On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Oleh Kovalchuke tangospr...@gmail.com wrote:
Search For:
o radiobutton R1-type Records
[ ] checkbox Yes value
[ ] checkbox No value
o radiobutton R2-type Records
If there were just R1 and R2 records this would be the solution I'd
use. It's simple
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Jonathan Abbett jonat...@abbett.org wrote:
Say you're brought in to do user research and feature definition for a
software project that's already underway (i.e. development began on
day one).
You have your tried-and-true process where you interview users long
Yet another of my odd questions, feel free to skip if you don't care...
I am attempting to design a query form to let people find things in a
mixed set of records. For simplicity's sake let's say there are
R1-type records and R2-type records. In the R1-type records there's a
data value that's
It's me with another weird question time...
One of our applications has a very telephone book-like UI. I've
suggested that searching in this application be enhanced to use
Soundex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex) so that users will not
have to know if someone in the database is Alan Brown,
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Jared Spool jsp...@uie.com wrote:
On Nov 23, 2009, at 6:25 PM, Alan Wexelblat wrote:
At heart it's a small story about fitting user experience into a (big)
corporate culture. Or not.
Really, it's a story about how an independent designer doesn't get the world
I will try not to over-reply but since this comment seems to be
directed at me I'll put in one response...
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Todd Zaki Warfel li...@zakiwarfel.com wrote:
On Nov 24, 2009, at 9:25 AM, Alan Wexelblat wrote:
It's my opinion, as I said in the original message
complaint about AA's horrid user experience, and
to a response he received from an Interaction Designer inside the
company. Who was then outed and fired.
At heart it's a small story about fitting user experience into a (big)
corporate culture. Or not.
Best respects,
--Alan Wexelblat
I'm wondering if people have feedback on the use of tab to move from
field to field in a form, in a situation where some of the fields have
likely defaults.
To expand a little bit:
- the logical flow (how people think about) entering this kind of data
is A-B-C-D-E-F-G.
- in the context of the
I'm going to guess I'm delving into sufficiently esoteric areas that
nobody will have an answer, but we are smarter than me, so here goes:
I'm trying to improve one of our key search interfaces. The use cases
involve people making searches against a large (hundreds of thousands
of records) data
Recently there was a discussion on the list about whether it was
necessary to require users to select what type of credit card they
were entering.
This morning I made a donation through the online service causes.com.
As part of that process I entered a credit card number. There was no
field to
A few months ago I wrote to this list, sort of complaining and sort of
asking for advice on whether I should stand my ground on asking for a
feature that our test users wanted and the absence of which I felt
would seriously degrade the user experience.
This week the product is in beta test...
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Elizabeth Bacon
li...@elizabethbacon.com wrote:
Right now, job posts are definitely noise amid the discussion for those
uninterested in opportunities,
That's an interesting assumption - I'd be curious to know if you've
surveyed people on that. For myself I'm
http://vimeo.com/6588461
This is a cute little exploration of some ways to interact without
touching. The implementation is a bit Rube Goldberg but may say
something about ambient interfaces in general.
Best regards,
--Alan
There's a pattern that I've seen a couple places - MS Access being the
one that comes immediately to mind - where a person is doing
row-oriented data entry and filling in one row then hitting return
causes a new empty row to be created automatically so the person can
continue data entry without
Thanks to all who've responded. I plan to try out Bonnie's tool when
I get back from vacation next week
Audrey I'm not sure what KPI are. To answer your why am I bothering
to build it question - because the methods currently being used are
ad hoc, unscalable, and unsustainable. Under those
I think I know the answer to this but I want to present the case study
for general input. Maybe someone has some brilliant idea I haven't
thought of.
Situation: I'm building a large new application for helpdesk/customer
support/operations people. The major use cases for this product are
input
Forgive me if I'm repeating a point that has been raised before...
When considering whether to mask a password I think it's important to
remember that there are other situations in which the password can be
made to appear other than it being typed in character-by-character.
The most common case
I need to come up with a good pattern for designing a form. It has
the following characteristics:
- There are about 10 sections (related groups of inputs)
- The sections are of varied size, ranging from one dropdown
selection, to a multi-column table of several rows that needs to be
filled out
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/25/study-suggests-people-prefer-bings-design-to-googles-but-still-wont-switch/
Interesting post that puts a LOT of weight on eye-tracking. Ooh
shiney. I'm not sure how the author concludes that if his statistics
aren't valid (sample size = 12) somehow the eye
The Media Arts and Sciences program at the MIT Media Lab is where I
got my MS and PhD degrees. The program is highly oriented toward
synthetic (making) rather than analytic (theorizing) degrees. More or
less, if you can't demo it you can't graduate with it.
I'm pretty sure few people would
Thank you for the response. I probably did make the cases too narrow.
Currently the existing interface is an Access DB bit of hackery that
lacks several features. For example, it requires the user to search
on a particular type of field (company name vs contact name) that
exposes the internal
I'm trying to design the IA for an application that has strong
elements of two different organizational patterns.
Looked at in one way the information very much resembles a directory
or phone book (primary use cases are things like find the phone
number of $NAMED ORGANIZATION).
Looked at another
About a company with 11 million paid subscription customers for its
most popular product...
That claims to be hiring a Director of User Experience
(http://www.blizzard.com/us/)
That puts up a URL for said job
(http://www.blizzard.com/us/jobopp/battlenet-user-experience-director.html)
That leads
My guess is that a time input this complex isn't easily answered. You
should probably build some prototypes and test, as well as checking
with your potential users as to what kinds of time inputs they are
familiar with and expect.
Another relevant question will be how often this needs to be
*takes Jared's strawman and sets it on fire*
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Jared Spool jsp...@uie.com wrote:
So, if I understand correctly, you're speaking in an ideal world, where
everyone already has the data they need when they walk in the room and
everyone is on the same page with that
I'm curious, though - how many IxDers are Master Black Belt level in
Six Sigma or comparable process re-engineering methodologies? Is that
something you'd expect an interaction designer or manager to have?
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:37 AM, iamshimone shim...@shimone.info wrote:
Agreed, it's
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Jared Spool jsp...@uie.com wrote:
Actually, my big question is: where does the problem you're trying to solve
come in? Where do you introduce data about what needs to be different? About
what the organization needs to achieve? About the gap between the current
We all have these stories, I suspect. A friend wrote this up and I'm
passing it along, with his permission, anonymized.
He was buying a new car - fairly high end, significant purchase:
The choice came down to [Car A], which is an updated version of my
old car, or the [Car B]. I love love loved
I liked Damon's points. I work in a cubicle environment where aural
interrupts are frequent and there's nothing like white noise. So
something is required. I wear headphones and often fill them with
music. I rarely choose specific music, preferring streaming radio for
most of the time:
Can someone suggest a good reference for general performance by people
trying to use different kinds of button bars?
In particular, I'm thinking about things like word buttons (e.g.
Gmail) versus pure images (e.g. Outlook) versus mixed (e.g. Firefox
boomarks toolbar).
Thanks,
--Alan
I filled out the survey, but found the labeling in the Likert-scale
section to be odd. The labels used are:
Critically Important
Very Important
Important
Somewhat Unimportant
Extremely Unimportant
To my understanding these do not create a complimentary scale. For
example, what if I think
A while back I asked about affordances related to drag-and-drop.
Here's more of me trying to figure out the right ways to cue users for
certain operations that could work for drag and drop.
The interface in question has a hierarchical tree on the left. On the
right is a details area.
Because
Gregor
Thanks for adding in to this. I don't think anyone was attacking
Flex. As a new-ish technology my guess is lots of people have
questions about it.
2. Flex is more like a traditional programming language, so while
Javascript / HTML developers may struggle to get their heads round it
** Please reply to this posting at my work address: awexelb...@limebrokerage.com
I've gotten official approval to hire another designer to work with
me. This time we're looking for a junior person, by which I mean
someone who could be right out of school (with a good internship or
two to show)
My experience is still somewhat limited but I'll try to address what
you listed, and ask more questions:
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Oleh Kovalchuke tangospr...@gmail.com wrote:
It is for several different applications. One of them queries and sorts data
in hundreds of thousands of rows
Oleh
I'm involved as the interaction designer on a Flex-based financial
trading application at the moment. I'm curious what sort of data
processing application you have in mind. How much data would you be
sending to the client and at what rates?
Or is your concern solely about the ability of
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Chauncey Wilson
chauncey.wil...@gmail.com wrote:
Designers need to consider misuse scenarios in planning.
I tend to agree but I think we need to separate two concerns:
One is how should the system respond to out-of-bounds information.
Putting a heavy child on a
I'm interested in finding out if anyone has recent data or evaluations
of voice recognition software for general interaction purposes with
desktop/laptop computers (not specifically voice UIs to stand-along
apps and not voice-only UI such as telephony).
I'm interested in data on both absolute
I read this blog article and have been thinking about it. In a sense I
agree - one ought not to be slave to imitation. And I do see the point
of not trying to imitate something when you can't do it well enough.
But I find myself at a loss to say what a Web application *should*
look like. One
Thank you to everyone who took the time to respond to my request.
I've gotten several useful ideas from the examples people pointed me
to and the written suggestions.
I'm still reading and researching so if anyone else has things they'd
like to add please do.
Best regards,
--Alan
I have a screen with a slightly unusual UI. There is a table of rows
that can be edited in place, but you can also drag and drop the rows,
somewhat in the style of Excel. You can also drag the rows onto
targets adjacent to the grid.
The question is - how do I give people reasonable visual cues
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Bjoern Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do you capture comments and suggestions for revisions to interaction
design prototypes?
By hand. Usually suggestions for changes to prototypes come up in
some kind of review, whether it's a 1-1 or some kind of
FiveThirtyEight posed a ballot design question that I think ought to
be easily answerable with research and I'm also vaguely remembering
that someone did this kind of research. Can anyone help?
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/ballot-design-quiz.html#comments
- three versions of a ballot
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081028-first-look-at-windows-7.html
Ars Technica's glowing 'first look' piece on Windows 7's UI revamp.
Compare and contrast all the things Vista did wrong with the brave
move by the company that is Windows 7.
If Peter Bright was any more fawning I'd have to
In the blog entry titled A fine wensleydale?
(http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/10/fine-wensleydale.html) Neil
Gaiman relates his experiences attemping to buy a G1 phone from
T-Mobile. I'm tempted to give this as a sample case to my first-year
students and ask them to enumerate all the things
I know, a really general request, but here goes:
An assertion was made to me that teens (specifically both genders age
12-18) are not adopting iPhones because they're used to being able to
text without looking at the phone - essentially typing by feel and
relying on the predictive typing software
I got tossed a pointer to this blog entry:
http://www.edrants.com/google-chrome-is-bad-for-writers-bloggers/
I also blogged this at Copyfight:
http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/2008/09/03/google_chrome_and_copyright.php
For the tl;dr crowd:
Google's EULA for Chrome claims the right to use,
Well, IANAL, but fortunately I have several who read my blog and
within an hour of posting on Copyfight I had a response from a lawyer
who noted that he found the language unusual as well.
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 5:17 PM, j. eric townsend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan Wexelblat wrote:
Google's
MIT has a fairly useful site - whereis.mit.edu - that lets you find
buildings, parking, and a few other things about campus.
(I have no connection with whereis - it's just how I tell people to
find things at MIT.)
Best regards,
--Alan
Sorry if this is a bit of an esoteric request but I'm hoping someone
can help - I'm not even sure what keywords to use for these searches.
(All the results I get back are talking about multiple windows in
standard desktop OSes or applications. It's even more frustrating
because people are
For all the improvements in UIs to ATMs it's not clear to me they are
addressing the core issue, which is the chain of responsibility and
accountability that builds trust.
I haven't deposited anything at an ATM since I read the fine print on
my ATM transaction record.' That fine print explicitly
I skimmed the '837 patent. It's VERY broad. It also cites an
unusually large amount of patent prior art (though its non-patent
prior art is CRAP, not at all surprising).
herewith the rampant speculation from a non-lawyer
If the examiner let it through with that amount of prior art cited
it's
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Opening them is not the problem. It's having their presence on your internal
email servers to boot. When you get lawyers asking for information, they
take everything to see what you have, because proving what you've
Josh
3. Both the organization and some of our members could be exposed to
unpleasant legal consequences as a result of this discussion.
Therefore, we ask that those interested in continuing this discussion
do so offline, on one of your blogs perhaps, or in some other forum.
It's not clear to
Yes, it's true that this is not a free speech or Bill of Rights
issue. However, it's being taken to ridiculous extremes. Are the
people who are trying to maintain plausible deniability also going to
claim that they never visit a news site? No news.google, no cnet, no
cnn? Because, you know,
Let's assume that you've done the proper work to provide a Skip
Intro button. Let's further assume that you've done at least the
minimum to make your content accessible to people without the Flash
player.
The question I ask, then, is: does having a Flash intro to a personal
site, which may
I promise this isn't related to my previous Flash question - just coincidence.
Are there books people would recommend that talk about how to create
good designs in Flash/FLEX. For example, there appear to be
particular ways one has to work with CSS to get the effect one might
want. And there is
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:08 AM, AJKock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If longer is better, how can there be a specific optimal length?
Wouldn't long as possible be the optimal length?
I think what you're pointing to is an unfortunate contraction in the
phrase longer is better. What I take that
This is sort of a spin-off of the discussion of business objectives in
design combined with a recent UIE note on do I trust you. Sorry for
starting yet another thread, but I didn't want to derail the other.
I cannot possibly be the only person to experience this scenario(*):
1. Install new
I share the experience that professionals in the financial services
industry seem to crave a remarkably high level of information density
and favor what they perceive as quick access to information.
For example, in one application we found that potential users
disfavored a navigation design that
Sorry I'm a bit late to this thread. Ignore if you want.
I think people have forgotten where the idea of listen to your
customers (or users) came from, though I think Dan Saffer's response
in this thread came close to how I feel.
The idea source, as I remember it, was the radical notion that
So there's a guy up on YouTube with a whole series of raps on Web
design and similar topics (like Social Media Addiction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0qMe7Z3EYg).
They're funny, and pretty accurate. I like the Design Coding one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0qMe7Z3EYg
Reposted with Don Norman's permission. I haven't had a chance to
check out the journal itself yet.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Don Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Feb 1, 2008 4:41 PM
Subject: The International Journal of Design (including Interaction Design)
I'd like to
If you've ever had to design one too many Web catalog pages you might
appreciate this.
http://producten.hema.nl/
Then again, you might appreciate it even if you have not. (As noted,
requires Flash in a Web browser.)
*Come to IxDA
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=218 has a step-by-step
disassembly of the XO laptop, analyzing it from a mechanical design
point of view. This is only tangentially related to the issues raised
in earlier discussion about defects in the usability of the OS/UI, but
I think it's relevant to
I'm wondering if I'm the only one on this list who got an OLPC for his
kid and is just letting the kid go with it?
Context: my kid is seven, and definitely above average in conventional
intelligence, reading/literacy metrics, and is reasonably well
experienced with conventional PCs, including
On Dec 27, 2007 8:18 AM, David Malouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would love to see someone who has the device slap it down in front of
their kids (if they have any) don't tell them a thing and see what happens
over the course of days and weeks and video tape the whole thing. There is
the child
I've been thinking on this for a while and I admit the idea's still
only half-baked. But I thought I'd toss it out to the list for
commentary.
I think there are three kinds of design for product features (web site
features also, not so much with intranet features).
1. Core design. This is the
I'm looking for a good discussion on how the technologies that get
generally lumped under the Web 2.0 label (which I hate, but never
mind) affect good established Web interaction design practices.
I don't need someone telling me what Ajax is, or what the value of
including customers as
Does anyone have experience working with or for this agency that they
could share?
http://www.tandemseven.com/
Reply to me not the list, please.
TIA
--Alan
*Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah*
February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah,
Sorry for the late reply. Been job-hunting and behind on mail.
With respect to radio buttons, there should always be a selected item.
If the application permits no selection then I would create a none
option.
The reason for this is that if a person makes a selection, then
changes her mind,
I think I come down closer to Christopher Fahey's side of this
spectrum. I think it's necessary to *understand* the values and
intents of my employer but that doesn't require me to wholeheartedly
adopt them. Nor does it make me less professional, I think, if I do
that.
Being a paid professional
to let people customize
their lists to just the 10 or so they frequently use was not
implemented in the current release.)
Thanks again - I really appreciate the feedback.
--
--Alan Wexelblat
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association
73 matches
Mail list logo
