Just out of curiosity Sam and Jamie (and anyone else), if you were
given just 5 seconds to pitch UX to someone in a company, what would
you say?
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Grab a tape recorder and chat to some people who know how well you did
the job. You should be able to get some choice quotes that way. It's
always harder to write something than say it, and this might be a way
around. I would start with an unrelated question or two just to get
them started, and
This might not be what you wanted, but you could always test this. It
won't take many resources - just see if people get confused if the
categories' contents are not mutually exclusive, or if they get lost
trying to navigate around. In some cases, my guess would be that it's
okay to have some
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:01:19 -0400, Meredith wrote:
Hi folks,
Does anyone know where I could find a list of best practices around
login security? I'm looking for an overview of the most common
techniques and how they relate to both security and user experience --
pros and cons.
I'm looking at a
Testimonials are a little hard to take seriously in my opinion. They
do, however, grab my attention when something unique is said from
someone who matters.
The testimonial on http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk is a great
example.
You might try giving them no guidelines at all. Maybe doing so will
Just out of curiosity Sam and Jamie (and anyone else), if you were
given just 5 seconds to pitch UX to someone in a company, what would
you say?
I work with Sam, heading our technology and user-experience practices at Adobe
Consulting.
The technology practice ensures we build things right.
Hi,
There is an edited book that covers many topics related to security and
usability that might have some useful information. Here is the title from
Amazon.
*Security and Usability: Designing Secure Systems that People Can
This is a good book. I have this book - but it does not include design
patterns or best practices in a formula you can just copy out of book and
create wireframes or ixd func spec from - you will actually have to come up
with your own solution.
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Chauncey Wilson
Hi,
I'm not sure about a website resource for this, but my recommendation
would be the book Communicating Design by Dan Brown. It's by far the
best resource I've found for documentation examples and ideas.
I'm looking at a similar issue. I found this on passwords, but haven't
looked in depth yet.
http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/jun04.asp
One of my questions right now is whether or not to enforce the password
complexity rule. It is enough to inform the user that their password is
weak,
Chauncey wrote:
There is an edited book that covers many topics related to security
and
usability that might have some useful information. Here is the title
from
Amazon.
*Security and Usability: Designing Secure Systems that People Can
One of my questions right now is whether or not to enforce the
password
complexity rule. It is enough to inform the user that their password
is
weak, and let them go about their business if they so desire? Or do we
force them to have a strong password that they may forget later?
Security at
Sr. Information Architect
My client, a great independent interactive agency in Los Angeles, is looking
for a Sr. Information Architect who is passionate about building great user
experiences and committed to client success. The candidate we seek will hit
the ground running and possess a strong
Quick straw poll question for list members who have iPhones.
What are the top 3 things you find yourself doing now with your iPhone
that you did not do before and why?
--Greg
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association
Here's my 3:
1. Browsing internet more instead of laptop/desktop (evenings only)
2. Playing quick games
3. Email/text all the time
~david
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Petroff, Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Quick straw poll question for list members who have iPhones.
What are the top 3
Howdy,
1). browsing the internet to various sites
Browsing my my clam shell phone was a royal pain!
2). checking stock with GUI app (vs. calling Tellme)
Didn't have a very fast and easy way to track stocks on my other
phones - unless I called up Tellme
3). Using GPS-related apps -
1) browsing anywhere, especially looking stuff up in wikipedia
2) playing casual games (aurora feint anyone?)
3) google maps anywhere
4) using location aware apps (urbanspoon, showtimes)
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Petroff, Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quick straw poll question for
1) quickly resolving arguments
2) texting all the time. i need to up my plan soon!
3) (this is my favorite) i once logged into work email, checked
calendar for the day, and called in sick without ever leaving my bed.
that was the best experience ever. :)
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On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Petroff, Greg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quick straw poll question for list members who have iPhones.
What are the top 3 things you find yourself doing now with your
iPhone
that you did not do before and why?
1/ Checking email more.
2/ Using maps
1. Email w/o a computer
2. Maps with GPS (got to Ikea the other day without overshooting the
exit--first time that happened)
3. Keeping up with the news
--Patrick V. Barrett
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Sent:
*Title: UI / Front End Developer
Location: Silicon Valley
Salary: To 120K Full-time (or contract-to-hire)
*
A personalized shopping, research and discovery social networking
website is seeking a UI/Front End Developer. The UI/Front End Developer
will be responsible for building and solving
1. Feeling connected (email, Olympics results, etc) without turning on
my computer each time (which made it seem like I'm not there with
wife and kids).
2. Book reviews and prices while in bookstore.
3. Using a lightsaber with my kids.
4. Showing people my iPhone...
Joel
Almost forgot:
Taking pics of brainstorming sessions, wires, workflows, business UCD
process flows done on the whiteboard, napkin, etc - and saving those for
posting to internal wiki for recreation in omnigraffle.
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Catriona Lohan-conway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
It's a social! Come on down and meet your fellow designers and learn about
Roundarch! If you share your story, we'll share our beer! :) Speaking isn't
a requirement though.
--
The IxDA Boston crew is rather excited to announce our August event,
Boston's Designers
From: Meredith Noble [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Personally I hate it when I'm forced to include at minimum 8 characters,
one uppercase character, one lowercase character, a symbol, etc.
You forgot that neither the first or last character can be a non-letter (to
avoid the use of password!1, which is
OK,
not to sound like a broken record, but to me, Apple gets it. (now
fire your flaming arrows to /dev/null ;-} ).
Ask them (or better yet, have them try this).
Ever purchased a brand new Apple Mac Book (or Macbook pro?, etc). What
was your experience like, from opening the packaging,
Has anyone worked with a site/service called GoodBarry? It sells itself
as one-stop CMS/contact management/analytics/hosting for a decent
monthly rate. It's pitched to designers looking for dev help, and seems
to have a lot of nice bells and whistles. Maybe a little *too* nice!
Anyone have
I agree with Steve. Use the paper statement metaphor that already exists
rather than trying to reinvent the wheel. I would guess that Italians,
Canadians, and everyone else in the developed nations have at one point
received paper statements in the mail, thus I would think that the paper
icon
I've built several real estate sites myself, have had some of the same
requests, and haven't found it to be a problem. My experience is that most
people don't see this as a unique category/subcategory system, but rather as a
general grouping. That is, there will be Industrial Land and there
I agree. For those of us who spend enough time on the web to become generally
jaded, testimonials are usually assumed to be fake. That being said, the ones
that matter are short (usually one sentence focused on one aspect of your
service) and have a real name and/or company attach that can be
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Micah Freedman [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
I'm working on a commercial real estate site, and I'm having a bit of
trouble coming to agreement with my client on categorization. He wants a
two-level category scheme, which is fine. The problem is, he want some terms
at
Hi all, I have a bit of research I'd like to ask for help with.
I'm working with a group of investors in the midwest who are interested in
starting a business incubator.
I am interested in talking to anyone who has been part of an incubator,
either as a participant or a mentor, to learn about
PHP Developer
Los Angeles, CA
We have an immediate opportunity for a talented PHP Developer to join our
Clients exciting social entertainment company. Our environment is fast-paced
and
you will be responsible for developing production-level code as well as
proof-of-concepts and
Director of Engineering
Los Angeles, CA
We have an immediate opportunity for an experienced, hands-on Director of
Engineering to join our clients fast growing company. You should be
comfortable
working hand in hand with senior leadership and managing a growing
technology team. Great
Director of Interactive Design, Logistics
Los Angeles, CA
We have an immediate opportunity for a talented and self-motivated
Individual to fill the role of Director of Interactive Design, Logistics.
You will be responsible the management of web artists across all our clients
projects and be
Web Designer
Los Angeles, CA
We have an immediate opportunity for a talented web designer to join our
Clients fast growing company. You should have strong design skills and a
working
knowledge of web and print design and production. You should be comfortable
juggling several projects
Sr. Information Architect
My client, a great independent interactive agency in Los Angeles, is looking
for a Sr. Information Architect who is passionate about building great user
experiences and committed to client success. The candidate we seek will hit
the ground running and possess a strong
I've been traveling a bit lately, so I've been:
1. Watching TV shows and movies
2. Maps
3. Browsing online
-Neil
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Things I do now:
1. Making three-way calls, because it is so obvious how to do it.
Add-Call button, dial the next number however you usually dial,
Merge-Calls button (in the same place the Add-Call button was). It just
works!
2. Taking pictures with the phone instead of the digital camera in
Hi Greg,
My three (in no particular order):
1. Micro-blogging (Twitter) - the Twitterrific app allows me to
spontaneously tweet (feels more natural) at any time. Plus, I check tweets
sent by folk I follow all the time. I'm interested in the tweets for news
and interests - seems a natural way to
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:06:54 -0400, Greg wrote:
Quick straw poll question for list members who have iPhones.
What are the top 3 things you find yourself doing now with your iPhone
that you did not do before and why?
Hmm. Having read a number of the answers, I find that I do many of the
things
Are you ready to challenge yourself and take your design to the next
level? Some designers think that software UI is boring and dry, but
those are just the ones who don't understand the true meaning of pushing
the limits. Creating an aesthetically pleasing, yet functional and
smart UI is the
1. It has replaced my alarm clock. I wake up to the harp every morning.
2. Photo blogging - I post more often than I was, and the grandparents are
happier.
3. Twitter - I didn't use Twitter until I had it.
oh, and hello, Scrabble!
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Petroff, Greg [EMAIL
I liked this NY Times piece on designing for small screens called On a Small
Screen, Just the Salient Stuff:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/technology/13stream.html?_r=1oref=slogin
Patrick V. Barrett
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Punchcut has a good blog:
http://idlemode.com/
Jim
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Petroff, Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok,
Post iPhone conversation... Any recent reading material on trends in
mobile / smart phones
I am looking for blogs, whitepapers, conferences, places for where
In order of use:
1. Use of GPS on things like Google maps, Yelp, and other search
related things.
2. Surfing web and email more often
3. Twitterrific to view and update status, whereas previously I just
texted to 404-40 or whatever the number is
4. Playing Texas Hold 'em (games)
Cheers!
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Petroff, Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am looking for blogs, whitepapers, conferences, places for where
people are talking about both the IxD and the scenarios of use that are
current.
I try to keep a good set over at www.squidoo.com/mobiledesign, which
has
Meredith Noble wrote:
Hi folks,
Does anyone know where I could find a list of best practices around
login security? I'm looking for an overview of the most common
techniques and how they relate to both security and user experience --
pros and cons.
Putting on my professional security hat for
One other note:
- Emailing lost passwords to users
Never, ever, ever store passwords in the clear, anywhere. If a user
forgets their password, generate a temporary one and ask them to create
a new password.
Plenty of people re-use passwords on different sites, all it takes is
for one of
Dear IxDA community,
Do you want to make a difference with the next generation of Interaction
Designers? IxDA is about to start a number of interesting education-related
initiatives, including a mentoring program and round-up of IxD schools... We
need *your* help to define and execute these and
Little Springs Design has an interesting blog and a mobile UI patterns
library wiki -
Patterns Wiki -
http://patterns.littlespringsdesign.com/index.php/Main_Page
Blog - http://www.littlespringsdesign.com/posts/
Slideshare - some great and interesting slide decks on trends, case
studies, etc. -
1) Use google maps and gps while walking around a new city.
2) Twitter all the time now.
3) Taking and emailing pictures
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Checking Gmail more often, and actually organizing it better.
Checking my bus times from anywhere. This is huge. A local guy in
Portland (Matt King) made a quick Trimet Transit Tracker that scraped
local arrival times into an elegant little iPhone site. Accurate.
Beautiful.
Taking more random
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