Re: [IxDA Discuss] Music to Design to - What gets your creative juicesflowing?
Callie Neylan / Senior Interactive Designer / NPR / cney...@npr.org / 202 513 3672 I like to listen to last.fm, KEXP song of the day playlists in iTunes, or npr.org/music. Callie 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] Research: Usability of rate / review forms?
Hi all -- Can anyone point me to research about the design of Rate this service / Rate this product types of systems or forms? Searching for the keywords is proving to be impossibly broad since the terms aren't very specific, and I'm not sure how to best narrow down the search. I'm just trying to get a baseline understanding of how well different approaches work best; should free-text responses be at the beginning or the end of the form vs. objective ones; etc. Cheers, Ellen 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] IxDA Portland F2F: June 16th
We are meeting this month on Tuesday, June 16th, from 6pm - 9pm at Mint/820, 820 North Russell Street. This is a casual, non-sponsored social meet up. Check out the event listing on Upcoming http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/267/?ps=5 and on Calagator http://calagator.org/events/1250457300. 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] Setting up local group in Birmingham, UK
what a coincidence! You guys should've been at flashCamp today in Birmingham; we came up from Brighton to do a talk on motion design and rapid prototyping for mobile devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42846 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] Recommendations for icon-designers?
Here's an icon designer whom I've followed on Twitter and who seems to have a good sense of design, while keen to the design issues. Louis Harboe http://www.graphicpeel.com/ http://twitter.com/spiralstairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42849 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 great concept videos
Hi! I'm exploring the use of concept videos in communicating product and user experience concepts to executives and product stakeholders. There was this series of concept video that I saw somewhere on the Internet about a year or two before. Unfortunately, I can't quite remember the details of it. There were about five short video clips. Each clip narrated a usage scenario. They featured real actors but with their face masked by a white oval. The product concept was related to smart homes and green living. If you know what I'm talking about, please let me know. If you don't, but you are aware of other great concept videos, please share with me know too. Thank you. 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] Research: Usability of rate / review forms?
Hi Ellen, Maybe these links can help: http://patterntap.com/ http://www.welie.com/patterns/ http://www.smileycat.com/design_elements/ratings/ http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/parent.php?pattern=ratingsreviews Cheers, Ferran Alvarez http://www.arquinauta.es . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42893 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] Music to Design to - What gets your creative juices flowing?
As stated by many above it depends on the task at hand or type of focus needed. I do like Sirius or Pandora to mix it up as I sometimes fall into a rut - see music below :). Detailed Work Eno - Music for Airports Moby - A mix of his albums Radiohead - Any album Creative Work Radiohead - Any album Oasis - Early stuff Kings Of Leon - Any album The Killers - Any Album . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42851 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] Radio buttons - null option
Hi, I am wondering if it is (already?) acceptable to omit the explicit null option in a radio button control? I have used radiobuttons for a non-required control. To apply the null option the user would have to 'unselect' the one selected radio button (this to save place by not adding a fourth radio button or to not have to use a drop down control). I suppose it is kind of an unusual behavior but it seems to me that is is learnable, and I have seen it in product design. Has this kind of behavior been introduced in forms before? Thanks for your opinions, Emely 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] Radio buttons - null option
Hi Emely, I would advise to sacrifice space and add the fourth radio button with a clear label explaining the meaning of the null option. Unselecting a radio button may be learnable, but due to conventions it is not intuitive. In products it is often possible to unselect by pushing one of the unselected buttons half way. I doubt this behavior is by (interaction) design. It might be just a side effect of the mechanism. - Yohan. 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] Setting up local group in Birmingham, UK
Good luck with setting up a group in Birmingham. You're right that groups in the UK (outside of London) are quite rare. For anyone further North in England, there is a group called Northern User Experience (google finds it) that - while wider that IXD specifically - might well be of interest to anyone looking to get involved. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42846 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] Need for a new metaphor on Operating Systems?
Hi IxDAers, I just posted a blog post on my 'obsession theme': the need of a metaphor/paradigm change on current Operating Systems. The blog post is over here http://nlapse.com/blog/the-need-for-a-new-metaphor/ and I'll like to discuss about this idea. So my opinion is that the current application centered OSs are not suiting anymore the needs for connectivity, real-time and socialization we have now days. A change is needed. What you think? Happy with your current OS? 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] Radio buttons - null option
Emely - While I agree with Yohan that a clear button might be the easiest for a user to adjust quickly, I think there are a couple other considerations. The system I am re-designing now has severe screen real-estate restrictions and a user base who will be interacting with it literally hundreds of times per day. Because of these factors, our team has opted to use radio buttons in the non-standard way you describe. Since no fields required and there are liability factors for our company, our radio buttons begin in the 'null' state. Options can be selected and de-selected much like check boxes. Of course, we haven't done our usability testing yet, so we could learn that our assumptions are flat-out wrong, but so far our small sample set of users has not noticed that this is even unusual behavior. So, depending on what your application is and the transience of your user-base you might be fine. (But I think testing is the way to go...) - Adam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42900 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 experience blogs / journals with an emphasis on non-web applications?
Can anyone recommend blogs or journals that provide insight into current trends or usability studies regarding non-web applications? Most of what I see lately is very e-commerce RIA-centered and, while I do my best to incorporate some of the best elements of RIA interaction design into my client-server app UIs (while respecting the conventions of the host OS) I would love to know what other people are doing and learning. Thanks. Adam 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] Need for a new metaphor on Operating Systems?
Hi jose, True that, Its been 30 years since the desktop came into existence and it has become the standard user interface. While, the web has evolved in leaps and bounds, leaving enough room for innovation and grabbing most of our attention. While everyone else is focusing on web we are trying to innovate the OS domain. We started designing and developing a new Os called itsme in 2008. itsme is based on the metaphor of stories and venues. This basically means that everything users do is in the context of different stories they live with other people and sometimes alone. itsme is an opensource Os embodying the venue metaphor in its front end. Venue is the place where every item related to a story can be located within organized channels indicating relations across channels. All in all it helps its users to manage the complexity of their social environment. I can go on and on about it, so its better if instead i direct you to this link http://itsme.it/project/ I think there is a lot of room for discussion with regards to this metaphor and lately we were discussing the potential of vertical segments. any comments ? Nikhil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42903 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] Need for a new metaphor on Operating Systems?
I think you're more likely to find new metaphors on mobile devices (such as iPhone) than on the desktop computer. There, I have a feeling that we've reached our QWERTY point: as with that keyboard layout, the current approach is ubiquitous, fairly well understood, and works adequately, so deviations from it are unlikely to become mainstream. I think we're looking at many years of incremental refinement -- graphical enhancement, visual effects, etc. -- and nothing in the way of fundamental change. On other kinds of devices, the field is wide-open. I also feel like you didn't made the case for needing a new metaphor. New applications and functionality are emerging constantly. In what way does the desktop limit anybody other than creative OS designers? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42903 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] Need for a new metaphor on Operating Systems?
Hi Nikhil, The istme project is really interesting, but I think the stories and venues metaphor is a little short for the complexity of today. I guess the power of the next metaphor have to be in the task and relations between people and documents. For instance you have to be able to work the same way with all documents related to a project, or access quickly all documents related to a person. That's failing today. @Jeff Garbers You are right saying we reached our QWERTY point. But the current metaphor is limited, for instance: when you want to access all documents related with a project, including: emails, texts, photos, databases, etc; all that reside in a different application and you have to jump from a work flow to another to get things done. And mostly these work flows are not even similar at all. The truth is we are so used to it that we don't notice that, but step back a minute and you will realize how bad the current metaphor is. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42903 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] examples of practical research Ph.D programmes
The Media Arts and Sciences program at the MIT Media Lab is where I got my MS and PhD degrees. The program is highly oriented toward synthetic (making) rather than analytic (theorizing) degrees. More or less, if you can't demo it you can't graduate with it. I'm pretty sure few people would regard what the Lab does as practical, though. The practical side-effects are really unintentional. Hope that helps, --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] Palm Pre
I'm curious about the charging thing - I've kept the charger next to my bed for so many years now (both phone and Palm when they were separate devices) that charge hasn't been an issue since the 90s. Admittedly, I have to bring a charger on trips, but that's no big deal. Why do people even try to go more than one day on a charge? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42837 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] Setting up local group in Birmingham, UK
@Jerome That would've been great, these things always happen during the week though and working in a small team I can't justify attending them all :( Do you have the slides up anywhere? What are your roles in the Brighton IxDA Group? @Chris Thanks man, it will be good to get this going. I am suprised the pin isn't in the map for Cambridge, Brighton or the Northern UX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42846 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] Need for a new metaphor on Operating Systems?
Jose - you're right that it's awkward to have stuff for a given project scattered across multiple apps. I think there's a fairly simple fix to that: a smart system-wide model for tagging objects (files, emails, database records, etc.) I've noticed, for example, that I often have email folders that correspond closely to filesystem folders -- why have to define those twice and keep 'em in sync? There are early efforts along these lines in OS X (the OpenMeta project, but it's not widely supported). An app-centric approach is not necessarily bad, since the tasks that one does with a given kind of information vary greatly. If you're editing a video, you want a video-editing UI, and if you're creating an email, you want an email-centric UI. We've had several stumbles along the path to a document-centric approach -- embedded OLE editing was massively confusing, for example, and OpenDoc never got off the ground. And these days, I think many of us would agree that a significant part of our computing day is NOT spent creating documents in the traditional sense of the word. If your goal is to gather and organize documents and other objects in a meaningful way, trying to replace the desktop metaphor is overkill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42903 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] Palm Pre
I guess mainly its habit; Before the Lithium Ion (Lion?) batteries, one had to 'condition' a battery with a regular full-empty-full cycle because of battery memory (especially NiMH). But, even with modern Lion batteries, I've noticed that if you dont do the regular full-empty-full cycle then the battery performance degrades, even though 'experts' say that you dont need to do so. Even Apple suggest that the cycle should be completed at least once a month... -Karl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42837 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] Palm Pre
The reason Apple got so many people excited is that they designed MORE THAN JUST A DEVICE. From end to end, they've created an ecosystem: Phone platform software, easy data management with a built-in store, and most importantly for the latest wave: great developer tools. People who are already OSX developers can dive in and make iPhone apps. And Apple has made their platform platform easy (and pleasing!) for people to pick up and be able to kick out satisfying, pleasing apps in a matter of days. The stuff you get for free (e.g. transition animations) rewards you for the effort you put into building the app. Can't really say that for Android. You couldn't say that about Palm OS back in the day, either. Maybe the story is different today. My eyes and ears are still open. But I don't see anyone showing off their Pre apps yet. And background processes are a red herring. What compelling functionality does it enable? Location logging? Notifications when I receive an IM? You can achieve these without battery-draining background processing. For Palm to be successful with the Pre device, it needs to blow the doors off of the story OUTSIDE of the device, making the information management and app development goals pleasing, too. No amount of background processing is going to help me as a developer if I find myself frustrated with the learning curve of the new platform. Oh, and it could probably do with a better keyboard ... - Nasir 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] Palm Pre
(Shucks, did that come off mean and snarky? I didn't mean it. Come back.) 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] iPhone Number Conversion
Does anyone know how you can PREVENT the iPhone from taking a string of numbers and trying to convert it to a phone number? I know that there are ways to code a link as a phone number, but we have several strings of numbers on a mobile site that we want to prevent from being converted to a useless phone number. I did some searching, but couldn't find anything relevant. 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] iPhone Number Conversion
Just add the meta-tag to the header of the webpages. if you use it, you have then to actually specify all intended phone-numbers. Full documentation here: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/featuredarticles/iPhoneURLScheme_Reference/Articles/PhoneLinks.html HTH, Phil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42917 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] Sort order for listing languages in setup / settings
Want to thank everyone for their suggestions. Here's where I landed: English first. That's the majority of the userbase. All other languages, sorted by their English name, but displayed in their native language. I really wanted to go with the region break-up, but it doesn't create exclusive groups: French is North American and European, English could be in every region. And we're not filtering any content by country-- French is French. So either list languages again in every region that they appear (as Apple does), or pick the primary region, which seems very debatable. I should have mentioned that these are device settings, so stuff like IP address filtering and getting clever with browsers doesn't apply. I'm also somewhat limited in space, otherwise the suggestion to put the english name of the language in parenthesis next to any non-Phoenician based languages is a good one. The flags are nice, but better at representing countries than languages. I suspect Apple included those flags more to spiff up a dull list than to resolve any usability issue (hence the glossiness). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42561 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] Shaun Inman's Fever
For those haven't seen it yet, and for those that can use it, I highly recommend checking out Shaun Inman's Fever, released this morning. http://feedafever.com/ IMPORTANT NOTE: The application is not a hosted service. To use it, you have to a web server running and be able to configure it. I'd rather not talk about that decision on Inman's part because I think it's not worth discussion, and I completely agree with his choice given his goals. The bottom line is that Shaun likes to work solo, doesn't have the ability to create a hosted service on his own without a lot of extra capital or resources, and doesn't want to get into all it would entail to convert his work into a truly hosted solution. That's his prerogative. From an interface design point of view, however, there's a lot that's highly relevant to the people on this list. * Shaun has a full story behind the inspiration and execution for the design of the product, which is based around concepts of temperature. Hot, cold, things that are catching fire, measuring temperature and using that as the means to communicate feed activity. The execution is deeply embedded into every aspect of the product, from the color palette to the language. People who like to create stories and use visible metaphors can see a great model for how to do it successfully with Fever. * The visual aesthetic of the design is top notch, as is always the case from Shaun. Without the aesthetics, the product would fall flat and lose a lot of it's impact, not to mention the utility the aesthetic provides to the overall product interface. * The interaction is very dynamic, and utilizes the best of what's possible inside of a web browser and on the iPhone. * The mobile version of the site is fully integrated. Once you install it and run it, you can simply point Safari to it on your iPhone and you get an entirely optimized interface for mobile use that directly scales from everything happening in the browser version. Lots of lessons here to garner about how to move between mediums and scale for the device or platform while retaining full design integrity in the process. I've said many times that I think guys like Shaun Inman are the model for interface designers, if not now, then at least 5 to 10 years out. Whether you ever achieve his level of ability to design great interfaces both from a visual and interaction level simultaneously, while also being able to code it, is not the point. The point for this community, in my humble opinion, is to make the goals lofty, and aim to become or create designers of his caliber going forward. Shaun's work is the epitome professionalism in this medium. As I said, if you have the ability, I can't recommend more than to go out and buy Fever, install it, and learn from it. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 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] Need for a new metaphor on Operating Systems?
I'd say it is time for the metaphor to die. That is, the global metaphor. People accept their computer as a platform. The 'desktop' metaphor is vestigial. There is still great need for functional metaphor. Buttons that look like buttons. But most of the metaphorical aspects of our OSs have vanished already. What is the metaphor behind OS X's spaces? What i'd like to see, more than a metaphor shift, is the removal of outdated paradigms from personal computing. A device like a larger-screened iPhone, with the ability to multitask and sit in a bay station to allow for mouse/keyboard input as well, would be far better suited to the average user. Web access, music access, video access, email, IM, notes, and the wide range of apps you see on an iPhone are really the wave of the future. No more files system. No more 'metaphor' for the OS. The OS is just there and the little tools are the focus. That's my thought anyway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42903 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] Lead User Experience Designer - Citrix Online - Bangalore
Citrix Online is growing and we're looking for a User Experience Designer with mobile applications experience to join our team of talented and highly collaborative designers! We're passionate about our simpler is better design philosophy, so we're looking for someone with a knack for creating clean, intuitive, and usable interfaces to lead UX design efforts for our team in Bangalore, India. As a lead user experience designer, you will be responsible for defining the user experience of the next generation of award-winning Citrix Online software and mobile products such as GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting, GoToAssist and GoView. The User Experience Designer works with product and UX management to understand customer needs and business requirements and creates UX design deliverables such as sketches, wireframes, storyboards, flows and mockups to communicate design solutions, and works with developers within in an agile development process to ensure a polished and easy-to-use end product. You will also work with user experience researchers to translate user research and usability study findings into design improvements. QUALIFICATIONS - 6+ years of experience defining information architecture, visual design and/or interaction design for mobile or desktop software or complex web applications, with recognition as the lead user experience designer for one or more mobile software and/or web application releases. - BA/BS degree or equivalent in Graphic, Industrial or Interaction Design, HCI, Human Factors or a related field, or equivalent experience. A graduate degree in one of these fields is preferred. - Experience managing UX design within a software development process, including working directly with development teams, product management and stakeholders. Candidates with experience working in an agile development methodology is strongly preferred. - Experience using Adobe Fireworks, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash and/or Microsoft Visio to create design deliverables. - Familiarity with UX trends, best practices and design standards for one or more of the following mobile platforms: iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile and/or Palm. Knowledge of and experience designing user interfaces for Mac or Windows software is also strongly preferred. - Experience performing heuristic review and applying usability best practices and principles to drive design. - Ability to be comfortable and successful working with geographically dispersed teams. - A passion for the user experience, an obsessive attention to detail, and a proven ability to communicate and collaborate with others. HOW TO APPLY Apply online at www.citrixonline.com/jobs to Req. #6648. Please include a link to work samples or an online portfolio. If you are unable to submit through the website, please send your CV and work samples to kristen.johan...@citrix.com. This is a full-time on-site position with benefits in Bangalore, India, with some travel to our headquarters in Santa Barbara, California. No agencies or freelancers please. 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] iPhone Number Conversion
Thanks - just what we needed (at least for now). Hopefully we can find a method that allows us to be selective versus turning the detection on or off for the whole page, but for the particular project this is a fine fix. Marty On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Weyert de Boer w...@innerfuse.biz wrote: Hey Marty, Have a look at this website: https://developer.apple.com/safari/library/codinghowtos/mobile/userExperience/index.html #GENERAL-DISABLE_AUTOMATIC_DETECTION_OF_PHONE_NUMBERS_IN_WEBPAGES Yours, Weyert de Boer 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] iPhone Number Conversion
Just a small update. Another IxDA'er (Phil) sent me a link that offered up additional information. Using the tel: scheme, you can force a link to register as a phone number. a href=tel:1-408-555-1-408-555-/a The solution to include the tel: scheme is good for mobile-only sites. Nowever, if your site is dual-use, this scheme still appears as a link on the site - although most (if not all) browsers don't know what to do with it (I guess that if you use Skype or similar, there might be changes made to accommodate, but I'm not sure). Still, it's an option to explore further to see if there's a solution that can handle both screen and mobile situations. Marty Director, UX Digitas Health On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Marty DeAngelo marty...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks - just what we needed (at least for now). Hopefully we can find a method that allows us to be selective versus turning the detection on or off for the whole page, but for the particular project this is a fine fix. Marty On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Weyert de Boer w...@innerfuse.biz wrote: Hey Marty, Have a look at this website: https://developer.apple.com/safari/library/codinghowtos/mobile/userExperience/index.html #GENERAL-DISABLE_AUTOMATIC_DETECTION_OF_PHONE_NUMBERS_IN_WEBPAGES Yours, Weyert de Boer 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] Evaluating off-the-shelf products
In the past we have developed a matrix of needs and compared those to the product. - like a comparative feature list. Then done informal usability testing on the demo's. Whilst that's useful for comparing features/cost etc it doesn't necessary reveal if there are fundamental assumptions within the product design about workflow or other important limitations built into the design. (I.e the product assumes that you have to do x before y, but it turns out your company never knows x till the last minute - or something). It does help you narrow down to a smaller list though. A possible way to get to some of other aspects is to treat the products as you might a prototype, and test them against personas and scenarios developed to represent the needs of your team and the characteristic of how they work. (This suggestion comes from chatting about this topic with my supervisor Dr Toni Robertson whose past research covered shopping for COTS at one time though the focus was different). By developing personas and scenarios you develop a clearer idea of the work that the software has to do, and a better understanding of the way that people work - then you can evaluate the different products using those resources in decision making. Apologies if this is kind of stating the obvious, but I thought it worth sharing nonetheless. Cheers Penny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42857 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] iPhone Number Conversion
Just add the meta-tag to the header of the webpages. if you use it, you have then to actually specify all intended phone-numbers. Full documentation here: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/featuredarticles/iPhoneURLScheme_Reference/Articles/PhoneLinks.html HTH, Phil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42917 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] Palm Pre
(Shucks, did that come off mean and snarky? I didn't mean it. Come back.) It didn't seem mean and snarky to me. I agree 100% with what you said. I like the fact that you acknowledged the developers, as well as the platform. To be fair to the 'Web OS' of Palm, that looks interesting as well, but we'll just have to see. I'm also still waiting for a development environment for the iPhone that amateurs can program; a sort of VB (or closer to Apple's ancestry, HyperCard) for the iPhone. You'd drag and drop just like the UI toolkit, but instead of Objective C, a more friendly OOP like Applescript might be used. Building 'Publish to the iTunes Store' for free might be nice (although the volume of these things would prohibit the kind of control that they currently have over the store). I also agree with the background stuff. When something is not on your screen, it's just draining the battery (ah, battery technology, if you'd only catch up to everything else!). I suspect that the launch time of apps with the iPhone 3GS will be fast enough that having am app already running of-screen and flipping to it will no longer be seen as such a significant advantage as it seems now. 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] Palm Pre
I worked on one of the applications that launched with the Pre; using the Pre has scraped most of the luster off the iPhone experience. I now despise being kicked out of applications when I want to share content. Palm has launched a product that totally hits Apple in, what Julie describe as, their Achilles heel. Nasir, as you probably know, applications within the Pre are developed using WebOS (read: html), so any developer worth her salt, should be able to quickly get up to speed to iterate and develop applications. The Pre is not even comparable to Android in that, like the iPhone, there are UI standards and elegant built-in transitions. The multi-tasking/background capabilities of the Pre acknowledge and reward the kind of tweet-writing, article-sharing, sms-addicted, multi-address book mobile users we have become. And yes, it's only a matter of time until they open their platform. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42837 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] Evaluating off-the-shelf products
In the past we have developed a matrix of needs and compared those to the product. - like a comparative feature list. Then done informal usability testing on the demo's. Whilst that's useful for comparing features/cost etc it doesn't necessary reveal if there are fundamental assumptions within the product design about workflow or other important limitations built into the design. (I.e the product assumes that you have to do x before y, but it turns out your company never knows x till the last minute - or something). It does help you narrow down to a smaller list though. A possible way to get to some of other aspects is to treat the products as you might a prototype, and test them against personas and scenarios developed to represent the needs of your team and the characteristic of how they work. (This suggestion comes from chatting about this topic with my supervisor Dr Toni Robertson whose past research covered shopping for COTS at one time though the focus was different). By developing personas and scenarios you develop a clearer idea of the work that the software has to do, and a better understanding of the way that people work - then you can evaluate the different products using those resources in decision making. Apologies if this is kind of stating the obvious, but I thought it worth sharing nonetheless. Cheers Penny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42857 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] Palm Pre
With Smartphones becoming more popular and affordable - what are the critical differentiators when selecting between phones? When products start to assume similar looks, what makes something stand out from the crowd? For example, battery life. Others? You have to look beyond the phone itself. The iPhone is part of a *platform*. It includes iTunes to manage music, video, apps, and purchases. It includes the boatloads of third-party developers out there making up brilliant little add-ons. And it includes all those people who have create iPhone-friendly stylesheets for their sites, or even just built out web-clip sites. The selling points of smartphones can be debated back and forth endlessly — it's these platform aspects that really make the difference. -r- 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] Palm Pre
You have to look beyond the phone itself. The iPhone is part of a *platform*. It includes iTunes to manage music, video, apps, and purchases. It includes the boatloads of third-party developers out there making up brilliant little add-ons. And it includes all those people who have create iPhone-friendly stylesheets for their sites, or even just built out web-clip sites. The selling points of smartphones can be debated back and forth endlessly — it's these platform aspects that really make the difference. Great point! this is the reason some blends into people's everyday life better than others. And also it addresses one of the current mobile interaction/design trend. Cheers, -- Jarod -- http://designforuse.blogspot.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] Difference between Heuristic Evaluation and Expert Review
Hi all, In Heuristic evaluation, evaluator evaluates design with reference of design principles to find out the usability issues. How Expert Review is different from this? Is there any major difference or its the same? Thanks in advance. Regards, Kishor http://perceivedesign.wordpress.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] Shaun Inman's Fever
I HIGHLY suggest that anyone who knows Shaun ask him to open up his purchase model to make available a 30-day trial. If like he says this is like a software model and not a service model (wow! that is so 2001) then I suggest he map against the most common practices. All the best UI in the world is meaningless if you never really get a chance to look at it. $30 is steep for an unproven product category like this one. As a note, if this was $5-$10 to start up and then $2 for the iPhone app then I'd probably jump w/o a trial. (That model would be more similar to the music buying model.) -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42925 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] Difference between Heuristic Evaluation and Expert Review
Hi Kishor, It's a pretty fine line. For a Heuristic Evaluation, an interface is judged against some established rules of thumb (e.g. visibility of system status and match between system and the real world). For an Expert Review, the reviewer judges the interface against heuristics and their own personal experience/opinions on interface design. So pretty similiar. Hope this helps, Cheers, Suze. Suze Ingram User Experience Consultant suze.ing...@gmail.com @suzeingram http://suzeingram.blogspot.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/suzeingram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42932 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] Shaun Inman's Fever
On Jun 17, 2009, at 9:29 PM, David Malouf wrote: I HIGHLY suggest that anyone who knows Shaun ask him to open up his purchase model to make available a 30-day trial. If like he says this is like a software model and not a service model (wow! that is so 2001) then I suggest he map against the most common practices. The streaming video he's posted about the product is very in-depth and pretty much covers everything. It's in the middle of the main promo page at http://feedafever.com/ All the best UI in the world is meaningless if you never really get a chance to look at it. $30 is steep for an unproven product category like this one. It's the price of a movie night and is a small fee for people who are already paying hundreds of dollars a year to get hosting services that would even allow them to run and configure the app on that server in the first place. Shaun's target demo is a very specific type of person, and $30 is a minor price imho. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 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] Difference between Heuristic Evaluation and Expert Review
Thanks Suze for response. Had some reading on this and got understanding that in Heuristics, evaluator does not perform any task or evaluates any flow as such, rather he just apply usability principles to find out usability issues, whereas in expert review expert performs task, task optimization, etc (a cognitive walkthrough). So both approaches seems to be different. Regards, Kishor http://perceivedesign.wordpress.com/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42932 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
