[IxDA Discuss] Suitable icon for freeze

2007-12-03 Thread PREETI SALUJA
Hi all! Can you suggest some good links or any ideas for designing a suitable icon to denote freeze image and freeze screen? Kindly get back with any ideas that bouce ur head. Regards, Preeti *Come to IxDA Interaction08 |

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Competitive analysis

2007-12-03 Thread Sushma Sudhir
Hi all, I am doing a competitive analysis for corporate/ecommerce site for a product company. What are the various parameters against which a qualitative analysis could be done. To name a few, I have: * Overall structure * Customer segmentation * Global/Local balance as each

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Placement of credit card logos

2007-12-03 Thread Bryan Minihan
I'd say web sites aren't like convenience stores (where you're likely to see CC logos right on the front door): These days, credit cards are the most common way to pay for something online (I'm generalizing, and know Paypal, mail order and some other options exist), such that you shouldn't need

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Suitable icon for freeze

2007-12-03 Thread Ari Feldman
yes, great recommendation! Horton's book is 13 or 14 yrs old but still valid today as it was when it came out. it's a fantastic resource for understanding the theory and practical considerations when designing icons and visual metaphors. On Dec 3, 2007 8:36 AM, Chauncey Wilson [EMAIL

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Placement of credit card logos

2007-12-03 Thread Ari Feldman
most, not all ecommerce sites offer credit card payment options in a drop down menu with Visa usually defaulted as its the most popular card in the US. because it's defaulted, some users may not click on the menu to reveal other choices like AMEX or Discover, etc. therefore, it *can't* hurt to

[IxDA Discuss] Fixing bugs is not fixing design!

2007-12-03 Thread Russell Wilson
Excerpted from a post on my blog: http://www.dexodesign.com/2007/11/fixing-bugs-is-not-equivalent-to-fixing.html Would love feedback fromn IxDA'ers... [snip] At Dux2007 http://www.dux2007.com/ in Chicago, I attended a workshop where I asked the group why we don't design software like we do

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Suitable icon for freeze

2007-12-03 Thread Katie Albers
Let me just suggest that you may be complicating this unnecessarily by thinking of it as freeze It seems likely that what you want to do is analogous to either pausing or stopping a video display and there are recognized icons for both those. Katie On Dec 3, 2007 12:25 AM, PREETI SALUJA

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fixing bugs is not fixing design!

2007-12-03 Thread Ari Feldman
Since I work on helping to design what is fairly complex software, i'd like to chime in on this. i agree that fixing bugs is not the same as fixing design. however, anyone who has worked at a startup with scant resources, aggressive time lines and so forth, will also tell you that you're often

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Suitable icon for freeze

2007-12-03 Thread Michael Micheletti
On Dec 3, 2007 8:07 AM, Ari Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, great recommendation! Horton's book is 13 or 14 yrs old but still valid today as it was when it came out. it's a fantastic resource for understanding the theory and practical considerations when designing icons and visual

[IxDA Discuss] A good source for stats on browsers, screen resolution, OS, etc.

2007-12-03 Thread Lada Gorlenko
MarketShare is a good source of some recent and free statistics frequently asked for by designers: Browsers: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0# Screen resolution: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=17 Search engines:

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Placement of credit card logos

2007-12-03 Thread Dmitry Nekrasovski
Agreed with Ari - displaying card logos on the checkout page is a good visual indicator of the payment options that are available, potentially saving users a click and some scanning to find this information. Displaying the accepted cards on the home page is overkill in my opinion. The only case

Re: [IxDA Discuss] A good source for stats on browsers, screen resolution, OS, etc.

2007-12-03 Thread Barbara Ballard
On Dec 3, 2007 1:51 PM, Lada Gorlenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MarketShare is a good source of some recent and free statistics frequently asked for by designers: Browsers: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0# Screen resolution:

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fixing bugs is not fixing design!

2007-12-03 Thread Elisabeth Hubert
I agree Russell. Trying to fix a design should happen during the conceptualization of the design. It doesn't happen through fixes to software. Fixes to software to poorly adapt a design result in a big ball of tape that no one can unravel. ~Lis http://www.elisabethhubert.com/ . . . . . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Placement of credit card logos

2007-12-03 Thread James Leslie
Surely the aim of an e-commerce site primarily is to sell products, therefore if the statistics prove that an increased conversion rate is achieved by placing the logos on the home page, that has to be the correct method? Sometimes the means to the end is not the most aesthetically desirable

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Placement of credit card logos

2007-12-03 Thread Eric Scheid
On 4/12/07 3:15 AM, Ari Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: most, not all ecommerce sites offer credit card payment options in a drop down menu with Visa usually defaulted as its the most popular card in the US. because it's defaulted, some users may not click on the menu to reveal other

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fixing bugs is not fixing design!

2007-12-03 Thread Bryan Minihan
I agree with your argument, but actually think you and the software designer to whom you spoke are both right. It could be you both had semantic differences in what constitutes a design problem. To some folks (many developers I know), a design problem includes: widgets in the wrong place, fonts

[IxDA Discuss] Bulk-content creators (correction - broken link)

2007-12-03 Thread Bryan Minihan
Here ya go... http://tinyurl.com/258umz Wow, my first tinyurl. - Bryan http://www.bryanminihan.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan Minihan Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 8:56 PM To: 'IxD' Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Bulk-content

[IxDA Discuss] Bulk-content creators

2007-12-03 Thread Bryan Minihan
We're considering using an SEO strategy whereby a company creates several hundred content pages with relevant keywords (to our site) that link back to our site, in order to increase our search engine rankings. I just wrote a piece about this on my Blog, but have been wondering how you esteemed