Anyone know of any research done or work done on creating classrooms
that are student-centered in terms of learning?
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Hi folks,
I'm really glad to say that Infragistics is looking to augment our
interaction design team. This is a team I have a lot of personal investment
in and want to see succeed and set the bar for interaction design at
[mid-size] software companies. I've been with the company for almost
User Experience Lead
Intent Media stands at the cross-roads of online advertising and e-commerce.
We are solving long-standing problems facing online merchants and direct
marketers by building a unique technology solution with many interesting
challenges to overcome.
Intent Media is expanding
Visual Designer
In this role you will design and implement user interfaces for the
purpose of rapid, conceptual prototyping. This position will explore and
investigate, visualize, and design product concepts working with a
small, tightly integrated team of product managers and user interface
I've had luck with Amazon gift certificates for remote usability
testing or user interviews. It's super easy to fulfill via email and
you can buy anything there, so it's almost like cash. I've had a
great response rate with these and the participants almost always
show up. A caveat that I do work
Can anyone recommend resources for developing a successful large-scale
web analytics regime? Better yet, is anyone NY-based interested in
consulting in this area?
Recently we lost out on a major pitch, in part because of lack of
expertise in this area, and I'm trying to play catch up.
Dear friends,
Hope everyone is doing great on this beautiful autumn day! (or at
least it is here in Pasadena) =P I was wondering if you guys could
spare some time and participate in a short survey I'm doing for my
thesis project. The theme for this research is Objects,
imperfection, and their
there is an interesting correlation to the amount of money required to
engage participants and when they think its too much and it puts them
off.
They did a test recently for people filling out surveys and found
$5-$10 gift cards to particular places were the most motivating to
get people to
Interaction Designer - Mobile/Web
This position will conduct product research, formulate product strategy,
develop information architecture, and interaction design that will
facilitate SEVEN products that delight our customers on primarily a
mobile application and secondary a consumer Website.
there is an interesting correlation to the amount of money required to
engage participants and when they think its too much and it puts them
off.
They did a test recently for people filling out surveys and found
$5-$10 gift cards to particular places were the most motivating to
get people to
Thanks for all the responses - very useful.
To answer a couple of the questions:
A new row is created when you hit tab in the last cell of what is
currently the last row, with the focus then being in the first cell
of the new row.
If the user does not complete a row, it is discarded when the
I actually don't think architecture is such a great comparison when
you really start thinking about it.
One could might as well ask the architect.
Does Architecture push any bounds beyond architects artistic
ambitions? Is there any usable or useful pursuit in the discipline
that's not based on
Thanks for your comments guys. Both of you make very interesting
points.
Thomas, I never considered this point of view; that the system would
always be one step behind the users current interests.
However, in reality, do users interests change rapidly? I would guess
a regular use exhibits the
Whoaa...
So if we are to lend from anyone it should be from areas, that don't
see their work as a monument to be admired from afar but as a an
environment to be actively used every day.
Which, as far as I know, sums up pretty well the guiding values of
most professional architects, teachers
Actually there are some more things to consider!
1. Is this a web app? If it's a web app, I don't think you should
tab outside of the grid. Unless there is a specific need for the
requirement.
Web app is associated with primary navigation menu, and browser
controls, so tab outside the grid,
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Thomas Petersen t...@hellobrand.com wrote:
Many architectural schools belong to the art department so they
create architects who come out thinking they are artist who should
create masterpieces and push the clients beyond the clients ambitions
(which most of
I am looking for a seasoned Use Experience Architect that has worked in
ecommerce for at least five years. This role requires extensive knowledge of
cart and checkout and experience with POS and back end payment technologies.
Specifically, understanding both the non-technical (cultural) as well as
Jorge
I am not talking about the glossy magazines. I am talking about the
architects who get taught architecture as if it's art.
The architects who would then go on to ask questions like:
Does IA push any bounds beyond client concerns? Is there any artful
or conceptual pursuit in the
Gretchen, I couldn't find specific reports from Social Technologies
but there are some newsletters and blog postings that look promising
and interesting.
Elin, that must have been a great talk. I'll definitely look up
more from John Cacioppo.
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On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Thomas Petersen t...@hellobrand.com wrote:
I am not talking about the glossy magazines. I am talking about the
architects who get taught architecture as if it's art.
Who are those architects?
I went through architecture school, and know other UXers who have as
You might get some joy from Danah Boyd's site,
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/
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Welcome to
I'm going to jump back up to Peter's question and the answer is
some.
The work of Fiona Raby and Tony Dunne of the RCA in London and their
entire department definitely see teach IxD as an aesthetic cultural
insertion constantly evolving the relationship between human beings
and technology across
With last FM the goal is simple. Providing you with suggestions based
on your musical neighbors. It look's at what you are listening to
and what you say you like or don't.
I can imagine that with you guys it's not that simple, unless you
where able to get statistics of what the users watch on
gong back to Vicky's original question:
Dance, music, film, stage are areas that I look to for inspiration
and steal core motifs from.
Sequential Art (comics)
Economics
Instructional Design (or just education in general)
and well Art!
-- dave
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Who are those architects?
Among others, the one I was referring to at archinect. Many architect
that I know see themselves as artists or philosophers before they seem
themselves as craftsmen.
I have worked with architects who tried to apply their thinking into
an online context. Wouldn't say it
When to create the new row.
This behavior, suggested by Chris Rider, handles expectations better, I
think: create the empty row - when the user enters data in the first empty
cell. Or tabs out of the any formerly empty cell in the formerly empty row,
I might add.
--
Oleh Kovalchuke
Interaction
Expanding on this a bit more, I think that Bill Derouchey's and my
presentations at From Business to Buttons this past June also
represent thinking applied to IxD from other design disciplines that
speak to a more artful, humanistic, less-scientific and more
aesthetically grounded perspective.
The diverse field of medicine . . . from years of listening and learning
from, and designing for thousands and thousands of patients, their families,
providers, and the surprising range of systems of care:
- Medicine (especially Internal Medicine, Neurology, Geriatrics,
Hi Thomas, our primary aim is to create a continually evolving and
richer user experience through increasingly contextual content. In
doing so, we would expect to see longer session times, increased page
views and increased ad revenue.
Our system, or the principal of Silent Intelligence isn't
Hi; just a quick note that the early registration deadline for the Seattle
edition of my workshop on site search analytics (
http://louisrosenfeld.com/ssa ) is this Friday, October 2. The workshop
takes place on Thursday October 29; Steve Krug's new workshop on
do-it-yourself usability testing
I've been writing a column for UXmatters for over a year now called Dramatic
Impact: Theater and the Creative Process of Design in which I've been
exploring analogies and metaphors that can be derived from theatrical
discipline to provide new perspective and enhancement to UX Design for
I pay cash, usually $100 for an hour of testing. On the recording
permission slip the participant signs before the test starts it
explicitly says their compensation is unrelated to their comments.
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My feeling is that this demo/scenario is meant to be more visionary
and to visualize different patterns and opportunities moving forward,
rather than being a representation of an upcoming product.
As far as hardware goes, there's actually a need from various
manufacturers to justify development
I have been looking, unsuccessfully, through back issues of interactions
magazine for an article, published a few years back, written I believe by
someone from Microsoft as part of a debate about statistical significance in
usability testing. There was something of a debate about testing with
Here's the link I've used before...from Jakob Nielsen. Argue his
credibility if you'd like, but in practice I've seen testing a small number
of representative users as effective as a lot of random users.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/2319.html
I haven't seen any justification that 5-6 users
Hi Ryan,
Are you perhaps thinking of Jakob Nielsen's rule of 5?
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/2319.html
Kind regards,
Angel Anderson
Senior Interaction Designer
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I agree wholeheartedly on pushing the envelope with prototypes. I
disagree with you regarding the 'great use case'.
The level of interaction which is pitched in the video could have
been communicated with a static storyboard (and arguably the video is
nothing more than a storyboard with slick
In the past we've given cards to Amazon, Starbucks, iTunes, etc. in
the amount of anything between 5 to 50 dollars depending on the time
commitment. Steven has a good point about high amounts being off-putting,
but I believe this is particularly true with field intercepts and blind
recruiting.
chris
i'm not sure i know the article you're writing about but you can
also take a look at what jeff sauro (oracle) has done and written
about statistical significance
http://www.measuringusability.com/statistics.php
scroll to the section at the bottom 'Sample Size'
good luck
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Depending on the audience, we've used:
* $50 Amex gift cards for remote attendees
* $100-150 Amex gift cards/cash for in-person attendees
* iPod nanos
* Free copies of software
Cheers!
Todd Zaki Warfel
Principal Design Researcher
Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully.
correction: was typing on the train...
mark (dot) schraad (at) searshc (dot) com
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Welcome to
The number of participants you need to achieve statistical power will
depend upon the design of your study - which will be determined (in
large part) by the questions you are trying to answer. This assumes
you want statistical power of course. Many studies don't feel the
need for it.
Sorry it's
Laura Faulkner has written a reasoned article on sample size. You can
find a copy at:
http://www.geocities.com/faulknerusability/Faulkner_BRMIC_Vol35.pdf
The number of participants issue depends on a number of issues
including the risk inherent in the product, the number of distinct
user
I totally agree. My reference was exactly related to blind recruiting
and field intercepts with low level involvement surveys. The longer
the survey and more in depth time required then people do expect more
money for sure.
thanks for clarifying that point. :)
thanks
steven
On Oct 1,
Your solution might work well, depending on the number of fields you
have to TAB through to (the number of cells on a row). It can be very
frustrating to cycle even through more than two empty cells just to
leave a TAB order.
Consider the proposition. When would a user want to TAB out of the
data
Sorry Bryan, but I need to call this out: testing a small number of
representative users as effective as a lot of random users.
You give the impression that larger studies choose random users as test
participants. You'll find that testing sessions run to meet statistical
standards are required to
I saw this neat filter recently at http://www.sixwineseight.com that
changes wine choices based on selected criteria and uses a graphic
image to provide instant feedback. It's a much simpler form than
you're probably looking for but I think it's a nice example of
graphic feedback that's fun and
Hi All:
I am not a mathematician but I have conducted many usability tests.
Sometimes clients have demanded large samples in tests that have spanned
multiple days. In my experience, this was not productive. I generally felt
that I learned everything I could from the first 6 or so users.
I've
Question: will the raw data be released this year? I'd love to
crunch-n-munch the 2008 data as well, to answer specific questions
about my own team relative to the industry, but the file wasn't
posted to the IAI site.
Any way I could get my hands on 2008, 2009, or both?
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Hi:
Testing with a smaller number can yield useful insights and you can
reuse other portions of your budget to re-test on what you have found
out from a first round of testing. Never understood the need to see
the same problem repeat over and over again, when the monies could be
better spent
You're right, Steve, and I agree.
I didn't mean to imply that a statistically accurate study is less
effective, or less rigorous. I ran such a survey for one company, and
we were very rigorous in ensuring our sampling was randomly
distributed, and had a lot of help from some brilliant
Just to clarify...it's called the Future of Web Design. I realize now
that FOWD might not make much sense.
Any takers?
c
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Chris,
There is not any statistical formula or method that will tell you the
correct number of people to test. In my experience it depends on the
functions you are testing, how many test scenarios you want to run
and how many of those can be done by one participant in one session,
and how many
To protect sensitive data on individuals, we do not release the
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