I agree with you. Comic Sans in particular does have a connotation (of
immaturity). Either of these choices would be distracting.
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From: Janna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, September 6, 2008 07:32 PM
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Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Fonts and
Hi Sonal
I would agree with the others that when you have so few response
options, radio buttons are preferable over drop downs. This is
because the radio buttons expose the options to the user and require
one less 'click'. The only reason you might choose to use a drop
down regardless is because
On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 16:32:36 -0700, Janna wrote:
We are creating paper prototypes for a change in software. We want to keep
them sketchy looking for obvious reasons.
My colleague felt we should use a font such as chalkboard or comic sans to
keep the loose and sketchy feeling and won't look like a
From Janna
We are creating paper prototypes for a change in software. We want to keep
them sketchy looking for obvious reasons.
My colleague felt we should use a font such as chalkboard or comic sans to
keep the loose and sketchy feeling and won't look like a finished interface.
My response
The breadth of the commands for the new FF UI is expanding pretty
quickly
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_ultimate_list_of_custom_ubiquity_verbs.php
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Posted from the new ixda.org
http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32394
Nick, you'll get a kick out of this post taking a shot at Arrington
http://teddziuba.com/2008/09/a-web-os-are-you-dense.html
Users have pretty basic needs when it comes to computers. They
want word processing, spreadsheets, communications, and games. These
needs have not changed much since the
I don't agree that Arial or Myriad has no longer any particular
connotations. It is a design decision, even if you choose a very
common or neutral font.
If you want feedback on the ideas behind some sketches I would advise
a handwriting font like Notepad:
http://www.dafont.com/notepad.font
(or
Here's an article on the Confluence of Cloud computing and the Semantic
Web..
http://ecloudm.blogspot.com/2008/07/confluence-of-cloud-computing-semantic.html
Michael Hill points out that One of the promises of the Semantic Web is
ease of integration of information across a wide spectrum of data
I would stay away from comic sans, even if completely appropriate for
the medium, message and audience if for no other reason than to avoid
the scorn of visual and graphic designers. It has, justly or not,
acquired the patina of peewee herman caught in the peep show. It has
become the 'toughskins'
On Sep 7, 2008, at 10:40 AM, Will Evans wrote:
I would stay away from comic sans, even if completely appropriate for
the medium, message and audience if for no other reason than to avoid
the scorn of visual and graphic designers. It has, justly or not,
acquired the patina of peewee herman
that is just great... thanks for sharing Jared.
On Sep 7, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Jared Spool wrote:
On Sep 7, 2008, at 10:40 AM, Will Evans wrote:
I would stay away from comic sans, even if completely appropriate for
the medium, message and audience if for no other reason than to avoid
the
Also, there isn't the notion of master pages or objects, which means you'd
have to recreate repeated elements for each wireframe.
If it's a shell you need to duplicate (persistent navigation, header, etc),
you could save a Mockup with just that on it and then duplicate it (Mockup
New Clone
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 05:02:18, Pauric wrote:
Nick, you'll get a kick out of this post taking a shot at Arrington
http://teddziuba.com/2008/09/a-web-os-are-you-dense.html
That's great. Just great.
*Nick Gassman - Usability and Standards Manager - http://ba.com *
* I vote for reply-to to go to
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 10:30:11 -0400, Smitha wrote:
Michael Hill points out that One of the promises of the Semantic Web is
ease of integration of information across a wide spectrum of data artifacts
and systems.;
Eh? Have I missed something? I don't think the semantic *web* is going
to help
that's fantastic, and exactly what I meant last week when I said it was pure
horsepucky, given that google/chrome was not going to be writing any machine
code, kernels, low-level threads, or drivers anytime in the immediate
ever...
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Nick Gassman [EMAIL
What's even funnier, is that he now has a fake Ted Dziuba twittering as him
here:
http://twitter.com/teddziuba
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Nick Gassman [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 05:02:18, Pauric wrote:
Nick, you'll get a kick out of this post taking a shot at Arrington
Nick,
You're right. I might have misspoken and I'll admit I don't know much about
the inner workings of chrome, so I'll stay away from any mention of Chrome
and keep it out of this thread. But I do see that the convergence of cloud
computing and the semantic web at some point. I was trying find
Hi all,
I'm working on a new way to represent calendaring/even scheduling. it
seems that almost all representations of calendars time, be it a
daily or weekly view, show time vertically and days or groups
horizontally. A few tools represent it the other way (think Outlook
Calendar
say a department schedule in an academic setting. Are there smart ways
to represent time and events that are better than what conventions
indicate?
I assume you are asking about presentation. I like the time tunel model:
Etsy Time Machine
http://www.etsy.com/time_machine.php
Apple Time
not really a smarter representation, but time manager international
http://www.tmiworld.com/ make a range of printed planners etc.
I've always loved their year planner booklet because it lets you see a month
to a page and plan down to the hour.
its schema is similar to the outlook example you
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