[IxDA Discuss] UX Brighton event: Finding your way in wayfinding

2010-01-31 Thread Danny Hope
of short “bite sized” talks with more time for QA. Be quick – 3 5ths of places are booked. -- Danny Hope User Experience Design, Brighton UK http://uk.linkedin.com/in/dannyhope +44 (0)7595 226 792 Welcome to the Interaction Design

[IxDA Discuss] UX Brighton Event: September Special on Gameplay Research Design

2009-09-02 Thread Danny Hope
to iCrossing). -- Danny Hope User Experience Consultant, Brighton (UK) +44 (0)7595 226 792 @yandle Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Password Masking research

2009-06-25 Thread Danny Hope
and best answer is probably not to mask the password at all, it is highly doubtful that that answer will fly with our client. Does anyone else suspect that this might be *an issue for browser vendors* not designers? -- Danny Hope User Experience Consultant, Brighton (UK) +44 (0)7595 226 792

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Password Masking research

2009-06-25 Thread Danny Hope
2009/6/25 Yohan Creemers yo...@ylab.nl: Shouldn't browser vendors have interaction designers in their development team? Designers should not wait for market or technology to improve user experience. Are you saying that this is or is not a browser problem? -- Danny Hope User Experience

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best Practices for Online Chat

2009-05-24 Thread Danny Hope
and unobtrusive, but wanted to provide them with research/Best Practices documentation to help plead the case. Did you recieve any responses? Did you get all of the answers you were after? I'm interested because I'm hopefully about to start consulting on a web-based chat system. -- Danny Hope User

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Double search boxes? Best practices?

2009-05-14 Thread Danny Hope
2009/5/14 Erin Lynn Young erinlynnyo...@gmail.com: …categorize the results in a visually prominent manner and allow the user to refine their search more precisely from this level. +1 -- Danny Hope User Experience Consultant, Brighton (UK) +44 (0)7595 226 792 @yandle

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [Job] Software Tutorial Video Production, McGraw-Hill NYC, Contract

2009-05-07 Thread Danny Hope
://procasts.co.uk/ -- Danny Hope User Experience Consultant, Brighton (UK) 07595 226 792 @yandle Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Who codes your production HTML/CSS/JS?

2009-04-28 Thread Danny Hope
feel a blog post coming on :) -- Danny Hope User Experience Consultant, Brighton (UK) 07595 226 792 @yandle Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The role of detailed footers

2009-04-24 Thread Danny Hope
of this? -- Danny Hope 07595 226 792 @yandle Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The role of detailed footers

2009-04-24 Thread Danny Hope
2009/4/22 Erin Lynn Young erinlynnyo...@gmail.com: - www.target.com uses this type of footer - www.solarwinds.com does as well. More examples: http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/sets/72157594487444992/ -- Danny Hope 07595 226 792 @yandle

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Avoid self-fulfilling prophecies in Most Popular lists

2009-03-23 Thread Danny Hope
: http://www.archive.org/about/help-batting.php -- Regards, Danny Hope 07595 226 792 @yandle Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] [UK] UX Brighton: Mental Models, Service Design Problems with Convergence

2009-03-16 Thread Danny Hope
, ‘joined up’ feel for the customer? * In this presentation, Amberlight will talk about their learnings, and will lay bare some of the key questions that you need to think about when dealing with this tricky service design problem. -- Regards, Danny Hope 07595 226 792 @yandle

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Working group for psychology social media

2009-03-02 Thread Danny Hope
2009/2/24 Robert Hoekman Jr rob...@rhjr.net: Why limit it to psychologists? That was my question too. I might not have much to contribute, but I would love to lurk and dip into some of the conversations that others are having. -- Regards, Danny Hope 07595 226 792 @yandle

[IxDA Discuss] Events iCalendar/Goocal?

2009-02-20 Thread Danny Hope
Can anybody point to a feed of UX events (worldwide) to which one can subscribe using Google Calendar? -- Regards, Danny Hope 07595 226 792 @yandle Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Wireframes, supporting documentation, and software choices

2009-02-20 Thread Danny Hope
elements that get reused in your wireframes. So I would add Google Sites to the list of tools, as it has easy to use wiki features. -- Regards, Danny Hope 07595 226 792 @yandle Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Visibility of action - what is the best practice?

2009-02-06 Thread Danny Hope
they stack in the workspace or land in the spot when you release them? -- Regards, Danny Hope 07595 226 792 @yandle Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Visibility of action - what is the best practice?

2009-02-05 Thread Danny Hope
of the display to indicate that people can select things and move them back and forth? What's the best practice for this kind of thing, if there is one? It's really hard to answer this without seeing what you've got and knowing more about what people are trying to acheive. -- Regards, Danny

Re: [IxDA Discuss] URL Guidelines

2009-01-27 Thread Danny Hope
, Danny Hope http://linkedin.com/in/dannyhope Twitter: yandle 07595 226 792 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Outstanding examples of permission management UIs

2009-01-15 Thread Danny Hope
of their user management interfaces – I find bad interfaces can provide inspiration too (of what not to do, obciously). -- Regards, Danny Hope http://linkedin.com/in/dannyhope 07595 226 792 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA

Re: [IxDA Discuss] question about data loads

2009-01-14 Thread Danny Hope
and the local data as being 'on your computer', e.g. Download from Widgetr Load from your computer. Hope this helps. -- Regards, Danny Hope http://linkedin.com/in/dannyhope 07595 226 792 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA

Re: [IxDA Discuss] question about data loads

2009-01-13 Thread Danny Hope
terms that refer to more familiar models like syncing and refreshing. -- Regards, Danny Hope http://linkedin.com/in/dannyhope 07595 226 792 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Ux Trends to watch out for in 2009

2009-01-13 Thread Danny Hope
2009/1/13 Jared Spool jsp...@uie.com: Jet Packs! Flying cars! Online Banking that doesn't frustrate! The first two are more likely than the third. -- Regards, Danny Hope http://linkedin.com/in/dannyhope 07595 226 792 Welcome

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Public Transportation Experiences

2008-12-05 Thread Danny Hope
of interaction design (although not specifically a website feature). Bret Victor (the app's creator) talks about aspecdts of it's development in this article: http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/ -- Regards, Danny Hope http://linkedin.com/in/dannyhope 07595 226 792

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How to cue people for drag and drop

2008-12-02 Thread Danny Hope
when hovering over a movable part. * Move other rows aside leaving an area where the active one can be dropped. Shade the gap so that it's darker than the row. OS 7 provides some inspiration in this area: http://www.flickr.com/photos/yandle/3076451873 -- Regards, Danny Hope http://linkedin.com

Re: [IxDA Discuss] petition to Omni: graffle based prototyping tool

2008-11-21 Thread Danny Hope
, the others do too. Certainly an inspiring idea. Off to add my name to the petition. -- Regards, Danny Hope http://linkedin.com/in/dannyhope 07595 226 792 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Any thoughts on placement of company contact information?

2008-11-18 Thread Danny Hope
a website with the addition of a fax number. -- Regards, Danny Hope http://linkedin.com/in/dannyhope 07595 226 792 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Alternative to Word w/ Track Changes?

2008-11-18 Thread Danny Hope
2008/11/18 Janet M. Six [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anybody know of a good -- and free! -- alternative to using Word with Track Changes? http://docs.google.com -- Regards, Danny Hope http://linkedin.com/in/dannyhope 07595 226 792

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Dialog Position

2008-11-17 Thread Danny Hope
appearance C. Near mouse cursor position (in most cases it will be equal to B since there is very little delay between action and showing dialog). Option B – place the control *within the users locus of attention*. -- Regards, Danny Hope http://linkedin.com/in/dannyhope 07595 226 792

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best Practices for Mouseover Layers

2008-11-13 Thread Danny Hope
Hey Jack, 2008/11/13 Jack Moffett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Nov 13, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Danny Hope wrote: Arguably, best practice says: don't initiate layers on rollover, but rather to require a click. Danny, I can't agree with you here. Displaying new information on rollover has been a widely

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best Practices for Mouseover Layers

2008-11-13 Thread Danny Hope
2008/11/13 Jackson Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED]: …Netflix's movie info boxes. Can you give me a URL please? -- Regards, Danny Hope http://linkedin.com/in/dannyhope 07595 226 792 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Gmail Labs: Mark as Read Button

2008-11-11 Thread Danny Hope
to the 'thread that just won't die!' If you're part of a long message conversation that isn't relevant, you can 'mute' the conversation to keep all future additions out of your inbox. -- Regards, Danny Hope http://linkedin.com/in/dannyhope 07595 226 792

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interesting drag interface

2008-11-07 Thread Danny Hope
. Nice. The thing I like about this is it ignores so many usability principals and still creates an interesting (if useless) experience. -- Regards, Danny Hope http://linkedin.com/in/dannyhope 07595 226 792 Welcome to the Interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Multi-select on the web

2008-11-07 Thread Danny Hope
, and Selection rules) analysis to guide your choice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOMS -- Regards, Danny Hope http://linkedin.com/in/dannyhope 07595 226 792 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Scrolling list view vs. More links

2008-10-03 Thread Danny Hope
'Events' – this might make more sense when used out of context than 'view more' does. -- Regards, Danny Hope http://yandleblog.com/ 07595 226 792 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL

[IxDA Discuss] Collaborative HTML Prototyping

2008-08-26 Thread Danny Hope
I looking for a way of collaborating with a team on producing HTML prototypes. I'm after something fairly lightweight. I'd like there to be only a single instance of the prototype (i.e. no emailing it to eachother). Anyone got any advice? -- Regards, Danny Hope http://yandleblog.com/ 07951

[IxDA Discuss] [event] UX Brighton: Local Remote Usability Testing

2008-08-18 Thread Danny Hope
. Webnographer has been developed by FeraLabs, a new start-up based in Berlin and Hastings, founded by Sabrina Mach and James Page. -- Regards, Danny Hope http://hobointernet.com +44 (0)845 230 3760 Welcome to the Interaction Design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] I love the cloud, but...

2008-07-25 Thread Danny Hope
important to apply pressure to system vendors to adopt open standards so that we can create a distributed, more stable overall system. -- Regards, Danny Hope http://hobointernet.com +44 (0)845 230 3760 Welcome to the Interaction Design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] I love the cloud, but...

2008-07-21 Thread Danny Hope
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Kim Bieler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... when Google Docs goes down, you can almost hear the collective moan around the world. Nearly forgot, this is my response to your point: http://yandleblog.com/2008/07/trusting-cloud.html -- Regards, Danny Hope http

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Ubicomp Reading List

2008-07-18 Thread Danny Hope
exhaustive. What else should be on this list? http://www.studies-observations.com/everyware/ -- Regards, Danny Hope http://yandleblog.com/ 07951 828 312 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Zoomii: Google Maps -like interaction in a bookstore

2008-07-07 Thread Danny Hope
from magic. http://zoomii.com/ What do you think? Rather than showing book details in a pop-up, it should be possible to simply zoom closer for this information. -- Regards, Danny Hope http://hobointernet.com +44 (0)845 230 3760

[IxDA Discuss] Next UX Brighton Event: Objects Play

2008-07-07 Thread Danny Hope
. -- Regards, Danny Hope http://yandleblog.com/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pie Menu Spotted on the Web

2008-06-30 Thread Danny Hope
Another good example is Gmail's experimental 'Mouse gestures' feature. Unfortunately the way it's been implemented means the browser's contextual menu can no longer be used – hopefully they'll fix this. -- Regards, Danny Hope http://yandleblog.com/ 07951 828 312

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usage Of Print Friendly Functionality

2008-06-11 Thread Danny Hope
pages print gracefully and you're not using any unnecessary ink or paper. I agree. 'Printer friendly' should be an attribute *not a function*. -- Regards, Danny Hope http://hobointernet.com +44 (0)845 230 3760 Welcome

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA Twitter Stream

2008-06-11 Thread Danny Hope
[2] http://www.flickr.com/photos/smorgasbord-design/2570905384/ A while age there was talk [1] about showing a feed on the IxDA site - anyone got any views on this? [1] http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=29042 -- Regards, Danny Hope http://hobointernet.com +44 (0)845 230 3760

Re: [IxDA Discuss] From Personal Computers to Personal Information Environments: Apple's MobileMe?

2008-06-10 Thread Danny Hope
) preferences 2) documents MobileMe doesn't do either. 3) I also want to access Gmail's address book via my desktop (but that's not something Apple can fix - Gmail needs LDAP support). -- Regards, Danny Hope http://hobointernet.com +44 (0)845 230 3760

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Adaptive UIs (web or otherwise)

2008-06-09 Thread Danny Hope
a different style of thinking). -- Regards, Danny Hope http://hobointernet.com +44 (0)845 230 3760 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Adaptive UIs (web or otherwise)

2008-06-09 Thread Danny Hope
just give the user buttons to declare their view. -- Regards, Danny Hope http://hobointernet.com +44 (0)845 230 3760 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] adding the twitter badge to the IxDA site?

2008-05-15 Thread Danny Hope
the visual noise. -- Regards, Danny Hope http://hobointernet.com +44 (0)845 230 3760 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Navigation Schemas

2008-05-06 Thread Danny Hope
: http://www.flickr.com/photos/morville/collections/72157603785835882/ -- Regards, Danny Hope http://hobointernet.com +44 (0)845 230 3760 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL