Re: [IxDA Discuss] Setting up a UX conference in Lisbon - need advice and ideas

2009-10-21 Thread Evan K . Stone
ological growth there as well, so that's really exciting too. But out of curiosity is this going to be next year's version of SHiFT, or a similar/derivative conference? Obrigado/Thanks! Evan K. Stone | interactivelogic.NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Simple iPhone Wireframe Templates for Sketching

2009-09-18 Thread Evan K . Stone
Ummm... yeah. I have seen that, and that's precisely why I did it myself. Add a three-ring punch and a binder into the mix and whammo! I have my own sketchbook with the following added benefits: 1. It's a fraction of the cost (except the time to create... but this was fun and worth it) 2. I can r

[IxDA Discuss] Simple iPhone Wireframe Templates for Sketching

2009-09-18 Thread evan k. stone
ilable for download in case others would like them. Hope you find them helpful/useful! enjoy! evan k. stone | interactivelogic.net Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@i

[IxDA Discuss] Screen Reader for Outlook

2009-07-23 Thread evan k. stone
Hmmm... it seems as if Text-to-Speech is only natively available in Excel 2007 (not the more obvious choices, Outlook & Word): http://tinyurl.com/n7wysa Does anyone know of a decent free-or-cheap Text-to-Speech add-in/plugin for Outlook? Thanks in advance! ///eks __

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Slider orientation best practice

2009-05-14 Thread Evan K. Stone
whoops! guess I should have tinyURLed it. > How about the date range slider in Quicken Online: http://tinyurl.com/quuyg9 hopefully that will be better for folks. [creates mental note for future...] ;) evan k. stone | ux | dragnet solutions,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Slider orientation best practice

2009-05-14 Thread Evan K. Stone
down on the side has preset date ranges (30/60/90 days, etc.) that expand the gap between the "handles," which are also freely adjustable (with a pop-up calendar). Just throwing it out there to see if this (or something similar) would fit your needs. HTH. evan k. stone | ux | d

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pagination best practices

2009-05-12 Thread Evan K. Stone
> However, when I tried Google's 10, 20, 30, 50, 100 results > preferences, it was much easier for me to scan through 10 results, > didn't require as much scrolling (which is painful to people with > repetitive stress injuries, fibromyalgia, arthritis, etc.), Speaking as someone with RSI problems,

[IxDA Discuss] Preview of SketchFlow prototyping in Expression Blend 3

2009-04-29 Thread Evan K. Stone
InfoQ has an article with an early preview of Expression Blend 3's SketchFlow functionality for doing prototypes in .NET: http://www.infoq.com/articles/guest-simon-sketchflow ...just in case anyone's interested. enjoy. ///eks

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Need to learn Graphic Design -- Do something aboutit!

2009-04-09 Thread Evan K. Stone
honestly, this couldn't have come at a better time for me. this is definitely one of my weaker areas, so this will help immensely! thanks dave! much appreciated! ///eks Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What music for interaction designers

2009-03-10 Thread Evan K. Stone
...I guess I'm little slow on the draw for this one. Since I dj on the side, I generally listen to my own mixes: http://www.recombinantstudios.com/dj/mixes.html The mixes are mostly minimal/tech-house, though I do have some retro-ish mixes with 80's tracks too in the archives (can't get aw

Re: [IxDA Discuss] iPhone Custom Application Standards andemulators for testing - reference

2009-02-04 Thread Evan K. Stone
enabled me to do just about everything an iPhone could do (except call people), and I used it for over a year until I finally took the iPhone plunge. No regrets. Highly recommended. And no monthly fee! ;) Hope this helps! evan k. stone | ux | d

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Musical Keyboard-Performer Interaction

2008-12-05 Thread Evan K. Stone
> the other is the buttons for shaping or > modifying the sound. My interest is on the second one. It has an > important role on the interaction; interface gives the performer the > ability of a wide range of modifications and alterations on the > sound. ...at around $3000 US, it will be a long ti

Re: [IxDA Discuss] "Email to friend" a valid feature?

2008-12-04 Thread Evan K. Stone
> I use this feature A LOT, both to mail interesting articles, videos, etc. to > others, and also to send things I'd like archived to myself at a gmail > account. I use the feature fairly often, but almost exclusively for the latter case mentioned by Marilyn: that of emailing items of interest to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [Event] NYC: Streaming Video of "Tap is the New Click" by Dan Saffer

2008-09-17 Thread Evan K. Stone
when? now? > We're going to try and stream this event live on Ustream.tv. Here's the link > to watch: > http://www.ustream.tv/channel/dan-saffer---%22tap-is-the-new-click%22-by -nyc-ixda Welcome to the Interaction Design Associatio

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interesting interface design

2008-09-17 Thread Evan K. Stone
g over a region that enacted something that I really didn't want to do. It brings up some good questions, however. evan k. stone | ux | dragnet solutions, inc. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2008-09-09 Thread Evan K. Stone
> On the other hand, there is no way to distinguish between these > passive additions to my email history vs. those I've actually WANTED > in my contacts. B/c of this, I don't even bother managing my well > over 2000 contacts (and no I'm not that popular and I'm not a > stalker). This problem has

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Firefly

2008-09-05 Thread Evan K. Stone
darn. I thought this was going to be about the TV show... ...oh well. ;) ///eks > we are looking at purchasing Firefly - wondering if anyone has any > experience of this product. Feedback would be much appreciated. I'm > currently waiting for the trial version. _

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Facial recognition authentication

2008-09-04 Thread Evan K. Stone
well received by the people who tested it their functionality. That said, the fingerprint authentication seemed to work much better in their opinion. hope this helps. evan k. stone | ux | dragnet solutions, inc. .:. message.original .:. > There's at least one laptop floating around there

Re: [IxDA Discuss] A New Browser: Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread Evan K. Stone
...so has there been any word on its relation to Android? seems to me it would be a natural fit, and then would provide a more competitive mobile application platform. just wondering out loud. ///eks > -Original Message- > Not just a competitor, it's an AIR-killer, to use the tired exp

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Mozilla Labs: Ubiquity

2008-08-27 Thread Evan K. Stone
definitely a derivative of his work on enso. interesting how close the functionality is: http://www.humanized.com/enso_demo.php makes sense, however... this would be the next logical step, being with mozilla now. ///eks > -Original Message- > Aza Raskin presents very intriguing interac

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Silverlight pattern library

2008-08-08 Thread Evan K. Stone
> I remember years ago when I could simply go to the MSDN section for Common > Controls and share those proto-design patterns. I'm looking for the WPF > version of that. ...speaking as a developer (one of the hats I wear), I feel your pain. Unfortunately, Microsoft has seemed to have stepped asid

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Adaptive Path's Aurora ... Discuss

2008-08-06 Thread Evan K. Stone
> Go buy/borrow a modern game console and check out the various "rumble" > and "shock" controllers. It really does make a significance difference > in gameplay. yes, of course! I'm not a console gamer, but you're right - like the steering consoles that rumble/shake when you "drive" over rough ter

[IxDA Discuss] Success and Failure Symbolic Representations & Patterns for "Details"

2008-08-06 Thread Evan K. Stone
tered. Of these, I think I'm more agreeable to the disclosure triangle, but I was just curious to see if anyone had come across or was working on more interesting patterns for this problem. I guess I just don't want to do what's easiest for the developer (i.e. me, in this case), but rathe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Adaptive Path's Aurora ... Discuss

2008-08-06 Thread Evan K. Stone
groundbreaking, but it did give me a little "aha!" since I had to set it up myself (I guess it's something akin to the Haptic Pen project that was discussed a while back...). [/tangent] evan k. stone | ux | dragnet solutions, inc. __

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Adaptive Path's Aurora ... Discuss

2008-08-06 Thread Evan K. Stone
> (however yes, the repetitive strain injuries yet to be discovered are going > to be fun to watch for) ...that was the first thing I thought of when I saw her using the arm device. yikes. ///eks Welcome to the Interaction Design A

[IxDA Discuss] Studies on aversion to ATMs for making deposits?

2008-06-26 Thread Evan K. Stone
Has anyone here heard of any studies or research that has been done to determine why many people have an aversion to making deposits at ATMs? Is it a fundamental distrust of handing money to a machine, or are there deeper issues involved? evan k. stone | sr. ux developer | dragnet solutions

Re: [IxDA Discuss] From Personal Computers to Personal InformationEnvironments: Apple's "MobileMe"?

2008-06-09 Thread Evan K. Stone
nstance of its use. It does bring up some interesting possibilities. evan k. stone | ux | dragnet solutions, inc. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscrib

[IxDA Discuss] patterns for simplifying preferences/options/configuration

2008-05-22 Thread Evan K. Stone
good references or information they would like to share? thanks in advance. evan k. stone | dragnet solutions, inc. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Iron Man

2008-05-08 Thread Evan K. Stone
It's highly coincidental that this topic came up, since I too was greatly impressed by the user interface ideas presented in Iron Man. Immediately afterward, that's all I could think and talk about. I'm glad I'm not the only one who had that kind of reaction... [spoiler] I was intrigued with the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Desktop application menus

2008-04-30 Thread Evan K. Stone
, but that would be another candidate for wrapping up a lot of functionality in a more compact package (with automatic collapsing and expanding). evan k. stone | sr. ux developer | dragnet solutions, inc. Welcome to the Interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] iPhone 2.0 Game Over? I think not!

2008-04-30 Thread Evan K. Stone
7;s WWDC * The 1-year anniversary of the v1 iPhone. But who really knows? It's all pretty much speculation at this point, but I sure hope it arrives soon... ;) evan k. stone | sr. ux developer | dragnet solutions, inc. W

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Windows -- what would you change in interaction?

2008-04-09 Thread Evan K. Stone
er for them to enter in the commands and data than to try to point-and-click. Thanks for recommending these utilities, since it certainly gets me thinking in other directions with regard to projects I'm working on (or may have to work on in the future), not just Windows or OS user interac