Here is a brief little test. See it as a proxy variable for turning
freelance work into a sustainable business. It's just an exercise.
Set your alarm for 3am tomorrow. Get up with your alarm at 3am for the next
week.
Report back.
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 12:17 PM, stefanie kraus [EMAIL
Anyone know the source of this video?
Chris
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it's been all over the twittoverse all week - no idea about the source
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Chris McLay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone know the source of this video?
Chris
--
~ will
Where you innovate, how you innovate,
and what you innovate are design problems
Ironically that this intelligent debate started on the Internet.
Information on the Internet is beyond what traditional means used to
offer. Traditional reading methods is inadequate for the amount of
information that needs to be assimilated. Instead of complaining that
we don't read like we used
A new clustering search engine? Wall Street Journal article here: *
http://tinyurl.com/5b9e9q
http://www.cuil.com/ launches today.
It was a little quirky this morning. Even though it comes from three
architects at google, how is it different?
*Popularity is useful, but has dominated search
Keep a copy locally and a copy on the cloud :) Google Gears has the
right idea ...
rgds,
Dan
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Does anyone know who first used Big/little (eg BIG IA vs little ia)
in the UX context?
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Whitney Quesenbery
www.wqusability.com
Storytelling for User Experience Design
www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/storytelling
Welcome to the
Whitney asked:
Does anyone know who first used Big/little (eg BIG IA vs little ia)
in the UX context?
My idea was always that it was Peter Morville:
http://argus-acia.com/strange_connections/strange004.html
That's what I used as the basis for my T-model that does away with the
discussion :-)
http://www.cuil.com/ launches today.
And will fail soon.
Example:
Do a search for, uhm, design.
Check the very first entry:
http://www.wpdfd.com/
Notice the focus of that most popular/authoritative/relevant entry.
Now, click on the next tab Web Design.
Wonder where the first entry (the top
I tried Cuil for a search on *nailed by nikita + grindhouse* (*)
I didn't get a result until there was nothing more left than
*grindhouse*which is a little bit disappointing.
I think the concept's ok and I like the interface, which is very minimal,
but the results and the way to search is not
The UI design is interesting as well. Multi-column search layouts have
typically not fared very well at scale, though I personally like them
just fine.
It seems that avoiding a costly scroll for examining more results would
be a win, but people are quite use to a single column and it makes
Actually, speaking of keeping backups, is there any consensus on what
business risks are involved with cloud computing? I'm looking at
Mingle as a project management tool and wondering what happens if they
go under in two years. Is it comparable to the risks involved in any
technology,
We are a User Experience Design staffing company redesigning our website.
In our redesign we are trying to add resources to our website that design
and usability professional's would be interested in.
A) Can you suggest some resources we should keep our website updated with?
B) Some of the
Never go into business alone. Always have a business coach or someone
who's been in business before to guide you.
Also, read up on this book:
E-Myth - Revisited - By Michael Gerber
There are several others I can recommend.
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I actually find the horizontal / multi column results search a lot more
natural in this kind of setting. usually the summary section isn't
necessary for most searches, so changing the format to a more blocky,
horizontal grouping might actually be beneficial. Since users have to
read the
Andy Edmonds wrote:
The UI design is interesting as well. Multi-column search layouts
have typically not fared very well at scale, though I personally like
them just fine.
I hated that bit. I didn't know where to look, which column would
contain the most important search results? Just made my
well, as people are want to do, i typed jdgimzek into the engine,
and it did not return any results on jdgimzek.com
fail.
jd
On Jul 28, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Damon Dimmick wrote:
I actually find the horizontal / multi column results search a lot
more natural in this kind of setting.
All good suggestions here, I'd add/extend a couple of them:
IF you get 1 + partner(s) Spend time getting to know them and their desires.
Come up with exit strategies, buyout clauses, other leaving clauses as soon
as you start talking about partnerships.
Note 3 partners are NOT a crowd, but 2 can
I don't like this grid layout, I can't tell which result is more relevant...the
last item in column 1 or the first item in column 2. Lists are unambiguous,
girds not so much.
Patrick V. Barrett
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Not that you can check now (they seem to be down), but their image
matching software is not all that accurate. There are two David
Malouf's of interest in the search results (I win on the 1st page on
Cuil--Yeah!), but the picture is never of me or even associated with
me. Once they even had Jared
I love that the natural first test of a search engine is can you show
me me?
On a separate note, someone mentioned earlier that search engines are a
lot about branding, which I am certainly inclined to agree with. It's
going to be hard for any new players in the search engine market to
overcome
It's going to be hard for any new players in the search engine market to
overcome the fact that Google is a verb.
Even if Google is, in fact, the McDonald's of search -- until a significant
number of people realize that corn fed beef will make them fat and die, they
won't switch. Billions and
So far about even mix so far between positive and negative...
I once considered tilting the grid a little to the right, so that either
up/down or left/right strategies would get the intended rank ordering.
For Cuil, the inclusion of graphics from the page helps make the column
layout more
It is the one subject about which all persons have expert knowledge.
On Jul 28, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Jackie O'Hare wrote:
I love that the natural first test of a search engine is can you show
me me?
On a separate note, someone mentioned earlier that search engines
are a
lot about branding,
There are bugs.
1) This morning I searched on a term (usability) and then switched my
preferences to allow for questionable content (by default this is
protected) and the same search returned zero results.
2) Recently I did a search which yielded only 5 results on screen,
confirmed by the fact
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Jeremy Yuille [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
2.
a second approach i see could be for you to tie Pattern Tap into
existing design pattern collections, by adding value from the design
implementation inspiration side.
+1
This is the direction my thoughts have been
My thought was that the launch generated a lot of interest, so they may have
underestimated the load of the new site curiosity traffic. Denial of
service-type, just a little overloaded as people check out the potential
David to Giant Google.
Chris
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Maureen [EMAIL
YEp, they are down...
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:46:20, dave malouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not that you can check now (they seem to be down), but their image
matching software is not all that accurate. There are two David
Malouf's of interest in the search results (I win on the 1st page on
Needs a lot of work (image display prefs, spell check, column prefs,
etc). Might work though. Site is running slow and quirky.
I agree with Andri that scan ability might be an issue when trying to
reach users already accustomed to the single column display. Again,
easy fix with added preferences.
I don't know, Lucy. It's hard to know if the multi-column would be
better or worse if we were used to it.
Maybe we've all been trained to expect the row-by-row format since
that's been the default for 10 years, but if this concept were actually
implemented well, it might prove beneficial.
Just looking at it from the interface, Google's format of displaying results
lends itself to rapid scanning before choosing to click anything. Also, the
way google extracts a small amount of text from each web page and highlights
some key things makes it much easier to make a decision on which
Talk in person with as many sole practitioners as you can in your
specialty to learn how they made it. The largest pitfall for me was
not understanding adequate cash flow and planning for the lean times.
I'd say the challenge area for most is financial management and
adequate capitalization.
You
For me the difference between freelancing and having my own design
business was the kind of projects I received. When I had my own
business I could pursue the kind of work I wanted to do, and the type
of clients I wanted to work for. This built my skills and portfolio to
strengthen me toward those
For an intranet application I am working on, there is a navigation tree. It
looks similar to this one:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wpdoc/v510/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm
.wp.ent.doc/wps/dgn_navtree.html
Users must be able to add nodes to it. The nodes could be added anywhere,
not
A few web design collections:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/splat/sets/981332/
http://bestwebgallery.com/
http://www.templatemonster.com/
http://www.designmeltdown.com/
On Jul 23, 2008, at 6:00 PM, Jeremy Yuille wrote:
btw - does anyone else here have any design driven sources that I
could
Context menu. They can right click on nodes or links in the nodes to
Add New Item Here.
And in the tree itself when they make it, they can drag and drop
their item it in it's siblings, or even drag it out into it's
parents, or even deeper into it's child tree nodes.
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On Jul 25, 2008, at 6:20 AM, matthew Smith wrote:
How would you best describe what Pattern Tap showcases? What language
would you change or redefine? I'd be interested to see how we can
gaurd those terms well, and honor the work of folks like yourself,
while hopefully at the same time,
they are trying to be too cute with the interface.
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