[IxDA Discuss] Article on Number of Usability Test Participants
I have been looking, unsuccessfully, through back issues of interactions magazine for an article, published a few years back, written I believe by someone from Microsoft as part of a debate about statistical significance in usability testing. There was something of a debate about testing with large numbers of users, and this article, as I recall, made an eloquent case for sticking to six to eight participants. Does anyone remember this? Perhaps I'm wrong in recalling that it was in interactions. 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] Office 2007 in 2006, two years later
I've been curious, since the release of Office 2008, whether the absence of the ribbon is due to a reconsideration of its value, or simply the result of a different group within Microsoft having developed the suite for Mac OS X. Regardless, I'm not sure what the Mac Business Unit at MS might have been up to between 2004 and 2008. Very little has changed, and the integration with OS X is so poor (it often feels like you're working on a different platform) that I avoid using it whenever possible. iWork is a joy to use, in comparison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35167 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Office 2007 in 2006, two years later
Yes, Will, I know; that's why I wrote that I didn't know whether the absence of the ribbon from Office 2008 was the result of a different group within Microsoft having developed the suite for Mac OS X. I tend to think that the software is better in general for having been done by the Mac BU (does anyone remember the Word 6 port from Windows?), but it's still nowhere near a standard Mac user experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35167 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design Specification Sites
There¹s been a fair amount of discussion here about documentation formats and software used to produce wireframes, prototypes, and so on. But how do people manage an entire specification? I have been using a hand-coded intranet site, controlled via subversion; but my team is growing and I¹m considering other ways to manage the information. Web access and formats (not, for instance, Word documents) and some sort of version control are my main requirements, along with relative ease of editing. What do people use? Blogs, wikis? Chris Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Progress and Delay Indication for Varying Performance
There has been a fair amount written over the years about how to give good feedback for delays of varying lengths. However, what if your application has somewhat unpredictable performance (I won't get into the reasons here; suffice to say it is not sloppy implementation), where a given operation may complete quickly, or at other times result in a significant delay? Is there anything that could, or should, be done to establish this variability with the user without their giving up due to a perception that things may be even more variable than they actually are? On the other hand, might simply tailoring the type of feedback to the length of delay on the fly confuse users as they will never be sure what to expect? Any ideas? Thanks, Chris Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
