Re: [IxDA Discuss] Likert scale survey designs
On 28/11/08 4:59 AM, Robert Hoekman Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you mis-clicked, you can use the arrows to go back one question and change your response. what happens if they click on the text of the previous question? (it's bigger, it's not a proxy, it's right above where their mouse already is) e. 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] Finally! My Prayers Will Be Answered. In 3 years.
On 11/10/08 4:43 AM, Andrei Herasimchuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blizzard has around that for World of Warcraft paying $15 a month, and it's just a game. I think Facebook would be able to pull it off. Firstly, about 6 million of that 10 million are in asia/china, where they pay on an hourly basis at a much reduced rate. Secondly, the game is one huge skinner box, designed to be incredibly addictive. e. 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] Finally! My Prayers Will Be Answered. In 3 years.
On 11/10/08 3:05 PM, Kontra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We don't live in a theocracy where *you* get to judge whether legally accrued profits are to your liking or if a buyer of a company is allowed to see value in it that you can't. that would be a meritocracy, not a theocracy, I'm sure. e. 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] Testing / Prototyping a faceted navigation
The Oz-IA conference just concluded, and one of the sessions was on exactly this question =) http://www.oz-ia.org/2008/presentations/faceted-search.shtml http://www.slideshare.net/epek/are-users-really-ready-for-faceted-search-pr esentation we'll have a video podcast up sometime in the next few weeks. e. 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] assigning multiple items to multiple items
On 9/9/08 3:13 PM, Michael Tuminello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what's more interactive than a checkbox? ;-) In Russia, checkbox click you! e. 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] looking for Jonathan Lambert
Hi, does anyone know a Jonathan Lambert from Melbourne, works for Design Away in the health industry -- he's registered for my conference but the email address he gave is borked. my google fu fails me today. e. -- Oz-IA/2008 Australia's Conference for Information Architecture on the web Sydney, September 20th/21st http://www.oz-ia.org/2008/ 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] twitter and IxDA once again
On 20/8/08 6:54 AM, Benjamin Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That, I would say is the only downfall of Twitter - noise. I prefer the once-a-day update, maybe even two, but not every hour! Keeping up with people can seem more like a task than pure enjoyment. curious to know what you means of accessing twitter is - are you just using the website? I know that if I only use the website the volume of updates would be tedious and overwhelming .. however I use a client side tool that polls their site (via an API) and flashes a little note on the edge of my screen every time there's an update. If I'm busy it just flows on by, if I'm not I can eavesdrop on the buzz of the hour. (Twitteriffic + Growl on Mac OS X) e. 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] twitter and IxDA once again
On 20/8/08 11:48 AM, David Malouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why does it work? What makes Twitter work? I'm not interested in what makes it fail. I'm interested in analyzing the positives. What makes twitter work where other micro-blogs fall short? I find I'm able to micro-post a plea to the lazy web and get back sensible answers at any time of the day - the ease of replying (vs going to a web page and composing a comment reply to a blog post) probably helps. http://twitter.com/ericscheid/statuses/892199752 http://twitter.com/ericscheid/statuses/892256637 http://twitter.com/ericscheid/statuses/891169993 The fact that all the updates from the people you follow is just lumped together into one stream, with no overhead to micro-manage .. while I follow a hundred or more twitterers I wouldn't add the same into my feed reader because my feed reader insists on displaying each feed source with it's own heading, post count, etc; and also presents me the opportunity to exhaust my attention by arranging (and re-arranging) the feeds into little hierarchical taxonomies. The multi-platform aspect of twitter is also a winner. If you only engage with twitter via conventional web browsers then you're only getting a small slice of the bigger picture. Able to read/write on mobile web devices is not too unsurprising, having direct messages sent to your phone as an SMS is/was mondo useful (small furor here in oz because they just turned that off). e. 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] Oz-IA/2008 - discounts for IXDA members
Hi everyone, Oz-IA invites your participation to this premier Australian event on Information Architecture for the web. Join us in Sydney on the weekend of September 20th-21st, 2008, for two incredible days of presentations, panels, and networking with information architects from across Australia and beyond. http://www.oz-ia.org/2008/ Early bird registrations are $660, or $550 with discount code ixda08. Regular registrations are $770, or $660 with the discount code. Registrations will open later tonight. e. -- Oz-IA/2008 Australia's Conference for Information Architecture on the web Sydney, September 20th/21st http://www.oz-ia.org/2008/ 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] Usability = Predictability
On 25/5/08 10:54 AM, Robert Hoekman Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I'll bite. Usability equals predictability. as in you click a link/button/image on a web page, and you predict that it will ... what? ... load a new page completely replacing the current page, or do some AJAX stuff to update just a part of the page? predictability = no changes from what is current expectations = no evolution of ui standards = we'd be stuck with the usability from the 1980's technology, not what we've got now. no? e. 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] survey: what are the things we do and make as IAs?
A few years back I did a simple survey on the things we do and make as IAs. Might be time to repeat that survey and see what's changed. Very simply, take a minute or three and jot down the names of any IA thing - regardless of whether it be an activity, a method, or a deliverable. Just start typing off the top of your head, stop when you feel tempted to look something up from a book or website. Don't stop to classify or sort your list in any way, and don't worry if the thing you jot down is also used by other disciplines. I'd also prefer names of things over descriptions or prose. I'm not after an exhaustively comprehensive list, I'm more interested in the zeitgeist du jour. In short, simply jot down the *names* of the things we do and make as IAs. Post your list as a reply. e. 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] Placement of credit card logos
On 4/12/07 3:15 AM, Ari Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: most, not all ecommerce sites offer credit card payment options in a drop down menu with Visa usually defaulted as its the most popular card in the US. because it's defaulted, some users may not click on the menu to reveal other choices like AMEX or Discover, etc. blech, drop downs always hide options :-( One site I recently visited did something smart - although they had the card type as a drop down, they did display next to that the credit card logos/icons ... and they *also* put a smidgen of javascript on those images such that clicking (say) the Visa logo would select Visa in the drop down. People do click images. Go with the flow. by the way - in an early study into what makes websites more trustable, it was found that prominent display of credit card logos had an effect (more so than the various TRUSTe style badges). Don't know if that is still the case though .. time to repeat the research. e. *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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 where personas are *not* useful
On 14/11/07 8:10 PM, kswang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, personas will not be able to define how the users are going to carry out the task or how they are going to approach their goals. I've distilled observed user behaviour into written personas along these lines .. one persona might be described as being a playful explorer, another a methodical and cautious planner, and a third as a smash-n-grab drive-by visitor type, amongst other approaches. That's usually enough to make the penny drop and prevent grounding by the designers. e. *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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] IA Wiki 2.0? (was Prototypical)
On 14/11/07 2:53 AM, Christopher Fahey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also think this is a great idea. Wasn't there already an IA Wiki? Seems to be dead now. http://www.iawiki.org/ Comatose, not dead - the server blew up. I'm relocating it to a new service, and taking the opportunity to examine migrating to an updated platform. There have been huge advances in wiki software in the 7 years the IAwiki lived. Seeing as I never used it, either, there must have been something wrong with it. What was it? Too little promotion? Not enough participation? Bad IA? As I recall it was loaded up with content at the beginning and rarely updated. It started with only a dozen or so pages, and before the server blew up it had over a thousand pages. It was a quiet success, content wise. My diagnosis for the low uptake by the IA community: 1. introduced at a time when few knew what a wiki was, 2. lots of IAs had a hard time reconciling the idea of something so unstructured with the idea of IA, 3. lots of IA discussion and thought leadership was poured into a new-fangled and blossoming technology called blogging One problem is that our community might not be big enough to reliably and continually generate rich content. Wikipedia's top 500 contributors write 50% of their content, but only comprise a tiny fraction of their audience. In our world, that means we'll need to rely on only maybe a dozen people to maintain a healthy Wiki. The IA Wiki model, then, would need to attract participation at a much higher level, I think. The participation model is similar to what happens with mailing lists - lots of lurkers, a few active participants. However, for all the active participants on this mailing list, you can't assume they'll update a wiki .. only maybe 10% of those will. The concept, again, seems great. Maybe it really just needs the rubric of an org like IxDA to work. It also needs a cultural context: non-ownership of ideas (vs. the egoism of blogging), and documenting (vs discussion eg. mailing list participation). e. *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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] What tools do you use for prototyping?
On 13/11/07 11:08 AM, Andrei Herasimchuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why? Because sitting in a chair is more effective to judge how comfortable it is than looking at a picture of it. Similarly, interacting with a mockup of an interface is more effective than just looking at a picture of it .. which holds true even if that interface is 2 dimensional in nature (eg. a website), and is rendered onto a 2 dimensional surface (eg. paper). I do hope you are not confusing interacting with a paper prototype with looking at a picture of an interface. e. *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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] What tools do you use for prototyping?
On 12/11/07 11:19 AM, Andrei Herasimchuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe we should flip this question as you guys seem to be thinking different than I am. What do you think pixel perfect means? if in the final design, for a given screen, window size, interaction state (etc) a given element is x pixels in size, then the same element in the prototype under the same conditions would also be exactly x pixels in size. e. *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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] What tools do you use for prototyping?
On 12/11/07 2:19 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. That's what I mean as well. So what's so controversial then about a prototype that basically acts just like the real thing? what do you use prototypes for? e. *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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] What tools do you use for prototyping?
On 9/11/07 12:21 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is pixel perfect a requirement, particularly with websites where the final product can't even be guaranteed to meet that requirement? The stretchability and how you construct a web based product makes it even more vital that the prototype is pixel perfect. Otherwise, your making design decisions where you might not be properly taking that into account. boggle Let me rephrase - you can't guarantee pixel perfection in the final designed product, so why are you trying to achieve it in the prototype? An analogy: the weather can't be precisely predicted to the degree, so when you plan out your outdoor wedding rehearsal do you rig up special shade cloths or heat focusing mirrors and tweak all the settings such that the temperature at the altar is exactly 24 degrees C and not 25 degrees C? The temp on the day is going to vary by 5 degrees in either direction, attempting that level of fidelity in your rehearsal is a waste of time. e. *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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
