Definitely helps Jerome. You, for one are not making the participant conscious
of being watched. Secondly, it always helps to have the stakeholders sit with
you ( in a different room: you can project it on the wall if you want ) and
observe whats happening. Thats a big win actually. When devs,
Hi Mark,
I don't have a specific recommendation but you can do your friends a
favour and forward them some of the excellent articles out there on
good shopping cart design. Out of curiosity - why don't they want to
build their shop on the etsy platform?
Cheers,
Alex
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at
If your email had not indicate there would be navigation
in perspective I don't think I would have clicked
on anything in the image. I almost didn't anyway.
There is no affordance and I thought it was just artwork.
No disrespect Brett but, to test my assumption I asked a colleague to
Prachi Sakhardande wrote:
Hi There
Here's a question to all the avid bloggers on this list.
How do you draw the line between what work related stuff you can blog
about?
I think it depends on where you work, both in terms of the firm and the
country. In the US, we have this recent thing
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:08 AM, j. eric townsend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- only designated representatives for the company can discuss anything
about the company, its market, or competing companies in any
online/electronic forum.
As a counterpoint to this, there is the Cluetrain
Someone already pointed this one out, it's worth:
Stanford HCI Seminar on itunes.stanford.edu
Enjoy!
Alex
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http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=30236
On Jun 17, 2008, at 7:08 PM, Jeff Howard wrote:
One of the best reasons I know of to use an alphabetical organization
is where egos are concerned--specifically to avoid the appearance of
priority when listing names. In that case it's akin to random; the
names have to be in _some_ order and it
Final Reminder Everyone!
IxDA D.C. Face-2-Face Social*: Wednesday, June 18, *Kosmo's Lounge*,
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront.
IxDA D.C. is throwing a Face-2-Face Social so we can meet in person for
drinks, socializing, and cross-fertilization of ideas at the UPA
International Conference in
Hi,
From time to time I find myself struggling with writing very short
describing text labels and titles for our web application's UI.
Writing text labels and titles for the UI is much like writing road
signs, people go by them in very high speeds and you have a limited
amount of space.
I
Many reasons have been floated for why Flash isn't a good match for the
iPhone: it's slow, it hogs CPU cycles, it drains the battery, it crashes too
often, it's not optimized for Mac OS X and so on. As obvious as these
reasons may be, even if all those *technical* issues could be solved
tomorrow,
A Senior User Experience Designer creates excellent user experience
design and deliverables for Method projects, according to
user-centered design principles and Method standards. Independently,
or working with a Director, as needed, a Senior UX Designer executes
all user experience tasks,
Hi Jared,
I'm in agreement about the limits of alphabetical order, and laid
out that position earlier in the thread. I was mainly calling you to
task for your treatment of Diana's argument.
However, the original context of this thread was
for the organization of office supplies. Do people
We have two part time copy writers who are primarily responsible for write
user admin guides, release notes, and training materials. We also rely on
them to copy edit the UI by reading through our form and behavior spec and
making changes to field labels, dialog boxes, and error messages. It's
I wanted to ask, how many of you work in companies who hire full time
copywriters? Part time?
I once worked in a company where there was a whole Documentation team, chock
full of great and talented people. And they developed all these wonderful,
informed, educated standards in an effort to
I have to agree with Manish on using Observer to have stakeholders
watch the sessions. Our set up is such that we have:
* the room where the study takes place (running recorder)
* a control room attached with a one way mirror (running observer)
where one of my teammates takes notes and logs
Hi,
We will be having our 2nd Social F2F next Thursday June 26th for IxDA
Dallas/Ft. Worth.
Please email me if would like to be added to the Evite list.
Thanks,
Janet Six
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
IxDA - Dallas/ Ft. Worth -- Local Coordinator
Hi Amihay
I'm of the opinion that if I find myself having to write copy for a
UI there's room for improvement with the design of the UI itself.
Many make the argument that the best UI is blank i.e. the system
just 'does'. While thats an ideal, its fair to say the inverse of
this is an overly
Josh,
thanks for that crash course. It definitely gave me a better lens into
when and how the tool could be applied.
Cheers,
Todd
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Josh Weihnacht
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Having taken a class with Bonnie where we used CogTool, I'll give it a
shot.
On Fri,
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