Hello Jon,
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Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
To
i would say 7. Question though, what are you putting for 6. design
draft documents?
fabian
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:57 AM, shivan kannanshivan.kan...@gmail.com wrote:
I understand creating the following different deliverable documents in
order:
1. Creating user personas
2. Scenarios
3.
lucky you...if there ever was a treasure trove of opportunities to
uncover usability issues with an enterprise application, sharepoint
is it!
Keep in mind that sharepoint is a type of content management system,
where the ownership is distributed down to the users of the site
usually. I have found
You know, I was thinking about my responses to your inquiry and I
don't really know if the above-mentioned plugin will be all that
helpful.
Regarding the filtering, it would probably be easier to just iterate
through all the list items and show() or hide() the ones you need to
(or something
I would like to be mentor. I am located in Atlanta and this fall
quarter I will be finishing my MA in interactive design.
Please let me know how I can be involved as mentor.
best regards,
Gio Montoya
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You might want to checkout these two videos. While I don't agree
with all his conclusions in regards to the features and
functionalities of each devices, the videos at least compare the two
devices side by side nicely.
iPhone 3GS vs HTC Hero - Dogfight, Pt 1
For me the deciding factor has always been the project/audience it was
for.
If it was a business-related calendar, who's week mainly consists of M-
F, I like it to be M-F, SS (or SS, M-F, but I prefer the first)
but, if it's a general personal calendar, I prefer Sun-Sat.
Brandon E. B. Ward
Yes that is a horrible term, just call it a radio or 2-way radio.
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Welcome to the Interaction
This video on You Tube discusses the HTC Hero interface (compared to
the iPhone). It shows how the HTC is more focused on interactions
with other people you know, which could be useful. But not
everybody has the problem of overseeing numerous social networks. It
all looked to complicated for my
Dear All,
As per the original plan, August 10th, 2009 is the last date for
registration for the Forum Nokia-USID Design Challenge 2009 and we have
received a very good response for the same from all of you. More than 175
participants has registered for the same till now.
We have received request
Being a product of the school of pragmatic language theory it have
always puzzled me that (some) usability folk are very eager to
distinguish their field from language and semiotic theory.
Honstly I don't see a big difference. By removing themselves from
language theory, they are cuting
I am working on a project where the client is fairly prescriptive with
their navigation labels (i.e. they tend to give us pre-defined
sitemaps). We constantly try to challenge their labels, as we
believe they are more organisation-focused than user-focused.
However, in order to do this, we need
Think of it this way: if you give me the presentation I'm familiar with,
I'll give you your data that much faster. You say that the week starts on
Sunday; I am equally adamant about it starting on a Monday, and nothing
anyone says will make any of us change our minds.
Therefore, you should
Hi,
The link is http://www.ixda.org/mentor.php - the ixda site added some
garbage to it. Copy and paste, instead of clicking, and you should be
fine.
Apologies.
Jon
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Rebecca,
I think it depends on what kind of page you are having them. You
could use if it is a support/help page.
At first, users should be familiar with the question
(understandability comes first) in order to continue reading the
answer paragraphs. Just for example - in your case, consider
Soren -
It is a useful distinction - there is a lot more to usability and user
experience than just language. Also, those of us focussing on
user-centred design tend to be more concerned with what influences user
behaviour rather than theoretical semantics.
Regards,
William Hudson
Syntagm Ltd
Hi, Rebecca.
Jakob says you're only allowed 11 charactersg. See
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/nanocontent.html
Alternatively, have you thought of card sorting to see what terms users
volunteer for group names? An open card sort on websort.net would be
fairly quick and inexpensive.
Regards,
I've run a lot of usability tests and I'm puzzled as to why some
designers still use 'click here to' as a link with the subject of the
action following the link.
Does anyone have any anecdotal or hard evidence supporting why this is
a good thing to do?
If not, what problems have you seen
Ron,
This will be a great head start for you:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/28/designing-read-more-and-continue-reading-links/
(make sure you check out the comments below the article - quite a few
insights in there)
Suze Ingram
User Experience Consultant
suze.ingramat gmail.com
There are a number of reasons, actually, and I think attributing them
to some designers is a bit on the flawed side.
Click here resolves to Adobe as the most popular search result in
Google, btw:
http://www.google.com/search?q=click
heresourceid=navclient-ffie=UTF-8rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS311US311
But,
Georgia Tech is currently planning to eliminate the undergraduate
degrees in industrial design, building construction architecture in
favor of a generic BS in Design. If implemented, the change will
likely impact all design education as schools, looking for ways to
cut costs, follow suit.
A slightly different case, but nice writeup suggesting that here at
the end of a link works better than not:
http://dustincurtis.com/you_should_follow_me_on_twitter.html
Josh
On Aug 10, 2009, at 6:44 AM, Russ Unger wrote:
There are a number of reasons, actually, and I think attributing
I agree with you about the importance of language in user experience
design. An understanding of semiotics and related aspects of
information theory support the creation of interactive access points
that most closely mirror the intentions of the largest or more most
valuable segments of users of a
If you have data that shows customers are frustrated with an aspect of
the design, and yet the chief stakeholders choose to persist with that
design, then the fundamental problem is not usability but education.
I agree with Alla above that instead of advocating sweeping changes
of the UX design
Frederik, that assumes it's a matter of localization. But the workweek
doesn't begin on Sundays in the UK or the US, even if most calendars
are apparently printed that way.
Preferences are a helpful feature, but they don't generally apply on websites.
Diana
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:42 AM,
Good Morning,
We're working on a project that has a somewhat complex concept to get across
without using a lot of information. Based on testing we're finding out that
some kind of tour is the way to go to introduce our product to our
customers.
We've been looking at Mint.com as a real good
In web applications, I've seen click here used often to overcome
other design problems within the page, including:
* Links using non-obvious colors or no underlines
* Links buried in massive blocks of marketing copy
The click here is sometimes added after observing users who tell
the
One last reminder for Thursday's event. If you haven't gotten a chance
to sign up, you'll want to do so soon. Look forward to seeing everyone
there!
Ever had a moment when you’re presenting your detailed design work and
you get an unenthusiastic Is that it? from your audience?
This can sometimes
Tom -
Not a tour suggestion, but dynamic popup windows now make the
implementation of 'cue cards' a real possibility on the web. These help
to make the tour a little less necessary as they tell users what they
need to know when they arrive at a section of the site they have not
used before. When
We discussed that approach a little bit. My concern about that is how do you
turn it off? If it based on a cookie, it comes back when they clear their
cookies. If it's a setting in their preferences, I suppose that works but
you need to make sure they find it. But really the main issue is that in
Tom -
I see your point, but I have been using the web since NCSA Mosaic and
have taken maybe three site tours in the intervening 15 years. Maybe
it's me. Anyone out there taken a site tour in the past 3 months?
Regards,
William
From: Tom Dell'Aringa [mailto:pixelm...@gmail.com]
Sent: 10
I understand, but I do think that the kind of tour we're talking about is
somewhat of a new convention. If you haven't looked at Mint.com yet, give it
a look. It's not your typical tour.
We're faced with this problem in that if they don't get it fairly quickly,
they are gone. And our initial
Can anyone tell me where the convention of greying the background page
when showing a popup window came from? It seems to have become something
of a de facto standard - is it published as an actual standard or
guideline somewhere? (I could not find out on Google.)
Regards,
William Hudson
Rebecca,
I'm with you. No need to raise questions with the labels. My approach
to labels is simply maintain consistency across them. you can use all
your labels together to suggest your categorization/taxonomy,
approach, etc. So if nouns, use nouns, if verbs, verbs, phrases, then
Graying out backgrounds to change focus was very common in multimedia
training design, back in the days when the web was static and graying
out pages was challenging from a coding perspective.
Some high-traffic e-commerce sites have resurrected the practice in a
way that multiple browsers can
Hey All,
Please review the specs below. If you are interested please send me your
resume and give me a call at 212-257-6123 if you are interested. It is located
in downtown Manhattan. Thanks so much!
-- Liz
Sr. BA with UX/UI -
Objective: This individual will be part of
You can also look at Modal Windows:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_window
many interface designers have recently taken steps to make modal
windows more obvious and user friendly by darkening the background
behind the window or allowing any mouse click outside of the modal
window to force the
It's sometimes referred to as a lightbox, if that helps your search at
all. It seems to have been made popular by an implementor named Lokesh
Dhakar in November 2008. I wouldn't say it's a standard as much as it is in
vogue, useful, and aesthetically pleasing. It's often attributed as one of
the
Technically, those are not pop-ups but pop-overs - at least, this was
language used when they first appeared. The gray-out is because of
lost functionality. Here are the differences:
Pop-ups set off browser pop-up warnings. They do not stop
functionality on the preceding window - they are simply
I'm a former perceptual psychologist but I don't see the need for
this method. A simple fat border with a drop shadow would make it
clear enough that the popup is in front the main window -
interposition is a very powerful depth cue. I've also heard
rationale along the lines that it focuses
Reeves and Nass have done some research that shows that people treat
computers as if they were people. If you agree with their research,
then you have to think about what sort of discourse the computer is
having with the person. Using questions as links seems to parrot the
query back to the
Earley associates had five webinar series on Sharepoint IA. The link
is
http://www.earley.com/webinars/jumpstarts/sharepoint-search-and-information-architecture
where you will need to register to download the webinars (it's free).
They were pretty informative.
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It's also an accessibility problem, too. If someone is using a
screen reader, a site with Click here to see latest news, Click
here to browse jobs, Click here to download our annual report,
and Click here to sign in will be mind-numbing at best.
Even worse is when there is no actual descriptive
Hi Soren --
I have an MA in English Literature. I see a lot of parallels myself.
For example, the Communication Triangle described by Kinneavy in a
Theory of Discourse is concept that (to me) really applies to usability.
I really think the issue is that most usability folks are NOT really
Agree to Diana. Though i've made more then 12 apps UI design (iPhone)
along with their ACS (application conceptualization services), I never
came across Typo , Icons or Color palettes so no need for them..
The UI expert wireframes it for the graphic designer to design,then
the graphic designer
I wish I still had the link, but a while back someone did a study on
this and found that most users actually *do* click on things that say
Click here more often than links that do not use that verbiage.
Hopefully someone here can chime in with that study.
Nick
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Could anybody explain the relationship between Human Computer
Interaction and Interacton Design?
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Abuse to Reuse: Why we hate use cases but shouldn't
When: August 25, 2009 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm
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I think you've got most of the points covered; it's just tough
sometimes to distinguish between what can and can't easily be
addressed. The unfortunate thing is even in a new implementation
there are often so many issues in play it's difficult to tell.
A recent review I helped conduct of a
It's true that the 'lightbox' pattern is probably a bit of design
overkill, but there is another benefit to the greying out of the rest
of the page, which is that it gives more of an impression that the
underlying window is disabled. I think that's a good thing, since
earlier attempts at
We have been struggling with how to position design education in K-12 schools.
Is it an art class? A technology education class? Does it include graphic
design, product design, environment design, and experience design?
I'll be interested to hear people's comments about the Georgia Tech
Its a bet confussing bcoz the explanation seems to be more close to
the definition of Interaction Design, so how about you put it into
defferent percepctive?
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Teehan+Lax is currently reviewing portfolios of qualified Senior UI
Designers who will research, architect, and design interactive
experiences for web, software and device-based interfaces. We are
looking for someone who is passionate about creating experiences that
delight end-users and drive
Awesome ideas, David and Hugh!
I'll run through and answer your questions, since I generally agree
with everything you've said...
Q: In the end, if the client doesn't implement the design%u2014how
successful is it?
A: It's only successful if the innovation is pulled off the shelf
some day and
It's not only Why use mint? - I'd consider that secondary, it's really the
whole home page above the fold, with the links at the bottom. It explains
the whole value prop.
Tom
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
To
Even when the links were treated visually as discrete, actionable links?
I'd like to see that study, too -- I'd bet that many of those links
were buried in paragraphs of text, and that users were scanning madly
for something actionable.
(IMO, click here is something that should be weeded out of
What if we think of innovation in terms of potential and active
states?
If you have an innovative idea, but don't have the resources to
implement it, it still may be innovative. But if it's not
implemented, it's just a potential for innovation.
If you put that great idea into action, and
David,
I have lightened the background, rather than darkened it, which is
closer to what you are suggesting. I prefer this to darkening the
background because it is a subtler change (if the app has a white
background), while still getting the disabled point across.
Best,
Jack
On Aug 10,
Content creators hate it, too. Even more than users. Many feel very
strongly that it is a form of stealing content from their site. See
Josh's comment re: fat advertising bellies above. It is easy to see
why content producers hate it.
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On 10 Aug 2009, at 13:16, Jason Robb wrote:
What if we think of innovation in terms of potential and active
states?
If you have an innovative idea, but don't have the resources to
implement it, it still may be innovative. But if it's not
implemented, it's just a potential for innovation.
If
Apologies for x-post
Hi IxDA'ers! Got an *urgent* Freelance Business Analyst role hot off the job
presses at one of my favorite clients---very nice people with low ego, and
high commitment to quality + collaboration---please feel free to pass along
to your favorite BA(s)---I'd appreciate it,
Hi,
Our UX team would like to work more collaboratively with our customer support
team in getting the top customers' issues. We usually receive feedback such as
change this to ... or move this to It's more suggestions and
recommendations on what they want to see improved rather than
One advantage of this pattern is not having to write client-side logic
for what happens when a user navigates away from an input form after
making changes but not indicating to save or cancel. Since some
users may assume that clicking another link is a safe way to get out
of a form without saving
“The people in business must understand
http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/Inspireux/%7E3/2IbUwNjQIzY/what they can
achieve with designers. Designers have to understand that they really must
deliver to business not just beautification, or another form of it, but
substantial change.” – Hartmut
7 p.m., Wednesday, August 12, at Varasano's in Buckhead.
Details and RSVP at http://ixdaatlanta.ning.com/events/ixda-atlanta-social-salon
See you there!
Maria Cordell
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
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fundamental problem is not usability but education.
Yes and it may also be a problem of culture and values
See:
http://www.dmi.org/dmi/html/publications/news/viewpoints/connect_vp_sp.htm
http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664
http://johnnyholland.org/magazine/2009/08/value/
UX team should not ignore what customer support team is saying but
understand why they are saying like that. Especially customer
supporting have to face with many angry users who have big complains
rather than happy one. So their frustration with some issue is
understandable. Sometime, it will be
I've uust updated the list of UX people on Twitter. If you're not on the list
and you've asked to be, please let me know. http://bit.ly/UXTweeps
Please send requests just to me, not to all of the IxDA list. Thanks.
Elizabeth
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Luminanze Consulting, LLC
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@ebuie
Also, please make sure that your Twitter bio mentions UX or usability. Thanks!
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