I had recently written a post about the need to evangelize Usability
in organizations:
Easy is good but it is not enough
http://sachendra.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/easy-is-good-but-it-is-not-enough/
You might find the links on analyzing the business case for Usability
(important to convince the
Hi guys,
Some consumer applications are marketed as an exclusive and only invitation
based registration. For instance when gmail started people could get it
based on selective invitation only.
Sometime these message get into the junk folder of your email and you may
not see them or open them So
I too think that Twitter is the new chat mechanism.
I have set up a twitter account http://twitter.com/ixda
If you follow that account and someone sends a direct message d
ixda [message] everyone who follows will get it. I'm using a
twitter app called grouptweet.com
When you send a direct
It seems that the guys/girls over at 37Signals also prefer design over
functional spec.
http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives2/the_interface_as_a_spec_including_stories_inline.php
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
I ordered one of these pens a few weeks ago. Will do a review when I get it.
Chauncey
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Rob Tannen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been following this product for months since pre-launch. and
wrote about its promising application to a number of user research
Are there any good conventions for displaying a partially selected
checkbox?
One I have seen a lot (in Windows) is a gray checkmark for Case 2.
HTH,
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Technical writer, etc.
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I have seen it done with check box, which is selected with grayed check mark
(the checkbox itself wasn't gray). That made me think, but not for too
long.
--
Oleh Kovalchuke
Interaction Design is design of time
http://www.tangospring.com/IxDtopicWhatIsInteractionDesign.htm
On Tue, May 13, 2008
I recently subscribed to this discussion's feed and would like to
follow it instead of the mailing list. I find it too easy to fall
behind on email and can read the feed via my mobile on the 1.5 hour
daily train commute.
The feed only displays snippets of each message. Is this a design
I talked to someone at LiveScribe and the pens are shipping now. :)
Hopefully the wait won't be much longer!
Cindy
--
The Experience is the Product - http://www.cindyalvarez.com
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Chauncey Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I ordered one of these pens a few weeks
Are there any good conventions for displaying a partially selected
checkbox? I have a tree of checkboxes and I'm trying to think of the
clearest way to show the user an indication that a parent checkbox is in one
of the following three states:
1. All of its items (child checkboxes) are
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
Does it need to have checks? Why not have a box that is completely
filled in for the first [all black], half filled in for the second
[black/white], and empty for the third [all white]? This may also help
differentiate the parent folders from the children by having the
children be all checkboxes.
Nabble offers a full RSS feed for this list, and many other HCI lists:
http://www.nabble.com/ixdg.org-f2305.html
Dan Harrelson wrote:
The feed only displays snippets of each message. Is this a design
decision or is there some technical limitation on the IxDA backend
enforcing this limit?
Hi Dan, you can get the full feed and many other feeds here:
http://www.ixda.org/rss.php
(It is the link under the standard RSS feed link in the right column;
just my way to say it was there all along.)
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Posted from the new
I feel turquoise this morning.
-o.
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We are a design and usability staffing company redesigning our website.
While we have come closer to the layout for our website's home page we
are
having a debate on the colors
The standard Mac OS behavior is to indicate partial selection with a
horizontal line instead of a check mark. I think this is more
successful than the greyed out check mark that a couple of people
mentioned, since the greying may make the control look unclickable
(unless that's what you
Hi Dan, you can get the full feed and many other feeds here:
http://www.ixda.org/rss.php
(It is the link under the standard RSS feed link in the right column;
just my way to say it was there all along.)
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Posted from the new
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
HI Jeff, I think you make some interesting points.
I think though that different people are going to have different
needs and reactions.
I do have to say that there is the I need yet another application
open phenomena going on. If you have an IRC client open for other
things in your life then it
On May 13, 2008, at 11:30 AM, David Mathew wrote:
Are there any good conventions for displaying a partially selected
checkbox? I have a tree of checkboxes and I'm trying to think of the
clearest way to show the user an indication that a parent checkbox
is in one
of the following three
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Imagine 4 people in a small office all talking to their computers
every 2 seconds to say new windowscroll down. stop...up...
select file
I think it is mostly social, although everyone i know that has tried
voice command has given it up, even when trying home alone in the
I am currently dealing with the same questions / problems. I work in
the clinical space where the user's hands are often gloved up and
covered in fluids. Interacting with software via a touchscreen or
hardware device presents sterility issues so voice is the natural
solution. As simple an
plus, talking is WAY slower than your hands.
You bet. At least for some things.
We just did a related project and looked at voice, and one thing that
came up is that StarTrek really set an expectation that's hard to
deliver on. The whole computer: [insert your open ended, humanly voiced
David Pogue at NYTimes has been out front about how in love with voice
systems he is. You can search his past columns.
Chris
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Jeff Garbers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Most of us old-timers probably expected voice I/O to be a common part of
personal computing by
It just struck me, I wonder how much of the resistance to it is probably
because of Open the pod bay door, HAL.
Another freaky thing hit me the other day, very disconcerting. I listen to
public radio constantly at home, every morning. I imagine public radio has
many reasons to want to cut costs,
I think it'd be fair to say that voice controls would largely need to
be an enhancement to screen/key/mouse
driven input for all the reasons mentioned before. I fear, too, that
many of the approaches to voice UI is following
the past 20 years of visual UI Design, based on products out there
I think the problem w/ voice-based UIs are/would be:
1. Technical - dealing w/ accents, sound levels, ambient noise etc.
2. The computer would need to understand what we 'mean' as opposed to visual UI
where we click what the computer has to offer
3. Humans work better by recognition rather than
I think I would only be happy with one if it worked as well and as
kookie as those in Iron Man. There are 2 clear examples of this:
1) Jarvis the incredible AI. Very very natural speech in both
directions.
2) But even his robotic arms responded to incredibly natural and
often colloquial speech as
On May 13, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Kristopher Kinlen wrote:
I am currently dealing with the same questions / problems. I work in
the clinical space where the user's hands are often gloved up and
covered in fluids. Interacting with software via a touchscreen or
hardware device presents sterility
This is an interesting topic.
I'm currently working on a Voice UI for a consumer product application.
It seems to me that while voice I/O promises to deliver an enhanced
experience, the technology does not and cannot yet live up to its
promise.
Aside from the social awkwardness of talking to
David:
Are there any good conventions for displaying a partially selected
checkbox?
I'd recommend against referring to this state as 'partially selected';
instead, think of it as 'partially activated'. You'll see why in a
moment.
Adam:
The standard Mac OS behavior is to indicate
1. Above all it is social. Working amongst fellow workers all talking to
their computers would be like working in a call centre - only without the
scope for eavesdropping on something interesting..
2. It creates more cognitive load for both human and computer:
- for the human, to verbalise what
(apologies for cross-posting)
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I used to work for a start-up called AgileTV. We developed a very
robust speech to TV control interface. The company is now called
Promptu. Check them out: www.promptu.com
- Speech recognition is very advanced today. You can have anyone
speak a number of specific words into a microphone and the
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