Re: [IxDA Discuss] help text in input fields - bad?

2010-02-03 Thread Diego Moya
I'm not sure I understand what problem the sliding labels are supposed to solve. I thought putting labels inside input fields was a compromise solution, for placing instructions in forms where few space is available. With sliding labels, the final form occupies the same space than a classic form

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Browse or Search

2010-01-19 Thread Diego Moya
2010/1/18 parth wrote: I still wonder what kind of use cases would strongly demand Browsing Artists by Alphabetical order ? There's one use case where Browsing Artists by Alphabetical order is needed: when the user doesn't know the exact spelling of the artist's name and has to find it scanning

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The Red Cross donation form

2010-01-15 Thread Diego Moya
Which particular form are you referring to? They seem to have several online forms at different countries. Is it one of these? http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_options

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Save vs Save and Exit

2010-01-14 Thread Diego Moya
I like how the GMail interface handles the case for saving a new message as a draft: a Save now button that gets disabled after the content has been saved (either by the user or autosave). The button is reactivated when the user makes a change to the content. This provides a persistent indicator

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Google added AJAX to Google Translate?

2009-11-26 Thread Diego Moya
It's fairly recent, they announced it ten days ago in the official Google blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-look-for-google-translate.html AJAX means Asynchronous JAvascript + Xml, so if it has javascript and asynchronous server calls in it, you can bet its the real thing. It

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Firefox tilting web pages

2009-10-15 Thread Diego Moya
C'mon people, the implemented feature is not tilting web pages, it's detecting accelerometers as an input device. Link to the original source: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/10/orientation-for-firefox/ This feature is becoming a standard in mobile devices, it just makes sense adding an API to it

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Expression Blend 3.0 with SketchFlow Released Today

2009-07-13 Thread Diego Moya
2009/7/13 Fredrik Matheson fredrik.mathe...@gmail.com: So, has anyone tried EP3 with Sketchflow? What's your experience so far? I've given EB3.0 a quick run. Everything below is the result of a very rough first impression based on few minutes of usage. On first opening, it looks very similar

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where is the Sign In on Amazon.com?

2009-06-30 Thread Diego Moya
Maybe they have read *this* and wanted to collect their $300,000,000... The $300 Million Button http://www.uie.com/articles/three_hund_million_button (Short answer: forcing buyers to register cost sales, so that convention doesn't work for stores).

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Password Masking research

2009-06-25 Thread Diego Moya
is such a repetitive procedure that this learning should happen quickly. If you try to patent this procedure, I will claim prior art :-) Diego Moya Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Is Auto-Scrolling Good?

2008-12-01 Thread Diego Moya
Two quick ideas for alternatives: - a zooming user interface would remove the need to scroll. With a zoom out, both origin and target of the drag-and-drop can be viewed at the same time no matter the distance between them. This would lack accuracy in selecting the target position, though, unless

Re: [IxDA Discuss] GUI / CLI / Quicksilver (was Windows -- what would you change in interaction?)

2008-04-10 Thread Diego Moya
In case that you don't know it yet, you absolutely have to review Humanized's Enso Launcher (www.*humanized*.com). It provides an interface similar to Quicksilver but based on principles developed by Jef Raskin (one of the original Mac designers) which are briefly explained in the Archy wikipedia