Re: [IxDA Discuss] web-Second Life registration process

A few more uses of Second Life's custom registration portal API: http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2007/05/04/new-orientation-islands-take-off/ http://www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,1675445,00.html http://freshtakes.typepad.com/sl_communicators/2007/06/slbc_meeting_tr.html http://b

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Deliverables and Developers

Hi Celeste, I work with an in-house dev team and find they are truly grateful when I document a handful of details in addition to the general broad brush-strokes of wireframes, layouts, etc: - Error and status messages, especially when a consistent word order format is used. - Dimensions of image

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability is more than...

Charles B. Kreitzberg wrote: > Here is how I think of it, Jeff. > > Usability is a dimension of design. I like the construct of useful, usable > and desirable which you can think of as three dimensions that a good design > requires. > Very well put -- and with apedigree going back to Vitrivius'

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Deliverables and Developers

Also, I highly, highly recommend Dan Brown's book "Designing Documentation." Pretty much covers most deliverables for a project. That said, I always try to do some interviews with developers to find out what speaks to them. joe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Deliverables and Developers

On Tuesday 04 March 2008 17:11:23 Scott Berkun wrote: > 1. Why only have one deliverable? If you're convinced developers want > something diferent from what the client liason wants, design your > deliverables that way. Have a section in your spec marked "For developers" > or create two seperate doc

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Deliverables and Developers

From: "Celeste 'seele' Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Does anyone know of studies or other research that explicitly looks at how > developers are using design deliverables in practice? Particularly > integrating things such as wireframes in to functional specifications. Or > even if developers "get

[IxDA Discuss] Call for participation: Study #07-12643 Persona Usage Evaluation in Design Field

Dear Sir/Madam: This is Yen-ning Chang, second year master student in School of Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington. I am doing a research about the usage of persona in design field. Your participation in this study will help me understand how professionals use persona in practice, also

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Deliverables and Developers

I am apart of an integrated in-house team. Everyone involved with a given project is employed by the same company. So that does give me an advantage that I can easily go over to any developer's cube and chat with him/her about my design or what they need. We will create separate deliverables depe

[IxDA Discuss] JOB - User Interface Architect ~ San Francisco area ~ Cisco Systems ~ Full Time

COMPANY NAME: Ironport division of Cisco LOCATION: San Bruno, CA (just south of San Francisco) JOB TITLE: User Interface Architect DURATION: Full Time Employment CONTACT: dalloyd at cisco.com JOB DESCRIPTION: IronPort, acquired by Cisco in April 2007, is a proven leader of anti-spam, anti-virus a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Deliverables and Developers

> > > > On Tuesday 04 March 2008 16:02:55 Ari Feldman wrote: > > most developers never get more than a few bullet points for specs or as > > inputs while many others still work in environments of "oral history" > where > > deliverables are verbally explained but never written! > > > > > > So, when

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Deliverables and Developers

We have moved away from comprehensive PRD, DRD and TRD's. They are slow, painful. They also tend to reduce dialog. As a designer, I really like the interaction and realtime dialog with the dev group. They are included up front so that the communication during the dev cycle is pretty open. This help

[IxDA Discuss] web-Second Life registration process

I'm working on a project for a client that has a presence in Second Life, but wants their customers to register through their own site first. This is partly so they can customize the user's SL experience, and partly because some of the target audiences may not be familiar with SL. Putting a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Deliverables and Developers

On Tuesday 04 March 2008 15:24:03 Rob Nero wrote: > In this way, we hand off a high-fidelity mockup with a detailed document > explaining how everything works on the screen. Do you create a separate client deliverable or give the same thing to you project contact (or are you part of an integrated

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Email Registration

Jason, It depends on the offer. If what you're offering is compelling enough, people will fill out more fields. If you're asking for personal information that doesn't seem (from the customer's POV) to be relevant, you've either got to do a good job explaining how collecting this data benef

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Deliverables and Developers

This is something I deal with nearly every day - especially as we have 2 week dev cycles between product releases. Everyone who has replied to the thread already has provided sage advice. Let's put it this way... most developers never get more than a few bullet points for specs or as inputs wh

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Deliverables and Developers

I view design deliverables in the same way as I view whatever it is that I'm designing: I'm building something for *someone*, so in order to get it right, I must consult with them and understand their needs. It's more important to me that I deliver something that conveys functionality and beha

[IxDA Discuss] Email Registration

Hi list, When designing sites, I often come up against the question of what required fields to include for an Email Registration form. By Email Registration I mean registering for updates/promotions from the site. I have always felt that less fields is a better approach (ie. just email addre

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Deliverables and Developers

Though I do not have any research to backup your question, I do have a lot of experience with handing off my designs/code to developers. Rule #1: Be as specific as possible! :) Our team typically goes through many iterations of design with the business clients and project manager before handing

[IxDA Discuss] Design Deliverables and Developers

One of the things I am interested as a designer is how we can work better with developers. If you are lucky enough to work as part of an in-house team you probably (hopefully) have a stronger relationship with developers than those of use who only come in as consultants. Often as a consultant

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing an Analytics UI

Tufte's books and particularly Stephen Few's books for dashboard design are very good. - Russ blog: http://www.dexodesign.com/ On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Brandon E.B. Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm about to start designing the UX and UI for t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability is more than...

Here is how I think of it, Jeff. Usability is a dimension of design. I like the construct of useful, usable and desirable which you can think of as three dimensions that a good design requires. Each of these dimensions has associated with it various tool and techniques. Usability testing is a te

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability is more than...

Todd wrote: > My first response to you would be how did you arrive > at your view/perspective on usability? My initial exposure to usability was self-taught through Nielsen's Designing Web Usability and Krug's Don't Make Me Think. At Carnegie Mellon's School of Design, they break design researc

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability is more than...

For those who include satisfaction under usability, is there anything you include beyond usability in determining whether a design is "good" or is usability a synonym for good design? > I'll also cast my vote, two if I could, that satisfaction plays a > critical role in usability. I've observed

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability is more than...

I agree with Todd's criteria for evaluating usability. We have the same criteria plus we branch out learnability into memorability. In other words, can someone come into an application, start using it, walk away for a week or two and then come back in and interact without having to relearn everyt

[IxDA Discuss] Designing an Analytics UI

I'm about to start designing the UX and UI for the analytics portion of an RIA. (Flex) Anybody have any links/books they'd like to share discussing the display of data, interactivity, preferred visualizations etc.? Thanks, B Welc

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA London meet-up, more meetings - and money!

Thanks for all your work Alex - It was great to meet everyone last night - looking forward to further meetings. Joe -- http://formd.net Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTE

[IxDA Discuss] Upcoming Event: Gel Conference, NYC, April 24-25

Hello, On behalf of Mark Hurst & Phil Terry and the folks at Creative Good, I'd like to announce an upcoming event, the 2008 Gel Conference. I attended this conference last year and was significantly influenced by the speakers and concepts to which I was introduced (such as "bit literacy", which ta

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability is more than...

On Mar 4, 2008, at 12:01 PM, Jeff Howard wrote: > My entire context for usability has been as an evaluation tool to > identify design elements that are initially confusing or that > involve a high error rate for some ergonomic reason. [...] > That seems to frame usability as an analog for des

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Most usable doesn't always mean best solution

I'm a bit confused. You reference the fact that the form takes more time and effort as meaning it's unusable.Efficiency (which is what I assume you are referring to) doesn't just mean faster, it means less wasted time. If the goal if the form was to be more secure and adding more questions ac

[IxDA Discuss] Job, Interface Designer/Graphic Designer, Pennington, NJ, "Recruiter", Full Time Direct Hire

Seeking an innovative graphic designer with strong layout, typography and brand identity skills. Responsibilities include designing interfaces for transactional web pages, data intensive applications and other financial products and services. Candidates must have experience in designing web appli

[IxDA Discuss] Usability is more than...

In the past few months I've heard rumblings on the list that usability is about more than evaluation (first from Jared and more recently from Elizabeth). I'm not a card-carrying member of UPA, but this is interesting to me and I'd like to learn more about the point of view. I was taught th

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA London meet-up, more meetings - and money!

Just awesome Alex Great work to everyone who's helping IxDA London come to life Yea! -- dave On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Alexander Livingstone < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Last night was a very interesting meeting! It was fantastic to meet > such a wide variety of pe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Most usable doesn't always mean best solution

On Mar 4, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Elizabeth Buie wrote: > Well, there you have it. They're marketing folks. IMNERHO they > aren't usability > professionals; they're just calling themselves that. They call themselves that and they are doing usability research. Companies are hiring them. I've see

[IxDA Discuss] IxDA London meet-up, more meetings - and money!

Hi all, Last night was a very interesting meeting! It was fantastic to meet such a wide variety of people and work - education, entertainment, consultancy, information, engineering (that's me and my boats!) - and I'm really looking forward to the forum that will be opened inside the group. As for

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Most usable doesn't always mean best solution

Todd writes: >Elizabeth, there are a lot of people out in the field, especially >marketing agencies, Well, there you have it. They're marketing folks. IMNERHO they aren't usability professionals; they're just calling themselves that. >I include satisfaction in my definition of usability,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Most usable doesn't always mean best solution

Elizabeth, there are a lot of people out in the field, especially marketing agencies, performing usability studies who haven't got a clue that there's an ISO 9241 standard for it. You might be surprised by this, but it's true. .. To the point: "In the dusty institutions where usability standar

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Most usable doesn't always mean best solution

On Mar 4, 2008, at 9:48 AM, Elizabeth Buie wrote: > I don't know how they can miss it, given how ISO 9241 defines > usability. Elizabeth, there are a lot of people out in the field, especially marketing agencies, performing usability studies who haven't got a clue that there's an ISO 9241

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Most usable doesn't always mean best solution

Todd wrote: > On Mar 4, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Elizabeth Buie wrote: >> Yes, of course. But it does not constitute usability by its own self; there >> are other factors. > That's my point. Many of the "usability professionals" I run into don't see > usability as multi-factor. I don't know how th

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Most usable doesn't always mean best solution

On Mar 4, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Elizabeth Buie wrote: > Yes, of course. But it does not constitute usability by its own > self; there are other factors. That's my point. Many of the "usability professionals" I run into don't see usability as multi-factor. Unfortunately, many of them equate us

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Most usable doesn't always mean best solution

Brandon Ward writes: >I think everyone could agree that automatic is technically 'easier', Depends on "by whom". It really *isn't* easier for me. >Sorry if this isn't very coherent - but I think my point is in there >somewhere. I'm not so sure. I drive a stick, never owned an automatic. I

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User stories vs. user personas

I would say that user stories are created tounderstand how much time it takes to develop the stories or the tasks. They arecreated by clients or the development team and contain a short description ofwhat the system or the product should do. The list of user stories collectedwill be used for d

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Shared virtual whiteboard: Suggestions?

Try ProofHQ as well (www.proofhq.com) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=26680 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA Announces New Board of Directors for 2008-2009

Just a little follow-up. Having had a response from the IAI it seems their mentoring process *is* robust and intact ... it seems it might be my email service that isn't/wasn't. Happy to clarify on their behalf. John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted fro

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Most usable doesn't always mean best solution

Todd wrote: > On Mar 3, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Elizabeth Buie wrote: >> No, the automatic would come out as the most learnable > Well, this is one very key factor in determining usability. Yes, of course. But it does not constitute usability by its own self; there are other factors. Remember that

[IxDA Discuss] JOB ~ Information Architect ~ Washington, DC ~ EightShapes, LLC ~ Full-Time

Hello Interaction Designers! EightShapes is hiring again! Please see our (now infamous) job description below. Our preference is to have someone local to DC. Thanks, -- Dan EightShapes, LLC, a user experience consultancy founded by Nathan Curtis and Dan Brown, wants to hire you. What's the catch?

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Data on "back to top" links

Here are some thoughts from content architecture. A link should indicate its purpose. What do I get if I follow it? "Table of contents" Another good technique is to offer Related links at the bottom of a topic. If one of them goes to the same page, that could be indicated. Re

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design and Theatre

On 03/03/2008, Michael Micheletti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Whitney Quesenbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > I dread the day something as intellectually rigorous and challenging as > Labanotation is head-nodded all around for documenting system > interactions.