But no reason to actually choose CommonSpot over any other, paid or
otherwise?
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Welcome to the
Has anyone developed on this? The license for the software alone is
$20k, so clearly this is not for low-end sites. However, for
mid-range sites with budgets between $50k-$100k, does anyone know if
that $20k is worth it relative to an open-source CMS?
No Mac version?
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Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
To post to this list
Gorgeous stuff. Try Wired mag? They list their credits and do (or did)
a lot of cool infoporn.
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I'm curious about the charging thing - I've kept the charger next to
my bed for so many years now (both phone and Palm when they were
separate devices) that charge hasn't been an issue since the 90s.
Admittedly, I have to bring a charger on trips, but that's no big
deal.
Why do people even try to
I'm hearing the Pre has exactly the kind of battery problems that the
iPhone doesn't have, because all those background apps suck power. I
can certainly say that if I forget to close an app on my WinMo
crapjack it drains faster.
On the other hand, you can carry extra batteries for the Pre. So
I'd say integration and excitement. Meaning it has to answer the
question how well does it fit with my existing computer system,
PIM, music service, service provider, headset, etc.? and how much
does this phone excite me about doing things I couldn't before?
We don't even have a way of reliably
I certainly don't have data, but I've advocated with all my clients
to use images as enhancement and never, ever include important copy
in the image. Then I use ALT tags for those who don't listen to me.
Conversion rates are hard to judge since email has different content,
so I can't say if
I'm doing a huge e-commerce style site that has no category system at
all, other that filters like location and manufacturer. No categories,
no drilling, just searching and then extensive filtering of the
results. Once we have it past alpha I'll post it here for comment.
So I can't tell you if
I'd say these are all standard layouts that come with OS commerce,
Virtuemart, Magento, you name it, with a basic template. You didn't
say if design mean graphic or interface.
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I'm curious, how many of you Ix designers actually work with, hire,
or consult with security experts before finishing a project? Of
course this wasn't even a high-tech attack but the equivalent of
telling the voters to use pencils and then erasing them. Does anyone
even have a user testing program
I'm a rare Mac user who regularly uses right-clicking; I find that
most (even PC-converts) look for menus and buttons before they think
to right/control click on something. And I agree with that - right
clicking is counter-intuitive and inherently invisible.
Since your map isn't like anything
Practically everything is available here:
http://www.sounddogs.com/
And you can dl low-res versions to test before buying. Don't buy a
whole library.
Alternatively, you could hire a sound design specialist... I know, UX
designers don't hire specialists... seriously, though, I know a few
I had the same conversation with a friend just yesterday. We've seen
icons with a down arrow pointing at a hard disk or computer (which
also seems to mean export), but the best I've seen is a down arrow
pointing into a folder.
As a thought experiment, we wondered what if the world didn't have
I think this is an interesting idea. I suspect that most of the people
posting would be:
A) students or new designers working for small clients who aren't
going to ask for an NDA or whose sites are not unique enough to have
their designs be compromised by showing them, and
B) people wanting to
David, I'm in the same boat as you, having started off as a
web/graphic designer before moving into UX. I changed around my
portfolio and titles as you did, and have been boning up on all the
literature. I think you are what it says on your biz card/LinkedIn
page, since there's no vetting degree
I went through a lot of testing to choose Joomla, and of course I've
second-guessed myself many times, so I'd love to hear the reasoning.
Currently the IXDA site doesn't have a lot of functionality, and it
seems that Drupal is very good at doing one thing really well when
you have good
As I feared, the client went with icons, but they messed up the
overall design so much that the icons are now the LEAST of the
problems with the layout. At least I was able to choose icons that
were relatively similar in shape and reduced the clutter somewhat.
But what can you do when the folks
I need a little help here. I'm creating a site with a photo search
like Getty or Corbis. The client wants a series of buttons for each
photo denoting functionality. Here's the list:
-add to favorites
-Quick Quote (emails artist)
-Add to Quote (like add to cart)
-Compare photos (click to add to
I don't have a problem with icons in general - not at all! My issue
is in this particular application. I'm not worried about users
getting confused between photos and icons. I'm worried about the
overall layout. I can imagine the eyetracking research for this (I
wish I could get the client to do
I think it's shocking in an interesting way when someone does open up
on FB - just as it would if they did so in a group setting. In some
ways it makes revelations easier, because you don't have to see
anyone's face, even though it's not anonymous.
What sites like FB do really well, though, is
Question #2, after how much: Is it worth it? Anyone ever read this
magazine? A lot of interactive-themed publications seem to be
aimed at engineers or programmers rather than designers/architects.
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Great to meet all these folks who have the same kind of crazy as I do.
Not graphic designer crazy, not programmer crazy, not industrial
designer crazy, not game designer crazy. IxDc: Interaction Designer
Crazy.
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I think it's perfectly reasonable to assume that since our brains are
99.9% the same, that there is an underlying physics which will predict
why we find something beautiful. Look at the pop song hit-prediction
software - it's been proven to be accurate up to a limit. That limit
is probably a
Yeah, losing the entire tab navigation would defeat the purpose... Are
you finding this true in any particular design more than any other?
Where I see tabs get lost when they are underneath a row of primary
tabs/buttons and they aren't as prominent as the upper row - the
eye, after clicking the
Independent of any guidelines or other usage, isn't tab blindness
something you can take advantage of here? A user will probably already
know where they are by word or position, so wouldn't having the
current tab fade back help? You're still showing them that this tab
is different from the others
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