they can see how the results of the brainstorming exercise differ from their current product. I don't think either postulate is unrealistic or ideal (in the sense of unobtainium). I'm sure we can both give counter-examples where this wasn't true, but that doesn't discount the notion that Dave (and I) are describing a design-driven process. All process models are ideals, as you well know. Because, I've never stepped into that world. The world I live in has stakeholders who have no clue what's happening with their designs outside their perceptions of mythical users with mythical scenarios. Right. Which is why I suggested that data should be introduced into the process, in the part of my message you didn't quote. It's important to understand how a new design concept may perform vis a vis an existing design, how a new design might or might not address deficiencies with a current design - all understandings for which data are crucial. However, none of those things go counter to the notion that you can in fact have a design-driven process that incorporates data, and not just a data-driven process that might happen to incorporate design somewhere down in the pixel-fiddling range, which was the thrust of the original complaint. Best, --Alan 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] ixd failure(?) exploited for voting fraud
The entire article is worth reading (and has actual hot links), but I'll call out how the design failure(?) was exploited by pollworkers to change votes: http://www.crypto.com/blog/vote_fraud_in_kentucky/ [...] The Kentucky officials are accused of taking advantage of a somewhat confusing aspect of the way the iVotronic interface was implemented. In particular, the behavior (as described in the indictment) of the version of the iVotronic used in Clay County apparently differs a bit from the behavior described in ESamp;S's standard a href=http://www.essvote.com/HTML/docs/iVotronic.pdf;instruction sheet for voters [pdf - see page 2]/a. A a href=http://www.essvote.com/HTML/iVotronicDemo1/demo.html;flash-based iVotronic demo available from ESamp;S here/a shows the same procedure, with the VOTE button as the last step. But evidently there's another version of the iVotronic interface in which pressing the VOTE button is only the emsecond to last/em step. In those machines, pressing VOTE invokes an extra confirmation screen. The vote is only actually finalized after a confirm vote box is touched on that screen. (A different flash demo that shows this behavior with the version of the iVotronic equipped with a printer is available from ESamp;S a href=http://www.essvote.com/HTML/iVotronicDemo2/index.html;here/a). So the iVotronic VOTE button doesn't necessarily work the way a voter who read the standard instructions might expect it to. p The indictment describes a conspiracy to exploit this ambiguity in the iVotronic user interface by having pollworkers systematically (and incorrectly) tell voters that pressing the VOTE button is the last step. When a misled voter would leave the machine with the extra confirm vote screen still displayed, a pollworker would quietly correct the not-yet-finalized ballot before casting it. It's a pretty elegant attack, exploiting little more than a poorly designed, ambiguous user interface, printed instructions that conflict with actual machine behavior, and public unfamiliarity with equipment that most citizens use at most once or twice each year. And once done, it leaves behind little forensic evidence to expose the deed. [...] -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] $705k for redesigning a website???
On Mar 24, 2009, at 11:54 PM, Russell Wilson wrote: I know there are projects of this size, but from the description (and admittedly many details were left out), it just didn't seem like that large of a project. Website redesign projects are a gaseous substance. They expand to fill all available budget. Jared 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] ixd failure(?) exploited for voting fraud
There are a number of confusing things that happen at the end of the voting process on an iVotronic. And casting a ballot always takes two steps on these machines. 1. There are *two* places where a voter can answer the call to action: a physical button at the top of the screen that lights up red when the voter reaches the summary/review screen, and a green button in the touchscreen UI that usually says something like Cast your ballot. THEN 2. There's a confirmation screen. But the messaging there isn't always obvious. Here, the voter touches Cast Ballot again. What the Kentucky election officials did was tell voters they were done when they had taken the first step. Then they went back to the voting booth and hit a Back button to go through the ballot again, changing votes. Then they cast the ballots themselves. This article has a pretty good explanation of what happened: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7001 Dana :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: Dana Chisnell desk: 415.392.0776 mobile: 415.519.1148 dana AT usabilityworks DOT net www.usabilityworks.net http://usabilitytestinghowto.blogspot.com/ On Mar 25, 2009, at 6:35 AM, j.eric townsend wrote: The entire article is worth reading (and has actual hot links), but I'll call out how the design failure(?) was exploited by pollworkers to change votes: http://www.crypto.com/blog/vote_fraud_in_kentucky/ [...] The Kentucky officials are accused of taking advantage of a somewhat confusing aspect of the way the iVotronic interface was implemented. In particular, the behavior (as described in the indictment) of the version of the iVotronic used in Clay County apparently differs a bit from the behavior described in ESamp;S's standard a href=http://www.essvote.com/HTML/docs/iVotronic.pdf;instruction sheet for voters [pdf - see page 2]/a. A a href=http://www.essvote.com/HTML/iVotronicDemo1/ demo.htmlflash-based iVotronic demo available from ESamp;S here/a shows the same procedure, with the VOTE button as the last step. But evidently there's another version of the iVotronic interface in which pressing the VOTE button is only the emsecond to last/em step. In those machines, pressing VOTE invokes an extra confirmation screen. The vote is only actually finalized after a confirm vote box is touched on that screen. (A different flash demo that shows this behavior with the version of the iVotronic equipped with a printer is available from ESamp;S a href=http://www.essvote.com/HTML/iVotronicDemo2/ index.htmlhere/a). So the iVotronic VOTE button doesn't necessarily work the way a voter who read the standard instructions might expect it to. p The indictment describes a conspiracy to exploit this ambiguity in the iVotronic user interface by having pollworkers systematically (and incorrectly) tell voters that pressing the VOTE button is the last step. When a misled voter would leave the machine with the extra confirm vote screen still displayed, a pollworker would quietly correct the not-yet-finalized ballot before casting it. It's a pretty elegant attack, exploiting little more than a poorly designed, ambiguous user interface, printed instructions that conflict with actual machine behavior, and public unfamiliarity with equipment that most citizens use at most once or twice each year. And once done, it leaves behind little forensic evidence to expose the deed. [...] -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Reply to this thread at ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40458 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] the little pointy hand
I had noticed this same thing, but thought nothing of it as often I'll hit command tab in order to select from the (rather lengthy list) of open programs with my mouse instead of lots of key strokes if I'm going for something on the far side of the linear list. Although perhaps you are right it's inconsistent if the same thign doesn't happen when you mouse over open programs in the dock. The metaphors are invading all kinds of interactions, even in our daily lives. Not long ago I often heard people talking about their bandwidth when refering to their workload. I think this is neither a welcome nor a bad thing, just part of the change that is part of the world that always has been. -- Aaron Houssian MS Human-Computer Interaction Design IU School of Informatics I check email 2x/day, reach me sooner by clicking to https://www.awayfind.com/aaronh **This will contact me immediately on my phone** My Contact info: Blog: http://designingforexperience.com O:+1.812.650.4050 F:+1.631.885.8958 Skype: ahoussian, GTalk:aaronh, AIM:azonarh What am I doing? http://www.twitter.com/houssian -- Intentional design is what is needed in every area of life, business, and technology On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Guillermo Torres guille...@g1sh.comwrote: If you are on a mac and press command-Tab to switch apps, you will see your cursor will change from the arrow to a pointing hand. We know this cursor is good for pointing out links or buttons, particularly for the web. At first I blamed the inconsistency on an oversight, which is common on web apps (Gmail only changes the cursor for underlined text, Reader doesn't). But this cursor is rarely used at the OS level; someone had to make the decision to make the switch. Do you know why? I can't. Now that the web is invading the desktop and applications are going online, is it time to ditch the hand, or keep it? Guillermo Reply to this thread at ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40441 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] Accordion Interaction
thanks. not sure how the survey got closed prematurely (it is supposed to stay open to april 30, so i'll check that and re-open it). you are addressing most of the key questions, though (and Welie is one of the first sources I consulted when starting work on our pattern). -x- On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Jordan, Courtney cjor...@bbandt.com wrote: Your survey appears to be closed. The main difference between an accordion and closable/collapsible panels is that with an accordion only one panel's contents are visible at a time, thus if you open another panel, the first panel closes, whereas in closable/collapsible, you can view as many panels as you'd like at one time. If you open another panel, it opens but the first panel also stays open. Check out www.welie.com. I found his site very helpful when creating our design pattern library. Courtney -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of Christian Crumlish Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:14 PM Cc: disc...@ixda.org Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Accordion Interaction As promised a month or so ago, I've put together a survey about the accordion user interface element to help inform a design pattern I'm writing. If you have opinions about what makes an accordion an accordion (and whether it's really anything different from stacked panels or a reskinned tab interface or a tree widget), please come by and share your thoughts. The questionnaire is here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=lGHKygw2YwMI8yoom00Tzg_3d_3d ...and my blog post about it is here: http://yuiblog.com/blog/2009/03/23/survey-when-is-an-accordion-not-an-a ccordion/ (hoping those links don't break) Thanks! -xian- -- Christian Crumlish I'm writing a book so please forgive any lag http://designingsocialinterfaces.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 -- Christian Crumlish I'm writing a book so please forgive any lag http://designingsocialinterfaces.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] Bowman leaves Google
Ok. I contend I *didn't* understand what you were trying to say. I do now. We're in agreement. Jared On Mar 25, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Alan Wexelblat wrote: *takes Jared's strawman and sets it on fire* On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Jared Spool jsp...@uie.com wrote: So, if I understand correctly, you're speaking in an ideal world, where everyone already has the data they need when they walk in the room and everyone is on the same page with that data. Did I get that right? No, and you know it. I said no such thing. What I said was that the people in the room should be the vision-holders for the company. It is possible (even probable) that there are organizations where such people don't exist, or where they fail to do their jobs in this way. In which case you have a different problem. I then further postulate that people involved in a brainstorming exercise will reach a stage where the brainstorming begins to coalesce around a few accepted ideas/projections. Given that, I believe that the people in the room should be sufficiently familiar with their own product that they can see how the results of the brainstorming exercise differ from their current product. I don't think either postulate is unrealistic or ideal (in the sense of unobtainium). I'm sure we can both give counter-examples where this wasn't true, but that doesn't discount the notion that Dave (and I) are describing a design-driven process. All process models are ideals, as you well know. Because, I've never stepped into that world. The world I live in has stakeholders who have no clue what's happening with their designs outside their perceptions of mythical users with mythical scenarios. Right. Which is why I suggested that data should be introduced into the process, in the part of my message you didn't quote. It's important to understand how a new design concept may perform vis a vis an existing design, how a new design might or might not address deficiencies with a current design - all understandings for which data are crucial. However, none of those things go counter to the notion that you can in fact have a design-driven process that incorporates data, and not just a data-driven process that might happen to incorporate design somewhere down in the pixel-fiddling range, which was the thrust of the original complaint. Best, --Alan 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] ixd failure(?) exploited for voting fraud
Here's a picture of the interaction for the iVotronic on the ballot summary/review step. http://www.flickr.com/photos/danachisnell/493697218/in/photostream/ :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: Dana Chisnell desk: 415.392.0776 mobile: 415.519.1148 dana AT usabilityworks DOT net www.usabilityworks.net http://usabilitytestinghowto.blogspot.com/ On Mar 25, 2009, at 6:35 AM, j.eric townsend wrote: The entire article is worth reading (and has actual hot links), but I'll call out how the design failure(?) was exploited by pollworkers to change votes: http://www.crypto.com/blog/vote_fraud_in_kentucky/ [...] The Kentucky officials are accused of taking advantage of a somewhat confusing aspect of the way the iVotronic interface was implemented. In particular, the behavior (as described in the indictment) of the version of the iVotronic used in Clay County apparently differs a bit from the behavior described in ESamp;S's standard a href=http://www.essvote.com/HTML/docs/iVotronic.pdf;instruction sheet for voters [pdf - see page 2]/a. A a href=http://www.essvote.com/HTML/iVotronicDemo1/ demo.htmlflash-based iVotronic demo available from ESamp;S here/a shows the same procedure, with the VOTE button as the last step. But evidently there's another version of the iVotronic interface in which pressing the VOTE button is only the emsecond to last/em step. In those machines, pressing VOTE invokes an extra confirmation screen. The vote is only actually finalized after a confirm vote box is touched on that screen. (A different flash demo that shows this behavior with the version of the iVotronic equipped with a printer is available from ESamp;S a href=http://www.essvote.com/HTML/iVotronicDemo2/ index.htmlhere/a). So the iVotronic VOTE button doesn't necessarily work the way a voter who read the standard instructions might expect it to. p The indictment describes a conspiracy to exploit this ambiguity in the iVotronic user interface by having pollworkers systematically (and incorrectly) tell voters that pressing the VOTE button is the last step. When a misled voter would leave the machine with the extra confirm vote screen still displayed, a pollworker would quietly correct the not-yet-finalized ballot before casting it. It's a pretty elegant attack, exploiting little more than a poorly designed, ambiguous user interface, printed instructions that conflict with actual machine behavior, and public unfamiliarity with equipment that most citizens use at most once or twice each year. And once done, it leaves behind little forensic evidence to expose the deed. [...] -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Reply to this thread at ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40458 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] IxD Portfolio review resources
Hi, The IxDA mentorship initiative sounds interesting, does anyone have any more information on this? I couldn't find any on the site. In terms of creating portfolios, this article from Sitepoint may be of some use. It is very web-centric but I'm sure that many of the principles will be applicable for other design fields: Designer needed: portfolio required http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/02/23/designer-needed-portfolio-required/ Best wishes, David -- David Little w: www.littled.net t: twitter.com/djlittle 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] Accordion Interaction
Aha, free SurveyMonkey accounts max out at 100 respondents. Just upgraded, so please try again! -x- On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Christian Crumlish x...@pobox.com wrote: thanks. not sure how the survey got closed prematurely (it is supposed to stay open to april 30, so i'll check that and re-open it). 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] UX Certification?
So I've been asked at work to research UX Certification programs. While I'm glad that an interest is being taken, I feel to a certain extent that the whole certification thing is outdated. I'd rather just go to one of Adaptive Path's UX Intensives (http://www.adaptivepath.com/events/2009/uxi/), but because no 'certification' is involved, it's not even being considered. Does anybody know of any programs out there? Anything worthwhile? Cooper offers certification but they are very vague about what it entails... -MIKE D 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] UX Certification?
So I've been asked at work to research UX Certification programs. While I'm glad that an interest is being taken, I feel to a certain extent that the whole certification thing is outdated. I'd rather just go to one of Adaptive Path's UX Intensives (http://www.adaptivepath.com/events/2009/uxi/), but because no 'certification' is involved, it's not even being considered. Does anybody know of any programs out there? Anything worthwhile? Cooper offers certification but they are very vague about what it entails... -MIKE D 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] UX Certification?
Hi Michael, Are you asking about UX Certificate programs or about becoming a Certified UX Practitioner? The latter doesn't exist, but there are some excellent certificate programs available. Jared Jared M. Spool User Interface Engineering 510 Turnpike St., Suite 102, North Andover, MA 01845 e: jsp...@uie.com p: +1 978 327 5561 http://uie.com Blog: http://uie.com/brainsparks Twitter: jmspool UIE Web App Summit, 4/19-4/22: http://webappsummit.com On Mar 25, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Michael Dunn wrote: So I've been asked at work to research UX Certification programs. While I'm glad that an interest is being taken, I feel to a certain extent that the whole certification thing is outdated. I'd rather just go to one of Adaptive Path's UX Intensives (http://www.adaptivepath.com/events/2009/uxi/ ), but because no 'certification' is involved, it's not even being considered. Does anybody know of any programs out there? Anything worthwhile? Cooper offers certification but they are very vague about what it entails... 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] UX Certification?
Certificate programs are what I'm looking for. On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Jared Spool jsp...@uie.com wrote: Hi Michael, Are you asking about UX Certificate programs or about becoming a Certified UX Practitioner? The latter doesn't exist, but there are some excellent certificate programs available. Jared Jared M. Spool User Interface Engineering 510 Turnpike St., Suite 102, North Andover, MA 01845 e: jsp...@uie.com p: +1 978 327 5561 http://uie.com Blog: http://uie.com/brainsparks Twitter: jmspool UIE Web App Summit, 4/19-4/22: http://webappsummit.com On Mar 25, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Michael Dunn wrote: So I've been asked at work to research UX Certification programs. While I'm glad that an interest is being taken, I feel to a certain extent that the whole certification thing is outdated. I'd rather just go to one of Adaptive Path's UX Intensives ( http://www.adaptivepath.com/events/2009/uxi/), but because no 'certification' is involved, it's not even being considered. Does anybody know of any programs out there? Anything worthwhile? Cooper offers certification but they are very vague about what it entails... 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] $705k for redesigning a website???
Don't get me wrong - I've personally responded to and won a $6.5m project in the past (with a large retail store). That project was literally immense... and the price was easily justified. But I'm just not seeing what the complexity is in this project (and admit that I don't know enough of the details). @Patrick - do you have the RFP or more details that you can share? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40427 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] $705k for redesigning a website???
If I read correctly it also says that they sent the RFP out to 228 companies and received 3 replies??? Does that indicate a nightmare project? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40427 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] $705k for redesigning a website???
On Mar 25, 2009, at 8:16 AM, Russelll Wilson wrote: If I read correctly it also says that they sent the RFP out to 228 companies and received 3 replies??? Does that indicate a nightmare project? Or it could mean that firms are getting smarter and not responding to RFPs. Jared 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] $705k for redesigning a website???
The only 'reasonable' response to an RFP (IMO) is to chuck a huge number at it to see if they bite. Three reasons that folks put out an RFP: 1. They have no idea what they want and would like you to tell them for free. 2. They already know who will get the project, they just want qualifying prices. 3. They will buy cheap... as in the lowest bidder. I know there are a very few times when a RFP is done well. And, there are many times when an RFP is mandated... either by government regulation or by industry culture, but it is a terrible approach to design and counter productive towards quality and effective problem solution. On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Jared Spool jsp...@uie.com wrote: On Mar 25, 2009, at 8:16 AM, Russelll Wilson wrote: If I read correctly it also says that they sent the RFP out to 228 companies and received 3 replies??? Does that indicate a nightmare project? Or it could mean that firms are getting smarter and not responding to RFPs. Jared 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] Avoid self-fulfilling prophecies in Most Popular lists
Thanks for confirming my suspicions, gang. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40326 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] $705k for redesigning a website???
Without knowing the extent of the website and what it involves it really could be the case that this $705 K minimum bid is real. But then again, I wonder if the amount of complexity involved would make this website any expensive as this one. I can understand that the complexity will be a hard thing to overcome while taking a decision if this is to be outsourced to any one of the Asian countries. I am sure here the price would be half of what is being asked for here. Maybe I am biased towards outsourcing, but when critical decisions are to be made then a design agency that is local would certainly win the race. I would be pleasantly surprised if this gets outsourced! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40427 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] JOB: Senior Mobile UI Designer; Germany; Recruiter; Full Time
£40-55k + benefits Ideal profile: Mobile Interaction design, Mobile UI design, WAP, device UI, HCI Global and house-hold brand name is looking to add to their talented UX talent with the addition of a Senior Mobile UI designer. This role is based in Germany and International candidates can be considered (and visas sponsored), but candidates must have solid mobile UX/UI design exposure. Candidates can expect to add significant value to their CV and career if able to join this client - the work is cutting edge and directly visible in the mobile market. To view similar UI / UX / IA / Usability jobs please visit: http://www.ic-software.co.uk/Jobs.aspx?category=UI_~_UX_~_IA_~_Usability_Design http://www.ic-software.co.uk/Jobs.aspx?category=UI_~_UX_~_IA_~_Usability_Designfrom=section from=section Sean Pook D +44 (0)118 988 1156 s...@ic-software.co.uk __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ 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] $705k for redesigning a website???
Considering this is for a government contract I doubt it would be outsourced to other countries. Fed, state, or local projects almost always require U.S. citizenship or at minimum green card status (at least for the Federal level). Any people involved on that project also goes through a basic level of background/security check. As everyone else stated, depending on the size and complexity the price could have ballooned. On top of the normal user experience design tasks and personnel pricing, the final price could involve sending multiple personnel to the CMS's training program, the time involved for content migration into the new CMS, development licenses for the contracting company, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40427 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] UX Certification?
Bentley University. (in-person and virtual classes available) http://www.bentley.edu/ux-certificate/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40467 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] JOB: Mobile Graphic/Visual Designer; Germany; Recruiter; Full Time
£Senior + very good benefits Ideal profile: Graphic design /visual art background, mobile UI / Interaction design exposure/knowledge It's not often a chance comes along to design visuals and graphics for such a well-respected and exciting global brand - but that opportunity is here! My client is seeking an experience graphic designer who must have at least one-year mobile/small screen experience. Artists/cartoonists will not be considered but experience of mobile interaction design and working in a corporate environment is essential. The upside is that the office is very international and visa sponsorship is possible. Candidates must have an outstanding portfolio, with particular emphasise on your mobile/small screen design projects. To view similar UI / UX / IA / Usability jobs please visit: http://www.ic-software.co.uk/Jobs.aspx?category=UI_~_UX_~_IA_~_Usability_Design http://www.ic-software.co.uk/Jobs.aspx?category=UI_~_UX_~_IA_~_Usability_Designfrom=section from=section Sean Pook D +44 (0)118 988 1156 s...@ic-software.co.uk __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ 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] UX Certification?
Hi Mike, Here's one which I've heard some good things about - Human Factors, http://www.humanfactors.com/training/usability-training.asp They have different courses on usability design and their CUA (Certified Usability Analyst) is pretty well-known with big corporates. A friend of mine recently got his CUA certificate and has given good feedback in terms of professional knowledge and broadening your design sense in terms of user interface design. Hope you find this relevant! Cheers! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40467 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] Good intranet books
Nielsen Norman Group - Intranet Design Annual 2009 is a good start point (although very expensive compared to a book): http://www.nngroup.com/reports/intranet/design/ Cheers Igor 2009/3/25 james_kauff...@vanguard.com It's been a few years since I worked on a corporate intranet. Can anyone recommend some good books to bring me up to speed on current best practices? Thanks, Jim K. -- CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT. The information contained in this e-mail message, including attachments, is the confidential information of, and/or is the property of, Vanguard. The information is intended for use solely by the individual or entity named in the message. If you are not an intended recipient or you received this in error, then any review, printing, copying, or distribution of any such information is prohibited, and please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail from your system. 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
[IxDA Discuss] UI/UX Design distance e-learning from Korea
Hi IxDA members, I'm thinking take some online or distance courses on UI/UX Design or related. I will like to know if I can take this courses from a University in Korea, mainly cause I like the design style from there. Any information will be really appreciated and maybe useful for other IxDA members looking for something like this Thanks in advanced Jose E. http://nlapse.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] Good intranet books
It's been a few years since I worked on a corporate intranet. Can anyone recommend some good books to bring me up to speed on current best practices? Thanks, Jim K. -- CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT. The information contained in this e-mail message, including attachments, is the confidential information of, and/or is the property of, Vanguard. The information is intended for use solely by the individual or entity named in the message. If you are not an intended recipient or you received this in error, then any review, printing, copying, or distribution of any such information is prohibited, and please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail from your system. 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] ixd failure(?) exploited for voting fraud
I'm curious, how many of you Ix designers actually work with, hire, or consult with security experts before finishing a project? Of course this wasn't even a high-tech attack but the equivalent of telling the voters to use pencils and then erasing them. Does anyone even have a user testing program that includes people trying to f*ck with the system? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40458 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] Different form fields: mobile v. computer browsers?
Absolutely drop all but necessary fields for text entry for the mobile field. The amount of people giving up with just one entry field is enormous, let alone two. Remember that mobile users are situated in other contexts where they will get distracted by the rest of life. :) A few questions to ask yourself... What does your site offer that requires signing in? Does that use case still exist in a mobile context? Can you simplify the service or offering? What is the profile of the person using the site? Text entry is okay on iPhones and Blackberries, but they represent a relatively small amount of users in the global market. Check out design4mobile for a start on the patterns for mobile design. http://patterns.design4mobile.com/index.php/Main_Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40442 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] ixd failure(?) exploited for voting fraud
Speaking as someone who has done security in consumer electronics for 10+ years, I've never been asked by any sort of designer to be involved in the design process. It's usually the case that engineering receives the requirements docs, then I go through those and start looking for problems. One of the things I hope to achieve by going back to design school is learning not only design, but how to talk to designers in their language for those instances where I'm just the engineer on a project. Den Serras wrote: I'm curious, how many of you Ix designers actually work with, hire, or consult with security experts before finishing a project? Of course this wasn't even a high-tech attack but the equivalent of telling the voters to use pencils and then erasing them. Does anyone even have a user testing program that includes people trying to f*ck with the system? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40458 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 -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] $705k for redesigning a website???
I don't have the RFP response, but I do have the deliverables/wireframes/content matrix, and the size of the site. One of the complexities of a site like this is that isn't not just flat HTML -- there are a lot of dynamic forms. Think about it, 83k pages. That's a lot of pages that have to be edited, massaged. That doesn't include the cost of setting up the CMS, building the forms, etc, and scaling for governance. After going through the process with the other city (they were actually at 130k pages), this price is low. And even though the price was off, if they are offshoring, the city is going to be rebidding this out. I think I know one of the firms that bid on it (and list). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40427 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] Good intranet books
Although it sometimes comes across more as a sales pitch, Razorfish has a free PDF titled Corporate Intranets Best Practices Report available on it's site. Here's a link to the section of the site where the report is located. The report is the last item on the page. http://www.razorfish.com/#/ideas/reports-and-papers/special-reports/ Jamie 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] Command line vs. menu driven interface
Humanized is a software company that has a lot of great stuff to say about command-line interfaces. http://humanized.com/weblog/ -isaacw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40330 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] Readability in Software and Web Applications
Is anyone aware of studies relating to the relative readability of formatted text? I am currently working on designing a client-server application that contains data entry screens as well as information display screens to be referenced long after the data has been entered. On the display screens, the information is generally formatted into phrases and sentences. Consider the following as a fictional example: a user might encounter a question with radio buttons such as: Are you hungry? Yes No When reviewing the information later, that response would be parsed sentence-like on the display screen with a label, such as Hunger: You are hungry On the information display screen there will be many of these items and the user will have to scan quickly to the ones she feels are relevant. It is, therefor, the response that is important, rather than the label. I would like to call out the response by bolding or otherwise emphasizing it. This might facilitate rapid scanning of the screen to find the key responses. Others in my organization would like to bold the labels -- mainly, I think, because they are used to seeing labels bolded. So, my questions are: 1. Does anyone have data on optimal methods of displaying this sort of information for readability/scanability in high-pressure, rushed environments? 2. Is anyone aware of studies related to readability in relation to obtaining information from screens rather than simply reading articles or stories on the web? I am open to paying for research or white papers if necessary. I appreciate any direction you may have. ▼ ▲ 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] Command line vs. menu driven interface
Indeed, Humanized sports Aza Raskin, who helped create the Ubiquity plugin/interface for Mozilla Firefox. The Humane Interface, written by Jef Raskin, is well worth a read, and discusses many of the CLI/GUI details we've touched upon here. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0201379376 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] looking for examples of how to best edit large forms
i'm redesigning an application that collects large amounts of form data, about 100 fields of info that i've divided across 3 or 4 pages and each of these pages i've broken up further into 3-6 logical groupings. the form is displayed in 2 columns, labels on the left, textboxes on the right. if someone wants to edit the information in the form my thought is to simpley display it in this format, that way a user can see the information and edit it if they would like. i've been asked to show the form information in a list or tabular format so it is more easily scanned, and then allow a user to click either an individual field of the group of elements if they want to edit the information, such as they do in facebook or even salesforce. my preference is to leave the form in its current layout, but i have to show this new layout idea. does anyone have any ideas on how to best show this editable information or perhaps even examples? 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] User Friendly/Visually Appealing/ Simply better ways of showcasing news/upcoming events
Hi everyone, I am working on a clinical research site Engage (www.umengage.org) which works at matching volunteers interested in clinical research to research studies at the University of Michigan. If you look at the home page, you can see that we have a section on News and upcoming Events which is basically a list ( 2 items)of the latest news and upcoming events. On clicking on a news item, it takes you to the original news page and on clicking on an event, it takes you to the calender showing all events for that month. Is there a more user friendly/visually appealing way/ better way of doing this? Is there like a design template/pattern for something like this? Are there examples where people have handles this situation differently? It would be great if you could also lead me to resources which could help me in this regard. Thanks so much, - Aalap 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] looking for examples of how to best edit large forms
I came across a document called, Best practices for form design by Luke Wroblewski (senior principal designer at Yahoo!). It might be available on his website at http://lukew.com/ Sorry, just checked - it's available as a book from http://www.lukew.com/resources/web_form_design.asp. I also saw an interesting talk by Joshua Porter at WebStock (Wellington, NZ recently) - it's more about 'pulling' customers into your website and encouraging them to be persistent visitors so it might not be relevant to your context (http://www.webstock.org.nz/09/programme/presentations.php#porter) but he might have his presentation on a site somewhere. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40496 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] Shopping cart design...
Or, the fun of committee decisions... What are people's studies/feelings about quantity box versus a link that reads edit quantity, and then they can change the quantity? 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] Shopping cart design...
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Patrick Neeman p...@usabilitycounts.comwrote: What are people's studies/feelings about quantity box versus a link that reads edit quantity, and then they can change the quantity? I like simple plus/minus signs to click and increment/decrement the quantity. People usually don't have their hands on the keyboard having just clicked something to get to a cart view (or some other such navigation). Maybe you have the box in between these operators for, say, bigger quantities that would take a while to increment to. As to requiring a click to edit, man, that just seems like bad mojo. Why make them take that extra action? Also, if they have a list of items they might want to just tab through the quantities (once they get their hands on the keyboard for the first one). If it is a styling concern, you could style it to fit with some sort of indicator they can edit in place and change the style to feel like an input when they do. -a 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] Shopping cart design...
/- is good. I also agree on as few clicks as possible. What about an Ajax update. A live edit on the page much like the titles and descriptions of Flickr photos. Display the number and make it editable by clicking it. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40500 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] Five things Interaction Design probably isn't
Perhaps this is too high-level and abstract for the discussion here, but I consider interaction design to be all about *problem solving*. This involves two distinct parts: 1. Defining the problem 2. Designing a solution So if I had to say it in one sentence: *IxDs design simple, useful, usable, desirable [insert other adjectives here] solutions to well-defined, people-center problems. * Here's the presentation I put together that expands on my thinking: http://www.slideshare.net/davecortright/designing-with-vision-presentation 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] $705k for redesigning a website???
Say you give it a year to do and an annual salary of 100k per worker, that would give you 7 people to hire. What 7 roles would you employ? 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] $705k for redesigning a website???
well, it's not 100k per worker -- it's 250k per worker at consulting rates (or splits depending on offshoring)... when considering that's literally three people for a year... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40427 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] $705k for redesigning a website???
Totally my point. The amount is not enough to get much done. I was using the 100k block as a point of reference. If you had to organize a team and the WBS you would have to find some cheap labor. I was thinking something like this with the 705 as a base: 3 developers - cross disciplined (front end, back end, scripting, programming) 1 visual designer - creative direction experience 1 production artist - focus on IA 1 interaction designer - platform specific 1 product manager - proven start to finish project portfolio 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] $705k for redesigning a website???
And the content migration... That's going to hurt, and cannot be done by that team. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40427 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] Good intranet books
Good stuff here - http://www.steptwo.com.au/category/papers rgds, Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40482 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] Wall of Deliverables
Hey, I am not sure if anyone noticed but at the IASumit09, they have this Wall of Deliverables idea and the photos are up, as is the website. http://www.wallofdeliverables.com/ http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=wall%20of%20deliverables%20iasummitw=alls=int Bojhan 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] $705k for redesigning a website???
I would totally do it for the spare 5k after the new system was defined and the old system inventory had been taken. Integration is a pain, I hear that The quick team scope could pull it off if the synergy was balanced; but, the likeliness is in the lower 10 percentile. I predict that project takes 3 years and goes through 3 teams with maybe one survivor from the original team that really has his or her heart in it seeing it through. 705kx3 On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Patrick Neeman p...@usabilitycounts.comwrote: And the content migration... That's going to hurt, and cannot be done by that team. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40427 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
[IxDA Discuss] ExecTweets
http://battellemedia.com/archives/004879.php a plan has been foiled yet again... ugh... 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] UX event, New York City, April 24, 2009
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Library presents: From Transaction to Interaction: Transforming the User Experience Friday, April 24, 2009, 9 am to 3 pm Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Library Rockefeller Research Laboratories (RRL) Building (Auditorium) 430 East 67th Street NY NY 10065 An engaging dialogue about User Experience (UX) and its relevance within the information profession. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. William Gribbons, reknown UX expert and Director, Master of Science in Human Factors Information Design Program, Bentley College, MA. SPACE IS LIMITED TO THE FIRST 90 REGISTRANTS! COST: $50 Buffet lunch will be provided Payment is due the day of the event. Check or money order is acceptable and should be made payable to: User Experience Symposium c/o Donna Gibson, MSKCC. We are unable to accept credit cards at this time. Online Registration closes on April 17, 2009. To register, visit: http://tinyurl.com/Registration-April-24 Co-sponsored by Rockefeller University Library, Cornell-Weill Medical Library, and the Library Association of the City University of New York (LACUNY), and ACRL/NY For more information contact Donna Gibson (gibs...@mskcc.org); Brian Lym (b...@hunter.cuny.edu); or Valeda Dent Goodman (vd...@rutgers.edu) 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] IxD Portfolio review resources
David: Jon Kolko can hook you up with the mentorship program initiative; he's a member of IxDA. It's in relatively early stages, but they likely need more help! Thanks, Elisabeth, for your comments and time. Jonathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40439 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] IxD Portfolio review resources
I don't mean to be snide, since we're all on the same team, but I think that the portfolio of an Interaction Designer shouldn't require directions for use. If it's not blatantly obvious how to navigate, then it's not as easy to use as it should be. My 2 cents, Leon 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] Different form fields: mobile v. computer browsers?
Thank you for your responses and for the link to the mobile UI pattern library. You have confirmed our decision with good reasoning. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40442 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] IxD Portfolio review resources
I agree with Leon. An interaction designer's portfolio should be as much of a testament to their skill as the items within it. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40439 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] IxD Portfolio review resources
To try to do the whole 'lighting a candle' thing... indications can be built in to make it blatantly obvious to click/mouseover the points on the map to see the portfolio pieces, or even having a secondary navigation so the user can simply Do What They Came Here to Do - or even making the map more central but deemphasized/desaturated, especially when someone wants to do something. The map idea isn't useless, it just gets in the way. Flash has problems with presentation, if someone wants to print out the portfolio they have a chore ahead of them, accessibiity issues and deep-linking (i.e. Hey look at this piece where...oh, ok, go to the map and click on that middle part...no, not that middle part!) That said, the Forking Path rocks! Scott -- I have mad skills at doing spazzy things. - Janiene West 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
