Sunandini,
It has a usability of 3.7 Megasnafus. :p
How do you find it compared to other login experiences? Do you think
it better or worse than these? Do yo think that having the password
field beside or underneath the username field makes a significant
difference? Will one option negatively
I am of course aware that the choice hi-fi vs. lo-fi prototype depends on the
audience. I just wanted to know what (hi-fi or lo-fi) is more frequent and
common in practice.
I've had a discussion with a professional and he claimed that for his team
and process, lo-fi prototypes are not
Vertical stacking is useful for easy comparisons between two items.
The horizontal approach makes that a bit harder since you have:
Label: [] Label: [X]
Versus
Label: []
Label: []
or
Label:
Hi Oleg,
On 6/3/08, Oleg Krupnov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've had a discussion with a professional and he claimed that for his team
and process, lo-fi prototypes are not practical. They a) scare the customer
b) too different from the final product look so that the customer's opinion
may
Collaboration, communication, and iteration.
In the same way that a single person's brain can simultaneously work on
an engineering and an aesthetic problem, so can two people work together
in the same way. Only the communication is externalized; this may lead
to some inefficiency (compared to a
Fred, thanks for the elaborate answer!
Fred Beecher wrote:
You're not looking for the customer's opinion during early-stage
prototyping. You're trying to find out if the interaction design IA
works
or not, which is something you can observe during testing. If you're doing
later stage
hey ixdas,
I am looking for sites that /require/ user participation in order to
have /access/ to the site and it's community and it's content.
A lot of site require registration, or a fee, but can you think of any
that require your donation of time, effort and/or creativity to be
part
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/02/nokia-vp-video-calling-not-successful-because-it-turns-you-ugly/
Nokia says it makes you ugly!
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http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=29620
Try http://www.critters.org/ - massive online writing critique group.
Many critique groups come and go, usually failing because of poor
organization and member apathy / lack of participation. Critters has
successfully solved the first problem by lots of automation :-) and
the second by requiring
Andrei: How does the field of software and interface design achieve
the same level of design
Could you explain why you see this as innovative?
It has less space than a car
just as dangerous as a bike
A skidoo on wheels is somehow innovation?
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Haha now THAT was unexpected. I guess I must be in the minority who are a.
pretty confident they're not ugly, and b. don't care if others disagree :)
I think there is some truth to the unflattering wide-angle view one gets on
cellphones at less than arm's distance, though I'm not convinced it's
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And the winner is ...
http://pulseapp.com/
It's squeaky clean, does exactly what I needed, is free (but shouldn't be),
imports projects and clients from Basecamp so no duplicate work is required,
and is probably the best app I've used in months.
Major kudos to Clear Function (the designers).
Mint is definitely free. They use my company (Yodlee)'s technology but
they've built a much better skin on top.
Cindy
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Jeff Gimzek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
sorry, i thought mint was free... where is this $30 request ?
On May 30, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Robert
Considering the popularity of the evil bluetooth headset, maybe we
don't like holding the phone up. Video phones would require you to
not only hold the phone, but also hold it at a certain distance and
in a specific area with a specific angle so as to frame your face in
the camera.
Maybe we will
On Jun 3, 2008, at 9:28 AM, pauric wrote:
Could you explain why you see this as innovative?
It has less space than a car
just as dangerous as a bike
With a setup like that, what would the point of discussion?
I personally dislike David Carson's type of graphic design and think
it's
On Jun 2, 2008, at 7:23 PM, David Malouf wrote:
If you had to read 1 article on design research which one would it be?
I prefer books or articles that act as research themselves over those
which describe research methods. I like to connect the dots myself. To
that end, here's one of the
Thanks Andrei, graphic design aside let me re-phrase my question;
Could you spell out why you felt this design was so innovative?
thanks - pauric
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Hi,
I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on companies for training on the
MS Expression Blend application?
I've taken a look at the online video tutorial on lynda.com and the MS
Expression site, but they don't really have exercises I can follow along.
I liked how Axure.com gave
On Jun 3, 2008, at 12:53 PM, pauric wrote:
Thanks Andrei, graphic design aside let me re-phrase my question;
Could you spell out why you felt this design was so innovative?
Lots of reasons.
I used to own a BMW R1200C, or what some people called the Bond Bike
since it appeared in a Bond
Does anyone know of any methodologies or case studies for evaluating (or
predicting) long-term engagement? Any specific application to social
networking sites would be great, but analogous examples from video
games, enterprise software, or whatever else are welcome. Most of my
testing experience
Thanks Andrei, I understand the personal motivation behind why someone
might buy such a vehicle. Its not my intention to ask you to justify
your interest in it.
My question is still unanswered so let me turn it around.
I see products that blindside markets, aka 'disrupters', as
innovative; e.g.
Question:
For those who have established GUI design documentation in a Web 1 corporate
world, how have you handled implementing Web 2 design elements in your
documentation?
Thanks
Helen
Welcome to the Interaction Design
I think a major contributor to usability in fields like that are
watermarks in the textboxes to make them stand out more. Kind of like
the Search Archives... searchbox on this ixda site in the
rightnav. I think nowadays you can even dump the labels and put them
right in the textboxes.
[Email
This is a very good question, and a very good point from Chauncey, thanks!
I actually am working on a redesign right now... The old site featured a
horizontal login form.
One of my latest modifications was to switch to vertical, because ... well,
horizontal forms
look weird. But Chauncey, your
Hello, folks,
We are currently working on an informational website, some pages of
which contain a large amount of mixed text and links. We were discussing
how to make links look like links among plain text. It will be messy if
we blue underscore all links... We talked about hover underscore. I
Hi Everyone --
I am having a bit of a terminology problem within my company. Most of the
product people and developers like to refer to our users as
unsophisticated (a euphemism for dumb). My understanding of the majority
of our users is that they are generally of a lower socio-economic level and
Has anyone else noticed that pre-teen kids are less self-conscious or more
comfortable with video cameras, and also more aware of the remote/asynchronous
audience? I've seen some kids who, when the camera's on, do a great job of
including the remote viewer along with those physically present.
Downtown Seattle
18 Staff 5 Contractors young company with deep pockets plan to double in size
within two years. Open air environment great window views of the Puget Sound.
Excellent group of people. Huge client list and they are turning down business.
Whats nice about it is they can pick and
http://totaltraining.com/prod/microsoft/expression.asp could be a good
option.
You can preview the first part of their tutorials with a guest pass as
well, for what it's worth.
- Pace Koenig
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Benjamin Ho
Our company does Expression training. However, our audience is either
interactive companies we partner with or ISV/Enterprises who have a
creative department with multiple designers. We customize our
curriculum around their specific needs rather than a boilerplate
agenda. Therefore the
Our company does Expression training. However, our audience is either
interactive companies we partner with or ISV/Enterprises who have a
creative department with multiple designers. We customize our
curriculum around their specific needs rather than a boilerplate
agenda. Therefore the
On 6/3/08, Jeff Gimzek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A lot of site require registration, or a fee, but can you think of any
that require your donation of time, effort and/or creativity to be
part of the community?
Some variant of this is common in the Anime community. You get to
download something
web-challenged ?
seriously though, try 'novice'
personas almost always help, IMHO
jd
On Jun 3, 2008, at 11:15 AM, Alla Zollers wrote:
Hi Everyone --
I am having a bit of a terminology problem within my company. Most
of the
product people and developers like to refer to our users as
this is an interesting option - depends on the context ;-)
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1418715
There are many different types of computer users out there; here is a
list of the better known ones and descriptions on each.
Joe Sixpack - Owns a computer, but doesn't use it very
It's been my experience that the best (that is to say, most readily
identified by users and least subject to confusion with other text)
way to distinguish a link among text is to underline it. I don't
really see It looks messy as a legitimate design concern if the
goal is to provide
I like to know about Android operating system in deep.can
anyone out there explain me in brief which would favour me in
implementing my ideas about mobile systems
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
To
There's nothing necessarily wrong with the term unsophisticated,
though new or novice might be more neutral. However, it sounds as if
the developers product folks in your organization have a specific
perception of the typical end-user that no new phrase is going to
change. If it's important to
What comes to mind is the Generative Tools for Context Mapping: Tuning the
Tools of authors Pieter Jan and Elizabeth Sanders.
But there are other equally interesting of which came this:
http://www.maketools.com/
--
Eduardo Loureiro
Designer de interação / Arquiteto de informação
Naive? It's used fairly often in a variety of contexts to describe
any group of people who are unacquainted with the basics of whatever
you are discussing.
At 11:15 AM -0700 6/3/08, Alla Zollers wrote:
Hi Everyone --
I am having a bit of a terminology problem within my company. Most of the
Alla,
We go by the factors that contribute to the understanding and usage of
our products (interviewing for personas, measuring in usability testing,
etc.) to *hopefully* avoid the negative labeling:
1. Levels of technical literacy (both web and computer - separately)
2. Literacy level (reading
As I read this, and without having tried it ... a suggestion.
Well, some users are more prone to mousing than others, for example kids.
The idea is to set the content, if possible, in a container (for example, a
div).
Then to highlight all the links when the user is mousing over the container,
all
I have used 'novice'
--- On Tue, 6/3/08, Katie Albers lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote:
From: Katie Albers lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt;
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] unsophisticated users
To: Alla Zollers lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt;, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 4:03 PM
Naive? It's used
One of my recent favorites: Three-in-One User Study for Focused
Collaboration, by Turkka K. Keinonen (National University of
Singapore, Singapore), Vesa Jääskö (Vesavisio, Helsinki, Finland),
Tuuli M. Mattelmäki (University of Art and Design Helsinki, Helsinki,
Finland):
This article introduces a
It shouldn't just be colour contrast but also brightness contrast. Using HSB
instead of RGB mode is useful for this. I recently put together a 12 hue x 4
brightness levels (48 colours in total) scheme for a site that heavily
relies on colour/contrast as an aid for identifying screens and screen
I personally think that, in the end of the day, is not just about just
being politically correct when talking about the users (well...
being respectful and polite is always nice!), but also about
communicating clearly their background, needs and intentions.
I'd go with Becky checklist to start,
Just keep in mind accessibility too if you're going to be putting the visual
label inside the form field as a value attribute instead of a label before
the field, as well as issues when no JS enabled/supported. Not a major
problem, but just make you consider those two requirements ... it can be
I have struggled getting trained in Blend. I have learned some lessons
a long the way. The BIGGEST lesson I have learned is that to use Blend
you have to think like a programmer and you have to realize that any
weeklong training private or public is NOT enough. You have to invest
in a lot of
Forgive me Andrei before you stop using your prius you should know
that the Spyder gets 30mph and it isnt the first 3 wheel vehicle on
the market by a long shot... you should check out the Messerschmitt
KR175
Now, at the engineering level. The link you gave is nothing more
than marketing blurb.
On 6/4/08, Nathanael Boehm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just keep in mind accessibility too if you're going to be putting the visual
label inside the form field as a value attribute instead of a label before
the field, as well as issues when no JS enabled/supported. Not a major
problem, but just
Hi All,
Is there a difference between the term profile and persona?
Thanks,
Oliver
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If you buy the Expression Suite, it comes with a DVD of the Total Training
videos. However, they are updating Blend with new features every couple of
months now, so I'm not sure how relevant video training is.
Blend is a weird beast, but it's very powerful and getting better all the
time.
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