I think you're more likely to find new metaphors on mobile devices
(such as iPhone) than on the desktop computer. There, I have a
feeling that we've reached our QWERTY point: as with that keyboard
layout, the current approach is ubiquitous, fairly well understood,
and works adequately, so
Jose - you're right that it's awkward to have stuff for a given
project scattered across multiple apps. I think there's a fairly
simple fix to that: a smart system-wide model for tagging objects
(files, emails, database records, etc.) I've noticed, for example,
that I often have email folders that
I had a lot of luck with a wide library of sounds here:
http://www.soundrangers.com/
As others have said, if you really want to make something from
scratch, this isn't what you need, but if you want at least some
basis for manipulation you can find a lot of good stuff here...
cheap.
. . . .
Another approach would be to replace the save metaphor with a
checkpoint (I'm not wild about that word, but it'll work for
now). The system would save continuously, and whenever you wanted to
note a significant revision, you'd click checkpoint. The app
would let you add notes (as searchable
On Oct 24, 2008, at 8:36 AM, JimH wrote:
.. I find it so irritating when sites don't tell the rules (and
they're all different) until after your first or second attempt
violates them!
I'd like to add an appeal for password requirements to appear after a
failed logon attempt, not just
I was surprised at this comment by Joel also. The best solution, as
far as I'm concerned, is to have items be disabled -- don't expect
users to select things just to be told why they don't work -- but
offer a tool tip showing why the item is disabled if you hover over it
or select it. The
I thought I'd list myself as a freelancer on Guru.com, and was
surprised and distressed to find that interaction design, user
experience, usability, etc. etc. aren't among the many categories
you're allowed to select. Does this just reflect some ignorance on
the part of the Guru.com
On Jun 9, 2008, at 10:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a user who doesn't appreciate when a system guesses what I
might like. The use of that word makes me nervous for myself as a
user and for a client of mine where guessing may just not be
reliable or accurate enough, leading to more
This is an intriguing discussion, but I fear Usability =
Predictability is a bit of an oversimplification. So just to
antagonize...
Consider an application with 150 functions. The UI for this application
consists of a single screen, with a short sentence describing each
function in 6pt text.
At the risk of reopening the Twitter vs. IRC discussion, I'd like to
mention that Jeff Howard has been kind enough to set up a link to the
IxDA chat channel:
http://ixda.org/chat
This link currently redirects to our #ixda channel on Freenode, but in
the future it might go somewhere else.
I have to admit I've given up on following the Twitter feed already,
although I am hanging around in the #ixd IRC channel. I'm not a
Twitter hater at all, but turning it into a group chat application is
a real stretch.
Here are my concerns --if the Twitter fans can offer workarounds or
On May 14, 2008, at 3:34 PM, Loredana Crisan wrote:
How do you folks feel when you have to use an interactive voice
response system?
Anxious, because I don't trust them; given the choice to press or say
your account number I *always* use the keypad, figuring DTMF is a lot
less ambiguous
We had a notion over on the IRC channel about interfacing Twitter,
IRC, and the list... I'm interested to see if anybody would want to
try this. The idea was to establish the URL
http://ixda.org/chat
and have it redirect to wherever we carry on a real-time discussion,
currently
On May 13, 2008, at 4:27 AM, David Malouf wrote:
I too think that Twitter is the new chat mechanism.
As an old chat guy, but relatively recent Twitter user, I must
respectfully disagree. For me, at least, Twitter is almost
exclusively casual watercooler conversation. Granted, people do
Most of us old-timers probably expected voice I/O to be a common part
of personal computing by now. But here we are in 2008, and I don't see
even early signs of voice emerging into the mainstream. Products like
Naturally Speaking have some popularity, but my sense is that they're
used far
On May 10, 2008, at 5:17 AM, the wrote:
How about EFnet? It's pretty stableI'm in #ixda on EFnet right
now...this is any unclaimed channel, I'm the only one in here.
EFnet would be fine with me, but I find almost all of the channels I'm
frequenting these days are on freenode. Either
On May 8, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Will Evans wrote:
Wouldn't want to get into a debate with her - she has a blackbelt
and would
kick most of our butts.
You did notice that her black belt was in Six Sigma, right? She could
kick our butts in quality control, I suppose... ;-)
On May 2, 2008, at 8:23 AM, mark schraad wrote:
I found my self wondering if, for professional tools, there is
greater adoption, product loyalty and stickiness in leaving a
certain amount of difficulty in the UI? The thinking goes... if the
process is to easy, then everyone can do it and
On Apr 29, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Vishal Iyer wrote:
The browser until now has been primarily an information exchange
application, hence the bookmarks, back button, refresh, history etc.
With the rapid increase in task based applications over the web, the
next generation browser (and
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Don Habas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The question we're struggling with is since most of these fields are
very common, how much explanation is needed in the validation
message...
On Apr 11, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Alexander Baxevanis wrote:
I would highlight the
On Apr 9, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Brandon E.B. Ward wrote:
... The GUI brought computers to the rest of us who couldn't be
bothered to learn command-line syntax and the mystical inner-
workings of an 'invisible' machine.
... for me, as a GUI-user, I have also found that once I've mastered
a
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