Interesting article.
I'll play contrarian. We as designers see a world as it could be,
often a more user friendly one. But if end users can't see it, they
won't every get there and we'd be stuck with torches and caves.
Progress is change, people don't like change, so we have to lure them
into
Curious, I tried playing around with it in Flash.
Trickyness is introduced if it's to behave like another textfield
supporting selecting, backspace, cutting and pasting. Having to modify
the original word via array operations.
Also you need a fixed size font to keep the word from jumping aroudn
Neat, hadn't seen that before. Thanks for sharing.
Sadly I found the results irrelevant to the stuff I was searching on.
Funny I just created a semantic network visualizer this weekend. I was
wondering how/when it could apply to normal search and wiki's.
Troy.
Part of this is simple business dynamics.
Most of the businesses mentioned in this primary distrubution channels
are offline, they simply aren't interested in 1 to 1 relationships and
sales, they are much more interested in that new office building, shoe
store etc.
Aeron chair is largely sold
The HM hurts my rear,
Yeah me too.
Desks are so overrated, I've gone to just using wireframes...to hold
drinks primarily.
http://intrio.com/blog/2008/01/21/a-great-deal-1920x1600-24-monitor-for-370by-westinghouse/
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Wow, I could never work like that! I have way to many books on my desk for
that to work. I need a good expanse of flat space.
That's what floors are for :) of course I work at home so can get away
that. But I used to work in an office I wasn't afraid to take over a
floor area when the
RE: kittens and cables
Wait.. you're saying your angels chewed through your wireless keyboard
cables? ;) Really you need a blender defender.
http://www.plasma2002.com/blenderdefender/
I have a touch screen on the cymbal mount, so it can do cymbals with
the correct music software, but I
If car companies can provide list prices for their products online, why
can't a furniture manufacturer?
Sometimes they do, but it's always suggested retail price (usually
highest price), and often times there are advertise price minimums to
keep the competition from cannibalizing all the
One of many things it has me thinking about is how (if?) I can create
emotional responses using only physical objects that carry emotional weight.
In this case she had to get them integrated into the story, so they
were an active participant.
If the pawns were cattle instead of people, or
I did this a few years ago.
http://www.intrio.com/products/LJViewlet/LJViewlet.htm
It supports directionality of the links.
The goal was to do time analysis of friends as they joined and left
the network, but never got to the point of capturing the information.
Troy.
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at
I agree face to face is the highest 'bandwidth' as far as emotions,
empathy and resonancelargely based by the immediate interactivity
and feedback. Video is next best. Text though in the hands of an
accomplished writer can convey depth, due to the time in
contemplation. The problem with
I don't see the mouse going away, I tend to view gestures like Wii Devices,
operating in a bigger space. I don't see many playing wii tennis in a chair,
and I don't see many mouse+keyboard while standing up.
Having played with mulittouch (owned a TouchStream keyboard/mouse), played
with FIR,
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:08 PM, William Brall dam...@earthlink.netwrote:
So you are saying that having a remote that is cheaper and will last
longer than my LCD TV is likely to last, is more important than ease
of use and speed?
To you obviously not. And yes to a manufacturer useability
Great article, and some great quotes:
'prototyping is a way of life'. - totally! I even demarcate goals for
myself as incarnations, iterating areas I don't know will work.
you cannot schedule creativity
regarding meetings to improve rather than brainstorm: Everyone is a better
critic than a
Trained Behavior? Habit? Behavioral momentum? One trick ponism?
Every trick learned as a cost/benefit to using it, but there are also costs
to carrying and selecting the tool, ideally if there's only one tool, the
cost for selecting it goes to zero.So ones with the most utility end up
in the
I love radial / orbital menus which are related to pie. Especially when
dealing with deeply nested hierarchies as on windows/web, it's SOOO easy to
accidently mouse off a deeply nested menu, and then have to retraverse it,
to miss it again!
Even back in 2005 I had one on my site (still up). It's
I say this half jokingly about the Graphic, Broadcast and Motion Designers:
Obsession - bordering on OCD, rare that I see good design that isn't an a
reflection of burning
Perfectionism -
Isolation - generally a happy bubble where they can be a piece with their
alternate realities.
Lack of
we use the guimagnets at times, but have gone to something similar, magnetic
whiteboards with cuttable magnetic film, we've created all sorts of shapes
with scissors. But we use 4x3 papersheet sized ones for screens so we can
insert new ones, move them around, these can be stacked.
I love the craigslist poke. Just as there is colorblindness, there is also
design blindness, interactive blindness, typography blindness. So many of
the things we fixate on users are completely oblivious to, or don't
particularly care about having a high threshold for stuff that would drive
http://www.oblong.net is the former MIT kids who worked on the
Minority report and also science advised the Iron Man movie.
http://elianealhadeff.blogspot.com/2008/04/gesturetek-and-oblong-serious-gaming.html
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I hate to make
Indeed the home fab, was fab. The judicious use of knob to turn on
otherwise soft and gestural interfaces...everywhere. The home
automation having a sense of humor. The use of robotics helping us
out, semi-automously like pets even when we don't explicitly tell
them what to do (e.g. giving the
WHO is the movie Interface and Interaction designer that comes up with this
stuff ?
I know that for Minority Report it wasn't one, part was Dale Herigstad
at www.Schematic.com, and a company based out of MIT grads that
actually has working glove/gestural tech...primarily for military
because it
In a way, we've seen this erosion of value happen before. The first
Mac brought desktop publishing to the consumer - and to this day, we
are inundated with poorly designed flyers and newsletters.
Any creative area is largely 70% stuff that ends up in the trash, 3%
brilliant. Same thing for
- Office style Collapse and hide entries that aren't being used, and
especially those that can't be used at the time.
- OSX style sliding scrollbanes
- Vista style autocomplete commands
- Use the frame around your app to create palettes, like nouns, actions, etc.
- separate into panels that can
:
On Apr 24, 2008, at 9:28 PM, Troy Gardner wrote:
I have 4 x 24 monitors (~4x4' of monitors), when an application is
spanned across multipleputting things at the borders makes for
tons of unecessary mouse movement. So I've really come to like
contextual hovers or right clicks
You are correct, anything that isn't building the final release meets
the definition of a prototype. Thus I find it's more practical to
have more specific terms (like mockup) to describe what I expect of a
deliverable, what it does and what it won't do. However in the case
for questions like
I say skip it all, provide paths for everything, collect heatmaps,
normalize UI ruthlessly.
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Troy Gardner
http://www.troyworks.com/blog/ RIA, Flash and Workflow
development takes longer, there are more issues.. and you inevitably
end up rebuilding most of the browser functionality that you get with
HTML for free.
No argument if you are comparing, but they are different beasts. One
of the reasons I love the Flash Platform is the ability for people
I'm putting together a free class on rapid prototyping in Flash in the
LA area. Flash can be a powerful ally, it's easily integrated with
graphics, video, images, and animation, yet I run into a large number
of IA's who don't even use it.
Here's what I'm contemplating.
- flash basics, if you use
I am a flash expert and have played with Flex as well. I've seen
Thermo demo'd at MAX, and I look forward to seeing it help bridge the
gaps in real world workflows between Photoshoppers, Illustrators and
Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flexers.
The declaritive aspect of Flex can be faster than
I think we are discussing two different things.
Easing is the acceleration/deceleration applied to a transition of
fixed duration/position. When applied to scrollbars this means that is
may slowly accelerate and then slowly decelerate to the fixed scrolled
to position, giving the illusion that it
I work in a small startup and have worked in agencies in the past.
It strikes me how expensive and luxurious the process at Apple is.
Typically the design teams I'm around are tasked with coordinating a
dozen deliverables being yanked like a chewtoy from one to another, on
short timelines, and
Had the same issue at my client. What we settled on was a 1280
design, but all the core message/buttons had to be mostly visible
inside the ~1000x730 that's left after browser and XP chrome and
scrollbars.
We use liquid layout for the verticle when text is long to avoid
keyhole/scrolling, but
I use interactive wireframes with varying fidelity, scaled to
prototypes. but always find that having a full sitemap/storyboard/flow
is indepensible as often getting buy in on changes is connecting the
dots between two different parts, requires the static pages serve as
the dots and the user's
Curious if anybody has any good examples of
I've been pushing for text color to be consistent to denote 1) body
text, 2) information 3) errors. As we aren't using modals for number 2
and 3, and have opted to keep the same font.
An example application is email submission. So body text might be
But being first to the marketplace, means you designed your product
without the benefit of
examining, critiquing and learning from existing products and the
reactions of users to them
Not completely, Even in the most bleeding edge, there are very few
designs that aren't built out of simpler
I'm porting some of the logic to use by flash using the wiiflash
libary if anybody is interested. Ping me
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We agree about the dangers of self-assessment, but having others
measure is just as prone to making other mistakes, in particular the
context of testing may/or may not translate into other contexts (work,
love, play, family).
Having developed personalty tests, I don't think that any 4 letter
Qualifications are IMO optional, it depends on where you get mentored
1) teachers/bosses 2) books 3) hacking. Passion combined with aptitude
will allow greatness grow, especially those diamonds that form in the
pressure of deliverables... be it self-imposed or externally.
Since when do designers
RE: Extraverted and Introverted.
I feel these are badly defined terms, social
introversion/extroversion, introverted/extroverted thinking and
problem solving, and introspection and empathy of others are very
different, and very context dependent.
RE: MBTI
Trying to capture the vast world of
To be contrarian, I routinely work with UI designers who take
wireframes (from an IA/IxD) and convert them to high fidelity comps
(primarily in photoshop but sometimes in illustrator).
They are thinking I need:
1) the whole page layout to be properly blocked and centered
2) whole ui to be
I recommend Flash or Fireworks for most mockup and prototypes. They
can be converted from paper scans, whiteboard sessions or 'high
fidelity' comps from a designer than iterated out as necessary to
mockups.
I use a statemachine library and collection of state patterns to help
'assemble' rather
1) simplicity sells, a ui that is crappier functionally, but looks
'easy' is likely to sell better than a more powerful complicated ui.
2) and most people are essentially color blind when it comes to design.
3) users have no preconceived notion/expectation like you. If it works
it's good
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