[IxDA Discuss] Specific kind of faceted search example?
Hello. We're currently designing a faceted search / guided search with some very specific challanges: - We have a big collection of filters and we can only show a few at the time (the most valueable / common) - The filters affect the other filters - The filters get's 'picked' - goes away - and then replaced by another filter. - Some filters are dependent on other filters and cannot be picked before you pick the 'parent' - Filters get's picked automatically if there's only one choice left anyway - You can always cancel a pick and then it will come back as a filter choice The database is huge and very varied. We're not talking one kind of content such as digital cameras. It still make sense though to use faceted search. I wish I could tell you exactly what content it is. You just have to trust me that it makes sense ;) We're currently thinking you need to make one big pick. Structure the filters on at least two levels so they're not all on the same. That would make things much easier. But we are still open to the suggested design until proven otherwise. Have anyone of you seen an example of what is described here? I know I haven't.. Much appreciated. Johan Sjöstrand 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] Specific kind of faceted search example?
Thanks! The more I think about the more I believe a flat structure is very difficult to manage. Both in technical terms and in the mental model of the user. In your example, you pick hard drives and then you go on with those specific filters. What is proposed in our project is to manage the whole computer parts category as one with filters. Another example would be to try and manage Hifi as one category with speakers, tvs, receivers etc. All of which have their own specific qualities. Even TVs would be hard to manage with just one category with filters. There are some big differences between LCD, Plasma and CRT models too.. Still interested to see if this would be possible or even good, but I highly doubt that it is the right way to go. /Johan On May 8, 2009, at 9:36 AM, Adam Korman wrote: It's hard to tell without the specifics, but this might be similar to your challenge: http://www.tigerdirect.com. A good example of how they deal with filters is to go down the path of browsing for hard drives. You can keep adding filters by clicking on items in the left rail/navigation area. As you get deeper in, they start to construct a breadcrumb trail of filters you've added. I wouldn't say it's a great experience, but they've made an attempt at handling some of the things it sounds like you are dealing with. I'm not sure how clear it is to people, but they are doing some useful things. -Adam On May 7, 2009, at 11:46 PM, Johan Sjöstrand wrote: Hello. We're currently designing a faceted search / guided search with some very specific challanges: [snip] We're currently thinking you need to make one big pick. Structure the filters on at least two levels so they're not all on the same. That would make things much easier. But we are still open to the suggested design until proven otherwise. Have anyone of you seen an example of what is described here? I know I haven't.. 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 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] I'm designing in Visio for the last time
Sound like the typical microsoft experience :-) Get a mac and put omnigraffle on it. You will never look back. Apple Omnigroup, you know where to send the checks. /Johan On Mar 30, 2009, at 1:38 AM, Michael Micheletti wrote: I'm working on a product design, under pretty intense time/money/team pressure, using Visio for design sketches. I picked Visio because I've used it since version 1.0 (maybe I was even a beta tester, can't remember back that far) and am fairly expert with it. I can work fast and get lots done, and redone, which is maybe even more important. But today, when I attempted to copy/paste from one Visio drawing to another Visio drawing, it pasted in a bunch of mystery shapes and junk instead of the various dingbat font symbols and other images in my original. Yes, you read it correctly, it failed copying from Viso to Visio. They say that you can boil a frog if you put it in a pot with cold water and slowly turn up the heat. Well, then I'm a frog and Visio's finally boiled me over. Some other fuel on the burner: - Visio's layers dialog is application modal. What a constant endless Pain In The Butt. - Screen and Print visibility are controlled by separate columns of checkboxes within said PITB layers dialog. How many times have I printed images the first time and had to go back in and uncheck stuff there? Probably a couple trees' worth. - The Pan and Zoom window retains control of the keyboard when you reposition the cursor over your drawing. Think you're going to nudge that shape with your arrow keys now that you've zoomed in? Surprise, you're zooming in and out again instead. I appear to be unable to learn this. And Visio appears to be unable to learn that I want to zoom in when I use Ctrl+Plus, and zoom out using Ctrl+Minus. - The window and web design shapes are probably ten years old and look really tired. Translucent windows? Ribbon controls? Galleries? 3-D controls? Mobile phones? PDAs? Aero? Sorry. - Connections never seem to connect how I want them to, and one false move may reroute every one of them. - If I ungroup a shape in order to change some component visual properties and then regroup it, the z-index changes. - Any website big enough to require automated tools to perform a content inventory is too big for Visio to handle the job. Certainly the moment I go back to work after sending this I'll remember ten other things that bug me, but you get the idea. Visio is no longer working out very well as my quickie sketchpad for designing a new software application. Now I'm sure that Visio can do other wonderful tasks, like layout an office floor plan, configure equipment in a network rack, plan HVAC ducting, create simple electrical schematics, maybe even do database modeling. But I don't need to do any of that stuff. I'm a user interface designer. I have lots of alternatives for my next project. I'm good in Photoshop, but don't normally like to sketch with it because I'm faster in Visio (mostly because I tend to try and make things pretty in Photoshop, but also because it's a pain to resize a complex screen mockup). I've made an uneasy peace with Illustrator for symbol design work, but it frustrates me enough that I wouldn't want to spend any more time there than I have to. I've used InDesign to create marketing slicks and brochures, but it doesn't strike me as optimal for software interface design. Fireworks gets a lot of good press in this group, that may be what I try next. I'm getting increasingly adept in Expression Blend, but it's a development tool. I sketch on paper a lot, but mostly as quick notes to myself that no one else is expected (or able) to read. Maybe Microsoft will surprise me with a tight Visio upgrade that fixes everything that bugs me. But I doubt it. Instead, I expect them to bolt on the ability to design staircases, or roofing tile courses, or croquet fields, or asteroid belts, or something else equally useless to me. And maybe that's good business if there are underserved asteroid belt designers out there. But Visio, even though we've had some good times over the years, I think it's time we break up. Ok, I'm all screeded-out now. Time to go back to work (in, um, Visio, yes...), Michael Micheletti -- Michael Micheletti michael.michele...@gmail.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 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines
[IxDA Discuss] Social design: Nuanced/specific user feedback ?
Hello. I'm looking for examples of user feedback standard beyond star ratings and comments. - Ted.com let's users pick 3 out of 14 words to describe how they experienced the presentation. Let's say a talk is Inspiring, Funny and Informative. Then they present the overall user feedback as a tag cloud. - Getsatisfaction.com let's people attach a This makes me feel users emotion emoticons to each comment so they can show the collective mood in the thread. - The swedish debate site newsmill.se does something similar where you can express how the debate article made you feel - happy, sad, angry etc and then they present the overall feedback. I think all these examples tell you more about a specific type of content than let's say a 3/5 star rating or 2 345 views or 34 comments. They want specific feedback and then design for it. Have you seen any other examples that might be relevant? Anyone been writing about this? Best Johan Sjöstrand 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] social features turnover
Hello. I would need some help to reply to a clients request. He's asking veery generally how much turnover you could get on page views / time spent on site if you would to implement social features. What does social features would be is not clear. The site is very established. He's asking so he can prepair a business plan. I don't even know where to begin.. maybe through examples? The site X improved their statistics by doing Y. Help me help him. Thanks.. /Johan 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] Gradual Engagement / Best practices for Sign-Ups (seen in the wild)
Hello. Currently helping a client improving their homepage and sign-up screen. Joshua Porters Design for sign-up and LukeWs gradual engagement principles have gone a long way but we need more great examples for our upcoming workshop. Seen any extraordinary examples out there? Best Johan Sjöstrand --- Johan Sjöstrand, Interaction Designer Phone: +46-(0)8-410 352 24 Mobile: +46-(0)709-27 52 24 www.doberman.se --- 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] Omnigraffle tip
I would like to share a tip in omnigraffle. My biggest problem with visio has always been being confined to pt units. That is one of the biggest reasons I changed to omnigraffle (among a lot of other reasons of course) - to be able to work in pixels so I can see how big it will be on the screen. I make a lot of web work so it makes sense to be able to work in that resolution enviroment. This is especially useful (to me) while doing high definition wireframes. You get to test your design considerations/decisions very early. Low definition wireframes i can do on anything - whiteboard, postits, napkins or even in powerpoint.. Another problem has been that you are confined to a paper format (standard delivarable carrier), making you try to stuff so much you can within that format. This is of course not ideal when working with the web which can have veery long pages. Omnigraffle allows pixels, but the pixel resolution you get on a a4/letter format is not a lot to work with. If you get a long page you will still have to try and stuff it in (not ideal design) or add another paper (bye bye forests). So the tip goes as follows: 1. In your page setup. Choose a large paper size such as A3 or 11x17. (you will still be able to export/print it as A4 or letter) 2. In your work enviroment, choose pixels. 3. In the inspect/canvas/size panel. Choose 50% on print scale. This will now give you a pixel resolution of approx 1500x2300 (portrait) depending on margin settings allowing for a lot of room making long screens. But wait... everything got smaller! You still want your pixels to be actual pixels on the screen so zoom in your work space at 200%. Voila. Yes, this WILL be tiny on a printed a4/letter but still OK for most part. If you don't quite want that much space you can work within another proportional relationship such as print scale 80% and zoomed work space at 125%. This will get you a resolution of approx 940x1400 (portrait). With this tip you will make both Edward Tufte (resolution is the answer!) and the planet happy. Print on both sides of a paper and your paper stack deliverables will get a lot lighter. Best Johan Sjöstrand 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] Layered/Faceted Navigation Techniques
I asked about this a while ago: http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=23190search=facet Best Johan Apr 29, 2008 kl. 10:01 PM skrev Thomas Marks: I am looking for information on Layered (Faceted) Navigation techniques, especially in regards to e-commerce. I see this similar type of navigation working very differently between most sites out there. I was wondering if there were any favorites out there, or any research/ user studies that might assist in developing a best practice for this. Thanks! Thomas Marks 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] look and feel
I highly recommend this presentation by Stephen P Anderson. http://www.slideshare.net/stephenpa/eye-candy-is-a-critical-business-requirement On Feb 11, 2008, at 8:25 PM, mark schraad wrote: There is an interesting editorial and follow up discussion regarding the term 'look and feel' - at the design observer (mostly a graph design blog). I have used the term many times when speaking to clients. To me it is everything about the site that is visual, except for the interactions. http://www.designobserver.com/archives/032084.html#comments *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Internal social knowledge bank - a tool to use?
Hello. I've been trying to build up a knowledge bank for our interaction design dept at work. Right now it's just a few categorized folders on our file server which of course is dead and uninspiring. The content are in various format such as pdfs, ppts, word docs, blogposts (right now printed out as pdf files and not links) etc. I'm looking for a tool that would support some or all of these needs: - Multicategorizing of content. Multiple folders or tags. It would be nice to classify a resource in multiple ways and not just by subject matter. - Posting. I rather embed a slideshare object than just a link to a file. Would be great if you could have comments so each resource has a thread. Could also be used for just asking everyone for help on a specific problem e.g. Is this pagination the best choice for this particular case etc.. We cannot always reach each other physically. - Calendar. We have a lot of breakfasts workshops that would be good to have in a shared calendar. Could also be used for archiving photos and results from each workshop. - Comments / threads for everything. - Realtime chat. - Alerts. Email notifications when something new is posted. - Permissions / member admin. We have freelancers that come and go that we would like to invite to this. - Blogroll / rss aggregator for our reading list. - Ease of use is crucial. Right now I got my eyes on Basecamp but I would also want to hear your comments. What do you use and recommend for all or some of these needs. Maybe a combination/mashup of tools - any ideas or suggestions would be much appreciated. Best Johan *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] hidden (edit in place) form controls
I'm looking for nice executed examples of this. Think John is.. on facebook. When you hit the link, a dropdown appears. I'm thinking of using this for filter controls. Options that are voluntary, not mandatory. I'm afraid having all filter controls out in the open might impose a need to fill them all out. I will have 5-6 filter controls but I'm pretty sure users will only use 2-3 max. Thanks! Johan *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Dayparting for newspaper sites
Hello. I was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to share some links, case studies and/or insight on dayparting for online newspaper sites. From the google i've found what I already know: Morning: users want to read their email and the news Afternoon: users at work start goofing off, reading fluff new, and checking movie times and the like Evening: users switch to goal driven mode and start looking for cars, jobs, and products Your views? Thanks! Best Johan Sjöstrand *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] sliders sparklines combined
Seen in action on Swedens leading price comparison site: External harddrives http://www.prisjakt.nu/kategori.php?k=360 Hårddiskstorlek = Size in gb Pris/GB = Price / GB Lägsta pris = Lowest price Thoughts? Examples elsewhere? Best Johan Sjöstrand  *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
