Re: [IxDA Discuss] Traffic analysis tools?

2009-12-29 Thread Chad Jennings
May not meet all of your requirements, but Google Analytics (https://www.google.com/analytics/provision/ ) is free and provides a huge range of tools and reports on site usage including click-maps and A/B/multi-variant testing. Of course one cannot necessarily read much user intent from

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Breadcrumbs including page title or no?

2009-09-01 Thread Chad Jennings
Audrey, I can totally empathize with desire to simplify, simplify, simplify. There is some credence to the SEO argument as having a redundancy between the URL, page title (as shown on browser), headline, and breadcrumbs (or sub header) are variables in improving page rank. . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Why are there no

2009-02-25 Thread Chad Jennings
The Institute of Design in Chicago (my alma mater) has Master of Design Methods which is a nine month executive master's degree. http://www.id.iit.edu/312/ Snip The Master of Design Methods (MDM) is a nine month (or 2-3 year part- time) executive master's degree for exceptional design,

[IxDA Discuss] Online Questionnaire Best Practices (Anyone remember that Interactions article?)

2008-10-21 Thread Chad Jennings
or have a similar resource? As an aside, this Quant research will be complimented with some Qualitative studies, just mentioned to avoid starting a thread on the pros and cons of each. Thanks for the help. Cheers, Chad ... Chad Jennings

[IxDA Discuss] [Job] Senior Designer at Blurb

2008-02-29 Thread Chad Jennings
Senior Designer - Interface Web -- Do you love books and fiend over pixels? Looking to team up with a tight-knit crew of designers, engineers and product gurus to lead the design of our website and collaborate to conceptualize and build brilliant