Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing Gestural Interfaces (and Touchscreen Stencils!)

2008-12-03 Thread David Talbot
Nice, I'm very interested in gestual/tangible experiences. I'm always glad to hear about new stuff concerning this! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36131 ___

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pie Menus

2008-10-31 Thread David Talbot
Thanks for the video and references! The video really shows the value of marking menu. An earlier conparison of pie vs linear menu was made, that you might know about, Kaleem, and I post it as reference purposes. CALLAHAN J., HOPKINS D., WEISER M., SHNEIDERMAN B. (1988). « An empirical comparison

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pie Menus

2008-10-28 Thread David Talbot
I'm glad seeing interests for pie menus. They have some limitations (ie.: screen space and number of elements) but present major advantages offer linear menus. One I like is the possibility to use marks for selection instead of pointing. Gordon Kurtembach made a Ph.D. thesis on the subject, calling

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fighting trolls

2008-03-27 Thread David Talbot
I guess this problem of duplicates apply to new users as well as old ones too. On Slashdot, they are a limited number of users and I've seen duplicates quite often. They must have an efficient way to know existing threads for the new subject they want to post. My idea would be to force the search

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of web-based drag and drop functionality

2008-03-20 Thread David Talbot
I used toolman Javscript library : http://tool-man.org/examples/ This page has cool examples of drag and drop for lists and other direct manipulations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=27347 __

Re: [IxDA Discuss] what helped most in your career?

2008-03-18 Thread David Talbot
I would say curiosity and open mind. It also helps me to have a strong technological background in order to find solutions to design needs. This also help me to communicate with developers : to understand their concerns. Even if I won't agree to diminish usability level for ease of programming ; I

Re: [IxDA Discuss] "home" links

2008-02-04 Thread David Talbot
I think that whether to put a "home" link on the menu or on the logo or both should depends, as it was previously said, on the kind of public that your site is designed for. I personnaly got an issue with the "Home" button of one of my sites. I used to put it in the logo because I thought it was s