Re: [IxDA Discuss] Anyone have some good design examples of nested data?
There's some really nice examples in the slideshare at http://designingwebinterfaces.com/ria-screen-layouts hth, Sean On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Rich Rogan wrote: > I'm not sure there is a "Most Intuitive" design for this data problem, it > seems more of a case by case issue. > > I wouldn't throw away "Grid over Grid" interaction, aka "Master/Detail", > aka "Parent/Child" panes. There's a time and place for design alternatives, > such as inline detail (like the link sent out), navigating to another page, > and having "master/detail" displays. > > Navigating to a new screen can be a very slow and jarring experience, in > cases where there is value in rapid workflow between "Master" list line > items, especially where each line item could have lots of details > associated > to it. > > As well, in "Master/Detail" the "Detail" pane can be optimized for eye > tracking if it persists in size and location. Also if the Master is > non-modal, users can bounce rapidly thru master line items in order to view > their details, (try doing that with a full screen refresh ;). > > Rich > > -- > Joseph Rich Rogan > President UX/UI Inc. > http://www.jrrogan.com > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Stefan Bookholt >wrote: > > > Wow this looks good and intuitive! I'll keep a solution like this in > > mind when I'm facing this problem again, thanks. > > > > The only scenario I can come up with when this solution is not > > intuitive is when the lists of data in the details are very large, > > maybe even with paging through the details. I guess the best thing to > > do then is navigating to a different page. > > > > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > > Posted from the new ixda.org > > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=49312 > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > Joseph Rich Rogan > President UX/UI Inc. > http://www.jrrogan.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 http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Sketching before the Wireframes
Richard, During software architecture discussions it is very common for designs to be performed on a whiteboard prior to any kind of UML tool being used. I dare to say that if you company would take issue with sketching prior to wireframes, they would also have to take issue with the software team doing the same. Happy Sketching... Sean On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Richard Carson wrote: > Thanks everyone, > > For all the wonderful responses and support for sketching. It looks like > EVERYONE, gave power to the sketching, before the wireframes process. > Surprisingly not one person ever mention that sketching was a waste of time. > Really...Not one? > > However, the same cannot be said for the company I just started working > with, who cannot get on onboard with the paper or even a whiteboard > process.The response I get is... "sketching is for your own personal > purposes. We just need to see the wireframes." So they'll put their input > into the designing the UI, but never fully understanding how the application > actually works. > > Richard > > 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] Sketching before the Wireframes
I always use paper and pencil (or whiteboard) to do multiple designs of a concept. Then we vet the designs and then move to a wireframe tool. Plus, it is much faster and more collaborative I find than using a wireframing tool. Happy Sketching, Sean On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Richard Carson wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I wanted to ask around on the process of creating wireframes for designing > mobile applications. In creating these wireframes, should I work on paper > before actually hopping into a drawing program to lay out these wireframes? > I believe working on paper is faster and easier before laying out the > wireframes for a project. However, the company I am working with, might be > wondering if I am wasting my time. That I should be doing wireframes within > the drawing program. What are your suggestions and thoughts on this issue? > > > 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] iPad.
I love the fact that it's larger multi-touch device. I think that Apple has nailed the speed of interaction with the user's input. (On other devices, the lag of device touch interaction with my interaction drives me crazy.) I wish we could see more of John Elias and Wayne Westerman's hand in the mutli-touch gestures and on screen keyboard. I've had a Touch Stream keyboard for years and they do some wonderful things around using chord modifiers to make typing easier. For example, instead of reaching for the shift key, on the Touch Stream keyboard you place all four fingers on the home row of the left side to place the keyboard in "Caps" mode for right side. And vise verse. Above the home row for 'Control' and below the home row for 'Alt'. I think that the device has great potential for other types of "keyboards" similar to the Optimus Tactus keyboard. http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus-tactus/ Which I think we saw in the "Brush" demo. (Which my kids would love). And kudos to Jonathan Ive. He's the best thing that ever happened to Apple. I'll hold the rest of my opinions until I can get my hands on one. On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Tracy Boyington < tracy_boying...@okcareertech.org> wrote: > As someone's wife, I agree. But my husband would use it the same way I > would... updating blog/Facebook or reading email in front of the TV, > watching a movie on the road, looking up a recipe in the kitchen, > surfing the web anywhere. Apple deliberately placed it between the > iPhone and a "real computer," and it fits there nicely. I'm not going to > do any actual *work* on an iPad. I'd use a laptop for that. I don't need > to be able to use it with one hand - I've got my iPhone for that. > > ~ > Tracy Boyington tracy_boying...@okcareertech.org > Oklahoma Department of Career & Technology Education > Stillwater, OK http://www.okcareertech.org/cimc > > > >>> Navid Sadikali 1/28/2010 12:40 AM >>> > I think these observations are on track - what people's wives need ie > what *most *people do in terms of computing. > > > > 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] (Retaurant!) Menu Design
Some sites are doing this on the web already. Check out the basecamp pricing page. Even with just four options they use it. http://basecamphq.com/signup They use the "no columns", framing and bonus boxes. Sean On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Francis Rowland wrote: > Clever stuff. > > It's interesting to see some of the differences and parallels in > conventions between menu design and web design, which I am more used > to. > > Hmmm... I'm hungry now! > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48604 > > > > 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] Age vs Date of Birth in sign up form
Another thing to consider is that birth dates are specific and people may not want to give you the date because of security reasons. I'd recommend age or even age ranges. Cheers, Sean On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:06 AM, jodah jensen wrote: > All things being equal, the fewer data entry points, the better. > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48490 > > > > 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] Selling Interaction 10 to Management
I wrote a blog post on selling conferences to management. I hope it helps. BTW, I used this method for a conference last year. http://ideakitchn.com/blogs/sean/archive/2010/01/04/so-you-want-to-go-to-a-conference.aspx Cheers, Sean On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:24 PM, David Shaw wrote: > Howdy folks... looks like there's a potential light at the end of the > tunnel, and my company may pay once again for a conference trip. So, in > order to do that I kind of have to provide a written "sales" pitch to my > management. Yuck. Anyone have anything "templatized" that I could borrow? > > TIA, > David > > -- > "Making peoples lives easier daily... since 1969" > > w: http://weatherdude.wordpress.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 http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] User cookie authentication vs. Security
One of the things that we did on a recent project is to provide a message that their session is about to expire and a button for them to click to extend the session. Should they go beyond the allotted time for the session, we show a message that asks for their password and we return them to where they were in the application. None of this is done with cookies. Cheers, Sean On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:51 AM, William Brall wrote: > Interesting side note, at work a few days ago a co-worker went to log > into their bank. When they went to the log in page of the fresh and > new bank site, it saw the cookie from the old site and logged him in. > As someone else. > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48213 > > > > 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] Dustin Curtis, UX Design, and American Airlines
Actually one topic of interest from the whole AA thing comes to mind. How to deal with the scenario of not owning the whole page. The AA employee spoke of various groups running different corners of the site. How does everyone deal with scenarios like that inside there company. Luckily I work for a small company so we haven't experienced that sort of scenario. Sean On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Jared Spool wrote: > > On Nov 23, 2009, at 6:25 PM, Alan Wexelblat wrote: > > Start here: http://dustincurtis.com/incompetence.html >> It's a story about user experience and American Airlines, both in the >> real world and their online presence. The main blog post links back >> to Curtis' original complaint about AA's horrid user experience, and >> to a response he received from an Interaction Designer inside the >> company. Who was then outed and fired. >> >> At heart it's a small story about fitting user experience into a (big) >> corporate culture. Or not. >> > > Really, it's a story about how an independent designer doesn't get the > world of big corporation politics. And, it's a story about how a company > which doesn't like its laundry aired in public deals with employees who > reveal stuff publicly. > > This is not the first time an employee was canned because he spoke out of > school. It won't be the last. > > AA has a history of both being an innovator in experience design. They were > the first airline to embrace mobile. They've done amazing things with > wayfinding. They were the first with online checkin. They've done some > innovative things on the web. Go back 25 years and you can see real > innovation in ticketing and loyalty programs. (Don't get me wrong -- I'm not > an AA fan boy. In fact, they are one of my least favorite airlines to fly. > Personally, I regularly tell my friends to avoid them if possible. But > credit is due for their innovative approach to IT.) > > They also get bogged down in politics like many great companies. > > From a design standpoint, there's really no story in the Dustin Curtis > thing. Any of us could sit down and, ignoring all the political realities of > a big company, come up with an "improved" redesign. But, that's not where > the challenge is, is it? It's working within the constraints that gives > design its real challenges. > > There's nothing to see here. Move along. > > That's my opinion. > > Jared > > > 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] UX trends for big corporations
How about the reach versus rich argument coming to the mobile platform. On the desktop we're developing more web based apps to access them anywhere. But on the mobile smart phone platform there's a native (rich) apps for a better experience or to take advantage of special features, like multi-touch. Wouter, on your point about "First time users see more guiding/explanatory elements etc.." Yahoo's new redesign was a good example of that. Additionally, on our last app we've implemented a guiding & explanation of how things work as part of the guided setup for our app. Sean On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Rob Enslin wrote: > There's a move (certainly within our company ~5,000) to offer its employees > iPhones (a move away from BB or as well as) as its standard mobile device. > How that changes the internal UX landscape is probably a little too soon to > say. Further to that our internal wiki vendor will be offering dedicated > iPhone and BB applications (as opposed to mobile web access) to access our > internal comms portal. This again will impact on how employees access > corporate information and manage their comms too. > > -- Rob > > 2009/10/30 Wouter Leistra > > > Hello all IxD'ers I'm working on a new presentation on the area of > > UX trends for the near and not so near future. I did some research > > online and read many of the UX blogs to find out what is upcoming. I > > would love to have it more focused on bigger corporations who are not > > as flexible and able to quickly make gigantic changes to their system > > because this is the kind of market we operate in as a company. We > > mainly do in our department intranets and corporate websites based on > > big platforms like SharePoint. I collected already some points that > > might be considered trends today: > > > > - Morgan Stanley reported that they expect a bigger and faster shift > > to web on mobile devices. > > - Prototyping integrated in design process. We hear from our > > customers more and more the need to have an early experience or > > encounter with what has to become the end result. > > - Branding/Interaction based on user profiles. Based on the level of > > familiarity or use of the service, the user interface adapts to the > > needs. First time users see more guiding/explanatory elements etc.. > > - Increase of behavioral and performance user and service data to > > base the design on. Nowadays it still happens too often (IMHO) that > > this information is totally lacking or incomplete due to customer's > > decisions. But slowly but surely the balance seems to shift, favoring > > the availability of this kind of data to get better designs. > > > > I would love to hear what you think are the UX trends and future > > expectations. Maybe you have some links to other presentations or > > have your own ideas to share. Whatever it is thanks in advance! > > > > The presentation will be held for all UX enthusiasts within Tieto, > > the company i'm working for, first. But maybe it will be published > > later for the pleasure of all. > > > > 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 > 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] Sparkline filtering
I would call the tick marks on the LG site more of a label or marker than a filter. For a filter you'd need more multi-variant data so that you could apply filters to the sparklines. Tufte has got a couple of examples of what I would consider to be "sparkline filtering" in his book "Beautiful Evidence" on pages 54 & 55. There you have a table of sparklines with color filter applied on page 55. And on page 54 he uses the red whisker/tick to indicate if a team was held scoreless. HTH, Sean On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Santiago Bustelo wrote: > @Greg Thomas: > > Greg Petroff is talking about the subtle "tick marks" above the > "capacity", "width" and "price" sliders on the left column of > the LG site. > > The charts in readybetgo are not sparklines. > > >From Wikipedia: >The term 'Sparkline' was proposed by Edward Tufte for > "small, high resolution graphics embedded in a context of words, > numbers, images." Tufte describes sparklines as "data-intense, > design-simple, word-sized graphics". > > Edward Tufte on "sparklines": > http://is.gd/4wBCx > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46961 > > > > 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] Measuring forms performance
How about crazyegg? http://crazyegg.com/ Sean On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Caroline Jarrett < caroline.jarr...@effortmark.co.uk> wrote: > Brian Heumann > > > > Hmm, sounds like secretly submitting the form without the users's > > consent ... Technically you could easily add Javascript to the > > "unload" event of the page to send the required data. And hope the > > users don't find out. > > > > No, definitely not. The client merely wants to have some way of measuring > what the users are doing - not to secretly grab data or anything like that. > They'd be pretty horrified if anyone thought that they were trying to do > something underhand. It's a highly reputable non-profit. > > So I think I'd need to add 'nothing underhand' to the requirements for the > tool. > > Best > Caroline Jarrett > > > 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] A vision for the 10-finger desktop
I have one of the Fingerworks Touchstream LP keyboards and have been using it for years. I can perform two hand gestures and navigation with both pads at the same time and I love it. Here's a link to the gesture guides for fingerworks. http://www.fingerworks.com/userguides.html I think that by using chord modifiers instead of a global and local app launcher bars at the ends you would reduce the strain of reaching for the edges. (I only say this because with the touchstream I no longer have to reach for the shift key on a keyboard anymore.) Great work on the video. Cheers, Sean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46632 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
