At least 4 people on my team (in addition to myself) will be there. We
are local Austinites and happy to help coordinate! There are some
amazing places to eat great Tex-Mex in Austin... as well as some
fantastic Margaritas!
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
, confusing,
restrictive, etc.
Is there any data on the successful use of design guidelines by
non-designers? Are there better alternatives?
Thx,
Russ
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Would love thoughts/opinions on this diagram:
http://www.dexodesign.com/2009/10/15/intuitive-vs-conventional/
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to share now with the community
because what is most
important to me on the site is the opinion and input of others. The more
expert input, the better.
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I seem to recall reading an article some time ago about fundamental
interactions. I think there were 5:
1) Create content
2) Modify content
3) Navigate content
4) ...
5) ...
Does anyone know what the others are? Am I remembering this wrong?
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Russ
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It might have been something I read from Aza Raskin...
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children's clothing and calculate their taxes. Hence the ordinary...
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On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Jared Spool jsp...@uie.com wrote:
Exactly. Why
-liner (although I do
like your scenario). I'm really interested in how people in our field of
design characterize what they do.
That's all Jared... I promise... :-)
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Therefore, Marc's answer of arranging code to perform a function on a
computer is the best answer I've seen so far, but my sense is that it
wasn't what you were looking for.
But it was! I'm just interested in what people's answers are to the
question - no restrictions.
I do think there are
...making the ordinary extraordinary seems very generic to me, whereas
software design seems fairly specific. (I hang out, because of my son's
profession, with a lot of magicians and special effects artists these days.
Those guys think they've cornered the market on 'making the ordinary
).
(would love to get comments on my post about his so that I can collect them
all in one place):
http://www.dexodesign.com/2009/07/03/in-10-words-or-less-what-is-software-design-to-you/
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But I'm not talking about forcing people to register to buy... I just want
an easy way to log in that doesn't break with convention and force me to
think about it every time...
I totally agree that you should be able to buy something without
registering.
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of popular convention that it is expected. Amazon's way may
theoretically be better but it forces users to retrain themselves and modify
their behavior/thought process for Amazon's site versus other sites.
Russell Wilson
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Essentially yes. My first thought always is to want to click sign in.
When I can't I look to see if I'm already signed in. When I realize I'm
not, I look for a sign in link... and when I don't find that I click any
of the links in order to sign in...
Maybe I'm crazy... :-)
Russell
=1action=sign-out
.
The linking seems off (I expect Sign in to be a link)
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http://www.dexodesign.com/2009/06/19/results-for-most-preferred-uxui-title-poll/
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Welcome
it, but didn't see an anonymous option)
Thx!!!
Russ
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formatting - tried to get this done between meetings...
:-)
Please if you can go to http://www.dexodesign.com and take the *new and
improved* survey!
Best regards,
Russ
P.S. Thx to the 37 respondents who already took the poll despite the
need for a login!
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All of these questions are obvious and yet we still don't have consensus or
standardized solutions for them...
http://www.dexodesign.com/2009/03/30/four-questions-every-software-user-interface-designer-and-usability-professional-should-be-thinking-about/
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Wow - see post/article here:
http://www.dexodesign.com/2009/03/24/705k-for-redesigning-a-website/
This is for real (and maybe I'm the only one shocked about the price tag?)
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I know there are projects of this size, but from the description (and
admittedly many
details were left out), it just didn't seem like that large of a project.
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I really wish I had the time to read the responses in detail (way too
busy today!)... but from snippets:
1) Program Manager as a title is both outdated and nebulous. I
don't know any two people who would agree on what a program manager
does. If you want to move more into the business side, go
@Jason
It surprises me that this discussion has focused so much on what he
calls the job, then the relationship he describes between designers
and developers.
Why is that surprising??? We (us, the industry, etc.) have to agree
on a name for our role. Without it we lack credibility and it makes
That's what I understood his point to be
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So the theory is to cloak the designer as a program manager? Or did
I twist that a bit?
On Mar 9, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Russell Wilson wrote:
Lacking a program
@Dan - I completely agree. Very frustrating for someone who spends a
lot of time evangelizing the value of good design.
@Patrick - I'm not threatened at all, and I started out as a
programmer (BS and MS) - and still code when I can - just wrote some
javascript as a matter of fact. But what Joel
Mary - see my post on Balsamiq (and other tools):
http://www.dexodesign.com/2008/11/07/review-16-user-interface-prototyping-tools/
I think Balsamiq is a great tool and use it often.
Best regards,
Russ
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Full article:
http://www.dexodesign.com/2009/02/23/successful-designers-must-influence-product-direction-and-strategy/
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?
And like others, would love to see a copy of your presentation if available.
Best regards,
Russ
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I'm becoming more and more interested
a reasonable set of
data.
Best regards,
Russ
P.S. I may have excluded some important conferences/workshops. Please
comment
if you feel strongly that a particular conference should be added.
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that a particular conference should be added.
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And how do you objectively prove it's better? Short of testing
alternatives you have a very subjective problem.
Russ
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On Jan 25, 2009, at 2:12 PM,
And how do you objectively prove it's better? Short of testing
alternatives you have a very subjective problem.
Further, there is rarely if ever one perfect design solution, but many
very good solutions possible; any and all of which work well enough within
reason and to varying degrees.
we have tested multiple designs and had
inconclusive results (1+ designs tested equally well).
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Russ
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Exactly my point. Given that there are 1+ equally viable design solutions,
it may
The problem is that you can't always show stuff just because it
shipped. There are still issues with exposing parts of the ui to non-
customers
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Good question. This is one reason it pays to work
This is particularly true for application design (my focus) versus
website design.
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On Jan 15, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Will Evans wkeva...@gmail.com wrote:
Along these lines, this discussion came up a lot this morning
I love that!
- Russ
When I'm interviewing, I tend to treat requests for a portfolio as an
Employer Intelligence TestA remarkable number fail.
Katie
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This would require significant scrolling and may be a performance issue as
well.
We are considering pagination as well as separating the contents of the
nodes from
the nodes themselves (two separate controls).
Any thoughts appreciated!
Russ
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to
scan the data to find what they want. Does that make sense?
This is why we can't rely on filtering/search (although we do provide it).
Thanks again.
Russ
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Bryan Minihan
will have more meat... and if you have any other
sources of material on this,
I would love to have it to link to and reference.
http://www.dexodesign.com/2008/10/28/why-should-designers-make-more-a-miniseries/
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want to thank everyone
for
taking the time to provide their input.
Best regards,
Russ
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design - 15% of project
etc.
Does anyone have any information on this?
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Russ
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indicator of the value UI brings to the table... however
fragile that indicator is. And to your point, maybe tracking the reverse
is a method worth exploring?
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with.
http://blog.dexodesign.com/2008/08/18/6-metrics-for-managing-ui-design/
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Does anyone have any data on the effectiveness of back to top links?
Are they any better than just scrolling back up?
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I'm not trying to drive people to my blog (I have enough traffic now), but I
posted
a very short entry highlighting what I feel is a very creative navigation
method.
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I would love to get IxDA'ers opinions because many of my readers do not
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Does anyone have any experience prototyping with Google's GWT-Ext?
http://gwt-ext.com/
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and usability; I work very hard to sell
design/usability to executives and other stakeholders outside of our
group, but I just don't see the point...
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From reading the Arial vs. Verdana thread, I wonder what designers' favorite
tool
for word processing on a Mac is. Framemaker has been mine in the past, but
is no
longer available for the Mac... and Word just doesn't cut it.
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Has anyone come across functional design as a term? I thought it made
sense
for back-end design.
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For Artists, Architects And
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It's a one-stop-shop that covers the gamut of all things visual. It has
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