Google and similar situations will use meta-data (if available) in the
code, how instances
and entries are linked throughout the internets, how the content is
stored, and a whole host of
associations with the company, their industry and so on.
In short, even if you don't create the method of
Just finished the survey. It takes not more than 10 minutes to complete. It
very succinctly articulates IxDA's possible directions and hence would
request every one to invest time in this survey.
Fill up the survey in your next coffee break! Assure you, the coffee will
still be piping hot... ;)
Thanks for the advice (and the reinforcement), Mike! I'm really
pushing this client to try some innovative things on a tight budget.
They have a great idea for a site and I think they need a UI to
match.
There will be editorial and reference materials, and we're planning
on selling banner ads,
How about charting the re-occurrence of certain words/phrases (in the
title and description of products) and use these to tag your
products. And then offer either a tag-cloud to users/search engines
OR a single level category system made up of your 10 top tags.
Brad
http://twitter.com/bradpollard
A couple of people contacted me off list about this. I'll try and
gather up my reference list and post it online rather than here. I'm
planning a blog post about some of my research outcomes soonish too,
so I'll probably add it in there.
By the way, apologies if the former post sounded a bit
Patterns can help with consistency, and design heuristics, tenets,
guidelines, walk throughs and critiques can all help in improving a
design; but I don't see anyway to truly evaluate quality of
interactions without actual testing.
I suggest setting measurable design goals at the start of a
Regarding your question about remote testing - I've done a great deal
of remote testing and have had excellent results. I've even run
pseudo-paper prototypes remotely using PhotoShop layers to handle the
paper switching. PowerPoint can be useful for that as well
As for software to use, I've had
For long lists without an obvious logical arrangement alphabetical
order allows one to take advantage of Hick's law
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hick's_law), but if the list is
relatively short and there is a logical order to the items then
alphabetizing is probably not the way to go.
In most
OT: A left hand perspective.
As soon as left mouse button is pressed down, the cursor turns to a
closed hand,
As a lefty I use the right mouse button. This concept is confusing at
times but I am used to it as I have had to adapt to this right handed
world.
As for the drag and drop versus
I am working on rebranding and a new logo for my company. I have been
considering using all small letters. Today, I had a discussion with a
designer more visual than I, who sad that using caps at the beginning of
words is more memorable - but many of his examples included drive by's --
seeing the
Just took the survey. Its good and has come at a time when IxDA needs
a website change. All the current stuff on this site is important but
other stuff that might add value is too.
Good survey. well thought out.
I think we members should take this survey. Its important. Less than
10mins btw.
.
Hi Nehal/Vicky IxDAers,
(I decided to post this to list in the end - in the hope it's useful
to others)
My (nearly finished) PhD thesis is titled Developing a language of
interactivity through the theory of play. Among other things, it
tries to answer the seemingly simple question of
To ensure every one of your product pages are indexed, you'll want to
create a sitemap.xml page for both Google and Yahoo. Basically, it's
an XML version of a text site map, created by manually crawling your
own site. You might need to create that text index page yourself
first (you could do so
Also, an example of a site with products in every conceivable category
(some even uncategorizable), see http://www.ebay.com
Note they are heavily search-based as well, but still provide
categories into which I'm betting 95% of their products fall neatly
and predictably. The rest are certainly
I can't imagine a definitive study proving this statement: using
caps at the beginning of words is more memorable
If you're talking about a logo, it probably doesn't matter, as long
as your logo, itself, is memorable and connects people to you and/or
your company. If it came down to caps vs
Good Morning All,
From the lobby of the Four Seasons at what has been an enormously rewarding
conference (and will another day to look forward to here in Vancouver).
If I were wearing a hat, I would take it off for Daniel who has hit the nail
on the head for his comments below. It is not so
Few thoughts ...
- (I think you may be referring to this but in case not ...) there
is the known phenomenon of people being able to read lower case text
faster than all upper case text. It's to do with the fact that if
you block out the shape of a word, lower case words have ascenders
(on h, b
Nehal,
Experience is the totality of ones perception, but I think what you
are getting at is how to differentiate a positive experience from a
negative one.
I believe the key is expectation. If an experience meets or exceeds
ones expectations of that experience it's perceived as positive, if
I agree with everything (or just about everything) that's been said
or referenced. I think, though, that the main purpose of a landing
page, from a user's perspective, is that it's a payoff page. It
says to the user, Oh, I've arrived somewhere. It is a temporary
respite from the transitional
My only comment would be to be cautious about using trendy design
choices like small letters unless there's reason behind it. Are you
trying to make the wordmark appear friendly? Youthful? Casual?
Remember, your company name is a proper noun, and proper nouns are
capitalized%u2014it's what we're
Unless you're going with some kind of symbol for your logo, what will
be most memorable is the name. To develop that kind of shape
recognition a text logo would need a heck of a lot of brand
repetition. You're probably better off with a good name and a
professional logo that helps tell your story.
Having capital letters at the start of the words certainly calls more
attention to the words and emphasizes that. I cannot personally
recall a logo with small letters and all the logos I can recall from
memory end up having at least the first letter capitalized.
As Mark stated, company names (and
When you are working with brand and marketing (of which logos and
corporate identity are a part of), breaking from the norm is very
very powerful. Throw out the old english teacher rule book and make
decisions that empower the brand and match it to your targeted
audience. There are plenty
Hello All,
Im looking for Dashboard applications guidelines or research on this
subject. Any ideas on where should I start.
Thanks,
Elroy
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
To post to this list ...
I have a list containing two types of data elements (say A B). Some
actions (say 1 2) can be performed on Type A only, some (say 3 4) on
Type B only and some (say 5 6) on both Type A Type B. What would be the
best UI to display these interactions? It would be awkward if only the
allowed
Apple's interface guidelines are here
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGIntro/chapter_1_section_1.html
and PDF
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/OSXHIGuidelines.pdf
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Conventionally, small letters in a logo does work for initials. For
organizations whose overall demeanor is of understatement or breaking
the mold, then going for small letters for the company name could work
in their favor.
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I work in a software company for health solutions. My team has about 20
members and my new big task is to write the guI guidelines.
Can you help me with some references that could point me, at least a way to
start?
In this case, Delicious' Styleguide collection
First Nordic Conference on
Service Design and Service Innovation
24th-26th November 2009
Call for contributions
The Norwegian Design Council and the Oslo School of Architecture and
Design invite you to submit suggestions for contributions to the first
Nordic Conference on Service Design and
I think that is a key part Mike. One of the reasons I have looked into
play in terms of understanding interactivity is to map out this idea
of the rules and the play space (sometimes known as the Magic Circle
from Huizinga's Homo Ludens). Almost all interactions, interaction
design, user
I don't think any text treatment should be ruled out because of
typography rules. A logotype is as much an illustration as it is
text. Recently... some of the best known brands have switched to all
lower case. xerox, intel, (and just this month) pepsi.
My best practice...consider as many options
Check out the book 'Information Dashboard Design' *
http://tinyurl.com/info-dash*
I have a copy of it at home - initially thought I'd made a mistake buying
it, but it has more content in it than you think.
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Elroy Terzol elro...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hello All,
I'm
Have a look at these discussions in the archives:
http://www.ixda.org/search.php?tag=dashboard
regards,
Milan
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Welcome
I second Vicky's recommendation on Information Dashboard Design,
http://tinyurl.com/d5j78w. I have found it very informative.
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I completely forgot to add the book I'm reading/reviewing at the
moment too. You should definitely read Kenya Hara's Designing
Design. There is a great deal in it about the senses and the
experience of space and objects.
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Posted
Since I wrote this update two more UX Book Club groups have been formed.
These two sum up for me so much of what I love about this concept:
Amsterdam, Holland; and Warsaw, Poland. Welcome :)
Steve
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Steve 'Doc' Baty | Principal | Meld Consulting | P: +61 417 061 292 | E:
steveb...@meld.com.au |
I won't repeat a lot of the other good comments, but will add that in
terms of making sure the word mark is distinctive, the specific
letterforms involved play a big factor. In your example, the all
lowercase once may not be very distinctive because none of the
letters have ascenders or
Color code or iconic pair. Make the available actions more prominent
when in focus.
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 8, 2009, at 9:39 AM, Vishal Iyer vishaliy...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a list containing two types of data elements (say A B). Some
actions (say 1 2) can be performed on Type A
Same as above only and instead of or. And an off-the-screen
hidden label for screen-readers also. If you intend to or need to be
508 compliant.
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Also, try to ask yourself how important your logo being memorable is
to your brand. Sure, it is always good to have a top-shelf logo and
great design. But not at the expense of other services and in the
case of a website, usability.
I have seen first hand companies spend a large amount on a great
What? Can't just put checkboxes on all the items and show the checked
ones in the details pane? This is analogous to any drag-and-drop
system, really. And easier to use, I bet.
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Thanks for all of the thoughtful input. And to William, touche'. One
reason I did not want to go back into business for myself was all of
the branding and marketing, website work that seems to take endless
amounts of energy. Yes, our work should speak for itself, but it
never hurts to have a
Janna, there are no real rules in design as in any art - only guides,
and even then they can be ignored!
Some pitfalls that may eventuate from your stated approach:
One compromise was to make the small letters at the beginning
of each word in a larger font. telling vs. telling
I'm not a great
Stephen Few's other book -- Show Me the Numbers is also worth a look
as it has some great dashboard examples and speaks a lot to effective
layout and information design.
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Hi Group,
Can you please share information and resources on checklists for doing
evaluation on software products.
Warm Regards,
Harikrishna VP
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