Re: [IxDA Discuss] Whistler Trip after IxDA

2008-10-13 Thread Yohan Creemers
Yes, I'm interested. I plan to stay there for a week. I've seen a Whistler three day trip in the list of workshops a while ago, but can't find it anymore... Gustavo Gawryszewski started a thread about skiing as well: http://www.interaction09.crowdvine.com/posts/show/1974060 - Yohan . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Whistler Trip after IxDA

2008-10-13 Thread Will Evans
Thanks for the link back to crowdvine. I am flexible - before or after the conference - but getting 3-4 days of skiing in at whistler is just what I was thinking. On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Yohan Creemers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I'm interested. I plan to stay there for a week.

[IxDA Discuss] Simple usability lab - suggestions?

2008-10-13 Thread Kordian Piotr Klecha
We are thinking about building small and simple usability lab. The goal is to minimize the cost, retaining capabilities to quick test some own ideas and (especially) results of changes we made. I am wondering about basic equipment we need - and current list is: one PC (well equipped: fast hdd, a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Simple usability lab - suggestions?

2008-10-13 Thread krushford
Hello, Take a look at techshmith's morae software. http://www.techsmith.com/ That can cover screen activity and has some great analysis tools. With a web cam and mic you can record facial expressions and sounds for the same session and review both together in one frame. At my company we are

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Simple usability lab - suggestions?

2008-10-13 Thread Patrick Aguilar
I have never used it myself, but you might want to check out: http://silverbackapp.com/ Its a mac app. that allows you to capture both the users movements on the screen and the users facial reactions as well. Of course you would need a Mac (the laptops come with built in cameras). Hope this

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Simple usability lab - suggestions?

2008-10-13 Thread Todd Zaki Warfel
On Oct 13, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Todd Zaki Warfel wrote: While ours stay fixed, the iMac gives us the flexibility to pack it up quickly and easily and take it w/us to test at remote locations (e.g. trade shows, client offices, homes). Oops, this should have read While ours stays fixed most

[IxDA Discuss] Deconstructing Product Design

2008-10-13 Thread Rob Tannen
William Lidwell's forthcoming book, Deconstructing Product Design, won't be published until Fall 2009, but he is soliciting input on 100 classic product to include in the book. From the web site: If you have actually used any of these products, know interesting or little known facts about

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Deconstructing Product Design

2008-10-13 Thread Rob Tannen
P.P.S. - My bad, the earlier book is called Universal PRINCIPLES of Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=34240 Welcome to the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Simple usability lab - suggestions?

2008-10-13 Thread Todd Zaki Warfel
On Oct 13, 2008, at 9:13 AM, Kordian Piotr Klecha wrote: [...] I am wondering about basic equipment we need - and current list is: one PC (well equipped: fast hdd, a lot of RAM and so on), one camcorder, some mousetracking software... and? Kordian, Are the systems you're going to be

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] Just in time for Halloween, the IxDA Los Angeles Almer/Blank present Designing for Ghouls, Wednesday October 22nd 7-9pm

2008-10-13 Thread Los Angeles IxDA
For our October event, IxDA Los Angeles invites you to a design contest of sorts. In other words, we're having a Halloween party! Please come dressed as your favorite website, application or device. There will be a prize for the most cleverly designed costume. Additionally, we will be breaking

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Simple usability lab - suggestions?

2008-10-13 Thread Mark
Hi To better respond, can u tell us what types of products you want to test? I might assume it's web-based since u mentioned mouse tracking, but not am not sure. I've designed and setup a pretty Decent and flexible lab in the past. But when it comes down to it, you can always get by

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Hyperbolic Trees

2008-10-13 Thread Will Evans
I test drove yworks - but here is the deal - not great. When I was designing a social network analytics diagramming application (thick client C#) and we need semantically correct nodes for linking, cross-linking, sets, clustering and calculations like degrees of correlation/degrees of separation -

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Finally! My Prayers Will Be Answered. In 3 years.

2008-10-13 Thread Will Evans
Jared - Maybe if Facebook folks weren't hammered in Cyprus - they might have a business plan already :-) http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/10/team-cyprus-move-to-undo-the-video/ On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Josh Seiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey folks, Just a reminder here to please

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Hyperbolic Trees

2008-10-13 Thread Janet M. Six
You should also check out Orgnet.com Janet Will Evans wrote: I test drove yworks - but here is the deal - not great. When I was designing a social network analytics diagramming application (thick client C#) and we need semantically correct nodes for linking, cross-linking, sets,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD in government

2008-10-13 Thread William Brall
I hear what you guys are saying. NASA is somewhat of a duality. When it comes to real science, they have the best in the world at their disposal. Unfortunately, when you are a web developer for something like Code 300 at Goddard, you spend all your time making databases and static websites. True,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of anchored navigation anyone?

2008-10-13 Thread Jeff Hendy
The end result of a fixed menu seems quite similar to a menu in a frame. I'm always hearing that frames should be avoided, so what's the difference here? Is it all in the technical implementation of frames vs CSS rather than being a design issue? On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:24 PM, William Brall

[IxDA Discuss] Free OS X Widget Library for Axure

2008-10-13 Thread Ari Feldman
Found time to release v1.0 of my OS X widget library for Axure. It's been placed under the creative commons license and can be downloaded here: http://www.archive.org/details/AriFeldmanArisOSXAxureRPWidgetLibrary You can also download it from the AxureLib Google Group:

[IxDA Discuss] Flash and Silverlight

2008-10-13 Thread David Shaw
Hey All, I'm doing a bit of research on Silverlight. Are there references out there that compare Flash's capabilities to Silverlight? I'm specifically looking to know which integrates better with a C# app, but also which one is easier for a UI person to work in. Any help would be greatly

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of anchored navigation anyone?

2008-10-13 Thread William Brall
Frames are not a problem design-wise, they just cause orphan pages, that is, a search engine might index the pages being framed and not the frame-set and a user may come to the page without a menu and be lost. CSS fixed elements are arranged based on the window itself, and so they stay wherever

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of anchored navigation anyone?

2008-10-13 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On Oct 13, 2008, at 4:50 PM, William Brall wrote: I think it is a great idea, although you need to be frugal with the space it takes up, since the user can do nothing to regain that space, and at a low resolution it could make the page unusable. I really don't understand why it isn't used

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Flash and Silverlight

2008-10-13 Thread David Malouf
uh? The first part is easy. W/o a doubt Silverlight and C# work much more tightly. You can do all your code in C# (no scripting languages required) and work in Visual Studio or other C# IDEs for all the UI Integration points. As for what is better for a UI person. Which type of UI Person? A UI

[IxDA Discuss] JOB: UX Designer, San Mateo CA, Mixer Labs, Full time or Contract

2008-10-13 Thread Elad Gil
We are looking to hire a UX designer as part of the initial small core team at Mixer Labs. Mixer Labs was started by two former Googlers, is backed by some of the top investors in the Bay Area, and is focused on a massive, swing for the fences opportunity. We consider the UX role to be a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Hyperbolic Trees

2008-10-13 Thread Itamar Medeiros
I agree with Will when he says that yFILES is not great, but one impression that I have of all the off-the-shelf data visualization packages (yFILES, IBM's Many Eyes, etc...) is that -- without the ability to tweak with the code to suit specific visualization needs -- it's difficult to get the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of anchored navigation anyone?

2008-10-13 Thread William Brall
Not a problem. http://tagsoup.com/cookbook/css/fixed/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=34162 Welcome to the Interaction Design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of anchored navigation anyone?

2008-10-13 Thread William Brall
Also, And I'm so sorry about double-posting about this but it is important and should be said. Even IF you can't get it working in all browsers, you can make it degrade well and turn into a header or right/left column nav that isn't fixed. Lack of support in one browser is never a reason to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Hyperbolic Trees

2008-10-13 Thread Jarod Tang
http://cmap.ihmc.us/ is one of the best i ever use ( though the interface is a bit ugly) Cheers, -- Jarod On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 5:31 AM, Dennis Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Lauren, Have you looked at PersonalBrain http://www.thebrain.com/#-47 from The Brain Hope this help :D