Re: [IxDA Discuss] JOB: AD/UX Hired Gun
Ah, left out the crucial info on Locale: Offices are in Sausalito, clients are mostly SF. Work from home is fine, as long as you can come in or meet in Downtown SF for meetings. On Feb 12, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Jeff Gimzek wrote: > Hey Kids, > > Do you want to work on all the [soon to be] coolest online and mobile > application interfaces ? > > Can you design both interaction and visual 'look and feel' ? > > Then we have the gig for you: > My company is looking for experienced designers that can shape the user > experience from both and interaction and visual perspective. > If you are stronger in one than the other, that is fine, but some experience > in both is necessary. > > Our clients are mostly Fortune 100 financial services companies, with some > random startups thrown in to keep us fresh. > > We are looking for motivated and self-managing freelancer, hours are flexible > and pay is competitive based on experience. > > You'll be required to be smart, creative and engaged on large scale web and > mobile applications tailored to specific user groups. > > Your portfolio should reflect similar work, regardless of vertical. > > Drop me a line with a self-aggrandizing blurb and link to your coolest stuff. > > > jd > > > > -- > > Jeffrey D. Gimzek > Digital Experience Designer > > www.jdgimzek.com > > vox.415.419.6888 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: AD/UX Hired Gun
Hey Kids, Do you want to work on all the [soon to be] coolest online and mobile application interfaces ? Can you design both interaction and visual 'look and feel' ? Then we have the gig for you: My company is looking for experienced designers that can shape the user experience from both and interaction and visual perspective. If you are stronger in one than the other, that is fine, but some experience in both is necessary. Our clients are mostly Fortune 100 financial services companies, with some random startups thrown in to keep us fresh. We are looking for motivated and self-managing freelancer, hours are flexible and pay is competitive based on experience. You'll be required to be smart, creative and engaged on large scale web and mobile applications tailored to specific user groups. Your portfolio should reflect similar work, regardless of vertical. Drop me a line with a self-aggrandizing blurb and link to your coolest stuff. jd -- Jeffrey D. Gimzek Digital Experience Designer www.jdgimzek.com vox.415.419.6888 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] CONAN Design Review
On Jul 8, 2009, at 2:25 AM, Niels Drobek wrote: I 'm also in! drobek at dbis dot informatik dot rwth minus aachen dot de what are you all afraid of? your email address is in the message header already. there is no way I could have properly typed that email from reading it. look! mine is in my sig! -- Jeff Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer j...@springstudio.com | www.springstudio.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] [EVENT] IxDA Waterloo: From Concept to Production: Prototyping with Expression Blend 3
plus, at night, the whole city smells like fresh brewed Molson Beer. On Jun 23, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Robert Barlow-Busch wrote: SEE SKETCHFLOW IN ACTION Thursday June 25, 2009, 5:00 pm Accelerator Centre in Waterloo, Ontario http://uxgroup.wordpress.com So, you¹ve got a great design idea for your project. But how do you quickly turn conceptual design ideas into rich prototypes that are ready for production? Additionally, how do you share your design ideas with others effectively at each stage of the design process? Come hear Qixing Zheng from Microsoft introduce a new component in Expression Blend 3, called SketchFlow. It¹s a fun, flexible, and powerful way to sketch and prototype rich and dynamic interactivity in your applications. Learn how SketchFlow allows you to quickly iterate on your designs and share them with your colleagues for feedback. Previous knowledge in Expression Blend is not necessary. ** About Qixing Zheng ** Qixing joined Microsoft Canada as its first User Experience Advisor. In this role, she talks to schools, design communities and companies about Microsoft¹s investment in UX, and finds design heroes and design stories from the community. More importantly, she works with many outstanding IT professionals to consider how user experience can impact the technology we deliver today. She graduated from UBC at the end of 2005 with a Masters degree specializing in Human-Computer Interaction. ** RSVPs required ** This event is being hosted by the Infusion Angels Innovation Centre. If you plan to attend, please visit their website and submit your registration at: http://ic.infusionangels.com It¹s free. Thanks, Infusion Angels! Hope to see you there, Robert Barlow-Busch IxDA Waterloo coordinator 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] Tools for animating the user experience
Use something simple: Keynote. Make all the screens with your states - your "Storyboards", save them out as images, drag them into Keynote and use the click feature to trigger animations - simple cross-fades between images can give you the click result. You can even do simple 2D animation - say moving the cursor across screen, (real) click, triggers the crossfade to the click result. I have done similar walk throughs with flash before... See: <http://www.jdgimzek.com/skin_3/blvd.html> - First Thumbnail for an example... it is made for an experienced presenter to walk through... you have to know where to click, so read the directions on the page first. Anyway, that was done in flash, but with Keynote or even Powerpoint (dread!) you can get your clicks and screens. I am sure there are other super simple animation programs or storyboarding programs to use - Flash is a big learning curve if you are not used to it. jd On Mar 17, 2009, at 9:06 AM, Tom Coombs wrote: David, If your prototype needs animation on the page (e.g. an animated collapsible module), then you'll need a tool like flash, but if not, you have much easier options. Creating something genuinely navigable is easy enough (dreamweaver, axure or even powerpoint), but even easier is creating something that merely gives the impression of being navigated such as a series of images that when you click on them they jump to the next one (you could click anywhere, but you pretend of course to click the button, link or whatever). If the case of flash, you can either screen record, or build your demo elements (voiceover, mouse etc) into the file. In the case of the other options, screen record is needed. Snapzpro will do it. Jing is another option worth looking at. Finally, there's an option to integrate more than just the GUI, which is somethign like Camtasia Recorder. This will do the screen record, and include microphone track, and do picture in picture from a webcam. It's intended for usability testing pointing the webcam at the test participant, but you could point it at anything, so it might help in your case. -- Jeff Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer j...@springstudio.com | www.springstudio.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] Where do Gen Y Mom's go online?
On Mar 2, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Mathew Sanders wrote: you could ask members at http://www.twittermoms.com :-) Meetup is a big mommy site also. 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] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute phasing out online HCI program
On Feb 25, 2009, at 9:05 AM, Michael Tuminello wrote: From what I remember they required some time on-campus for the degree. that was a dealbreaker for me. Oh, come on, Troy is beautiful this time of never. On Feb 25, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Becky Reed wrote: I wonder how much of it goes back to findability and information architecture (but I can be a little biased thinking most problems come back to these things). Placement in search engine isn't really high (and didn't even seem them for "online hci program" and the like) and then the description provided seemed accidental and had an odd subdomained URL that didn't give you the university's name or program in it. When you go to the program site you arrive at from some of the more obscure search terms, I didn't see a mention of format (online vs oncampus). There was a link for "working professionals". Mmmm...here's the mention: "live on-campus and, by electronic means". I guess in the months I spent searching for an online program I never Googled for "masters program HCI electronic means". In my experience, disambiguating on-campus only programs from distance ones was a challenge. Trying to winnow them down via search engine alone was impossible and even as noted above...it was kind of a treasure hunt on their program sites. I went with an barely online Human Factors program through U of Idaho last year and would have certainly looked at Rensselaer's HCI program as I could have taken it "by electronic means". Becky -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com ] On Behalf Of sharon Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 4:23 PM To: IxDA Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute phasing out online HCI program Why is noone interested in this program? There are only two online HCI programs to my knowledge - Rensselaer's and Brigham Young University. RPI's name has cachet and prestige. I know some nuclear engineers who graduated from RPI - smart school for smart people. I think they are phasing the online HCI program out because they didn't have enough applicants. Does no one have an interest in working while getting a degree remotely? Just checking the temperature here... -- Jeff Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer j...@springstudio.com | www.springstudio.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] Long list with multi-select
On Jan 21, 2009, at 7:54 PM, William Brall wrote: Without really knowing what you are talking about, we can't offer a real solution. There is nothing that will work in all situations. It is going to have to be tailored directly to your problem. If you can't tell us what that problem is in enough detail to grok it, we can't solve it. We can just stab in the dark. Bullpucky. She said what she wanted to do. She wants a widget to do ONE THING. The data set is not important to designing an interaction model. I understood it, so did at least 8 other members. I think Marijke's post gave an excellent answer that solves the problem quite well: <http://www.endless.com/landingpage/brandwomen/ref=home_sb_wm?node=242169011&landingType=department > Could there be other solutions that better apply to her needs? Perhaps. Do we have enough to go on with out more info? Yes. I have dealing with a similar issue with multi-select, and I think the endless.com model is great. Thanks, IXDA. -- Jeff Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer j...@springstudio.com | www.springstudio.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] "New article" vs "Create article" vs "Add article"
On Dec 10, 2008, at 11:46 AM, Maxim Soloviev wrote: Hi guys, Could you please tell what do you think is better to use as link text in CMS: - New article - Create article - Add Article ? On one hand, it's good to use verbs/actions - "Create", "Add". On another - people are used to "New" command in desktop apps (at least on Windows). I'd go with 'create' as it is the most descriptive of the action. New could mean "articles that were just posted" Add could mean "post an article from someplace else" 2¢ -- Jeff Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.springstudio.com 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] Happy Birthday Mouse
well, at least McCain didnt win: i heard he wanted to put the CIA back on college-ruled notebooks to prevent the viruses stuck in the series of tubes from making agents sick. On Dec 9, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Will Evans wrote: After only 40 years since the mouse - Now that, with gestures gaining more traction, Dan coming out with his book (congrats), FYI - New bond movie makes extensive use of gestural interfaces combined with Aurora-like semantic associative intelligence and nlp recommendation engines in the intelligence apps for MI-6. I bet when folks in the intelligence community watch these movies they drool before getting back to their customized (cripped) x86 grey boxes with Win2000 and work with 15 year old MDI applications and Excel to track bad guys. Must suck for them. -w On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Dan Saffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Dec 8, 2008, at 9:22 PM, greg wrote: Tomorrow at Stanford is the Anniversary celebration. Actual Public unveiling was 40 years ago Dec. 9th. http://www.sri.com/engelbart-event.html A sad irony: Engelbart never made a dime off the mouse. His patents expired before their widespread use. -- Jeff Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.springstudio.com 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] Digerati Survey
An agency friend needs a large sampling for a survey on Digital Lifestyle. It is 2 questions - total time about 11 seconds. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=kkKzBSquJNkjq78N_2f2HQIg_3d_3d TIA! -- Jeff Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.springstudio.com 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] Interface Design Sites anyone?
Coming in a bit late here - you can see how behind i am in list reading. My Secret Weapon: netdiver.net On Sep 24, 2008, at 3:02 AM, Tamlyn Rhodes wrote: There's ScrnShots too [http://www.scrnshots.com/] which is a catalogue of tagged screenshots by and for designers. They even provide a special program to make taking and uploading screenshots as painless as possible. 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] Fwd: [wwwac] Cloud Computing's Black Lining - was Community Software
An FYI from another list - I guess we are lucky we are latecomers to Ning. Begin forwarded message: I am quite surprised that no one here on the WWWAC list picked up on the news about Ning, the white-label community building site funded, in part, by Marc Andreesen. On Friday the 22nd of August, Ning summarily banned the network of WidgetLaboratory, a developer of widgets that added much-needed basic functionality to the Ning platform. The creators, administrators, and users of over 1700 networks (including two that I manage) that depended on WidgetLab widgets stopped functioning in part or in whole. Well over 100,000 network members were affected, and the downtime ranged from a minimum of 24 hours to 72 hours or more before Ning engineers could provide workarounds that enabled the sites to run again, although not with the functionality that was in place before Ning shut WidgetLab down. There are arguments on many sides as to why this happened: Ning says that some WidgetLab widgets were causing unprecedented loads on some sites and therefore had to be stopped before taking the entire infrastructure down. Others posit that tiny WidgetLab (a couple of guys in Bratislava) is earning more money than Ning, which has about 100 employees and over $100 million in VC financing and a $500 million valuation. I am sure there are valid (and not so valid) points on all sides and that is not really the issue here. What is, is a statement made by the CEO of Ning to the effect of, "We have to place the 'health' of the Ning platform above the needs of any individual network or collection of networks." From the perspective of Ning's business that is true. But, from the perspective of *my* business, that is the last thing I want to hear from the provider of a service my business depended on. One of primary benefits touted for cloud computing is that the resource is always available. We know that is not true as evidenced by downtime on Amazon's EC3 platform, challenges with GMail associated with Apple's MobileMe service, and the failure of some online backup storage provider businesses, and network and power outages, among others. Infrastructure downtime is inevitable irrespective of any claims made. But, to my knowledge, this is the first time that I am aware of of a cloud computing service deliberately blocking access to a third- party software tool that hundreds of thousands of users depended on, without warning, and without any concrete plans for providing an alternative way to access the content made available through the use of the software. As OpenSocial apps proliferate, more and more of these scenarios are likely to occur. It's now more than 10 days since my networks were affected and even though Ning restored the content that was rendered inaccessible when they banned WidgetLab, I still cannot edit the content directly. I get Dojo application errors and 404s and the engineers at Ning have not been able to provide an answer. The lesson I learned from this turn of events is that it makes zero business sense to trust my business to a *software* cloud service - especially not Ning. I do recognize that it makes no sense to run servers from my home or office so I do need to outsource those aspects of running my online businesses. But never again with a software service. And I find it tremendously ironic that one of the investors in the company is Marc Andreesen, who should know better. :: Clay -- Jeff Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.springstudio.com 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] 37 Signals Change Management for IE6 "Phase Out"
I think we would all like to "phase out" IE6, but corporate america refuses to allow their minions to upgrade or change browsers due to the immense amount of IE6 optimized software they run. Rather than spend the cash on upgrades, they hobble the entire network with their 'requirements' I can't see how it can be cost-saving in the long run, but perpetuating mediocrity is one of corporate america's core principals. jd On Sep 5, 2008, at 7:54 AM, Nasir Barday wrote: 37 Signals decided to pick August 15th, no wait, October 1st, as the day when they would "phase out" IE6: http://37signals.blogs.com/products/2008/07/basecamp-phasin.html They must have been barraged with e-mails from angry users (probably already angry at Basecamp's extraterrestrial interface ...), because they posted a clarification: http://37signals.blogs.com/products/2008/09/further-clarifi.html Whoops, "phase-out"? Probably a stronger phrase than they intended. And nothing is going to happen on that day-- no features that are compatible only with the latest browsers, nothing to break current functionality-- so why make an announcement like this? With no concrete incentive to upgrade, the decision for the user to upgrade is arbitrary, and most people will put it off until it actually matters. This announcement strikes me as premature. Maybe I'm just being whiny on a Friday morning ... Happy Friday, - Nasir -- Jeff Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.springstudio.com 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] Why are password fields asterisked on join-up forms?
On Sep 3, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Sebi Tauciuc wrote: On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Nick Gassman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: When you fill in a form to sign up to a website, the password field, but not the username, is usually asterisked. Is it to avoid the risk of someone peering over your shoulder? And sometimes when they aren't asterisked, you have to type the password in twice, but not the username. What's the rationale for that? I guess there isn't one ;) you can READ the username field to see if it is correct. you cannot tell from the asterisks if the PW is typed correctly. only retyping it exactly the same way can confirm that. jd -- Jeff Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.springstudio.com 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] Cuil
It is the one subject about which all persons have expert knowledge. On Jul 28, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Jackie O'Hare wrote: I love that the natural first test of a search engine is "can you show me me?" On a separate note, someone mentioned earlier that search engines are a lot about branding, which I am certainly inclined to agree with. It's going to be hard for any new players in the search engine market to overcome the fact that Google is a verb. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dave malouf Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Cuil Not that you can check now (they seem to be down), but their image matching software is not all that accurate. There are two David Malouf's of interest in the search results (I win on the 1st page on Cuil--Yeah!), but the picture is never of me or even associated with me. Once they even had Jared Spool's picture. But most times it is some other David Malouf (usually the more famous Australian novelist). What really sucks is that none of my categories show up on the right even though I'm more of the articles listed on the page. They have a lot of work to do. ;-) -- dave -- Jeff Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.springstudio.com 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] Cuil
well, as people are want to do, i typed "jdgimzek" into the engine, and it did not return any results on jdgimzek.com fail. jd On Jul 28, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Damon Dimmick wrote: I actually find the horizontal / multi column results search a lot more natural in this kind of setting. usually the summary section isn't necessary for most searches, so changing the format to a more blocky, horizontal grouping might actually be beneficial. Since users have to read the results in any case, their eyes are already moving horizontally, so the idea of putting the top results in a shoulder-to-shoulder seems like a natural. There are bad ways of doing that, of course. But from a purely visual (non interaction) design point of view, the entry page seems somehow wrong. Maybe that's just because current vogue and standard is an open, airy, white-space style search page. Right now the major problem seems to be server overload so it is tough to see how responsive the site will be. Andy Edmonds wrote: The UI design is interesting as well. Multi-column search layouts have typically not fared very well at scale, though I personally like them just fine. It seems that avoiding a costly scroll for examining more results would be a win, but people are quite use to a single column and it makes the ad placement tricker. Will Evans wrote: A new clustering search engine? Wall Street Journal article here: * http://tinyurl.com/5b9e9q http://www.cuil.com/ launches today. -- Jeff Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.springstudio.com 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] Should external links really open in the same window?
On Jul 9, 2008, at 1:08 PM, Jens Meiert wrote: Trevor wrote: The conventional wisdom is that a link should not open a new window, even if it's a link to another site. Neilsen listed this as number 9 in the top 10 design mistakes. But an unofficial survey around our office found that most people prefer links to new sites to open up in new windows/tabs. They said that new windows or tabs make it easier to explore links to other, possibly- irrelevant, but possibly-useful sites, and still come quickly back to the main site at any time, exactly where you left it. Some people said they *expect* sites to behave that way. Should the rule that links should always open in the same window be revisited? Does anyone know of any real study or data that relates to this? Going for the very short answer: No, as this choice should be left to the user. Talking studies I do not know any that does not verify what Nielsen suggested in another article, namely only to open new windows for non-web documents [1] (albeit there might be other, rare exceptions [â¦]). [1] http://www.useit.com/alertbox/open_new_windows.html As with many questions on this list, I dont feel there is a hard and fast rule, but that context and user base plays an important part as to wether the new window function is appropriate. I personally always open external links in a new tab by right/command clicking. I think that if the link is to an external site - ie: not within the main site the user is browsing - that this functionality is preferable. In fact, I wish google searches would do it without my having to right click, as each time I don't right-click, I lose my search results. I think the tab feature of modern browsers trumps all the reasons listed on the above link for not creating a new window/tab It may be helpful to indicate a new window is going to open with a little icon, or to make sure the window size is smaller than the one below it, but the newbie mistake of losing your window is mainly a Windoze problem. This problem can also be addressed the way About and Google Images does by having a top frame that allow one to return to the previous window, or if it an internal page that needs a new window, bread-crumbing or having an internal [X close] link. jd -- Jeff Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.springstudio.com 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] Online Tutorials - inspiration, best practices, examples
Hi All, Well, fresh from my overwhelming UX/IX success with conversions at glassdoor.com (over 50,000 contributions via complicated forms in less than 3 weeks), I have taken my show on the road... well, moved down the road two blocks anyway, to a boutique UX/IX house called SpringStudio. So, my first project here is re-IA-ing an online tutorial for a complicated reporting product, and I thought: "this is a typical kind of IXD project, lets see what the peanut gallery has to say" I am looking examples, or even approaches, to developing a tutorial for a poorly designed product. (dont fret, we are pitching a product redesign also, but first things first) The biggest challenges I can see so far are structuring a tutorial that works for both first-time and semi-experienced users, and allowing power-users to drill down into areas that novices would want to skim over. If you have built, used, or just been pleased by this sort of Flash- based product learning tool, drop a line and tell me (us) why and how ! jd -- Jeff Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.springstudio.com 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] Setting a usability lab on a budget
We used a web-cam and mirrored monitor, ran cables through the ceiling to the next room. Total cost: $150. (well, we already had the computer and we borrowed a monitor from the CEO's house) jd On Jun 13, 2008, at 9:17 AM, Dante Murphy wrote: With UserVue and Morae, all you really need is a quiet and comfortable conference room and a couple of computers. Everything beyond that is gravy. Dante Murphy | Director of User Experience| D I G I T A S H E A L T H 229 South 18th Street | Rittenhouse Square | Philadelphia, PA 19103 | USA Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.digitashealth.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of oliver green Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 12:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Setting a usability lab on a budget Hi Everyone, Can someone please recommend the basics required to set up a usability lab on a budget? Or the aspects that I should consider to figure out the equipment that I could possibly need? Thanks, Oliver - - Jeffrey D. Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer http://www.glassdoor.com 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] [PLUG] glassdoor.com goes live
Peer ranking is coming for sure - we couldnt do it with this release on this schedule. In the meantime - we can tell junk content easily, and we reject it. On Jun 12, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Sebi Tauciuc wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Jeff Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:. In other communities with the give-to-get mentality, I've seen the phenomenon of "throwaway comments" where a new member posts the bare minimum simply to gain access to locked features. Is there a check in place to guarantee that members follow the rules in spirt and not just in letter? Or has that not been a problem? For me, it seems that "the letter" is meant more to suggest "the spirit", at least for now. It is clear that if you want to get to the content, you can cheat to do it. The question is how many do really want to cheat, since they have to put something in anyway. And they know they will be getting something valuable. And cheating is not exactly something everybody enjoys doing. Maybe later mechanisms for detecting and 'punishing' cheaters will evolve. Let's see if they will be developed by the site or by the community. - - Jeffrey D. Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer http://www.glassdoor.com 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] [PLUG] glassdoor.com goes live
we have a research staff that is full time on salary and review approval if it looks bogus, fake, inflated, out of market context, etc. - we reject it, while the user still gets access short, useless reviews, or ones that name names are rejected also. jd On Jun 12, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Paul Eisen wrote: I also like the concept. But following on the theme of trust raised by Meredith, how can I trust the accuracy of the information provided by people, some of whom may be solely motivated to put in information just to get access. Or worse, who are motivated to create an inflated view of the monetary value of their job? Paul Eisen Principal User Experience Architect tandemseven - - Jeffrey D. Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer http://www.glassdoor.com 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] [PLUG] glassdoor.com goes live
On Jun 12, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Vishal Iyer wrote: Jeff, Can you talk a little bit more about the 'give to get' model. No doubt its interesting, but its not uncommon that only ~10-15% contribute in many online communities and even less do so actively. Isn't attrition going to be a problem under this model, no matter how fun/ small the surveys are. What was the primary motivation for the model and will it work better in some types of data more than others? The primary motivation is content collection. we have good content, but we need more to make the site work, so your contribution is simply necessary. We have amazing conversion rates right now, and so it seems to be working. We think our content is worth something, but that the best currency for the internet is information itself. Also, is it more of a marketing move like 'invite only' accounts to get the momentum going or is it intended to be a continuing model. the intent is to run with this model for quite a while - we'll have to see The biggest interaction challenge with the site was the "give to get" model for > posting and seeing content: - - Jeffrey D. Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer http://www.glassdoor.com 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] [PLUG] glassdoor.com goes live
On Jun 12, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Martin wrote:
Hi Jeff,
I was put off becoming a member because I work for a fairly small
company. I figure that it would be pretty easy to identify me by
what I write. And I'm not sure my employer would look too kindly on
that... Maybe the model could be tweaked depending on the size of
the company? ("OK, you work for a small company, so we won't insist
on you giving us quite so much information." Something like that.)
definitely an issue - but if you employer is too small, basically, not
indexed by Hoovers, we are giving you access but holding your review
from display. so, you get access even if we dont use your review.
right now our market is Fortune 500 companies in the US... obviously
we want to expand to the whole world, but we had to start with the
leaders in the internet space and with tech savvy employees.
Also, there are only about five cities listed for Israel, and I have
to pick one from the list, even though my employer is located
elsewhere...
Other than that, awesome concept and execution.
Cheers,
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On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Jeff Gimzek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Thanks Dmitry !
Response has been overwhelming - we are all over the news. We have
had over a million page views a day, with over 20,000 contributing
members already !
I would love to hear from the community on the Survey Interactions
and the "Give to Get" model in general.
We think we are at the vanguard of a new type of online information
transaction.
jd
On Jun 12, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Dmitry Nekrasovski wrote:
Jeff,
Great job on the design and the site in general. You're providing a
much needed service to the community, and an excellent user experience
to boot.
Dmitry
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Jeff Gimzek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
We got over the bugs, and are running well with thousands of pieces of
content.
Apologies to those that couldn't get in before.
jd
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] [PLUG] glassdoor.com goes live
Thanks Dmitry ! Response has been overwhelming - we are all over the news. We have had over a million page views a day, with over 20,000 contributing members already ! I would love to hear from the community on the Survey Interactions and the "Give to Get" model in general. We think we are at the vanguard of a new type of online information transaction. jd On Jun 12, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Dmitry Nekrasovski wrote: Jeff, Great job on the design and the site in general. You're providing a much needed service to the community, and an excellent user experience to boot. Dmitry On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Jeff Gimzek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We got over the bugs, and are running well with thousands of pieces of content. Apologies to those that couldn't get in before. jd - - Jeffrey D. Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer http://www.glassdoor.com 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] [PLUG] glassdoor.com goes live
We got over the bugs, and are running well with thousands of pieces of content. Apologies to those that couldn't get in before. jd - - Jeffrey D. Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer http://www.glassdoor.com 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] [PLUG] glassdoor.com goes live - Site SLAMMED !
sorry guys, we have close to a half million views already and are bringing more servers online. sigh. On Jun 11, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Jeff Gimzek wrote: As you guys may have noticed in the MSM and the blogosphere, the project I have been doing IA, UX, UE, concepting, wireframing, interaction design, logo design, naming, branding, graphics, interface design and more for during the past year went live last night. So what is it? Glassdoor.com is opening the doors to companies everywhere by allowing anyone to find and anonymously share real- time reviews, ratings and salary details about specific jobs for specific employers — all for free. What sets us apart is that all our information comes from the people who know these companies best – employees. Think of it as the Yelp or TripAdvisor for planning your career. The biggest interaction challenge with the site was the "give to get" model for posting and seeing content: This means to access all the employee reviews and salaries of the community, you must first share an anonymous review or salary of your own. To give you a preview of the value in this transparency, we’re offering sneak peeks for four technology companies in the SF Bay Area (Cisco Systems, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo!) where you can see all reviews and salaries before contributing. Basically, a person has to take a "survey" to get full access to the site, and we tried to make those surveys as fun and painless as possible. Please take a look, and since most of you like your jobs, give your company some props. Feedback is very welcome - for me, or for the company. 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] [PLUG] glassdoor.com goes live
As you guys may have noticed in the MSM and the blogosphere, the project I have been doing IA, UX, UE, concepting, wireframing, interaction design, logo design, naming, branding, graphics, interface design and more for during the past year went live last night. So what is it? Glassdoor.com is opening the doors to companies everywhere by allowing anyone to find and anonymously share real-time reviews, ratings and salary details about specific jobs for specific employers — all for free. What sets us apart is that all our information comes from the people who know these companies best – employees. Think of it as the Yelp or TripAdvisor for planning your career. The biggest interaction challenge with the site was the "give to get" model for posting and seeing content: This means to access all the employee reviews and salaries of the community, you must first share an anonymous review or salary of your own. To give you a preview of the value in this transparency, we’re offering sneak peeks for four technology companies in the SF Bay Area (Cisco Systems, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo!) where you can see all reviews and salaries before contributing. Basically, a person has to take a "survey" to get full access to the site, and we tried to make those surveys as fun and painless as possible. Please take a look, and since most of you like your jobs, give your company some props. Feedback is very welcome - for me, or for the company. jd - - Jeffrey D. Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer http://www.glassdoor.com 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 Can-Am Spyder
not to re-ignite this thread, but check out CNN Video today: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2008/06/05/washburn. 230.mpg.car.kfmb On Jun 2, 2008, at 3:26 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote: For reference, please see: http://www.portfolio.com/interactive-features/2008/02/Spyder http://spyderryder.brp.com/spyder-community/en-CA/Home.html http://spyderryder.brp.com/spyder-community/en-CA/BlogEntry.html?EntryID=bd44fe89-6630-4ba1-a75f-643f9bb3bfea http://spyderryder.brp.com/spyder-community/en-CA/BlogEntry.html?EntryID=23e0bed7-40c5-462d-860e-745cb8e10626 So, food for thought... How does someone who practices "IxD" achieve a similar level of quality and innovation in software or interface design if: - - Jeffrey D. Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer http://www.glassdoor.com 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] give content to get community
jennifer - awesome. thanks a lot. jd On Jun 3, 2008, at 9:36 AM, Jennifer Berk wrote: Try http://www.critters.org/ - massive online writing critique group. "Many critique groups come and go, usually failing because of poor organization and member apathy / lack of participation. Critters has successfully solved the first problem by lots of automation :-) and the second by requiring members to submit critiques. Members are asked for roughly one critique a week, with some provision for vacations and such." Jennifer Berk On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Jeff Gimzek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hey ixdas, I am looking for sites that /require/ user participation in order to have /access/ to the site and it's community and it's content. A lot of site require registration, or a fee, but can you think of any that require your donation of time, effort and/or creativity to be part of the community? Linked In sort of does this - your resume, you connections, your recommendations and your 'questions' are all content you contribute to be a useful part of the community and get value back from the site... jd -- Jeff Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.glassdoor.com 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 -- Jeff Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.glassdoor.com 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] unsophisticated users
"web-challenged" ? seriously though, try 'novice' personas almost always help, IMHO jd On Jun 3, 2008, at 11:15 AM, Alla Zollers wrote: Hi Everyone -- I am having a bit of a terminology problem within my company. Most of the product people and developers like to refer to our users as "unsophisticated" (a euphemism for dumb). My understanding of the majority of our users is that they are generally of a lower socio-economic level and so don't have regular access or extensive experience online. I mentioned this to the director of product and he asked me to come up with a different terminology for our segment of users, as we wish to expand to the more affluent and internet savvy segment. I am not sure what would be a good terminology for our "unsophisticated" users? Do you think personas would help in this situation? Thank you! - - Jeffrey D. Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer http://www.glassdoor.com 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] Expense and income tracking apps?
sorry, i thought mint was free... where is this $30 request ? On May 30, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Robert Hoekman Jr wrote: You can also use www.mint.com, it is one of the best money management tool around in terms of interface/simplicity and works with iPhone as well. $30 just to sign up and find out if it's worth using. Talk about a signup barrier! Can you plug in current balances so they auto-adjust based on your expenses? -r- 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] give content to get community
hey ixdas, I am looking for sites that /require/ user participation in order to have /access/ to the site and it's community and it's content. A lot of site require registration, or a fee, but can you think of any that require your donation of time, effort and/or creativity to be part of the community? Linked In sort of does this - your resume, you connections, your recommendations and your 'questions' are all content you contribute to be a useful part of the community and get value back from the site... jd -- Jeff Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.glassdoor.com 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] Jobs, Events and Plug
A Standard opening tag for Job, Event and Plug would be great. might i suggest [job] [event] and [plug] ? and Andrei: you know you're eyeing that new gig in Hotlanta. It's near the airport! On May 28, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote: On May 28, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Julie Stanford wrote: I disagree with Andrei. I like having the announcements on this list even though many don't pertain to me. It makes me feel in touch with the IX community which is what I like about this list. Well... the best solution would be to have the digest or subscriptions settings allow subscribers to choose which postings they want to track. But given that this list is volunteer, I expect that's more work than anyone would want to tackle. I know I wouldn't. Anyways... I've tried to set up a filter in my mail program to handle this on my end, but because these types of message don't follow a standard subject tag, it's makes it near impossible to do consistently. I'd be happy to set up my own filters if people who post those things were somehow forced to follow a standard subject tag. - - Jeffrey D. Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer http://www.glassdoor.com 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] Painful Registration Flow
On May 27, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Jeff Gimzek wrote: On May 27, 2008, at 4:24 PM, Will Evans wrote: Oh man! Sorry you have to sell the right way to do this. Naw! Selling the right way to do things is the Job Description AFAIAC. I think - having done this for a couple of social networking sites - is that let it all be organic and gradual. It erks marketing folks - but in the long run you end up with more loyal contributors. Start will just email, screen name and password. If they want to add more, contribute more - have them add more personal info - have value associated with adding more info - like reputation. Well, that is who the battle is with - marketing types. the info on this site is VERY valuable, but I have an as yet unproven suspicion that a lot of non-paying users just fake the form to get in. I know i did. Seth Godin writes alot about this. Great - I will look into it. Thanks to Jared for the Marketing Sherpa idea too. found a great article with good examples here: http://www.getelastic.com/registration-usability-tips-ecommerce/ On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Jeff Gimzek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am doing a project for a company whose site registration form is only slighter shorter than the SATs. I am preparing a document that tries to sell the idea of a very short and easy registration that allows the user to get into the site first, and add more info about themselves and their preferences for things such as email newsletters organically, over time, when it is important to the user. This is a hard sell, as all the company metrics are based on things such as newsletter signup at reg.time, ignoring things such as abandonment rate or false data in the reg. process. Obviously I will be trawling the IxDA site and BoxesandArrows for this sort of argument, but I was also wondering if anyone has a similar case study that they would care to share/point me to? - - Jeffrey D. Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer http://www.glassdoor.com 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] Painful Registration Flow
I am doing a project for a company whose site registration form is only slighter shorter than the SATs. I am preparing a document that tries to sell the idea of a very short and easy registration that allows the user to get into the site first, and add more info about themselves and their preferences for things such as email newsletters organically, over time, when it is important to the user. This is a hard sell, as all the company metrics are based on things such as newsletter signup at reg.time, ignoring things such as abandonment rate or false data in the reg. process. Obviously I will be trawling the IxDA site and BoxesandArrows for this sort of argument, but I was also wondering if anyone has a similar case study that they would care to share/point me to? jd - - Jeffrey D. Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer http://www.glassdoor.com 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] Which comes first: Task Flows or Wires?
I second this - at least a few top level flows. Say, registration, first time login, repeat user (cookied) visit, and one flow on primary function (posting something, buying something, searching something) are necessary to even know what to start wireframing. You can save a lot of time this way by concentrating your wireframe design work on the most important user screens, and letting those screens define site-wide standards. Not doing some flows first can lead to the FAQ page page having the same priority in the design schedule as the shopping cart page (or whatever mission critical page) It also helps to show the stakeholders what is really important to users, and can help them prioritize development. jd On May 27, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Kevin Lee wrote: If you are an interaction designer, you should consider starting out with flow map (even if you have a strict feature content requirements from engineering or marketing). This exercise not only put you (or your team) out of your comfort zone and think from user's perspective but also force you to think like the user (rather than like the designer). In mapping out the most straight forward mental model of flow of information, you will eventually find yourself creating necessary wireframes to visually communicate the information layout, behaviors, and use cases. At the end, just like anything else, this is also an iterative process. So don't let yourself love your flow map too much because it will change as you move down the product dev process. - - Jeffrey D. Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer http://www.glassdoor.com 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] iXda badge
but X marks the interaXtion i guess i will fix my links. i made a smaller badge also: http://www.jdgimzek.com/images/ixda.gif Luke's took up too many pixels. On May 20, 2008, at 9:01 PM, Elizabeth Bacon wrote: Hey there Jeff et al., The Board is tackling brand issues, including access to logos and usage thereof, imminently. We'll make sure they're generally available as we coordinate ourselves going forward. Thanks for keeping them safe in the meantime, Luke! Please also note that our organization, the Interaction Design Association should be referred to as "IxDA" (not "iXda") if'n you want to abbreviate it. Thanks! :) Cheers, Liz (IxDA VP) -- Jeff Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.glassdoor.com 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] Asking questions to participants in a positive or negative way ?
We actually used a 5 point scale in our rating system (Very Dissatisfied --> Very Satisfied ) specifically to give users a "neutral" option, and not force them to show a bias where none exists. Some people really just dont care, or have factors evenly weighted enough that they cancel out. On May 20, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Christine Neidley wrote: Just a quick note: Your hypothesis sounds great. With Likert scales (even if they're using words instead of numbers to rate the participants response) try to use an even number of options. Four is nice. With four options, your participant must to decide between the two poles, but still has room to express the degree to which they agree. So instead of attractive/unattractive, you could have: attractive, somewhat attractive, somewhat unattractive, unattractive (This is just as you were saying in your hypothesis.) I go to a lot of websites that don't necessarily sparkle, but they aren't blaze orange with a looping midi of a Christmas carol. So I know that I'm always grateful for a little bit of room in the middle. One downside of being a Tech Comm graduate student, I have in fact had nightmares about survey reports. I got to breathe, eat, and sleep this stuff for a semester last year. Hope this helps, Christine\ -- Jeff Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.glassdoor.com 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] iXda badge
thanks man ! can we post this on the iXda site someplace for other peeps to snag ? jd On May 20, 2008, at 1:50 PM, Luke Wroblewski wrote: http://www.lukew.com/ff/img/member_ixda.gif On May 20, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Jeff Gimzek wrote: didnt someone make some iXda badges to put up on one's site to link to iXda.org ? If not, I am going to do some, so speak up if you can save me 20 minutes ! jd - - Jeffrey D. Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer http://www.glassdoor.com 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] iXda badge
didnt someone make some iXda badges to put up on one's site to link to iXda.org ? If not, I am going to do some, so speak up if you can save me 20 minutes ! jd - - Jeffrey D. Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer http://www.glassdoor.com 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] Shopping Cart Examples
I like the bananarepublic.com one.
the one thing that drives me nuts about it is that initial interaction
makes it seem like it is a drawer that opens and closes, but when you
click to "re-open" it, you leave the page.
I did an improvement on that experience for an amex site:
see
www.jdgimzek.com/blvd.html
it's a little complicated to see the "add to cart" action:
FIrst off, type 'polo' in the search field (lefthand side) to see
interactive results - you can click the "i" icon on the red shirt to
see the expanded view, then once that is open, click "add to compare"
icon to add the shirt to the comparison tray at the top [fake ajax
magic!].
Finally click the "view prices and buy" shopping cart icon to see the
individual product page, where you can Add to Cart with more AJAX
action - unlike on BananaRepublic.com, clicking the visual cart
indicator on the page OPENs the cart, rather than sending you off to
the cart page as it does on BR.com
jd
On May 19, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Itamar Medeiros wrote:
Hello, Thomas! So, let me ask you: what is -- in your opinion -- a
"good" shopping cart?
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Open format between Visio and Omnigraffle?
On May 19, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Jeff Stevenson wrote: The Pro version of OmniGraffle 5 is supposed to have better Visio support (though I haven't tried it myself). Apparently, you can now open normal Visio files (.vsd) instead of just Visio's XML format. You can also import Visio stencils and templates. It's on this page, third feature from the top: http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/pro/ I guess i should have said, i wouldnt hold my breath waiting for / Microsoft/ to make visio play nice with other formats ! When will there be a PC omni-graffle type program ? Seems like the time is ripe. -- Jeff Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.glassdoor.com 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] Open format between Visio and Omnigraffle?
I have had mixed results with the .vdx Visio XML standard. It is functional enough for basic files, but OmniGraffle masters are lost, so if multiple masters are important to your file, you have to save those out separate and bring them back in to Visio one by one. Visio -> OnmiG is of course much easier. Some people who have made stencils do so for both Onmi and Visio, but for now that is best you can do I wouldnt hold my breath waiting for Visio to play nice with other file formats. jd On May 19, 2008, at 7:35 AM, Dan Brown wrote: OmniGraffle 5 beautifully opened a Visio file for me the other day. Saved me 15 minutes of spinning up Parallels and MS Visio. Graffle also saves in Visio .xml format. Obviously, not a perfect solution, but it does address some cross-platform headaches. That said, I've never experimented with moving masters/stencils between them. On the other hand, at EightShapes (my company) we wireframe in Adobe InDesign, which is automatically cross-platform. -- Dan On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Jonathan Abbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After observing the list for a while, it's clear that our community is split between Visio users on PCs and Omnigraffle users on Macs. Is there a format common to both Visio and Omnigraffle with which we can publish stencils, templates, etc. so we don't have to duplicate our efforts? Alternatively, are there simple converters between the two formats? -Jonathan 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 -- Dan Brown, Principal • (301) 801-4850 EightShapes, LLC • eightshapes.com Also at: communicatingdesign.com • greenonions.com 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 -- Jeff Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.glassdoor.com 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] Omnigraffle IA stencils
took. took you so long. when is spellcheck going to be more contextual ? On May 16, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Jeff Gimzek wrote: i think http://www.graffletopia.com is the only one you need. OG rules. you'll wonder why it tool you so long. jd On May 16, 2008, at 8:48 AM, Will Evans wrote: Hi all, For once - a non-snarky Will post. As of this week, I have made the complete switch to Mac - and after installing Omnigraffle (new OS, new machine, new everything including new way of doing wireframing and sitemapping), I am on the hunt for all site mapping and wireframing stencils. So if people could email me with links to stencils, I will digest it and post back to group. - - Jeffrey D. Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer http://www.glassdoor.com 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] Omnigraffle IA stencils
i think http://www.graffletopia.com is the only one you need. OG rules. you'll wonder why it tool you so long. jd On May 16, 2008, at 8:48 AM, Will Evans wrote: Hi all, For once - a non-snarky Will post. As of this week, I have made the complete switch to Mac - and after installing Omnigraffle (new OS, new machine, new everything including new way of doing wireframing and sitemapping), I am on the hunt for all site mapping and wireframing stencils. So if people could email me with links to stencils, I will digest it and post back to group. - - Jeffrey D. Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer http://www.glassdoor.com 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
