one IE over another. I only
use it when embedded in other apps or with one piece of time
management software I have to use which won't run on Chrome or Safari
or Firefox. IE is always my last choice.
-- Jim
Via my iPhone
On Nov 2, 2009, at 7:28 AM, Jennifer R Vignone jennifer.r.vign
I would add to this that each environment, such as a design firm, an
advertising agency, a financial institution, an educational institution, and so
on, may view the responsibilities within each title differently, thus making
it almost impossible to iron out one satisfactory job description or
What do you mean when you use the term accurate to describe the results? I
think I can see what you're getting at, but I would venture to say that any
result set that is a true reflection of the criteria entered is accurate. It
is just that the data may have updated due to the rapidly changing
Alan
concern of not bringing back too much data...could perhaps target which results
get re-run.
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From: sreeramen ramaswamy [mailto:sreera...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 11:28 AM
To: Jennifer R Vignone
Cc: Alan Wexelblat; list IXDA
Subject: Re: [IxDA
I work for a major financial firm. We are currently testing IE8 and I am on the
team that is actively testing. It is interesting how difficult it really is to
just upgrade. Many of the internal applications we run do not work in the new
IE, and we end up having to run them in IE8's
I think that a part of the reason for asking is to show the user what methods
of payment and types of cards are accepted.
A user may have a few credit cards and this gives them a chance to see which
ones are accepted, and decide which one they want to use.
Not every business accepts all credit
I think it just appeals to the sense of power that drives some people to buy
such cars. It's a power, speed, control, 'I have something faster and more
dangerous than you' thing to a degree. A car is an extension of some people's
persona. For me, I go with the 'something I can leave on the
I think Shop is more akin to browsing.
Buy is more of the commitment to purchase.
I don't care for the personal touch, or find it a touchy subject because the
choice of words can be inappropriate depending on the type of thing being sold,
and the tone of the site. For example, your suggestions:
Two of mine (but I have more than two favorites):
Janson
Janson because the letterforms are beautiful and the italics are elegant.
I like the way the capital J dips on the baseline.
Janson also uses my favorite type of lowercase a's.
Helvetica
You can do almost anything with Helvetica, and the
You ask that question as though it perhaps is not conceivable to do so...
I think that is where the element of design comes into the decision process as
well.
Part of the design process is what statement you want the overall impact to be,
and that may factor into the selection of the typeface
Do you mean something like this:
--
Column One Column Two
--
Lorem Ipsum 1,240
Dolor sit amet 2,005
Consectetur 1,234 [5v]
Adipiscing elit 2,111 [1v]
Cras lectus -32
Neque
I have built many of these and an online help is never a waste of time.
Regardless of how much you think it will or will not be used, I have yet to
encounter an incident where having it didn't make a good impression on users,
as well as to the business who funded the work. They may not know how
Of Jennifer R
Vignone
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 9:58 AM
To: Diego Fernandez; discuss@lists.interactiondesigners.com
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] How to design an online help?
I have built many of these and an online help is never a waste of time.
Regardless of how much you think
http://www.ianschafer.com/2008/03/duane-reade-dollar-rewards-how-not-to-run-a-loyalty-program.html
The above link discusses the Duane Reade Rewards program, something that many
shoppers are a part of in NYC with the ubiquitous DR drug store chain. Not a
usability study, as much as one man's
Is the first page a home page?
I was confused in the sense that there was no explanation of anything but
difficult to read type that said, Customize your knit headgear.
I would rethink that type treatment as it doesn't pop against the
illustration and takes effort to read. The color sort of
I have given many presentations to CEO, CIOs, heads of business, and the like.
The main thing I can share for success is the following:
-- Don't overload.
-- Have your main points in the first five slides of a presentation. Never be
surprised if a CEO, CIO, or head of business doesn't have the
users to find their way through
some sort of interface (consider faith/religion and life itself) to make an
informed decision? Yes.
From: Oleh Kovalchuke [mailto:tangospr...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 12:51 PM
To: Jennifer R Vignone
Cc: disc...@ixda.org
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss
I design financial applications for trading and trade analysis. I have always
used grids to base my design in. They provide stability to the design and make
the design repeatable so that once created and applied as needed across the
main screens, panels, widgets, etc., it can be replicated as
From the application perspective:
I think the aesthetics impart more meaning to the HCI, providing focus and
direction to how the elements are ordered and looked at.
I also think the notion of a beautiful application is possible. For me, that
is also the goal and what sets one application from
Influence and coerce are different in that coerce has the notion of force
associated with its meaning.
Advertising may influence but I don't think it coerces.
Would you fall into submission so easily to a commercial?
What is maximum persuasion?
I think people are influenced as much as they
What about Send to Trash and 'Delete Trash?
Sending to the trash would be more...keep it here for now, while deleting
would be like placing the garbage bags out on the lawn.
Jennifer
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From:
Hi:
I have been involved in several branding efforts and the guidelines are
useful only to the degree that they are supported and disseminated. This
was something we (the teams I was a part of) understood from the start,
and so the advertising, selling, evangelizing -- whatever term one cares
What would the nature of this work for critique consist of?
How would you handle nondisclosure agreements that stipulated that you
could not show work to anyone outside of the company that the work is for?
I never met a consultant who didn't have to sign an NDA.
And, as an employee, the agreement
Through LinkedIn I found a few people I knew from college. When one of
them was coming to town, she wanted to get together. So LinkedIn, a
valuable tool for business networking for me, extended to lead to a
re-connection with a college friend. It would not have been the same and
had as much
My overall general experience has been that the final result is frequently
what has been allowed to be implemented based on many factors, where
usability and good design aren't always at the top of the list. If you can
improve a handful of things in such an environment, it is a good thing.
The
Hi:
I have a question regarding your experience with the loading of a local
database (saved to a user's own drive or a shared drive) and current data
that is accessed from the server.
What term is more universally understood for the data when the user is
logging in and has to select the
You could try a tool tip that is a one liner with a link for more...
Clicking the more... link would extend that tool tip into a box with a
more complete help. Perhaps this could link to a page within a full Help
mechanism, instead of just a bunch of free-floating help screens/bubbles.
I would
Sometimes it is worth just showing the Terms and Conditions for the
purpose of capturing the user's click-through that makes it all
worthwhile.
It is impossible to make certain that users will read the terms and
conditions. However, with the applications I have worked on, it seems that
the
I use the Wiki and have set up Specifications as well as Style Guides at a
couple of firms. I have found it to be easy to work with and that having
it all in a forum where the developers go frequently for reporting,
status, Jira, and related tasks makes it very easy to get them to use it.
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 frustration.
If the guessing also is based on click that
I think it might be useful to ask the user before modules of content were
moved, switched, auto-populated, etc. before actually doing so in an
interface.
Perhaps a feature where such a thing could be turned on or off, along the
lines or Don't show this to me again or Remind/Ask me later adapted
Hi Panjak:
I frequently have to accommodate many options and types of navigations
depending on the business and client and the need to align the application
with a specific usage and therefore sometimes the navigation structure.
This may also be affected by the technology used, and the
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