Re: [IxDA Discuss] Create a password: how to assist the user in complying with the rules you set
Check for each condition on every keystroke. As each new condition is met, provide immediate feedback visually right next to the input form. For example, start with 4 empty boxes, and with each met condition, add a checkmark to one of the boxes. If this is a web form, JavaScript is well-suited for the task. That got me thinking ... How to provide immediate and non-intrusive feedback of this kind iwhen the input is audio. The characteristic of the feedback I described above depends on people being able to perceive what they are entering at the same time as the response, so locating the feedback boxes next to the input box is effective. For voice input, the act of entering data and receiving a response seems to require a more distinct asynchronous process: speak a letter, hear ok, speak a letter, hear ok. . But could people be taught to listen for and recognize a continuous background tone that is neutral, but that changes pitch to indicate a conforming reply? Perhaps a bell ding or happy chord would be the positive sound. Could be used in any audio capable interface where you want to test for complying data input -- I I don't have much experience with games -- maybe the games designers have solved this one elegantly already. On 10/23/08, R. Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm breaking my head on the following for some time now and I hope you have a fresh look or good experience to share. *Scenario* - A user needs to create password (for a new account) - The password has to comply to two out of three certain rules (certain length, upper- and/or lowercase letter, and number) *My solution so far* At this moment I use an explanatory text which tells the user what rules the password has to comply to. But since people don't read... Looking forward to your visions, links, experiences! Kind regards, Rein 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 -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com _ Darlene Pike / Pike Design Web coding for technically challenged visionaries™ web: www.PikeDesign.com ph: 973-600-7113 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] Country from or to in Travel
In what country do you live? In what country is your permanent residence? Where is your home base? What country do you call home? Place a help icon or link for more info. Next to the question, emgm, what's this On 10/23/08, AJKock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the Travel industry and we have found that people completing an online form has problems understanding when a field means their country of origin or the country they want to travel too. We have the country field under the personal details section, but some people still tend to complete it with their country of destination. Does anybody here have a suggestion on how to solve this? Should we change the wording for country to something like Home Country, Your Country or Country of Origin or is there another way? 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 -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com _ Darlene Pike / Pike Design Web coding for technically challenged visionaries™ web: www.PikeDesign.com ph: 973-600-7113 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] Examples of anchored navigation anyone?
thedailybeast.com has article titles anchoring themselves to the top of the page. Not navigation, but thats the effect you were looking for, right? For me, it is distracting. I see a flickering effect in my peripheral vision every time I scroll the page down. My focus is lost briefly, but repeatedly. When all I want to do is continue reading an article -- I wouldn't scroll down unless the content was interesting -- this little bugger keeps reminding me what the title of it is. Aside from the physical distraction of the peripheral flicker, for me, the effect also sets in motion a chain of thoughts along the lines of that is a very bright red they've chosen for the headline ... The designers really wanted it to be noticed ... Red means danger also lipstick red and chinese weddings ... they care more about branding their site than my experience ... Black and white and Red/read all over ... Look at how it keeps coming back even after I scroll away from it ... I wonder if there is a way to turn that off ... I wonder if this would be readable if I printed it out ... Its a pretty font ... But maybe I'm not the typical reader. -- Darlene Pike On 10/13/08, Jeff Hendy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The end result of a fixed menu seems quite similar to a menu in a frame. I'm always hearing that frames should be avoided, so what's the difference here? Is it all in the technical implementation of frames vs CSS rather than being a design issue? On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:24 PM, William Brall [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: If you wish to build one of these, google position:fixed This is a CSS property that will enable you to make fixed menus and such. I want to see more of these on the web. They make sense. 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 -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com _ Darlene Pike / Pike Design Web coding for technically challenged visionaries™ web: www.PikeDesign.com ph: 973-600-7113 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] Browser tabs as application navigation
The fact that the application will be deployed in an environment where the browser/platform are known is not a good reason to diverge from the usual ways that navigation is provided in browsers. One reason that web browsers work as a vehicle for delivering internal applications is that users are familiar with the basic way that they operate. A tredeoff for this out-of-the-box interface is a limited set of interface controls, when compared to desktop applications. That hasn't stopped designers and coders worldwide from building some pretty impressive applications on the world wide web. Remember that most of the people who will be using your new application will be familiar with the way the same browser normally works outside your controlled environment. Introducing a different way to use a familiar tool will cause confusion. Even after your users become familiar with the new way of doing things, a slight confusion will always be present as long as the world wide web at large does things slightly differently from how your application does them. Consider not using a standard web browser as a delivery vehicle.. On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:23:21, Jennifer Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all of your feedback. You've made some key points, and it's good to have this input. Just some further information for discussion: My team (UE) originally recommended using dynamic tabs within the page...similar to how Yahoo! Mail opens the inbox and all messages into separate tabs. The browser tab alternative is what the technical team would prefer to do, because our records are much more complex than mail messages and they are leary of the framework they would have to build. Some of my concerns are: If you code links to open into a new tab, are you likely to have some of the same user confusion that we see when links are opened into a new browser window? How weird is it that the second level navigation (the tabs) will be visually placed above the first level navigation (a menu bar)? What is the risk of coding not to Web standards in this way? What is the risk of using a solution that I, at least, have never seen anyone else use? As to testing, the tech team did prototype the idea and showed it to users, who liked it because it doesn't take up much space. However, there has been no usability testing. There isn't really time to test well enough to reveal whether the tab idea will be confusing or problematic, since that would require mocking up enough pages for users to open one or more records and complete at least one task. (I have to have a recommendation by tomorrow.) So, I'm relying on expert opinion. If anyone has any further thoughts, I'd love to hear them. And, I appreciate the input you've all given me so far. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31904 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 -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com _ Darlene Pike / Pike Design Web coding for technically challenged visionaries™ web: www.PikeDesign.com ph: 973-600-7113 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] Tog's IxD 101 Immersion Seminar - Opinions, anyone?
I attended this in New York in April. I would definitely recommend it if you're looking for a 360-degree jump-right-in-and-get-your-feet-wet introduction to Interaction Design. Some of the topics were a review of concepts I was already familiar with, but I found the juxtaposition of them very inspiring. I still find myself making connections and following up on things I had made notes about and wanted to research further. Over the course of the 3 days the attendees break into small groups and to work on an example design problem from initial problem definition/brainstorming through execution of a paper prototype with testing. It lets you put into action some of the concepts Tog lectures about, and to me that hand-on involvement is a great way to make it stick. Go into it with an open mind and you will be rewarded. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=28717 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] the UX hall of shame
Weixi Yen's point re: a better contest (design a good page with 20 ads on it of varying sizes, and still make it usable) can be taken further. To me, an interesting challenge in a UX contest to redesign godaddy.com would be defining the requirements in any realistic way. What are the criteria for good and usable for a site like godaddy? We are missing information from interviews with the businesspeople, who would hopefully make themselves available at the start of a successful project. We do have clues from Robert Hoekman Jr regarding the company's business model (low prices and customer service are the the 1st 2nd priorities). We can speculate from the interface itself what products the people who are in charge consider important. How could the winning design be a major service to the public if it were never implemented? As a tutorial? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=28719 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
