Re: [IxDA Discuss] Mac apps for a recent convert ...

2010-01-30 Thread Santiago Bustelo
/ Powerful, lean collaborative text (code) editor. TransType Pro http://www.fontlab.com/font-converter/transtype/ Universal font format converter for Mac and Windows. -- Santiago Bustelo, Icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina // IxDA Buenos Aires: http://www.ixda.com.ar

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Sparkline filtering

2009-10-22 Thread Santiago Bustelo
@Greg Thomas: Greg Petroff is talking about the subtle tick marks above the capacity, width and price sliders on the left column of the LG site. The charts in readybetgo are not sparklines. From Wikipedia: The term 'Sparkline' was proposed by Edward Tufte for small, high resolution

Re: [IxDA Discuss] JOB - User Experience Designer at Blitz

2009-09-16 Thread Santiago Bustelo
is what Interaction Design is about. -- Santiago Bustelo, Icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina // IxDA Buenos Aires: http://www.ixda.com.ar Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org

Re: [IxDA Discuss] JOB - User Experience Designer at Blitz

2009-09-15 Thread Santiago Bustelo
and fly around Red's website, I'm less thrilled about their use of Click here as the only affordance (?) for a link on the home page's main story. -- Santiago Bustelo, Icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina // IxDA Buenos Aires: http://www.ixda.com.ar

Re: [IxDA Discuss] the user is blamed by default...

2009-08-30 Thread Santiago Bustelo
Another chapter in the book Browser sniffing considered retarded ;-) -- Santiago Bustelo, Icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina // IxDA Buenos Aires: http://www.ixda.com.ar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UCD vs Design Again? Really?!? [was: We don't blah blah blah]

2009-08-30 Thread Santiago Bustelo
was not a democratic user centered or user focused one, but rather a paternalistic approach: do good to the user, without him/she asking or even recognizing it. -- Santiago Bustelo, Icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina // IxDA Buenos Aires: http://www.ixda.com.ar

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Indicators for cells with multiple values in a datagrid

2009-08-30 Thread Santiago Bustelo
to contact me in private. -- Santiago Bustelo, Icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina // IxDA Buenos Aires: http://www.ixda.com.ar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=45141

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How to design an online help?

2009-08-27 Thread Santiago Bustelo
they were sent to a page that showed you how to format, remove formatting, etc. Customer satisfaction rose. P.S: You may like to share your question in the IxDA Buenos Aires list: http://groups.google.com/group/ixda-ba -- Santiago Bustelo, Icograma %u2028Buenos Aires, Argentina // IxDA Buenos

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Feng-gui

2009-08-04 Thread Santiago Bustelo
Feng-gui's free analysis is not worth the investment. -- Santiago Bustelo, Icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina IxDA Buenos Aires: http://www.ixda.com.ar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44374

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Password Masking and Chroma-Hash

2009-08-02 Thread Santiago Bustelo
Lotus Notes' confusing and distracting login window, as the whole app itself, found its place in the Interface Hall of Shame: http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/iarchitect/lotus.htm -- Santiago Bustelo, Icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina IxDA BA es el primer grupo local en castellano

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Pattern: Language Toggle

2009-07-20 Thread Santiago Bustelo
regards, -- Santiago Bustelo // icograma design and development director +54 11 4811-2437 Riobamba 719, 2º A Buenos Aires, Argentina On 20/07/2009, at 14:41, Michael Tuminello wrote: The international menubar control in mac os: http://www.scl.utah.edu/computers/mac/help/languages.html rookie

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Searching People: Best Practices

2009-04-09 Thread Santiago Bustelo
named Jorge Gonzalez. With a simple relevance algorythm, the first one should be the one we most probably want. We spent just 4.30 secs. -- Santiago Bustelo, Icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina IxDA BA es el primer grupo local en castellano. Te esperamos! http://groups.google.com

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Searching People: Best Practices

2009-04-09 Thread Santiago Bustelo
with 494. For performance purpouses, the interface only shows first 20 results by relevance. Not only loading 1000 records is not feasible, but also it is far more efficient for the user to type 3 more characters to refine results, that it is to scroll / hunt down the results. -- Santiago

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of tags as dominant navigation?

2009-04-04 Thread Santiago Bustelo
are confident on the way we're going -- although current investment season is not helping to speed it much. -- Santiago Bustelo, Icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina IxDA BA es el primer grupo local en castellano. Te esperamos! http://groups.google.com/group/ixda-ba On 04/04/2009, at 16

Re: [IxDA Discuss] the alignment of the practices and outcomes of IA and IxD

2009-04-01 Thread Santiago Bustelo
was just established in 2003... -- Santiago Bustelo / Buenos Aires, Argentina IxDA BA es el primer grupo local en castellano. Te esperamos! http://groups.google.com/group/ixda-ba On 31/03/2009, at 17:48, Andy Polaine wrote: The more I think about this the more I think back to my early

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of UI fading in and out over content?

2009-03-18 Thread Santiago Bustelo
text, but mi Google foo is weak today. -- Santiago Bustelo Buenos Aires, Argentina Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http

[IxDA Discuss] [local][event]IxDA Buenos Aires: 2nd meeting - March 23rd 6pm

2009-03-17 Thread Santiago Bustelo
When: Monday, March 23, 6:00 PM. Where: Microsoft Argentina, Bouchard 710 4º Piso (Capital Federal). RSVP/Free registration: http://ixdaba.eventbrite.com Details: http://is.gd/nMMd Los esperamos! -- Santiago Bustelo Buenos Aires, Argentina

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA selects Drupal

2009-03-13 Thread Santiago Bustelo
Great news! Are there any planned features for local groups support? -- Santiago Bustelo // icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39726

[IxDA Discuss] IxDA Buenos Aires kickoff meeting: Friday, February 27th 9am

2009-02-23 Thread Santiago Bustelo
. Contact: Santiago Bustelo ( santi...@bustelo.com.ar ) 15 6847 9556 Join the Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/ixda-ba/ -- Santiago Bustelo Buenos Aires, Argentina P.S.: Many thanks to Brad Nunnally's for his invitation for IxDA St. Louis Kickoff Meeting, that I have blatantly copied

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing a boolean search interface

2008-11-25 Thread Santiago Bustelo
A recet thread about interfaces for advanced search queries, with examples and demos: http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=32274 -- Santiago Bustelo // icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing a boolean search interface

2008-11-25 Thread Santiago Bustelo
;-) -- Santiago Bustelo // icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35964 Welcome to the Interaction Design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UI Team Marketing

2008-11-07 Thread Santiago Bustelo
I have a McLuhanism here! Posters are not our media. In order to raise awareness about what we do, what about designing messages around stuff people interacts with everyday? A QD mockup: http://www.flickr.com/photos/santiagobustelo/3010566855/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Password requirements are not user friendly

2008-10-28 Thread Santiago Bustelo
be trusted afterwards. Annoying and scolding users seems reasonable only because inconvenience is easily mistaken with security. -- Santiago Bustelo // icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Password requirements are not user friendly

2008-10-28 Thread Santiago Bustelo
Chris Vestal wrote: http://usa.visa.com It is not about security through inconvenience but there are real technical reasons for strong passwords at least on e-commerce sites. Usually is about inconvenience *instead* of security. The most commonly used security metric is how safe users feel they

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Password requirements are not user friendly

2008-10-28 Thread Santiago Bustelo
We may be talking about different things here. Never said strong passwords are an inconvenience. Ali Naqvi started this thread asking: Why cant a username 'ABS_4u' have the following password 'Malemodel_14? Strong password: for passwordmeter.com's algorithm, 'Malemodel_14' strenght is sufficient

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Terms and Conditions with a twist

2008-10-27 Thread Santiago Bustelo
refresh. That will prevent users from cheating, i.e., going back to find the answers. Only truthful users, who truly understand the TC, will be able to proceed. That would make lawyers happy, and the process as user-friendly as a subpoena ;-) -- Santiago Bustelo // icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Terms and Conditions with a twist

2008-10-27 Thread Santiago Bustelo
On Bruce Tognazzi's words: it is the job of every designer to blunt and, where possible, eliminate the lawyer's attempts to sabotage your company's products. Full article: http://www.asktog.com/columns/049Lawyers.html -- Santiago Bustelo // icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Site Map - How important is it as a link?

2008-10-02 Thread Santiago Bustelo
will be building a website for gods! -- Santiago Bustelo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=33722 Welcome to the Interaction Design

[IxDA Discuss] Medieval help desk (youtube video)

2008-09-25 Thread Santiago Bustelo
A medieval user getting help with this new technology, the book. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ -- Santiago Bustelo // icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The New Facebook Redesign: The Beginning of The End?

2008-09-22 Thread Santiago Bustelo
Sidenote: If you visit facebook.com with JavaScript disabled, you get an inspiring blank screen. The source is just two script tags. -- Santiago Bustelo Buenos Aires, Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Next previous button order

2008-09-19 Thread Santiago Bustelo
Bryan: going to mockups was such a brilliant move! Talking and talking and talking about design, art, or any craft, should be left to critics - i.e., failed designers / artists / craftsmen. My suggestion: http://icograma.com/qd/next-prev-100026.gif -- Santiago Bustelo // icograma Buenos

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Looking for finding around URLs

2008-08-28 Thread Santiago Bustelo
. [/ rant ] -- Santiago Bustelo // icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Looking for finding around URLs

2008-08-28 Thread Santiago Bustelo
Seems like we are debating on clueless CEOs lately! I feel a great disturbance in the force, as arising this issue shows a worrying confusion from the CEO in the first place. If people is going to access the website not from a mailed link, but from a link on the associate's site, only paranoids

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Clients are funny

2008-08-27 Thread Santiago Bustelo
Such CEOs are worth their weight in shares. Pleasing them ensures foolproof design ;-) -- Santiago Bustelo // icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina On 25/08/2008, at 17:03, Nancy Broden wrote: In my more jaded moments as a consultant I used say that there was only one user you needed

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing a query builder for advanced search

2008-08-26 Thread Santiago Bustelo
= 0 ANY OF ( ALL of ( 1, 0 ) , 1, ALL of ( 0, 0 ) ) are true = 1 ANY / ALL of ( ... ) is a form of prefix notation. Therefore it not only reduces error and confusion, but is also far better suited for a GUI that the written (infix) form. -- Santiago

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Clients are funny

2008-08-26 Thread Santiago Bustelo
I lately discovered that I can understand both users and computers, but sometimes clients still elude me. -- Santiago Bustelo // icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing a query builder for advanced search

2008-08-26 Thread Santiago Bustelo
-Subject grammar used in CLIs ( rm * ) and Subject-Verb grammar used in GUIs ( select all, delete ). -- Santiago Bustelo // icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing a query builder for advanced search

2008-08-25 Thread Santiago Bustelo
@Paul Nuschke: The screenshot of the SAS interface shows an algorithm builder, of which queries are just one of the components. Are there any screenshots showing how the select steps (i.e., the queries) are built? -- Santiago Bustelo // icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing a query builder for advanced search

2008-08-25 Thread Santiago Bustelo
, avoids those problems. -- Santiago Bustelo // icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32254 Welcome

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing a query builder for advanced search

2008-08-22 Thread Santiago Bustelo
]). Logically disabled conditions are a case of programmer's design rather than good design. To a programmer, it makes sense to think that there are zero pink elephants in the room. The rest of mankind does not clutter their minds thinking about pink elephants or, better said, their absence. -- Santiago

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Mixed Signals

2008-08-22 Thread Santiago Bustelo
From the article: 1. the image of a hand pointing upwards [encourages] pedestrians to press the button before crossing the road 2. CEO Jan Lund told The Local that the company's signals point the way to God. What does 1 2 mean? My guess is that the message conveyed by the pointing hand is press

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Web interactions and the old brain

2008-08-04 Thread Santiago Bustelo
Advertising blindness predates the Web. Its roots are more conplex than response to stimuli. In the 1950's, David Ogilvy made several successful campaigns disguising his ads, that ran on magazines, to match the context. He found that the less an advertisement looks like an advertisement, and the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] feng-gui

2008-08-01 Thread Santiago Bustelo
I've tried it with a website screenshot. According to the simulation, one banner and one logo will get almost all fixations, while text and content will get none. I guess it may be a great tool if you need to keep marketing people happy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] filters for a profile search

2008-07-31 Thread Santiago Bustelo
, then the search engine is asking the user to do the walk. -- Santiago Bustelo // icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31744

Re: [IxDA Discuss] CMS compared (Was: Blogger versus WordPress versus TypePad)

2008-07-24 Thread Santiago Bustelo
Elena, can you be more specific about WordPress inflexibility? Either I am not understanding your problem, or you are dealing with restrictions that are a result from working around an existing template instead of building your own. If you are hosting your own website, you are not constrained to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Entering military time on web

2008-07-24 Thread Santiago Bustelo
Restricted format approachs (as splitting input in many fields, or worse, using pull-down menus) add: - innecessary keystrokes or clicks and / or - need to move the hand off the keyboard to the mouse and back, and - mental preparation steps (splitting time in hours / minutes) The last two are the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Practical UX tips for developers

2008-07-18 Thread Santiago Bustelo
interested in knowing the answer. THE USER Huffman encoded design (or huffman encoded interface) is a metaphor we found appropiate for programmers to understand interface design tradeoffs. -- Santiago Bustelo // icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina

[IxDA Discuss] Prototyping GOMS

2008-06-12 Thread Santiago Bustelo
and funding needed to take the project further, but I won't expect a miracle... last release is dated more than a year ago. -- Santiago Bustelo // icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina On 12/06/2008, at 07:00, John Gibbard wrote: In terms of prototyping fortunately with tools like iRise (ahem), Axure

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IA and Social Networks/Web 2.0 functionality

2008-06-11 Thread Santiago Bustelo
map. What end users need and can use, is a well-written help section answering what steps are required to perform their goals. Copywriters can use the flow chart as a reference to develop that documentation. -- Santiago Bustelo // icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina On 11/06/2008, at 12:14

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2008-06-11 Thread Santiago Bustelo
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