Re: [IxDA Discuss] New Site: Feedback?

2009-05-01 Thread FoongYeen Chan
Agree with Kelly and William. A few questions that you should consider. 1. Your intended goal is to promote yourself, Nina Eleanor Alter or Bigwheel.net (company)? 2. Did you consider the usability or heuristics when you're designing this site? It has a serious UX in the site. Better watch out if

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Terms Every IxD Should Know

2009-02-24 Thread FoongYeen Chan
more to add to the list. See SAP User Experience glossary http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/ux_glossary.asp regards, Chan On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Bo Lora bol...@hotmail.com wrote: I can't resist. Hub and Spoke hasn't been mentioned... That will get a whole room going in

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Terms Every IxD Should Know

2009-02-15 Thread FoongYeen Chan
more... scenario heuristic user-centered design list box text box emotions regards, CHAN On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Dan Saffer d...@odannyboy.com wrote: At I09, there were a lot of calls for a vocabulary we can all understand, no matter what medium we're working in. As part of my

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Research: Three user groups, five hours. What would you do?

2009-02-04 Thread FoongYeen Chan
Sometime I will do mind mapping. There are tools like Mind Manager that able to facilitate the creation of mind map quickly. cheers, CHAN On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:29 AM, A S aschechter...@gmail.com wrote: Oh-oh, I draw pictures. = : ^ ) Andrew Schechterman PhD LinkedIn:

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Research Frameworks - Definition, Examples Creation?

2009-01-03 Thread FoongYeen Chan
Joel, For Research and Analysis column, you probably want to add Contextual Inquiry and Ethnography too. regards, CHAN On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Joel Laumans jlaum...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not familiar with any research frameworks, however, last year I worked on developing a User

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interactin designers in China?

2008-12-23 Thread FoongYeen Chan
Hi Joe, I wouldn't say there is none or no trained UX people in Shanghai. I might not be the same case from Beijing. In fact, there quite a big community of these professionals in Shanghai. A lot of big names companies like IDEO, HFI, Autodesk, Microsoft, IBM, HP, SAP, etc has their own IxD and

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Flights to Vancouver decreasing in $?

2008-12-09 Thread FoongYeen Chan
May I know from where is the departure destination? CHAN On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Janna Hicks DeVylder [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi all, In case you haven't booked your flight to Vancouver yet, I just saw an almost $200 decrease in my flight cost tonight on United (booking through

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of sites w/ dashboard info

2008-11-25 Thread FoongYeen Chan
You can preview the book above mentioned *Information Dashboard Design ** By Stephen Few *in Google Book Search at this link http://books.google.com/books?id=NomqOzZfHqoC You might want to search some examples from the industrial control. The industry uses a lot of dashboard design to display

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Review: 16 User Interface Prototyping Tools

2008-11-11 Thread FoongYeen Chan
Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help -- FoongYeen, CHAN User Experience Researcher

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Guerilla/DIY Usability Ethnography Research- Lazyweb, advisement...

2008-10-16 Thread FoongYeen Chan
Contextual inquiry will be good. You should go to the field where the user or your potential end user's environment (e.g. working place, community, home, etc) to observe and conduct a face-to-tace interview with them. You might get some result of what they really need, and you can come out with

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Books

2008-10-03 Thread FoongYeen Chan
Nice list, Here is another good book. Effective Prototyping for Software Makers (Interactive Technologies) by Jonathan Arnowitz, Michael Arent, and Nevin Berger

Re: [IxDA Discuss] right hand vertical menus

2008-09-20 Thread FoongYeen Chan
If you're designing for a touch screen panel, right-hand menu can be a better options considering most user will use their right hand to point. If the menu is on the left side, user need a bigger movement (see Fitt's Law). cheers, Chan, FY On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Chris Wright [EMAIL

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interesting interface design

2008-09-17 Thread FoongYeen Chan
We are so condition for so many years with mouse clicking to confirm our action. Without mouse click it doesn't give user the confirmation status of his/her action or selection. Agree with Kumar, it might be more suitable for gestural inputs like VR, immersive environment, where you use hand

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] IxDA Shanghai Face-to-Face Meeting: SEPTEMBER 27, 2008

2008-09-17 Thread FoongYeen Chan
Hi Itamar, The date posted is a little bit confusing. On the title you proposed on the 27th but in the letter content you propose 23rd? Please verify. Many thanks, Donny Chan 2008/9/16 Itamar Medeiros [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Everyone! After a period of radio silence, we'll be having our

[IxDA Discuss] The Fifth International Cyperspace Conference on Ergonomics (CybErg'08) (Registration Fees Waived)

2008-09-16 Thread FoongYeen Chan
To share with all of you. cheers, Donny Chan -- Hi all: I'd like to invite you all to attend the CybErg conference. http://www.cyberg2008.org/ Appreciate if you can also

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Clients are funny

2008-08-25 Thread FoongYeen Chan
Probably a good idea to add script such as auto maximize browser window to certain size when it is link and open up the page :) cheers, Donny Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Activities of Usability team

2008-08-17 Thread FoongYeen Chan
You can also understand user activities by doing ethnography studies and time motion tracking. cheers, Donny On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Guillermo Ermel [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hello IxDA members! I'm trying to define common activities of a usability team... So I've made a list.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Profile vs. Persona

2008-06-04 Thread FoongYeen Chan
Persona provides an illustration of a virtual user. There are more information that you can extract from a persona such as user's profile, goal, task to be completed, how he/she use the application tool, their daily life, behavior, common practice, user expectation, etc. All these information are