I have seen two issues
1. in AB testing, text form field in the form reduces usage of field. Theory
is, it reduces the fields recognizably as a field. Test, test, test.
2. on slower connections, the javascript library frequently loads last
(occasionally fails) so you get the issue Luke outlines,
All practices are ripe for theft. To be a great designer means being alive
in the world, to pay attention and to learn form everything human. Popular
culture, such as reality games like Top Chef could teach us
about experience, detail, passion. Architecture goes back to Rome and to
dismiss it is
I was chatting whit a colleague, and we could recall examples in the early
days of the web where a site was a work of art, and no other thing but art,
but can't think of recent examples. any sightings?
Welcome to the Interaction
I just tripped over this lovely article, which I think is applicable to some
of the threads I've been seeing
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/how-to-take-criticism-like-donald-trump.html
Also useful: on flames and trolls
http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2006/02/flames_emotiona.html
I want to second Greg's call to come. I'm super excited to attend, and I'm
speaking about a topic I care about and have spent the last couple years
studying: how interface affects viral activity on social sites. more than
ever, I think design execution is the difference between a site getting
is a highly strategic
choice. All companies are resource constrained, and everythign you do is
someone else you don't do. So you have to pick what comes first.
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Barbara Ballard bball...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 6, 2009, at 7:18 AM, Christina Wodtke wrote:
... you could
I'm changing threads in hopes for making some people's lives better.
Regarding Complications, I first made the connection between this excellent
collection of essays on practicing medicine and design when John Zapolski
placed Whose Body is it Anyway on the desks of his fellow design managers
are
Peterme makes some excellent points worth considering about the nature of
strategy. Strategy happens over and over again, at multiple points in the
work of a comapny. You have a company strategy, a business strategy, a
product strategy and a design strategy. As Barbara said Strategy is the
plan
I have a section in my 2nd edition on what you need to know about business
needs and your business model, and how that affects your choices. I agree
that it is increasingly important (especially in our current economic
climate) for designers to understand their role in the business.
the long and
: semanticwill
On Jan 5, 2009, at 12:30 PM, Christina Wodtke wrote:
Andrew, this is easily the smartest post on the topic. These questions are
ones I also had to work through so I could step into my current role which
... take the time.
Mark
On Jan 5, 2009, at 4:18 PM, Christina Wodtke wrote:
a heuristic is a short sentence that represents a larger body of
experience.
same for strategy-- your six pages should be summerizable to everyone
working on the IxDA can quickly make choices that pushes the IxDA
Peter,
You make a good point in that understanding the business goals are
important, but not all businesses are in the short term in it to make money.
Some, like Flickr and delicious built up valuable business intelligence that
led Yahoo to acquire them. If you don't live in the valley, you may
Yes. Outliers is good also. If you love these, try Better and
Complications by Gladwell's pal Atul Gawnde. HIGHLY relevant to design,
despite being about medicine.
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Angel Marquez angel.marq...@gmail.comwrote:
Is 'The Tipping Point' as good as 'Blink'?
On Mon,
http://uxbookclub.org/doku.php?id=silicon_valley
Come even if you haven't read the book but want to discuss the topic, how
product and design can work together better!
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
To post to
could we do something like this on UX bookclub site?
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Eva Kaniasty kania...@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone have an account on this, or a similar site? If a bunch of us
joined, I bet we could do pretty well circulating some very relevant
titles.
Once the site has a relationship with you (i.e.NYTimes registratin, or
facebook) this becomes frictionless, and adds value, not only for the sender
and recipient, but also in agregate-- this of how facinating most emailed
is on NYtimes compared to any other measures of popularity. It's a much
http://uxbookclub.org/doku.php?id=silicon_valley
Come on lads and lasses, let's show them how it's done. Let's. talk. UX!
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://uxbookclub.org/doku.php?id=silicon_valley
I am reading Inspired, and really pleasantly surprised about Marty Cagen's
passion for IxD, IA and UX in general. I decided I wanted to discuss that
with other UX peeps, and talk about why Product anad design are at each
other's throats so often.
I need an amazing IxD/IA with Interface chops to join me at LinkedIn to do
some insanely awesome innovative stuff I'm percolating.
We're located in Mountain View CA.
ping me if you want details.
Welcome to the Interaction Design
I think it goes like this
designer senior designer principal designer 300hr consultant don
norman.
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:46 AM, allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd also like to augment my question by adding, What are the
specialist options?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
erin malone wrote a number of excellent article on career path for BA
including one on planning your future
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/planning_your_future
You might also find this chart useful
http://www.slideshare.net/cwodtke/paths-for-designers-ias/
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:19 AM,
especially Linkedin Events. :D
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Janna Hicks DeVylder [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
It takes more than amazing content and speakers to make a conference.
It's all of us who gather that take it over the top.
So, in that light, if you are going, start encouraging your
do an image search on google and/or yahoo. you'd be amazed at how many there
are. I think every single consultancy on earth makes one.
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
To post to this list ... [EMAIL
The reason for being consistent is to improve usability. If you are using
the word or you have a problem.
Try asking the stakeholders why they want to be consistent. If it's for the
sake of consistency, that's a circular argument and their brains have turned
off. Time for an intervention.
In
What a peculiar post.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Will Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
I do respect the left coasts Caligula-like ability to party like there is
no
tomorrow! Ms. Wodke made a comment 2 weeks ago about SF/BayArea being
ground
zero for the internet - and for VC's and their
I've met some folks who are working in France as web designers and they are
tremendously skilled and insightful. France tends a bit insular, as ever, so
we don't hear so much from them... sill, I bet some folk francaise are on
this list. Speaking of, I'm traveling through France to Italy last
After listening to this debate (thank you all kindly) I suspect the urge to
discard the term is because many designers have been doing it wrong.
Forms of that might be
* user centered design rather than users centered design-- making too many
decisions off of a small subset of users who may vary
I hope everyone has read this article
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free?currentPage=all
it has a great list of potential ways a free service can generate revenue.
Or for the digest version, Armano's visualization
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Jared Spool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you think that's how they pitched it to their investors? We think it's
quite likely we'll never have a business model that gives you the 10x
returns you're looking for, but if luck has it, we just might stumble across
So, I'll take it on faith that they somehow know how this will play out (or
are betting that someone will in time).
Yep. you got it.
I live on the other side of the looking glass. it's nice here, if you like
oysters and turtle soup.
Now let's discuss eyetracking... ;)
Of course you can be a great design principal, and influence the very nature
of a company. You can be a great Creative director, a great VP of user
experience, and in a design company, perhaps even a CCO or a CXO. But in a
big product company if you want to design the business, that role is owned
when will the results be up? very interestng.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As part of research I'm doing on how designers work, I'm exploring
situations and reasons for why designers fail in work and group situations.
Through a conversation on my blog we've
Good just be good list design, and any of the disciplines could have had a
lively community if they had meshed openess with structure the way IxDA has.
Love ot see a case study on the design choices that went into this list.
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:38 AM, David Malouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
here you go: http://www.slideshare.net/cwodtke/paths-for-designers-ias
I think a lot of the problem is designers aren't willing to give up the
design title to move up in their career. If you are doing product strategy
for a company, you are probably a VP of product strategy not a VP of
strategic
We never stop being designers, we just stop having the title. We are more
than a title.
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Jim Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it's a mistake, and a large one, to make the
assumption/assertion that the only way to move up or occupy a
leadership role in a
agreed, and I liked your piece because it asked what is useful? UCD should
be composed with various methods and frames which are applied when
appropriate, which I was trying to say but I was tired. :)
I always thought the heart of UCD was hey, let's think about the guy using
it rather than the
this may be the most notable
http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/human-centered.html
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Ben Bashford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can someone provide links to any articles that illustrate this hate-on?
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Kurt Krumme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I
Lately a lot of senior folks seem to be railing on user-centered design.
Now, I thought UCD was the idea of putting the users in the center of the
design choices. To do that, you can do it with a bunch of methodologies, or
visit the users in their native habitat then keep them in mind later, or
seconded. this company will follow its own destiny. find a place whose
philosophy matches yours.
BTW, without a designer (or someone trained in design approaches) they will
make the mistake of turning customer requests into non-viable products. I
see a Homer-mobile in their future.
Anyone want to do this in the valley (silicon, baby)? LinkedIn happy to
host.
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:28 AM, NYC IxDA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SECOND ANNUAL INTERACTION DESIGN STUDIO
You are invited to join the New York IxDA community for a hands-on,
interactive design studio evening.
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Well, why follow the guideline when it's not appropriate? I hope that my
explanation lets you quickly spot when you shouldn't follow this guideline.
We need an independantly wealthy researcher who just left google, or a nice
grad student ot do this study and write it up for public consumption.
This reminds me of a scene from James Thurber's The Pet Department. It
shows a room completely covered with cats, and carries the text:
*We have cats the way some people have mice.*
to which the reply is:
*So I see. However, I cannot tell from your communication whether you are
seeking advice
It's possible that the label might make up for button clarity, but that
would be so dependent on execution I wouldn't do it. Labels are never as
powerful affordances as the controls themselves. Why gamble?
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Kordian Piotr Klecha [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Christina,
I think the new front page is completely brilliant. I'm less certain about
the profile page. These two pages are the heart and soul of facebook. The
homepage is more people-centric than ever, and highly engaging and
actionable. The profile page, however, seems to wrested some individual
expression
Every usability study I've seen in last several years showed the nav menu on
the right performing at least as well as on the left, as long as it was
designed with strong affordances and, as was mentioned, wasn't killed by
resizing, and is more ergonomic because of its location near the scroll bar.
How about posting to slideshare? they take PDFs.
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dan promised to post the exact slides from his talk for IxDA NYC last
night and the link to the 1st chapter of his book on his blog and here
they are.
-- dave
Sent to you by Dave
my apologies; i see it is here
http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2008/09/tap-is-the-new-click-presentation/
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Christina Wodtke
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
How about posting to slideshare? they take PDFs.
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
From my time at Yahoo (admittedly 2003-2005) working with search
quantifiably, we found that a big box improves visibility (i.e. more
queries) but doesn't improve number of words in query (despite an old
Neilson book suggestion). Adding type in the box reduces usage (you know,
the type search here
I have passed this excellent critique on to the appropriate product
manager. I'm not deeply familiar with that aspect of the site, but it
certain sounds problematic and worth examining. My apologies for not seeing
this earlier (and for turning you into a spammer). If anyone has LinkedIn
questions
If you have questions that aren't quite right for this list, or just are
looking for more ways to waste your time, please check out the new BA
forums.
http://boxesandarrows.com/topics
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http://gladwell.com/2004/2004_09_20_a_personality.html
Myers-Briggs was invented by an ordinary woman who didn't understand Jung or
her son-in-law read on!
Where did the Myers-Briggs come from, after all? As Paul tells us, it began
with a housewife from Washington, D.C., named Katharine
It's also available as view-on-demand on Netflix. Convenient!
What's your favorite typeface?
http://www.linkedin.com/answers/marketing-sales/graphic-design/MAR_GRD/160585-93094
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http://www.helveticafilm.com/
Helvetica is a
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