On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Juan Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anybody have statistics that validate the inclusion of this feature?
Do people really use this feature? If so, do they use it a lot?
I don't have stats, but just a few days ago I was wondering about the same -
and
Personally I see it as shortcuts.
I've used Quicksilver for quite some time. Typing PS4 and hitting return
launches Photoshop CS4. This is far faster than locating the app itself and
launching it.
The location bar of the browser has become packed with functionality over
the last few years.
One feature that some MIDI keyboards have is aftertouch, i.e. that
while the note is pressed it sends a control message (0-127)
proportional to the pressure with which the key is pressed. This can
then be used to control volume, filter or any other parameter of the
synthesized sound. While
A lot of corporate firewalls block access to public email sites such as
gmail or yahoo mail. In such a scenario, if I were to come across an
interesting article (not relevant to work) , I would prefer to forward it
using 'email to a friend' link rather than use my work email. I would be
interested
For background reading on technical history and design, check out Mark
Vail's book, Vintage Synthesizers -
http://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Synthesizers-Pioneering-Groundbreaking-Instruments/dp/0879306033
and also the (unrelated web site), Vintage Synths -
http://www.vintagesynth.com/
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Matthew,
If you haven't already, I recommend you read the book - The
Persona Lifecycle by John Pruitt and Tamara Adlin.
The assumptions you create with your team is a starting point and
once you validate/refine it with real data, the mental models will
become more apparent. I suggest you do
Alan,
I would think your goal is to make it very explicit once the
cells/rows have been selected. There are many ways to do this.
Perhaps look up affordances to guide you.
Ben
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I have recently come across a book written by Gary Small called iBrain:
Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind.
The book is about the technologies that have become part of our daily
lives are changing the way we think. According to a local newspaper the
book tells us that ggogle
I think it's become an expected feature, Juan, and is used quite a
bit by novice and intermediate users.
I'm like you -- I NEVER use this feature because I don't trust the
sites to use my friend's email addresses responsibly. Just put a
line of small-sized text close to the button explaining that
Hi Maria Whitney,
@Whitney, thanks for you like, it brings new stuff to me.
@Maria
So testing a web service with a blind user is just the first step. We
will then proceed testing the service with users with other kind of
sensory-motor disabilites.
Our stop-point with the blind user was
I would recommend Andy Clark's book Natural Born Cyborgs, where he
discusses the idea that technology has always been so tightly
integrated as part of all levels of thinking, cognition, etc, and it's
just that with digital, or high tech technology it becomes more
visible. Natural Born Cyborgs is
Another book that is sitting on my shelf waiting to get read is Rapture for
the Geeks which explores some of these ideas.
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Joel Eden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would recommend Andy Clark's book Natural Born Cyborgs, where he
discusses the idea that technology
Hi Ali,
The Atlantic magazine published an article about this same subject in
their July/August issue called Is Google Making us Stupid.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google
I went back to look over the article and it doesn't mention Small's
book, but does present an interesting and
Universal design is always misunderstood probably because of the name.
Can a design be universal and what does it mean? Usually, universal
means less customized: something that should work for everybody
won't give us the best UX. But this is obviously important in
specific contexts and
There are times when I actually wished this feature would be there -
especially when looking at products for the home that I'd like to
send to my wife for consultation. Of course, I'd use the
public-access email instead of ones from corporate. Then at least
the spam filters can still be modified
But is this making us flat (wide) and thin thinkers, rather than
deep thinkers? Do our needs change our thinking? Or does our thinking
change our needs as a culture? In any case, it's a very interesting
topic.
I don't think it's as simple as thinking wide/thin or deep. I
think it's a matter of
I use this feature A LOT, both to mail interesting articles, videos, etc. to
others, and also to send things I'd like archived to myself at a gmail
account.
Marilyn
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To post to
Cindy,
I do believe that our general ability to sit for long periods,
focused on a single subject is being diminished somehow.
I wouldn't find that to be true. I think if there's a person
willing to sit for long periods of time on a subject, it's usually
because they obsess about something or
Trained Behavior? Habit? Behavioral momentum? One trick ponism?
Every trick learned as a cost/benefit to using it, but there are also costs
to carrying and selecting the tool, ideally if there's only one tool, the
cost for selecting it goes to zero.So ones with the most utility end up
in the
I'm less convinced about the idea of technology making us smarter
or dumber in any empirical sense. I think what changes is how we
think about what qualities make up being smart or dumb.
I wrote a response to the Carr article here:
I use this feature A LOT, both to mail interesting articles, videos,
etc. to
others, and also to send things I'd like archived to myself at a gmail
account.
I use the feature fairly often, but almost exclusively for the latter
case mentioned by Marilyn: that of emailing items of interest to
Hi Ben,
I think were verging into semantic territory here, but let me comment on a
few things anyway. :)
To blame a human's inadequacies on a certain technology I think is
more short-sighted than anything else. We are the ones who can best
adapt - let's do so.
First, no one's blaming
Ahh...before someone jumps on the last comment, let me just say that there
have been more than a few blog posts that have caused me to sit down and
think for a long time. From many of you on this list in fact. I'm not
saying they don't. It just flew out as an example, but the argument is not
Clearly it affects us on a neurological level. For the young, it may
be comparable to the way language affects us developmentally.
Language, and the possibility for abstract thought it grants us, is
something that is developed early in life. Beyond a certain age,
people are unable to develop the
Clearly it affects us on a neurological level. For the young, it may
be comparable to the way language affects us developmentally.
Language, and the possibility for abstract thought it grants us, is
something that is developed early in life. Beyond a certain age,
people are unable to develop the
Hi Folks,
I'm researching options for improving public transportation websites,
particularly bus transportation. I've found most city sites to be
lacking, but have found some nice mapping, real-time route information
on the Chicago CTA site and onebusaway.org for the Seattle Metro area. Google
At Yahoo we're working on a universal sharing pattern (for our own sites)
that treats this is as just one possible mode of sharing (fwiw).
-x-
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Evan K. Stone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use this feature A LOT, both to mail interesting articles, videos,
etc. to
Jennifer Hoppenrath
I'm researching options for improving public transportation websites,
particularly bus transportation. I've found most city sites to be
lacking, but have found some nice mapping, real-time route information
on the Chicago CTA site and onebusaway.org for the Seattle Metro
UxStation is seeking a seasoned User Experience leader for the newly created
position of VP/Director, User Experience at our client company, a world leader
in wireless communications and mobile devices - we are seeking a senior
candidate with proven experience leading teams, defining and
For some additional reference, here's part of a Nielsen Alertbox
article on transactional e-mail that says that these types of e-mail
messages tend to be very well received:
Websites often let people send an email message through their site
to a friend or colleague %u2014 they might, for example,
Sometimes the simplest solutions are best. Would it not be possible to add a
simple message at the top that says something like Darg drop rows to
reorder them, or drop rows onto [TARGET NAME HERE]?
I also like the idea of extending the row a bit to give a good place to
grab, and on mouseover
This is a really interesting area for me as I work in a government
statistical office. We are constantly struggling with what can be
done with large tables on-line and there seems a very small amount of
guidance, apart from display a small table. This is not a option
for us we have to output
Try looking at the Portland Oregon Tri Met site as well. We did a
project recently that included some transportation questions as well.
The route planning part of this site was something we looked at
because it integrated their bus system, light rail and trolleys when
giving route information and
Unfortunately, usability of any type is too often an afterthought
instead of an integral, driving part of design.
That being reiterated, my understanding is that universal design is
usually found in the context of taking an existing (sometimes
unusable) application and retrofitting it to a wider
I am working on justifying the cost of field studies. I was curious if anyone
has data on how much field studies save in the long run.
- I was curious what the average cost of a flaw in workflow.
- I know there is data around the cost of a bug/defect, but can't seem
to put
Wow Cindy--what a great question to pose: do our needs change our
thinking or does our thinking change our needs? I'm sure it works both
ways, but it seems that mindsets certainly trump--and prevent--clear
thinking. Cultures have tremendous influence over experience. Things
happen, events occur,
Regarding how technology is shaping neural processing. check out this David
Brooks article, The Outsourced Brain, from one year ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/opinion/26brooks.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/opinion/26brooks.html
...I had thought that the magic of the
Once the site has a relationship with you (i.e.NYTimes registratin, or
facebook) this becomes frictionless, and adds value, not only for the sender
and recipient, but also in agregate-- this of how facinating most emailed
is on NYtimes compared to any other measures of popularity. It's a much
http://uxbookclub.org/doku.php?id=silicon_valley
Come on lads and lasses, let's show them how it's done. Let's. talk. UX!
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
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Well we certainly seem to have found the new black... it's in the books.
This is an awesome movement to see happen in our industry. I hope it
holds. There is so much of really great stuff being generated by the
UX/IX/IA community. Itis great that we all read it... but it's so
much better
Hi Alex,
Thanks so much for providing the words of someone who actually seems
to know something about this topic. As a mother of a four-year-old
and someone who's been working on a website for the pre-school set,
I've been reading a certain amount about how children's minds are
formed. It's
I second that emotion...the momentum (in the form of real, live,
accountable action) is totally awesome and inspiring!
Gracious thanks,
MJ
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HI Pietro,
IMho universal design is design for all but NOT for every interaction /
activity / context.
Thanks for your kick on the head. And from the wikipedia
page(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_design), there're the good
examples like 1.Smooth ground surfaces of entranceways,
Sorry all - I meant the subject to be UX book clubs not US... there
is a huge and important international component to this and it was
NEVER my intent to be US centric in my comments.
On Dec 4, 2008, at 7:29 PM, MJ Broadbent wrote:
I second that emotion...the momentum (in the form of
On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:05 PM, Christina Wodtke wrote:
http://uxbookclub.org/doku.php?id=silicon_valley
Come on lads and lasses, let's show them how it's done. Let's. talk.
UX!
Do they still use books in the valley?
Should it be a KindleClub or something?
Jared Still Bitter About SF
Yes, after Fatbrain took over the 'The Computer Literacy
Bookstorehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Literacy_Bookstore'
off of lawrence expressway Silicon Valley was headed for the highway.
Good point.
What is apple supplying for the elementary school computer labs with these
days?
I
In hjis book, Hugh Dubberly http://www.dubberly.com/author/hugh/ have
collected over one-hundred descriptions of design and development processes,
from architecture, industrial design, mechanical engineering, quality
management, and software development. They range from short mnemonic
devices,
Thanks all for your responses. You guys have helped me answered the
Email to a friend dilema. This is what I've gathered from this:
- Email to a friend might not be used in a great deal, but it is
a expected feature.
- Email to a friend is used as a bookmarking mechanism to store
important
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