Re: [IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] IxDA NYC - Thu July 16 - IDEO %u201CBusiness Design Meets Interaction Design%u201D
is there a video of this presentation accessible on the web? thx ./b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43354 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] Screen Reader for Outlook
Hmmm... it seems as if Text-to-Speech is only natively available in Excel 2007 (not the more obvious choices, Outlook Word): http://tinyurl.com/n7wysa Does anyone know of a decent free-or-cheap Text-to-Speech add-in/plugin for Outlook? Thanks in advance! ///eks 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] Security question: plain text entry or masked?
On the other hand, some say that even the passwords should not be masked: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/passwords.html . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44039 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] Mid-level User Experience Lead, Washington, DC, Full Time
Threespot User Experience Leads are responsible for defining successful high-level strategies, as well as tactical solutions, for client projects including multimedia, print, social media strategies, web sites, web-based applications, and technology solutions. UX Leads gather, define, and clarify clients' business objectives, brand, and audiences, and translate this understanding into documentation that defines the big idea' and guiding creative vision that will shape the entire project. Because our process at Threespot is fundamentally collaborative, UX Leads must be able to work independently as well as part of a team. On a single project, the UX Lead will work closely with other members of the Interactive Strategist group, Project Managers, Art Directors, and Technical Leads in creating and maintaining the project vision; and works with the Project Managers to ensure we do the best possible work while remaining within budget and schedule. UX Leads work directly for the Director of User Experience, with ultimate supervision by the Director of Creative Services. Agency experience is a plus, but it's not necessary. Primary Responsibilities * Facilitate discovery meetings (including kickoff, brand discussions, audience discovery, and definition of business and project objectives) * Conduct stakeholder interviews, brainstorming sessions, and features and functionality workshops * Own Threespot strategy deliverables, including: audience personas, creative brief, Interactive Development Strategy (IDS), competitive and landscape analyses, and concept documentation * Conduct competitive analysis, landscape analysis, and primary research (user surveys and focus groups) * Develop strategies for marketing, communications, and outreach, encompassing search engine optimization, email marketing strategy, social marketing and blog outreach * Inspire, lead, and develop trust, both internally and externally * Develop concept documents and define features and functionality and create necessary documentation * Develop the following deliverables: information architecture, content strategy, wireframes * Work with Threespot's business development team to help define deliverables and project scope for prospective client projects * Analyze web metrics Measures of Success * Quality of final product * Meeting client's success metrics * Happy clients * Team satisfaction * Creative solutions for project implementation PLEASE NOTE: This role is directly instrumental in understanding client business objectives, target audience characteristics, and the direct development of creative strategies/solutions to achieve measurable results. This is a solution-oriented, project visionary position. While project management skills are valuable, this is not a project or product management position. Apply Now * Cover letter, resume, and salary history to h...@threespot.com * No phone calls, please * No contractors, please * All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, physical capability, sexual identification/orientation, national origin, or other protected class distinctions --- Erin Myers | Director of Human Resources Threespot | 14th Street NW | Suite 300 | Washington, DC 20010 p: 202.471.1126 | f: 202.518.0425 --- This message may contain confidential information. Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee), you may not copy, use, or distribute this information. If you have received this message in error, please call 202-471-1010 or return it promptly by mail. P Please consider the environment before printing this 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] Security question: plain text entry or masked?
Hi Anthony i would not recommend to mask the security question since this could be really annoying to use in case of errors during entering. Have you already read Jakob Nielsens latest post on masking passwords? http://www.useit.com/alertbox/passwords.html A good alternative would be to mask passwords but make them readable by showing a checkbox near to the field labelled show password (which only works if the user has Javascript enabled). Ciao Ralf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44039 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] Security question: plain text entry or masked?
Wish I had the definitive response here. Instead I'll offer a resource you may not have been aware of. Last week's SOUPS papers may give you some further ideas of security risks, user behavior related to security and privacy, and usability of various security schemes. http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2009/ I assume you're also satisfying accessibility requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44039 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] What are common Application Software Development Team sizes?
I am one of two interaction designers at a hardware company, and am curious about the interaction design teams who work at software companies and develop application software. What are the average team sizes for the development of the User Interface and Interactions? Thanks, Lindsey. 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] RFP: Writing UI Spec for Mobile Phone
I work for Schematic, an agency that has designed, built, and deployed quite a few complex mobile apps and mobile sites. Most notably, I helped design the Ovi Store for Nokia. Needless to say. that was quite a large and complex undertaking. We delivered detailed functional specifications for 4 different companion parts; a mobile app for each of their S60 and S40 operating systems, a mobile web site, and a desktop site. And of course we've done some iPhone work as well. www.schematic.com Feel free contact me directly at dhamm (at) schematic (dot) com. Good luck with your search! I'm sure you'll find a wealth of talent out here. - Damon Hamm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43979 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] Security question: plain text entry or masked?
Of course the canny user will just type them out somewhere else and copy and paste them in anyway... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44039 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] UK Interactive Recruitment Agencies
I would recommend http://www.gabrieleskelton.com/ they were very helpful to me a couple of years ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43973 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] Interaction design versus Instructional Design
On Jul 22, 7:58 pm, missu sparkleeye22-des...@yahoo.com wrote: I have never heard the phrase or title Instructional Design before today. Instruction Design, or Instructional Systems Design (ISD), has been around for a long time, and that discipline certainly has major overlaps with interaction design, particularly in the design of tutorials, simulations, questions, feedback and tests. IxD can be applied to many areas that don't involve instruction, just as instruction design concepts and discipline can be applied to non- interactive settings (such as programmed workbooks), less and less so these days. The user research methods are more or less the same. One key element of instructional design is quantifiable objectives, as in, After completing this unit, the student will able to achieve a score of x in the y test... If the mastery test is part of the course, the course may force students to review material and re-take the test until the define level of mastery is attained. Of course another distinctive area is designing questions and answer choices - there is a subtle art to asking questions (especially multiple) that don't give away the answer yet are not perversely unfair either. Another key area of design is how to process answers, especially wrong answers - some options being (a) just give the right answer, (b) ask the student to try again, (c) simply indicate right or wrong and keep score, etc. The best approach depends on the purpose and context of the instruction. I still treasure a quote from an instructional design textbook (Alessi Trollop, 1985) that Timed events are too long for some, too short for others, and just right for nobody. This comes up in discussions of Flash animations all the time! 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] Interaction design versus Instructional Design
Here's a simple contrast: - Instructional Design plans environments for learning to perform - Interaction Design plans environments for performing There is also a lot in common: - Audience analysis / user analysis - Goals of the user - Context in which they will attempt the task (and attempt the learning) - Scenarios that capture the essence of the paths to achieving the goals - Design of information structures - Design of environments that enable (learning vs performing) behaviors Because of the focus on motivation and behavior in interaction design, the content can be minimized or neglected. That's why content strategy has become a specialty of its own: to represent in performance environments a perspective that has always been accepted as essential in learning environments. Best wishes, Bruce Esrig Madison, NJ On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Breanne breanne.d...@sait.ca wrote: It's an interesting question, and one I've been thinking about myself a fair bit lately. I currently am employed at a post-secondary institution, as a member of a curriculum development group. For our instructional designers, much of their work is spent developing the Outcomes and Objectives for courses/programs (with input from SMEs, driven by industry requirements), and then determining what course materials (assessments, module content, and media pieces) should go where. At this time, I do not believe the IDs are engaged in doing research with students (much to some of our IDs dismay), but rather relying on best practices and research done elsewhere. Once the IDs have determined where they want an activity or learning object, and of what type (drag-and-drop matching? crossword puzzle? interactive simulation? etc.) in consultation with the SME, the project is handed over to a Media Developer (either a graphic artist or programmer) to design, implement and build. snip As I see it, the IDs on our team are fantastic at planning and structuring the course, its materials, assessments, outcomes and objectives in a way that is pedagogically sound and beneficial for the student. My fellow media developers then build whatever the IDs and SMEs believe will be beneficial to the student. But there is also a role for IxD -- the translation of the IDs idea into a workable, usable, and ultimately user-friendly media piece. snip 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] His/Her vs. Their in website copy
Who are your users? Is this a formal website, or is it something more casual? If it's a more formal website or something with a serious tone (such as a health-related site that a user would rely on to provide accurate information), you might lose credibility with some folks by using their. Not sure how reliable that Grammar Girl site is that someone else posted, but here's what it recommends: Rewrite your sentences to avoid the problem. If that's not possible, check to see if the people you are writing for have a style guide. If not, use he or she if you want to play it safe, or use they if you feel bold and are prepared to defend yourself. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43910 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] Screen Reader for Outlook
Hi Evan On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:50 AM, evan k.stone interactivelo...@gmail.comwrote: Hmmm... it seems as if Text-to-Speech is only natively available in Excel 2007 (not the more obvious choices, Outlook Word): http://tinyurl.com/n7wysa Does anyone know of a decent free-or-cheap Text-to-Speech add-in/plugin for Outlook? Not a direct answer... There is NVDA (http://www.nvda-project.org/), the NonVisual Desktop Access opensource screen reader for Windows. I have not tried it (have a Mac), so I cannot say whether it handles the Office package. It does get lots of praise, though. Also not quite what you want, but worth mentioning is a web-based version from University of Washington: http://webanywhere.cs.washington.edu/ They happen to be looking for testers right now. I hope you can get some good use out of this information. Cheers! regards, Karen Mardahl 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] Gmail drag and drop
Not too long ago Google added the ability to move your emails into labels via drag and drop functionality. As a result, they added two rows of dots to the left side of each email. Does anyone know if that is in fact the ideal pattern for that kind of tool? Or has anyone done any testing on it? Thanks for your input, Hugh Griffith User Interface Designer 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] What are common Application Software Development Team sizes?
Our application software company's interaction design team size would be, um, one. That's also our visual design team size. Oh, and it's the same one, and he codes a bit in his spare time. Pleased to meet you :-) It's not all stand-alone work though. When we're mapping out something new, I'll form a small internal design team that includes business, architecture, and technology people. Design teams tend to be project-specific, which works out well for the engineers 'cause they get sort of itchy in design meetings. I do think sometimes about what sort of designer I would bring in if we ever doubled our team size to (gasp!) two. By necessity he or she would be another polymath, ideally with some serious research chops (not my strength), an informed interaction design background, an understanding of graphic design, and professional technical skills that include some ability to traverse the nether coding regions of software products. Michael Micheletti On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Lindsey Berdan lindsey.ber...@fluke.comwrote: I am one of two interaction designers at a hardware company, and am curious about the interaction design teams who work at software companies and develop application software. What are the average team sizes for the development of the User Interface and Interactions? Thanks, Lindsey. -- Michael Micheletti michael.michele...@gmail.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] Gmail drag and drop
Hi, Hugh. It's called a 'drag handle' and lots of things have them (toolbars in Windows for example). You need somewhere to click in order to drag something, and since in many cases clicking on the text does something else (opening the email in gmail) a drag handle is handy (as it wereg), although not essential. However, it does have the added benefit of providing a visual cue. Changing the cursor to a drag hand is the coup de grace (but that could be done without the handle if other aspects of the design allowed for it). Regards, William Hudson Syntagm Ltd Design for Usability UK 01235-522859 World +44-1235-522859 US Toll Free 1-866-SYNTAGM mailto:william.hud...@syntagm.co.uk http://www.syntagm.co.uk skype:williamhudsonskype Syntagm is a limited company registered in England and Wales (1985). Registered number: 1895345. Registered office: 10 Oxford Road, Abingdon OX14 2DS. Confused about dates in interaction design? See our new study (free): http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/datesstudy.htm 12 UK mobile phone e-commerce sites compared! Buy the report: http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/uxbench.shtml Courses in card sorting and Ajax interaction design. London, Las Vegas and Berlin: http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/csadvances.shtml http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/ajaxdesign.shtml -Original Message- From: new-boun...@ixda.org [mailto:new-boun...@ixda.org] On Behalf Of Hugh Griffith Sent: 24 July 2009 08:59 To: disc...@ixda.org Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Gmail drag and drop ... 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] Gmail drag and drop
If your machine is at all RAM-challenged, the cumulative crap that's being loaded into web pages and web app interfaces is causing curses and crashes for Firefox. I don't even want to think about IE or Safari, because I'm way too dependent on my Firefox functional plug-ins (mainly Delicious bookmarks, but also feedly), but I literally have 1-2 Firefox crashes a night when working at home. Of course, it would help if I upgraded my RAM on my home machine, but I'm too cheap these days, and what does it say about us, if we are loading up web pages with too much CUMULATIVE animations and swooshes and drag and drops etc. and like such as? It's not whether a SINGLE page with an app is doing this to me. It's the fact that I've got multiple tabs and windows open, and if I've got GMAIL open, plus have opened feedly once (so its little widget shows up as I continue surfing), and somebody sends me a YouTube of Vimeo video to look at quick (or say if I open Rachel Maddow's home page on MSNBC, with it's big-ass video player), I am instantly headed for a Firefox crash. I have to say, it is really getting on my last nerve, and if for me, imagine what it is doing to regular, non-designer surfer people! Chris On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:35 AM, William Hudson william.hud...@syntagm.co.uk wrote: Hi, Hugh. It's called a 'drag handle' and lots of things have them (toolbars in Windows for example). You need somewhere to click in order to drag something, and since in many cases clicking on the text does something else (opening the email in gmail) a drag handle is handy (as it wereg), although not essential. However, it does have the added benefit of providing a visual cue. Changing the cursor to a drag hand is the coup de grace (but that could be done without the handle if other aspects of the design allowed for it). Regards, William Hudson Syntagm Ltd Design for Usability UK 01235-522859 World +44-1235-522859 US Toll Free 1-866-SYNTAGM mailto:william.hud...@syntagm.co.uk http://www.syntagm.co.uk skype:williamhudsonskype Syntagm is a limited company registered in England and Wales (1985). Registered number: 1895345. Registered office: 10 Oxford Road, Abingdon OX14 2DS. Confused about dates in interaction design? See our new study (free): http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/datesstudy.htm 12 UK mobile phone e-commerce sites compared! Buy the report: http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/uxbench.shtml Courses in card sorting and Ajax interaction design. London, Las Vegas and Berlin: http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/csadvances.shtml http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/ajaxdesign.shtml -Original Message- From: new-boun...@ixda.org [mailto:new-boun...@ixda.org] On Behalf Of Hugh Griffith Sent: 24 July 2009 08:59 To: disc...@ixda.org Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Gmail drag and drop ... 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] Gmail drag and drop
Personally, I like it. It has a very tactile, invitational sort of presentation. Feel here where feel is actually hovering with the mouse. And, like William stated, the changing of the mouse cursor really brings the concept home. On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Hugh Griffith hgriff...@vfs.com wrote: Not too long ago Google added the ability to move your emails into labels via drag and drop functionality. As a result, they added two rows of dots to the left side of each email. Does anyone know if that is in fact the ideal pattern for that kind of tool? Or has anyone done any testing on it? Thanks for your input, Hugh Griffith User Interface Designer 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] Interaction design versus Instructional Design
On Jul 24, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Bruce Esrig wrote: Here's a simple contrast: - Instructional Design plans environments for learning to perform - Interaction Design plans environments for performing If you want to get really crazy, look up the work done in electronic performance support systems (EPSS) by Gloria Gery and others. It's a mashup between IxD and Instructional Design. One way to think about it is that, most of the time, interaction design succeeds if the user doesn't learn anything in the process and instructional design succeeds if they do. 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] Interaction design versus Instructional Design
And another example: Interaction design - building an online fart sound game Instructional design - building a multimedia/flash curriculum to teach people how to build an online fart sound game Here's a simple contrast: - Instructional Design plans environments for learning to perform - Interaction Design plans environments for performing One way to think about it is that, most of the time, interaction design succeeds if the user doesn't learn anything in the process and instructional design succeeds if they do. ] 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] date pickers starting on Sunday
Does anyone know where the convention of calendars and date pickers starting the week on Sunday came from? I have a strong personal preference for Monday for work-related tasks (and have customized accordingly, whenever this is supported: iCal, Google Calendar, Zimbra). But when I mentioned this to colleagues for a work week tracker I'm designing, they pointed out that most components start the week on Sunday. And in a quick round of research (travel sites plus a few calendaring systems and widget libraries), that Sunday default turns out to be far more of a standard than I expected. Is this a good design pattern I just haven't come around to, or are component defaults far more influential than even ux designers knew? Where does the work week start on Sunday, besides Tel Aviv? Or was someone simply trying to disambiguate between S (Sunday) and S (Saturday) by separating them? Persuade me, please. Thanks! Diana 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] Interaction design versus Instructional Design
The way I look at it is that interaction design is but one of the disciplines required to achieve good instructional design. that is to say that instructional design is a form or a goal, and interaction design is 1 of many disciplines used to achieve a good instructional design. It goes back to the notion of horizontal vs. vertical disciplines of design. IxD is a horizontal that spans many if not all vertical disciplines. Vertical disciplines are structured around goals or forms like instructional, interior, architectural, industrial, graphic, interactive, etc. Horizontal disciplines like IxD and IA transcend goals and forms and speak to an aspect of the whole. here's the hard part. many vertical disciplines (not all) are also horizontal in their nature such as visual design and 3D design (core historical element of industrial design). But that's my take on this whole fun framing a definition thing! -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43988 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] Gmail drag and drop
Christine - I know people are attached to their browsers, but maybe you should try Google Chrome? Pages are going to get more complex (not that I think that is a good idea in itself) and I personally believe the trend is going to be more towards Ajax/JavaScript and away from other RIA platforms like Flash and MS Silverlight. Chrome is reckoned to be about 20 times faster than Internet Explorer at executing JavaScript (Google's figures!). And, oh - I hate to say this - all of my IE crashes went away when I removed the Google Toolbar. It may not have been the toolbar's fault, but of course all of these plug-ins can interact with each other. Regards, William From: Christine Boese [mailto:christine.bo...@gmail.com] Sent: 24 July 2009 17:04 To: William Hudson Cc: Hugh Griffith; disc...@ixda.org Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Gmail drag and drop If your machine is at all RAM-challenged, the cumulative crap that's being loaded into web pages and web app interfaces is causing curses ... 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] Gmail drag and drop
To be sure, Chrome would help. Don't have Chrome yet on my Mac. Also, Chrome does not run my ESSENTIAL Firefox plugins: Delicious Bookmarks (I've had my bookmarks, custom browser toolbars by project, and research bibs on the Cloud for more than a year now) and feedly. And I don't know about you, but if you regularly monitor more than 200 feeds, once you try feedly, you don't want to go back, ever. Which means I'm stuck with Firefox, and with designers who think testing their Ajax apps running alone without multiple apps, windows and tabs is sufficient... Use Chrome on my PC at work, no problem, when I want speed. When I actually want to get work done, however, I need my bookmarks, my custom toolbars by project/task, my research bibs, and my feeds. Chris On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:10 PM, William Hudson william.hud...@syntagm.co.uk wrote: Christine – I know people are attached to their browsers, but maybe you should try Google Chrome? Pages are going to get more complex (not that I think that is a good idea in itself) and I personally believe the trend is going to be more towards Ajax/JavaScript and away from other RIA platforms like Flash and MS Silverlight. Chrome is reckoned to be about 20 times faster than Internet Explorer at executing JavaScript (Google’s figures!). And, oh – I hate to say this – all of my IE crashes went away when I removed the Google Toolbar. It may not have been the toolbar’s fault, but of course all of these plug-ins can interact with each other. Regards, William *From:* Christine Boese [mailto:christine.bo...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 24 July 2009 17:04 *To:* William Hudson *Cc:* Hugh Griffith; disc...@ixda.org *Subject:* Re: [IxDA Discuss] Gmail drag and drop If your machine is at all RAM-challenged, the cumulative crap that's being loaded into web pages and web app interfaces is causing curses ... 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] Are We The Puppet Masters? The Ethics of IxD.
A %u2018good%u2019 game design would reward its players for taking breaks, how you incorporate that into game play would prove to be an interesting challenge. Civilization would display a message saying You've been playing for 3 hours, take a break. Naturally, I dismissed the dialog and kept playing ;) but it was a shocking reminder of how long I had been playing because it was so easy to lose track of time. It didn't reward you in the game, but it did help sometimes to keep me from going all night until my eyes were burning. Another game I can think ofMafia Wars on facebook. You earn money every hour if you buy land and properties, and it keeps track even after you signed off. So it allows you to basically play without playing so to speak. Brian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44045 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] Usability of pre-filled versus empty in content capture software
(No semantic or grammar debates, I promise) I'm researching a number of health care software packages. Many of them have some way of short-cutting data entry, such as pre-selection indicating the absence of unlikely conditions. One tool, however, leans heavily on progressively, and supposedly intelligently, filling in data based on answers given as the user moves through the queries for content. By a certain point fairly early, all content is ostensibly filled and the user must accept by default, delete, or alter it. Since this content is highly detailed and of course critically important to get right, I suspect that there is no real gain by the pre-filling. In fact, I wonder if the error rate might actually go up with this model. So, is anyone familiar with user research done comparing the two methods, or others, for interactive, detailed, lengthy applications? Other thoughts? 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] date pickers starting on Sunday
On Jul 24, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Chad Mortensen wrote: This seems to be a pretty standard format for all calendars whether they're on the web or not which is probably why it's become the convention. Why try to reinvent something that's already second nature to users. Do any cultures display their calendars with Monday as the start? I seem to recall calendars in France starting on a Monday, Ireland as well. Perhaps it's a European standard? Cheers, -corn Corn Walker Hatfield, MA 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] Time to add some functionality to Minimize, Maximize and Close buttons.
This exists for Windows XP (and to some extent, Vista): http://www.actualtools.com/titlebuttons/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44088 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
