Re: [IxDA Discuss] Setting up a UX conference in Lisbon - need advice and ideas
Wow! All I'd need is an invitation! ;) I've been looking for a work-related reason to get to Lisboa/Lisbon since my wife and I started learning Portuguese last year... I love the language and the culture, and one of my best friends is from Sintra. Evidently there's a amazing technological growth there as well, so that's really exciting too. But out of curiosity is this going to be next year's version of SHiFT, or a similar/derivative conference? Obrigado/Thanks! Evan K. Stone | interactivelogic.NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46899 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] Simple iPhone Wireframe Templates for Sketching
OK, so maybe it's not as slick fun as Design Commission's stencil (http://www.designcommission.com/shop/iphone-stencil-kit/), but in case anyone is interested, I have created and posted some *very* basic iPhone wireframe templates (3-up) for download by anyone who wants them from my blog (PDF and Visio formats are in the .zip file): http://interactivelogic.net/wp/2009/09/iphone-wireframe-templates/ I needed these for some upcoming projects for which I just wanted to print out some blank templates for sketching ideas, and then I figured I'd just make them available for download in case others would like them. Hope you find them helpful/useful! enjoy! evan k. stone | interactivelogic.net 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] Simple iPhone Wireframe Templates for Sketching
Ummm... yeah. I have seen that, and that's precisely why I did it myself. Add a three-ring punch and a binder into the mix and whammo! I have my own sketchbook with the following added benefits: 1. It's a fraction of the cost (except the time to create... but this was fun and worth it) 2. I can rearrange/add/remove pages, and not get those pieces of confetti if I rip a page out of the book (that makes me crazy). 3. I can relatively easily print them in any color I want with a quick mod of the visio template. ;) 4. I can share it with other folks who may have already been looking for this kind of thing. ///eks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=45789 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] Slider orientation best practice
I haven't found any other examples of this in some brief web searching, it would be interesting to see if anyone else has done it. How about the date range slider in Quicken Online: http://www.evankstoneproductions.com/images/quicken-online-daterangeslid er.png The dropdown on the side has preset date ranges (30/60/90 days, etc.) that expand the gap between the handles, which are also freely adjustable (with a pop-up calendar). Just throwing it out there to see if this (or something similar) would fit your needs. HTH. evan k. stone | ux | dragnet solutions, inc. 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] Slider orientation best practice
whoops! guess I should have tinyURLed it. How about the date range slider in Quicken Online: http://tinyurl.com/quuyg9 hopefully that will be better for folks. [creates mental note for future...] ;) evan k. stone | ux | dragnet solutions, inc. 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] Pagination best practices
However, when I tried Google's 10, 20, 30, 50, 100 results preferences, it was much easier for me to scan through 10 results, didn't require as much scrolling (which is painful to people with repetitive stress injuries, fibromyalgia, arthritis, etc.), Speaking as someone with RSI problems, I'd WYY rather scroll rather than paginate. Pagination is Pure Evil for me, and it is _much_ easier for me to Page Up/Down in a scrollable region than to attempt to line up my cursor with every page and click a next button (if it's even visible to begin with, which means you're back to scrolling AND wrestling with pages...).* The one exception to that is when the list fits exactly in a screen's worth of browser real estate (i.e. above the fold), and a Next button is consistently in the same spot every time and I don't have to move my mouse pointer (i.e. it just _happens_ to be on the same spot every time where the Next button resides). That situation is generally pretty exciting to me, and it is also... extremely... rare. So, if I can adjust a list to display 100+ items I'll do it! Here's an even better example, however: Google Reader. Its infinite scrolling** is awesome: it just loads up new items when it needs them. Awesome! ...and since it's pretty easy to get an enormous list of RSS feed entries (especially if you go away on vacation for a couple of days! ;), GR's mode of scrolling is very effective for me. Obviously, this is just how it affects me in _my_ particular case, and YMMV. HTH. ///eks * This got me thinking just now... perhaps linking Page Up and Page Down keys to previous and next (or the reater than/less than keys since they *look* like prev/next arrows) would be a nice way to enhance pagination? Anyone already doing either of these interactions on the web? ** If Google Reader has a scrolling limit, I haven't encountered it. They seem to employ a similar concept of Google Maps' map scrolling to a list of data. 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] Preview of SketchFlow prototyping in Expression Blend 3
InfoQ has an article with an early preview of Expression Blend 3's SketchFlow functionality for doing prototypes in .NET: http://www.infoq.com/articles/guest-simon-sketchflow ...just in case anyone's interested. enjoy. ///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] Need to learn Graphic Design -- Do something aboutit!
honestly, this couldn't have come at a better time for me. this is definitely one of my weaker areas, so this will help immensely! thanks dave! much appreciated! ///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] What music for interaction designers
...I guess I'm little slow on the draw for this one. Since I dj on the side, I generally listen to my own mixes: http://www.recombinantstudios.com/dj/mixes.html The mixes are mostly minimal/tech-house, though I do have some retro-ish mixes with 80's tracks too in the archives (can't get away from my roots, man! ;) I also listen to potential tracks to be included in the aforementioned mixes, or listen to other dj's mixes from which to get ideas inspiration (sound familiar?). The droning really helps with keeping other sounds around me at bay and helps me focus better. Sometimes when the music runs out I just keep the headphones on for the iso-chamber effect. ///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] iPhone Custom Application Standards andemulators for testing - reference
Can anyone point to iPhone custom application design standards. And the emulators available for testing the application in our local machine. It depends what you want to do. It sounds like you want to develop native iPhone applications, not web applications, so that rules out iPhoney and Safari in developer mode. For developing native iPhone applications, the guidelines, resources, and tools you need are available on the Apple iPhone Developer website: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/ All you have to do is sign up for their free developer program (http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/develop.html) and download the SDK, which includes an iPhone simulator. One thing to keep in mind is that the tools not only require a Mac, they require OS X 10.5 (Leopard). So you might want to make sure you have a Mac that is running Leopard first. Additionally, if you don't have access to an iPhone, don't overlook the possibility of using an iPod Touch for testing. It's an awesome device in its own right, perfect as a testing device (except for testing cell network bandwidth since it only does wi-fi), and can be had for around $150 on eBay. My iPod touch enabled me to do just about everything an iPhone could do (except call people), and I used it for over a year until I finally took the iPhone plunge. No regrets. Highly recommended. And no monthly fee! ;) Hope this helps! evan k. stone | ux | dragnet solutions, inc. 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] Musical Keyboard-Performer Interaction
the other is the buttons for shaping or modifying the sound. My interest is on the second one. It has an important role on the interaction; interface gives the performer the ability of a wide range of modifications and alterations on the sound. ...at around $3000 US, it will be a long time before I can afford one of these, but a controller I've been drooling over for some time now is the JazzMutant Lemur: http://www.jazzmutant.com/lemur_overview.php ///eks. 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] Email to friend a valid feature?
I use this feature A LOT, both to mail interesting articles, videos, etc. to others, and also to send things I'd like archived to myself at a gmail account. I use the feature fairly often, but almost exclusively for the latter case mentioned by Marilyn: that of emailing items of interest to *myself.* I rarely use the feature to email items to other people, since I can usually just as easily send a url with a real email message or use an instant messenger, instead of relying on the system's canned email message. The one primary exception is when it's a flash-based application (or similar ilk), in which case I'm generally forced to use the site's email to a friend function (e.g. beatport.com online music shop). hope this helps! //eks. 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] Interesting interface design
Any thoughts regarding how to put a no click interface to use? There was one aspect of the no-click interface that worked for me: the timed trigger button. As you hover over the button, it fills itself with a darker color like a progress bar and then triggers when the progress reaches the full point. It gives you a little bit of a comfort delay instead of the BAM! BAM! BAM! of the rest of the experience (the first BAM! made me jump out of my seat... not fun.). So I guess it seems to me that a slower, more fluid approach might make more sense, in which the interface slowly reveals something about what is going to happen if you move to a particular region, but allows you time to move out in case you didn't really want to do that. I move my mouse cursor around to random spots on the screen so I could imagine myself accidentally moving to or hovering over a region that enacted something that I really didn't want to do. It brings up some good questions, however. evan k. stone | ux | dragnet solutions, inc. 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] [Event] NYC: Streaming Video of Tap is the New Click by Dan Saffer
when? now? We're going to try and stream this event live on Ustream.tv. Here's the link to watch: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/dan-saffer---%22tap-is-the-new-click%22-by -nyc-ixda 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] Firefly
darn. I thought this was going to be about the TV show... ...oh well. ;) ///eks we are looking at purchasing Firefly - wondering if anyone has any experience of this product. Feedback would be much appreciated. I'm currently waiting for the trial version. 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] Facial recognition authentication
if I'm getting the story straight from the people I asked here at Dragnet, we did a review of a couple of laptops from Toshiba and IBM (we are a facial recognition security software company after all), and the facial recognition on the laptops was not really well implemented, and it was not well received by the people who tested it their functionality. That said, the fingerprint authentication seemed to work much better in their opinion. hope this helps. evan k. stone | ux | dragnet solutions, inc. .:. message.original .:. There's at least one laptop floating around there that replaces the need for a login password with the image of your face. Do you have any experience with such a thing? How'd it work out for you? I am so tired of typing passwords. 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] Mozilla Labs: Ubiquity
definitely a derivative of his work on enso. interesting how close the functionality is: http://www.humanized.com/enso_demo.php makes sense, however... this would be the next logical step, being with mozilla now. ///eks -Original Message- Aza Raskin presents very intriguing interaction paradigm for the browser, similar to his previous work with Enzo for the OS; instead of you going to services, the application pulls those services in to your workflow via a natural language command line. http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/ 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] Silverlight pattern library
I remember years ago when I could simply go to the MSDN section for Common Controls and share those proto-design patterns. I'm looking for the WPF version of that. ...speaking as a developer (one of the hats I wear), I feel your pain. Unfortunately, Microsoft has seemed to have stepped aside a bit and let the third parties come up with the bulk of the controls this time around. So your best bet may be to check out what Telerik, Infragistics, Component One, et al., have to offer in the way of controls and use them as proto-design patterns (nice term. me likey.). I may be doing quite a bit of WPF-based design and development from here on out, so maybe we can use each other (and anyone else using Silverlight or WPF who would like to collaborate) as resources for patterns we've encountered or come up with. It sure would be nice to have an open wiki or some kind of collaborative repository for this too... thanks! ///eks 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] Adaptive Path's Aurora ... Discuss
(however yes, the repetitive strain injuries yet to be discovered are going to be fun to watch for) ...that was the first thing I thought of when I saw her using the arm device. yikes. ///eks 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] Adaptive Path's Aurora ... Discuss
i'm saddened that this application relies on some crazy unconventional mouse that no person would ever have in their home. hmmm... I didn't get the sense that the application necessarily *relied* on it, but that the application could interpret input from alternate controllers should you feel inclined to use one (or more). But then again, I could be mistaken -- and that would be good news for Novint! ;) [tangent] One thing I found interesting is that on a USB-based DJ controller I recently purchased, I can configure it so that it receives MIDI messages that cause indicator lights to turn on this just got me thinking about other physical (haptic?) controllers that not only feed controller data *to* a target application, but also can respond to data coming *from* the application. It's a little thing, I guess, and it's definitely not anything new or groundbreaking, but it did give me a little aha! since I had to set it up myself (I guess it's something akin to the Haptic Pen project that was discussed a while back...). [/tangent] evan k. stone | ux | dragnet solutions, inc. 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] Success and Failure Symbolic Representations Patterns for Details
I'm wrestling with the problem of how to tackle a couple of design problems at the moment, and could use a little advice and help: 1. Success and Failure Symbolic Representations One thing I've been dealing with is how to represent success or failure of a process through colors, shapes, and symbols, and I'm just not really satisfied with the things that I've come up with. Is there any interesting prior art in this regard that someone would like to share? As a corollary thought: TiVo uses green red buttons with Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down idiom. People in the US seem to get that paradigm, but I was just curious to know if they use a different paradigm in their other international markets (it looks like the device for Mexico has retained the thumbs, but I couldn't tell with the controller for Taiwan -- the controller seems to have the green/red buttons). Additionally, since I don't think my designs are going international (for now), that paradigm, while a bit campy, might actually work for the above problem (I was also considering [big!] plus and minus symbols). I would really appreciate some feedback on this if anyone feels like giving it... ;) 2. Design Patterns for Details The second issue is how to display more information or details for a process that has completed (with either success or failure). Typical patterns I've seen are the Mac OS Disclosure Triangle, or in Windows quite frequently there will be a button with the label Details to expand or contract a dialog depending on the orientation of the brackets, or also a tiny button with a plus sign to perform the revelation. I'm sure there are more that I just haven't recalled or encountered. Of these, I think I'm more agreeable to the disclosure triangle, but I was just curious to see if anyone had come across or was working on more interesting patterns for this problem. I guess I just don't want to do what's easiest for the developer (i.e. me, in this case), but rather I'd like to explore some new patterns if they exist. Thanks in advance! evan k. stone | ux | dragnet solutions, inc. 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] Adaptive Path's Aurora ... Discuss
Go buy/borrow a modern game console and check out the various rumble and shock controllers. It really does make a significance difference in gameplay. yes, of course! I'm not a console gamer, but you're right - like the steering consoles that rumble/shake when you drive over rough terrain. I think I was just sort of mesmerized by the glowing lights... plus, the discovery was almost accidental. Things started magically lighting up on the controller after configuring my software to send messages out. At any rate, it generated some thoughts on giving feedback to controllers, FWIW... It's a pretty straightforward translation -- I'd really like a mouse that thumps as I rollover links on a page or active spots on a map. I'd be surprised if someone hasn't already made that yet. I'm sure it's on its way! ;) ///eks. 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] Studies on aversion to ATMs for making deposits?
Has anyone here heard of any studies or research that has been done to determine why many people have an aversion to making deposits at ATMs? Is it a fundamental distrust of handing money to a machine, or are there deeper issues involved? evan k. stone | sr. ux developer | dragnet solutions, inc. 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] From Personal Computers to Personal InformationEnvironments: Apple's MobileMe?
Actually, it's iPhone 3G. But wow, what an idea - iPhone 3D! ...according to the WWDC Keynote presentation, it does have OpenGL ES for 3D graphics in their Media API layer. Not sure what applications already use this, but it wouldn't surprise me if Cover Flow was one instance of its use. It does bring up some interesting possibilities. evan k. stone | ux | dragnet solutions, inc. 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] Iron Man
It's highly coincidental that this topic came up, since I too was greatly impressed by the user interface ideas presented in Iron Man. Immediately afterward, that's all I could think and talk about. I'm glad I'm not the only one who had that kind of reaction... [spoiler] I was intrigued with the manipulation of the suit design model in 3D holographic space (and the trash can. nice touch.). I had this anticipatory excitement come over me, since what appeared in Minority Report became reality (to a some degree) in Perceptive Pixel, and because just over the last week or so there have been discussions on this list regarding free hand gestures, so perhaps we will see the holographic 3D interactions in the not too distant future... very exciting to think about. [/spoiler] Film sure can be great inspiration. Thanks for bringing up the topic! /// eks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Micheletti Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 9:31 AM To: Kim Bieler Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] list Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Iron Man Warning, potential spoilers... The assembled teens at our house took us along and we all had a good time. There were two thought-provoking things for me: 1. Most unrealistic moment in the film: when Jeff Bridges plugs the stolen power supply into the Evil Robot and it works first off, without needing to shim, rewire the connector, configure the IP address, etc. I laughed aloud. Flying robots and 3-D talking holograms seem much more likely somehow. 2. Thing I was surprised and delighted by: the giant fighting robots in the film could be operated by adults. Many of the mechas among my anime favorites can only, inexplicably, be operated by middle school students. Michael Micheletti 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 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] iPhone 2.0 Game Over? I think not!
Anyone hear when the fabled 3G phone might actually be in stores? June seems like a likely candidate: http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20080428PB202.html http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2008/04/foxconn-leaks-like-sieve.html ...since it coincides with two things: * Apple's WWDC * The 1-year anniversary of the v1 iPhone. But who really knows? It's all pretty much speculation at this point, but I sure hope it arrives soon... ;) evan k. stone | sr. ux developer | dragnet solutions, inc. 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] Desktop application menus
Love it or hate it, Microsoft has defined guidelines for menus that have formed de facto patterns by their pervasiveness. Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511502.aspx for details. It's interesting that they didn't include the Ribbon in the guidelines, but that would be another candidate for wrapping up a lot of functionality in a more compact package (with automatic collapsing and expanding). evan k. stone | sr. ux developer | dragnet solutions, inc. 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] Windows -- what would you change in interaction?
The interesting thing about the suggestion/recommendation of Launchy and Dash is that they're both keystroke-oriented interfaces, and I find that fascinating, since it begins to show that for some users, the OS' [G]UI gets in the way and is not the most effective method of interaction. It reminds me of the presentation by David Cronin at Interaction '08, in which he pretty much says the same thing regarding applications for day traders and systems they use, which have basically command-line interpreters built in since time is of the essence and it's actually quicker for them to enter in the commands and data than to try to point-and-click. Thanks for recommending these utilities, since it certainly gets me thinking in other directions with regard to projects I'm working on (or may have to work on in the future), not just Windows or OS user interaction. evan k. stone | ui guy | dragnet solutions, inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Austin Mansu Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 4:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Windows -- what would you change in interaction? In a perfect world Windows would ship with Launchy Dash would also be handy: http://trydash.com/home/ There's a few extra features here to Launchy but they also come at a small price. (What I wouldn't give to have Quicksilver on Windows). Austin Mansu Information Architect Executive | OneDigital Pty Limited __ p. + 61 (0)2 9218 8904 f. + 61 (0)2 9211 4232 m. + 61 (0)411 015 232 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] w. www.onedigital.com.au 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 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
