[IxDA Discuss] Survey design

2009-11-17 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
I'm in the process of designing a survey for existing users of consumer food site but don't have a lot of time to design it. Most likely I will use survey monkey unless anyone has a better suggestion. Can anyone point me to best practices for quick online survey design? Many thanks

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Whats with IPHONE exploding here and there??

2009-08-28 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hIcyqx8Wqr0uBJOstJC4qm7liUGA __ Catríona Lohan-Conway User Experience Architect 917 405 5127 clohancon...@mac.com PPlease consider our environment before printing. On Aug 28, 2009, at 1:29 AM, Ali Naqvi wrote:

[IxDA Discuss] Anyone developed great wireframes for Blackberry, iPhone or both?

2009-08-03 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
Would love to see what you have done as working on some travel apps for both platforms. Preference for Omnigraffle but can convert. Thanks Catríona __ Catríona Lohan-Conway User Experience Architect 917 405 5127 clohancon...@mac.com PPlease consider our

[IxDA Discuss] Best practices for Country location and languages on Global Websites (was Language Picker)

2009-06-10 Thread Catriona Lohan-conway
Jason, Did you read my mind I was just about to send out a similar post. My line of thought was about best practices on how users select countries and languages on global websites. A few questions... Should sites auto detect IP addresses and serve default settings according to country,

[IxDA Discuss] How is your non-profit using Twitter to advance the mission, vision and values of your organization?

2009-03-04 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
Posting for a friend... Please contact Jared directly jaredbhug...@bellwetherfundraising.com How is your non-profit using Twitter to advance the mission, vision and values of your organization? I've been asked to write a 700 word article for the Association of Fundraising Professionals on

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The UX Challenge organizers might be insane

2009-02-11 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
One of my heroes is fellow Irishman Ernest Shackleton... His Antarctic expedition back in 1901-04 is legendary and made me go there. However I went on a commercial expedition ship but want to return to do Shackleton's trip and with an altruistic purpose. When I did some work for Burberry a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The UX Challenge organizers might be insane

2009-02-11 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
nice idea... we could follow what they used to do at the college of surgeons in dublin... 1/3 from developed countries 1/3 Ireland 1/3 from developing countries In essence those with paid for those without. I'm sure they could work out an inclusive formula __

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction09: Dont' forget, international phone plan!

2009-01-30 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
ATT iPhone travel woes... Get the Int'l data plan too... after a recent trip to HK, China and Ireland with my iPhone, I got a phone bill for over $2k due to data usage. Of course when I called before I left the operator said they didn't have a data plan and it turns out they did. They put

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction09: Dont' forget, international phone plan!

2009-01-30 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
Someone just needs to offer a flat rate world service... step up Skype. It's a flat world out there... ;-) I honestly think that people prefer transparent companies and will flock to them for good services, prices and esp. when they know they aren't being screwed. And one more thing... you

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction09: Dont' forget, international phone plan!

2009-01-30 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
cell phones baby... flat cellphone please! __ Catríona Lohan-Conway User Experience Architect 917 405 5127 clohancon...@mac.com PPlease consider our environment before printing. On Jan 30, 2009, at 5:50 PM, Nasir Barday wrote: Skype has a nice $2.95/month

[IxDA Discuss] LL Bean Intranet

2009-01-05 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
I just saw Neilsen posted LL Bean as a winner for his 2009 Intranet study... Did anyone out there work on it? Please contact me offline thanks! Happy New Year! Catriona __ Catríona Lohan-Conway User Experience Architect 917 405 5127 clohancon...@mac.com PPlease

[IxDA Discuss] Target Supplier Portal...

2008-11-20 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
Has anyone out there worked on the Target Supplier Portal? If you have I'd love to talk to you... or anyone who's worked on supplier portals specifically in the apparel industry... Please get in touch. Catriona __ Catríona Lohan-Conway User Experience Architect 917

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What to choose? (technical writer or technical tester)

2008-11-09 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
Ali: Like I said to you earlier offline, you seem to like the 2nd option better. On the surface, I think it's got a better career path but Brian makes a good point about resources and size of the company (and ability to stay solvent in this economy). You could level with the company u

[IxDA Discuss] Facebook Lockout

2008-10-17 Thread Catriona Lohan-conway
I was wondering if anyone has had the same Facebook experience as me and resolved it. I got an email from Facebook saying my account had been compromised and I needed to reset my password. I tried to contact them as I suspected I was being phished and not a word. I tried to reset my password

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joe the Plumber as Persona

2008-10-16 Thread Catriona Lohan-conway
Yeah Joe Sixpack went from just being a worker bee with Palin to being the self employed Queen Bee with McCain. I think I'd like a job that promoted me that quickly - 2 weeks? ;-) On Thursday, October 16, 2008, at 08:37AM, Michael Micheletti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the US Presidential

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design / IA opportunities in Asia/EUROPE

2008-10-04 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
is there one of these for Europe too please? __ Catríona Lohan-Conway User Experience Architect 917 405 5127 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PPlease consider our environment before printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new

Re: [IxDA Discuss] 8 Ways to Save Design Conferences

2008-09-25 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
question is do you use the same presentation 21 times ;-) __ Catríona Lohan-Conway User Experience Architect 917 405 5127 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PPlease consider our environment before printing. Welcome to

[IxDA Discuss] Interesting site National Grid Floe

2008-09-23 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
http://www.nationalgridfloe.com/ Anyone know who did it? LBI London? __ Catríona Lohan-Conway User Experience Architect 917 405 5127 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PPlease consider our environment before printing.

[IxDA Discuss] Power of Google Search Words...

2008-08-18 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
Ok so we all know about search engine optimization but who would have thought that when you pasted the word WHEN into Google in error you might get this... http://www.deathclock.com/ how weird is that? My supposed expiration is to be on Monday, March 16, 2043. __

[IxDA Discuss] Issues with iPhone update 2.0

2008-07-15 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
Has anyone else lost their contacts, photos and calendar on their phone but not on mac? I have tried all the work arounds on apple.com and mobileme to push contacts but no joy. I contacted iPhone tech support and await their reply. __ Catríona Lohan-Conway User

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Badges? We don't need no steenkin' badges.

2008-06-27 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
take a look at how You Tube handles code grabs... simple Embed term  __ Catríona Lohan-Conway User Experience Architect 917 405 5127 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Welcome to the Interaction Design Association

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Studies on aversion to ATMs for making deposits?

2008-06-26 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
from my personal study... I had an issue recently where I deposited a Citibank check to a BoA a/ c via ATM. The check was from my roommate who's been giving me checks for months. The check showed in my account as pending and took 10 days to clear. I eventually got a letter saying that the

[IxDA Discuss] Changing from Web apps to Enterprise software apps

2008-06-05 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
I have just started a project where I will be doing the UX for enterprise applications and wondering if any of you have any best practices to share on documentation of the current systems and books... Catríona __ Catríona Lohan-Conway User Experience Architect 917

Re: [IxDA Discuss] unsophisticated users

2008-06-03 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
this is an interesting option - depends on the context ;-) http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1418715 There are many different types of computer users out there; here is a list of the better known ones and descriptions on each. Joe Sixpack - Owns a computer, but doesn't use it very

[IxDA Discuss] Portal Best Practices

2008-05-28 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
Does anyone have any good insights to share on Portal Development and Best Practices? Many Thanks Catríona __ Catríona Lohan-Conway User Experience Architect 917 405 5127 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Welcome to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

2008-02-20 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
I have always thought we as a community need to do a better job educating recruiters/HR people to what we actually do to enable them to understand the space, write proper job descriptions and tags, know how to interview and hire the right people. __ Catríona

[IxDA Discuss] Metrics yet again... Comscore etc.

2008-02-15 Thread Catriona Lohan-Conway
Apologies for the cross posting. Hi all... I have been developing a competitive analysis for some clients competitor sites and the one metric the client keep asking for is how long do user spend on my competitors sites. I have searched but I haven't found this feature as an option on the