Re: [IxDA Discuss] Post-graduate degree advice (London, UK)
Hello and thanks to everyone has taken a moment to reply. Thanks to David for the link to the past discussion [1]. If anyone else is following this thread and thinking about a further degree I'd recommend reading that. It's certainly stoked my interest. >From my (web)site visits so far, Kingston Uni is most visually appealing [2] and I think has benefited from the most recent update. I haven't taken the time to deconstruct it, but it also seemed the easiest to use. They are also the only uni holding a virtual open evening which I think is an interesting experiment. UCL, being the university with (I think) the best rating, has the least welcoming website IMO. @James, I studied Psychology at undergraduate level, and although it was some 13 years ago... I'm hoping I will have retained a fair amount of it. ;) Clearly many areas will need to be revisited... Following some preliminary research, none of the lecturers at the institutions listed above are known to me, so I guess it's a question of Googling them. I'm quite interested in the inclusion of Ergonomics at UCL [3]. I think being able to study human interaction away from the screen would be fascinating. Nothing at all to do with the fact I wanted to study it as an under-graduate but didn't get the grades... ;) Cheers, Tim 1. http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=39584 2. http://cism.kingston.ac.uk/ 3. http://www.uclic.ucl.ac.uk/courses/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39626 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] Users ability with slider controls
I dug about a bit after posting and came across Kayak and some other sites. A few of them seem to have implemented sliders fairly successfully and I agree that Kayak's tools feel pretty useful. Yahoo is also experimenting with them in their new Mindset search tool (http://mindset.research.yahoo.com/) and ShopSmart (http://shopping.yahoo.com/smartsort/) and Amazon with their Diamond Search tool (mentioned by Robert H above). I'm not yet convinced that Mindset makes much sense - how do I know where in the scale between 'shopping' and 'research' I need to be? I guess the results are going to be key as always. But in most of these cases the job of the slider is pretty advanced. All I'm asking users to do is rate a product between one and ten which I _hope_ is a much simpler task. (I'm reassured by Barbara's findings that sliders were easily set.) The sliders I'm proposing make up a significant portion of the page so hopefully they'll be seen. As well as having numbers on a graduated scale, I'm planning on presenting the user with an updating number representing their vote. I think this a requirement. Is there anything else that you consider a must-have? I just have a feeling that it's more satisfactory to use a slider than poke about at radio controls or drop-downs. Many thanks for comments so far! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=22044 *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
