Re: [IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] IxDA NYC - Thu July 16 - IDEO %u201CBusiness Design Meets Interaction Design%u201D

2009-07-24 Thread beth carey
is there a video of this presentation accessible on the web? thx ./b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43354 Welcome to the

[IxDA Discuss] Screen Reader for Outlook

2009-07-24 Thread evan k. stone
Hmmm... it seems as if Text-to-Speech is only natively available in Excel 2007 (not the more obvious choices, Outlook Word): http://tinyurl.com/n7wysa Does anyone know of a decent free-or-cheap Text-to-Speech add-in/plugin for Outlook? Thanks in advance! ///eks

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Security question: plain text entry or masked?

2009-07-24 Thread Laurian Gridinoc
On the other hand, some say that even the passwords should not be masked: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/passwords.html . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44039

[IxDA Discuss] [JOB] Mid-level User Experience Lead, Washington, DC, Full Time

2009-07-24 Thread Myers, Erin
Threespot User Experience Leads are responsible for defining successful high-level strategies, as well as tactical solutions, for client projects including multimedia, print, social media strategies, web sites, web-based applications, and technology solutions. UX Leads gather, define, and

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Security question: plain text entry or masked?

2009-07-24 Thread Ralf
Hi Anthony i would not recommend to mask the security question since this could be really annoying to use in case of errors during entering. Have you already read Jakob Nielsens latest post on masking passwords? http://www.useit.com/alertbox/passwords.html A good alternative would be to mask

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Security question: plain text entry or masked?

2009-07-24 Thread Nancy Frishberg
Wish I had the definitive response here. Instead I'll offer a resource you may not have been aware of. Last week's SOUPS papers may give you some further ideas of security risks, user behavior related to security and privacy, and usability of various security schemes.

[IxDA Discuss] What are common Application Software Development Team sizes?

2009-07-24 Thread Lindsey Berdan
I am one of two interaction designers at a hardware company, and am curious about the interaction design teams who work at software companies and develop application software. What are the average team sizes for the development of the User Interface and Interactions? Thanks, Lindsey.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] RFP: Writing UI Spec for Mobile Phone

2009-07-24 Thread Damon Hamm
I work for Schematic, an agency that has designed, built, and deployed quite a few complex mobile apps and mobile sites. Most notably, I helped design the Ovi Store for Nokia. Needless to say. that was quite a large and complex undertaking. We delivered detailed functional specifications for 4

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Security question: plain text entry or masked?

2009-07-24 Thread PhillipW
Of course the canny user will just type them out somewhere else and copy and paste them in anyway... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44039

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UK Interactive Recruitment Agencies

2009-07-24 Thread Shelly Cawood
I would recommend http://www.gabrieleskelton.com/ they were very helpful to me a couple of years ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43973

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction design versus Instructional Design

2009-07-24 Thread LeonBattista
On Jul 22, 7:58 pm, missu sparkleeye22-des...@yahoo.com wrote: I have never heard the phrase or title Instructional Design before today. Instruction Design, or Instructional Systems Design (ISD), has been around for a long time, and that discipline certainly has major overlaps with interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction design versus Instructional Design

2009-07-24 Thread Bruce Esrig
Here's a simple contrast: - Instructional Design plans environments for learning to perform - Interaction Design plans environments for performing There is also a lot in common: - Audience analysis / user analysis - Goals of the user - Context in which they will attempt the task (and attempt

Re: [IxDA Discuss] His/Her vs. Their in website copy

2009-07-24 Thread Sarah Weise
Who are your users? Is this a formal website, or is it something more casual? If it's a more formal website or something with a serious tone (such as a health-related site that a user would rely on to provide accurate information), you might lose credibility with some folks by using their.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Screen Reader for Outlook

2009-07-24 Thread Karen Mardahl
Hi Evan On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:50 AM, evan k.stone interactivelo...@gmail.comwrote: Hmmm... it seems as if Text-to-Speech is only natively available in Excel 2007 (not the more obvious choices, Outlook Word): http://tinyurl.com/n7wysa Does anyone know of a decent free-or-cheap

[IxDA Discuss] Gmail drag and drop

2009-07-24 Thread Hugh Griffith
Not too long ago Google added the ability to move your emails into labels via drag and drop functionality. As a result, they added two rows of dots to the left side of each email. Does anyone know if that is in fact the ideal pattern for that kind of tool? Or has anyone done any testing on it?

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What are common Application Software Development Team sizes?

2009-07-24 Thread Michael Micheletti
Our application software company's interaction design team size would be, um, one. That's also our visual design team size. Oh, and it's the same one, and he codes a bit in his spare time. Pleased to meet you :-) It's not all stand-alone work though. When we're mapping out something new, I'll

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Gmail drag and drop

2009-07-24 Thread William Hudson
Hi, Hugh. It's called a 'drag handle' and lots of things have them (toolbars in Windows for example). You need somewhere to click in order to drag something, and since in many cases clicking on the text does something else (opening the email in gmail) a drag handle is handy (as it wereg),

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Gmail drag and drop

2009-07-24 Thread Christine Boese
If your machine is at all RAM-challenged, the cumulative crap that's being loaded into web pages and web app interfaces is causing curses and crashes for Firefox. I don't even want to think about IE or Safari, because I'm way too dependent on my Firefox functional plug-ins (mainly Delicious

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Gmail drag and drop

2009-07-24 Thread Mark Canlas
Personally, I like it. It has a very tactile, invitational sort of presentation. Feel here where feel is actually hovering with the mouse. And, like William stated, the changing of the mouse cursor really brings the concept home. On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Hugh Griffith hgriff...@vfs.com

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction design versus Instructional Design

2009-07-24 Thread Jared Spool
On Jul 24, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Bruce Esrig wrote: Here's a simple contrast: - Instructional Design plans environments for learning to perform - Interaction Design plans environments for performing If you want to get really crazy, look up the work done in electronic performance support

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction design versus Instructional Design

2009-07-24 Thread live
And another example: Interaction design - building an online fart sound game Instructional design - building a multimedia/flash curriculum to teach people how to build an online fart sound game Here's a simple contrast: - Instructional Design plans environments for learning to perform -

[IxDA Discuss] date pickers starting on Sunday

2009-07-24 Thread Diana Wynne
Does anyone know where the convention of calendars and date pickers starting the week on Sunday came from? I have a strong personal preference for Monday for work-related tasks (and have customized accordingly, whenever this is supported: iCal, Google Calendar, Zimbra). But when I mentioned this

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction design versus Instructional Design

2009-07-24 Thread dave malouf
The way I look at it is that interaction design is but one of the disciplines required to achieve good instructional design. that is to say that instructional design is a form or a goal, and interaction design is 1 of many disciplines used to achieve a good instructional design. It goes back to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Gmail drag and drop

2009-07-24 Thread William Hudson
Christine - I know people are attached to their browsers, but maybe you should try Google Chrome? Pages are going to get more complex (not that I think that is a good idea in itself) and I personally believe the trend is going to be more towards Ajax/JavaScript and away from other RIA

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Gmail drag and drop

2009-07-24 Thread Christine Boese
To be sure, Chrome would help. Don't have Chrome yet on my Mac. Also, Chrome does not run my ESSENTIAL Firefox plugins: Delicious Bookmarks (I've had my bookmarks, custom browser toolbars by project, and research bibs on the Cloud for more than a year now) and feedly. And I don't know about you,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Are We The Puppet Masters? The Ethics of IxD.

2009-07-24 Thread Brian Mila
A %u2018good%u2019 game design would reward its players for taking breaks, how you incorporate that into game play would prove to be an interesting challenge. Civilization would display a message saying You've been playing for 3 hours, take a break. Naturally, I dismissed the dialog and kept

[IxDA Discuss] Usability of pre-filled versus empty in content capture software

2009-07-24 Thread Phillip Hunter
(No semantic or grammar debates, I promise) I'm researching a number of health care software packages. Many of them have some way of short-cutting data entry, such as pre-selection indicating the absence of unlikely conditions. One tool, however, leans heavily on progressively, and supposedly

Re: [IxDA Discuss] date pickers starting on Sunday

2009-07-24 Thread Corn Walker
On Jul 24, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Chad Mortensen wrote: This seems to be a pretty standard format for all calendars whether they're on the web or not which is probably why it's become the convention. Why try to reinvent something that's already second nature to users. Do any cultures display their

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Time to add some functionality to Minimize, Maximize and Close buttons.

2009-07-24 Thread Joshua Muskovitz
This exists for Windows XP (and to some extent, Vista): http://www.actualtools.com/titlebuttons/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44088