Re: [IxDA Discuss] Content inventory link ID numbering conventions
I always use 0.0 for the Home page. If there is another state of the home page (logged in, or admin user, etc.) I might use 0.1 or 0.2. Sometimes I will also give a global page a 0.x number, like Search Results, since this doesn't belong to any content category. x.0 maps to a category page. Not all category pages have children. x.x maps to a child page. Most often, I will only go to a third level if there is a process embedded in a child page, like submitting a form or completing a purchase. On rare occasions I'll go to a third level page for really specific content; I haven't ever (to my recollection) gone to a fourth level. When it comes time to wireframe each page, I might use letters to indicate different states or version of the same page. I won't say this is the only way of doing things, but it hasn't faltered in years. Dante Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] IxDA Shanghai updates: website and next meeting!
I'm very pleased to inform our website (http://www.ixda.org.cn/sh/) is
up! We'll be posting the updates of our local community there --
recaps of previous face-to-face meetings, job postings, upcoming
events, resources sharing --, so go check some pictures of our last
event!
I would like to also inform about our next Face-to-Face meeting:
WHEN?
May 27h 2008, 7:00PM
WHERE?
Autodesk China Research and Development Center
399 Pu Dian Road, Pudong New District,
Shanghai, 200122, P.R. China
中国上海市浦东新区浦电路399号欧特克软件（中国）有限公司
A very convenient way of getting there is by METRO: coming on LINE 4,
Autodesk's office is just outside of PUDIAN ROAD STATION; coming on
LINE 2, you can take the metro in the direction of Zhang Jiang
Technology Park, get off at SHIJI AVENUE, switch to LINE 4 and get off
at PUDIAN ROAD STATION.
In that occasion, we'll recap Alan Cooper's Keynote An Insurgency of
Quality at IxDA Interaction '08 conference. I realize that it might
be difficult for all to arrive at 7:00PM, so there will be some
refreshments and a little time for networking before we start the
video at 7:30PM
Note that the conference room that Autodesk has kindly made available
for us has a total capacity of 50 (fifty) people. So -- please -- RSVP
using our guest list form
(http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=py-EVrhPEvzqLoEmogVM_Zwemail=true)
BEFORE SUNDAY, May 25th, in order to guarantee your place!
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Ok, more twitter articles in the mainstream press, now from C|Net
I thought David might enjoy this... http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/twitter-supposedly-used-to-control-house-lights/ We'll preface this by saying this whole thing could be one giant hoax, but it's most certainly within the realm of possibility. We're told it's a mixture of Insteon, SMS and Twitter, all of which are utilized in order to give one particular homeowner the ability to activate / turn off lights remotely by sending a specific message to the latter. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Content inventory link ID numbering conventions
I'm a bit green yet with actually producing this stuff myself, but Dante's method sounds like what I use. However, I am finding myself at a loss on how to treat global details, such as top navigation, footer, user login box, etc. when their level of detail requires a separate page. Right now I have them listed as the 0.x pages, but that doesn't seem quite on target, as they're not really subsections of (0.0) Home. Scott On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Elizabeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Dante, it's always good to know which methods and variations have been tried and tested! -- 'Life' plus 'significance' = magic. ~ Grant Morrison Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Ok, more twitter articles in the mainstream press, now from C|Net
I think the idea behind the automation was more about What you could do with twitter, instead of The best way to use twitter. The fact that a tool actually inspires some people to go beyond its initial means in itself, is complimentary. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usage Of Print Friendly Functionality
Maybe useless was the wrong term to use. I have a Tablet PC, so I haven't used paper/pen/printer in over 2 years. :) Maybe a better solution instead of a Print Page link, would be a Save Content \/ link with a down arrow, indicating it opens up. There you can pop up some options: - Copy Content to Clipboard - Save As .doc - Open Print Friendly Version - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=29252 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Is a Flash-intro to a personal portfolio still good/relevant?
Let's assume that you've done the proper work to provide a Skip Intro button. Let's further assume that you've done at least the minimum to make your content accessible to people without the Flash player. The question I ask, then, is: does having a Flash intro to a personal site, which may include one's portfolio or resume, make sense in today's job market and design environment? Or does this brand the designer as someone stuck in the last decade? As usual, I suspect the answer is it depends; what I'm really interested in is exploring issues around how we present ourselves in online presences and the Flash-intro or Flash-site is a method I still see from time to time, though not nearly as much as I used to. Best regards, --Alan Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Looking for upcoming UX conferences in NorthAmerica and Europe
Usability Professionals' Association 2008 Conference Baltimore, MD USA June 16-20 http://upa2008.org UPA Europe 2008 Turin, Italy December 4-6 http://www.upaeurope2008.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] iXda badge
Hey there Jeff et al., The Board is tackling brand issues, including access to logos and usage thereof, imminently. We'll make sure they're generally available as we coordinate ourselves going forward. Thanks for keeping them safe in the meantime, Luke! Please also note that our organization, the Interaction Design Association should be referred to as IxDA (not iXda) if'n you want to abbreviate it. Thanks! :) Cheers, Liz (IxDA VP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=29253 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Netflix direct-to-TV streaming
I don't think the idea is to replicate web functionality. It's taking on Apple TV type products. People want to watch TV on TVs not PCs, especially now that we have large screens. You also get more bandwidth so you have higher resolution. Is basically trying to deliver on the promise of video-on-demand. Makes a lot of sense to me. -Original Message- To replicate the website's functionality in the tv would require either a huge effort developing proprietary hardware UI. Or a web enabled tv and they dont work very well. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Looking for upcoming UX conferences in NorthAmerica and Europe
Design Research Conference - September 19/20 in Chicago: http://trex.id.iit.edu/events/drc/2008/index.html . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=29216 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Asking questions to participants in a positiveor negative way ?
From: chiwah liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : I don't know if I am right, but for me, the neutral option depends on the : number of users : : - If we don't have enough user to reach a statistical significance (let's : say less than 100 users) for our survey, we should add a neutral option. : The users who don't have any idea can bias the survey. : : - Now if we have enough user to reach a statistical significance (200-300+ : users), we can force them to choose because they should give a random : answer. That mean if my scale is between 1 and 4, I should have the same : number of users that answer 2 than those who answer 3. If this case happens, : then I can suppose that users don't really have idea about the answer. : Otherwise, they might have preferences and it shouldn't be biased because it : is be statistically significant. : : No. I think the phrase 'force them to choose' shows exactly why this is a bad idea. You ought to allow users to have the opinions that they have - even if those opinions include 'don't know' or 'don't care' (or both). The answer options you offer should depend solely on the answers that your users want to give - not upon how many users there are. If you don't know what answers your users want to give, then interview them to find out before running your survey. And by the way - you should do that anyway (i.e., interview some users first) if you want anything like good results from your survey. There's a longer version of my views at: http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article1269.asp Best Caroline Jarrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] getting into a master's program when youhavepoorundergraduate grades?
It never hurts to contact someone in the program, or the head of the program and just ask how seriously they take grades. Some schools put a lot of value on things like GRE / portfolio / work experience, but sometimes it is simply a matter of what the admissions committee for a specific program thinks is important. -- jet / KG6ZVQ http://www.flatline.net pgp: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Looking for upcoming UX conferences in NorthAmerica and Europe
UsabilityProfessionals08 Lübeck, Germany September 7-10 http://www.vielmehr.org/ Cheers, Karen Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Another Flash-FLEX question - design books?
I promise this isn't related to my previous Flash question - just coincidence. Are there books people would recommend that talk about how to create good designs in Flash/FLEX. For example, there appear to be particular ways one has to work with CSS to get the effect one might want. And there is a particular widget set that has certain affordances, some of which seem better than others. I'm looking more for some how to and best practices information than I am general design pattern type stuff. But I'll take what I can get. Thanks in advance, --Alan Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Omnigraffle tip
I would like to share a tip in omnigraffle. My biggest problem with visio has always been being confined to pt units. That is one of the biggest reasons I changed to omnigraffle (among a lot of other reasons of course) - to be able to work in pixels so I can see how big it will be on the screen. I make a lot of web work so it makes sense to be able to work in that resolution enviroment. This is especially useful (to me) while doing high definition wireframes. You get to test your design considerations/decisions very early. Low definition wireframes i can do on anything - whiteboard, postits, napkins or even in powerpoint.. Another problem has been that you are confined to a paper format (standard delivarable carrier), making you try to stuff so much you can within that format. This is of course not ideal when working with the web which can have veery long pages. Omnigraffle allows pixels, but the pixel resolution you get on a a4/letter format is not a lot to work with. If you get a long page you will still have to try and stuff it in (not ideal design) or add another paper (bye bye forests). So the tip goes as follows: 1. In your page setup. Choose a large paper size such as A3 or 11x17. (you will still be able to export/print it as A4 or letter) 2. In your work enviroment, choose pixels. 3. In the inspect/canvas/size panel. Choose 50% on print scale. This will now give you a pixel resolution of approx 1500x2300 (portrait) depending on margin settings allowing for a lot of room making long screens. But wait... everything got smaller! You still want your pixels to be actual pixels on the screen so zoom in your work space at 200%. Voila. Yes, this WILL be tiny on a printed a4/letter but still OK for most part. If you don't quite want that much space you can work within another proportional relationship such as print scale 80% and zoomed work space at 125%. This will get you a resolution of approx 940x1400 (portrait). With this tip you will make both Edward Tufte (resolution is the answer!) and the planet happy. Print on both sides of a paper and your paper stack deliverables will get a lot lighter. Best Johan Sjöstrand Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Content inventory link ID numbering conventions
I do content inventories much the same way as Dante does, it sounds like. The homepage is 0.0, the top-level category pages are 1.0, 2.0, and so on, and pages below those are numbered as children. I've gone as deep as five or six levels using this system, and it works fine, even if it leads to some cumbersome numbers. And on the same principle as the one Dante describes, where the root of the site is a global 0, I number the utility navigation elements (Contact Us, Sitemap, and the like) as 0.x. This applies even if there are child pages underneath--so for example, if Contact Us is page 0.2, department-specific contact pages underneath it would be 0.2.1, 0.2.2, etc. I've tried out different approaches to numbering in content inventories, and this one is the one that makes the most sense to others who have to use the inventory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=29259 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Need Suggestions for 2-D Display of 3-D Quantitive Data
Todd wrote: Brooke, could you give an example of what you're trying to show? And what data users would be trying to compare? ~~~ I've got lines of data that share many attributes (column headings) and that each have unique attributes (other column headings). Think of it as a regular grid, but I've got to put on another layer of parameters (distance chunks) where the type of distance chunk (column headings) for one line will vary between two subsets of column headings. The subsets of column headings for the grid are sort of related. And so I'm trying to place them one on top (meaning, stacking the unique column headings) of the other in the header but that layout implies a strict relationship between the two that's false. There are indicators along the vertical access that let the user know what column header is the right reference. I'm just not sure this is really the best way to do things. The design is constrained by a small amount of screen space (and we'll still have horizontal scrolling) AND that we can't aren't introducing graphical treatments. Clear as mud? Thanks brooke Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Is a Flash-intro to a personal portfolio still good/relevant?
I pretty much operate under the rule of thumb that a flash intro is never a good idea. If you absolutely have to have something even remotely like one, design it as a flash embed on your index page. Basically, give your audience one less click to get into the real substance of the site rather than the opportunity to blow it off. I guess what I'm saying is, it's not a question of whether it makes sense in today's job or design market, it's a question of usability. Put your content front and center. -MIKE D On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Alan Wexelblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's assume that you've done the proper work to provide a Skip Intro button. Let's further assume that you've done at least the minimum to make your content accessible to people without the Flash player. The question I ask, then, is: does having a Flash intro to a personal site, which may include one's portfolio or resume, make sense in today's job market and design environment? Or does this brand the designer as someone stuck in the last decade? As usual, I suspect the answer is it depends; what I'm really interested in is exploring issues around how we present ourselves in online presences and the Flash-intro or Flash-site is a method I still see from time to time, though not nearly as much as I used to. Best regards, --Alan Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help -- Michael Dunn FoolishStudios www.foolishstudios.com Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Need Suggestions for 2-D Display of 3-D Quantitive Data
Without knowing more on the dataset in question its hard to say what kind of visualisation will suit. I recommend a look at Many Eyes for inspiration http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home Maybe a treemap? Some place to explore http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html# http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/ Shameless Plug: IxDA Boston will have Matt McKeon, a researcher at IBM's Visual Communications Lab, speak about Many Eyes at our night of short talks on the 26th of June - save the date. RSVP and formal announcement to follow. Interested in speaking? http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pQG39RalBf4Majf8iT2aEaQ -pauric Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Is a Flash-intro to a personal portfolio still good/relevant?
In general, I do not like Flash intros or splash pages. Not it depends. In my mind, if you do a Flash-site, your whole web site should be contained within that flash movie, if you can work with a good programmer, the technology allows you to do that. Attention Adobe Flex. Having say that, I also think that if a particular page/section of your website embeds a Flash movie, it is OK. For example, a photographer's web site can take advantage of a flash movie to present their portfolio, as a way to protect the images from being stolen, and keep the rest of the web site as HTML/CSS/JS. The splash page is dead, long live the splash page! Enrique Sallent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=29277 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Is a Flash-intro to a personal portfolio still good/relevant?
it does depends. if youve a long loading time, god forbid, youd better distract them with something decent. or hire a better programmer. if youre an animator, why not? usability, schmusability, you're there to entertain. people hear flash intro and go all negative and dark, but if youre waiting for a fantastic experience, then the wait should be just as enjoyable. some of the best sites ive seen have leveraged the annoyance of a loading bar to produce a highly entertaining and fun experience. i would think about the context of your site and whether you can use the loading to your advantage to highlight your talents, if not, i would drop it if you can. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] [Local] London Leadership!
Calling all London IxDA subscribers: There has been a lot of attendance and interest in the London group, so to knock it up a notch we are forming a organising committee/board that will plan and put on events in and around London, organise speakers, organise workshops and what have you. If you fancy getting involved, please get in touch. We're looking for about 5-8 people - that way if you happen to be busy or away during a month, there are others to fill the void. Interested? Please send a note to Mikhail Goldgaber (CCd here) and me and we'll reply to let you know the deal. We will be having an organisational meeting on Monday the 2nd of June, so please try to keep that free. We look forward to hearing from you! All the best - Alexander. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Netflix direct-to-TV streaming
On 5/20/08, pauric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To replicate the website's functionality in the tv would require either a huge effort developing proprietary hardware UI. Or a web enabled tv and they dont work very well. Granted, Netflix has always been known for its focus on user experience, but many organizations are just as notable for their *lack* of focus in that area. A remote for the device is a given, and it's easy to conceive of a boardroom full of bean counters saying that people should use the included remote to get their content. No huge effort required. It's nice to see that did not happen in this case, and I think it deserves positive recognition as a result. I've not used either this device or an Apple TV, but I'd love to hear comparisons... the Netflix approach closely models the existing process customers are used to... Select content, put it on your queue, watch it. Apple TV's movie rental interface is similar to their existing process: Select content, purchase it, view it. One thing I'm interested in is whether people find it easier to browse through a shorter list of relevant content (Netflix queue) or a larger list of complete content. Using a remote. Now, intuition tells me it's the first, but whether research will bear it out I don't know, but this is part of what leads me to the right tool for the job view. Hierarchies are best browsed when you can view as much of the current level as possible, and this is much easier to achieve on a computer screen than on a TV screen controlled by a remote. And then there's searching. Intuition leads me to believe that few users will use the Apple remote to search through iTunes content. But using the keyboard on your computer facilitates this. But of course I'm wrong more than a lot of the time... -pauric I think that should be in every UXD job description. We're supposed to have lots of ideas, many of which will be wrong... but we *test* them to see which are right. : ) - F. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Need Suggestions for 2-D Display of 3-D Quantitive Data
Absolutely clear as mud. :D If I had an picture or spreadsheet of the data, that might help. Feel free to email me offline; I'd be glad to take a stab at it. -T On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:43 PM, pauric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without knowing more on the dataset in question its hard to say what kind of visualisation will suit. I recommend a look at Many Eyes for inspiration http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home Maybe a treemap? Some place to explore http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html# http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/ Shameless Plug: IxDA Boston will have Matt McKeon, a researcher at IBM's Visual Communications Lab, speak about Many Eyes at our night of short talks on the 26th of June - save the date. RSVP and formal announcement to follow. Interested in speaking? http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pQG39RalBf4Majf8iT2aEaQ -pauric Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help -- http://www.oombrella.com oombrella /a/ gmail.com Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Printer Recommendations Needed
So here is what I am looking for: Color Laser Printer for UX guy Home office - so a huge monster won't be viable High quality for printing from Illustrator and Photoshop Print speed is good - 18-22ppm Resolution 1200 x 600 Here is the catch - I would really love it to be able to handle 11x17 (for wireframes). And I don't want to eat Ramen for 3 months to pay for it. Any recommendations? -- ~ will Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems - Will Evans | User Experience Architect tel +1.617.281.1281 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] twitter: https://twitter.com/semanticwill - Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Is a Flash-intro to a personal portfolio still good/relevant?
Alan, I've lately come around to the idea that designers' sites can still be effective in Flash. Most of us don't really need to worry about SEO since we're getting business though referrals, not cold visits, and it does give you a chance to show off a little more. But what I disagree with is a Flash introduction that has no relationship to the rest of the site. Especially if all it does is animate your name or some goofy tagline or waste my time loading the navigation in a sexy way. If you have a strong concept for the site and your Flash intro reinforces that concept in an extremely effective way, that is cool. And rare. Most people coming to my site are just idle visitors or people who got there by mistake. I don't care about them. The people I do care about are qualified referrals -- people who heard about me from a friend or business associate. These are folks who need a designer and are checking the site to vet me before making a call. All my site needs to do is convince them to call me. (Insert caveats about the lame-ass state of my current website here...) I'm guessing a snazzy Flash intro will convince the people who want one for THEIR site. But everyone else is going to be wondering, Yeah, but has he got any experience designing for MY type of project? My advice: skip the eye candy and cut to the chase. After all, isn't that what you'd advise clients to do? On May 21, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Alan Wexelblat wrote: Let's assume that you've done the proper work to provide a Skip Intro button. Let's further assume that you've done at least the minimum to make your content accessible to people without the Flash player. The question I ask, then, is: does having a Flash intro to a personal site, which may include one's portfolio or resume, make sense in today's job market and design environment? Or does this brand the designer as someone stuck in the last decade? As usual, I suspect the answer is it depends; what I'm really interested in is exploring issues around how we present ourselves in online presences and the Flash-intro or Flash-site is a method I still see from time to time, though not nearly as much as I used to. Best regards, --Alan Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help -- Kim + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Kim Bieler Graphic Design www.kbgd.com www.stargazertees.com c. 240-476-3129 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] The Continuing Saga of OLPC
It's been a weird week for the One Laptop Per Child project, and I'm surprised we didn't discuss it here. First was the news that: Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child organization admitted defeat in its effort to sell millions of open-source computers in Asia, Africa and Latin America by joining with Microsoft to load Windows XP onto its green and white laptops. The decision marks the end of the effort to spread Constructionist learning pedagogy—learning by doing—to tens of millions of poor children in villages around the world. http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/archives/2008/05/the_end_of_the.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7094695.stm Now comes the news of OLPC 2.0. And check it out: dual touchscreens. No keyboard, just two touchscreens that fold together like a book: http://gizmodo.com/392060/olpc-xo-laptop-20-has-dual-touchscreens-looks-amazing-and-future+y http://blog.laptopmag.com/first-look-olpc-xo-generation-20 Is this the end of the Sugar UI? (See the previous IxDA discussion on it: http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=23928 ) Dan Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Is a Flash-intro to a personal portfolio stillgood/relevant?
If I'm hiring someone who needs to have Flash experience and will work in Flash environments, that Flash intro has made the difference, but I evaluate it at the same level as the rest of their portfolio: 1) it's theirs and 2) it's reflective of their knowledge of Flash (be it development, interaction, or visual design - whatever appropriate to the job). If I'm hiring someone who doesn't need that experience, I'm still super critical of it - often I find someone has grabbed it from someplace, edited to their needs; but doesn't have the technical prowess to actually make that intro reflect the IxD or IA or Visual Design I'm hiring for. So that's a big negative when the Flash is there for look, you are hiring for someone who deeply understands interaction, but the working bits of my portfolio do not reflect any of my knowledge. I've hired two folks that had Flash intros (yes, I remember both) - both theirs, rock solid, and reflected their knowledge in what I was hiring for...the work SUPPORTED their portfolio. I've discard 100s of portfolios because the Flash work made me worry about whether they had the knowledge needed for what I was hiring for...the work UNDERMINED their portfolio...you know the butterfly that comes across with some clever inspirational quote and then proceeds to take 120 seconds to load 20x20 thumbnails bouncing across the screen that you then have to do some non standard behavior to open and then they terminate as unreadable 60x60 images in new windows. Becky Reed, IxD, Healthwise -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Wexelblat Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 7:33 AM To: IXDA list Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Is a Flash-intro to a personal portfolio stillgood/relevant? Let's assume that you've done the proper work to provide a Skip Intro button. Let's further assume that you've done at least the minimum to make your content accessible to people without the Flash player. The question I ask, then, is: does having a Flash intro to a personal site, which may include one's portfolio or resume, make sense in today's job market and design environment? Or does this brand the designer as someone stuck in the last decade? As usual, I suspect the answer is it depends; what I'm really interested in is exploring issues around how we present ourselves in online presences and the Flash-intro or Flash-site is a method I still see from time to time, though not nearly as much as I used to. Best regards, --Alan Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Job posting request
Hello: I would like to post the following job on ixda.org. Let me know if there are any questions, thank you. * Position: Senior Interaction Designer, Yahoo! News and Information Location: Santa Monica, CA The Internet is a big, busy place, and we at Yahoo! are proud to stand out in the crowd. As the world's number one Internet brand, servicing over a half billion people, we're determined to maintain our commitment to delivering news, entertainment, information and fun... each and every day. In order to maintain our position as one of the world's most trafficked Internet destinations, we're always on the lookout for people with big ideas and big talent to help us provide our visitors with the innovative products and services they've come to expect from Yahoo!. We're looking for people like you. How Big Can You Think? Design the future of how millions of people consume the world's news everyday. As an Interaction Designer on Yahoo! News, you'll collaborate with product marketing managers, engineers, visual designers and user experience researchers to develop new product offerings and improve existing ones. Your primary responsibilities include: - Ability to quickly understand the constraints of a design problem and identify the tradeoffs; the ability to communicate those tradeoffs to fellow decision makers - Strong empathic skills: you should be able to understand how and why an interface succeeds or fails and spot problems in layout, architecture, flow, copy or presentation before they go into production - Setting product direction and UI requirements based on business, user and brand needs - Translating usability and field research findings into design improvements; - Collaborating with other Yahoo! product teams to develop cross-product standards both inside of News and across the Yahoo! network Screen and user flow design communicated in a way that works for all the parties involved (engineers, product managers, partners,etc.) - Strong visual design skills and a fanatical attention to detail down to the pixel - Push the boundaries of what's possible on the web to create better experiences for users Desired experience: - Academic background in human factors/ergonomics, cognitive science, psychology or HCI; and - Experience as a key member of a UI team through the product development cycle of several successfully launched web, mobile and/or software applications (as opposed to layout and decorative design). Please send portfolio URLs in addition to your resume. Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings, please visit http://careers.yahoo.com/jdescription.php?frm=jsresoid=14287 * Position: Senior Interaction Designer, Yahoo! Search Location: Santa Clara, CA The Internet is a big, busy place, and we at Yahoo! are proud to stand out in the crowd. As the world's number one Internet brand, servicing over a half billion people, we're determined to maintain our commitment to delivering news, entertainment, information and fun... each and every day. In order to maintain our position as one of the world's most trafficked Internet destinations, we're always on the lookout for people with big ideas and big talent to help us provide our visitors with the innovative products and services they've come to expect from Yahoo!. We're looking for people like you.How big can you think? Yahoo! Inc. is looking for a Sr. Interaction Designer to join the User Experience Design (UED) team for Search. Enrich people's lives by providing them with richer, more useful search results so that they can complete their tasks more efficiently and get from ''to do'' to ''done.'' That is our vision, and we need a strong Interaction Designer, who can think strategically while executing with great eye for detail, to help us accomplish that vision. The group's charter is to define and design the user experience for all aspects of the Yahoo! Search Experience, including core Web Search, Multimedia Search, Vertical Search, and the integration of Search across the Yahoo! Network and beyond. This is a great opportunity to work on products that impact millions of people. RESPONSIBILITIES - Identify UI requirements, define project approach and scoping and author the user experience strategy. Check out: search.yahoo.com - Set conceptual design and product direction based on field research and functional requirements - Create and be accountable for the user interaction model, workflows, information architecture, schematics, prototypes and interface guidelines - Work with user experience researchers to design and observe usability studies and translates the findings into design improvements - Collaborate with visual designers to refine the interactive experience and retain a user focus - Work hand in hand with web developers and engineers to deliver the final product - Manage project communication and asset exchange across multidisciplinary
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Need Suggestions for 2-D Display of 3-D Quantitive Data
I'm trying to design a grid display (table of numerical data) that really has a dataset more appropriate for a three-dimensional display. But I'm constrained to two axis. This is a web application were the user's preference is to see whole numbers indicating quantity. Brooke, could you give an example of what you're trying to show? And what data users would be trying to compare? As an aside, you might also look at IBM's ManyEyes for inspiration: http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/page/Visualization_Options.html -Todd Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Chat link
At the risk of reopening the Twitter vs. IRC discussion, I'd like to mention that Jeff Howard has been kind enough to set up a link to the IxDA chat channel: http://ixda.org/chat This link currently redirects to our #ixda channel on Freenode, but in the future it might go somewhere else. The point is that if you want to chat with other IxDA members in real time, that's the place to go. Please consider including that link in Tweets or emails to the list as an indication that you'd like to chat about your topic. Enjoy! Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Content inventory link ID numbering conventions
I do content inventories much the same way as Dante does, it sounds like. The homepage is 0.0, the top-level category pages are 1.0, 2.0, and so on, and pages below those are numbered as children. I've gone as deep as five or six levels using this system, and it works fine, even if it leads to some cumbersome numbers. And on the same principle as the one Dante describes, where the root of the site is a global 0, I number the utility navigation elements (Contact Us, Sitemap, and the like) as 0.x. This applies even if there are child pages underneath--so for example, if Contact Us is page 0.2, department-specific contact pages underneath it would be 0.2.1, 0.2.2, etc. I've tried out different approaches to numbering in content inventories, and this one is the one that makes the most sense to others who have to use the inventory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=29259 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Persona Names
I am running a persona workshop with our client partners to flesh out some of the behavioral aspects. As part of a fun exercise, we would like to have persona naming as part of the event. Normally, when I pick names, I make up something based on my IM list, mashups of TV characters from shows I watched recently, or something along those lines. Does anyone have a process in place (or ideas) for how our group might choose names collaboratively? Thanks, Matthew Zuckman Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Is a Flash-intro to a personal portfolio still good/relevant?
Personally, I am not a big fan of Flash intros. Ultimately, it depends on who your audience is. I like a pdf portfolio that I can print off and take with me, markup, then follow up with. I, as a client, will not wait long for Flash intros and will leave if the loading time is taking too long, or if it is not entirely functional. I was on a site the other day and it took 20 seconds to load their Flash page over an 8Mbps connection. The load time is a killer. If I were to use Flash, I would have a static page that would link to various Flash demos/presentations that are more specifically targeted to a certain topic or project. This will also help reduce load time and file size. What you are selling is yourself, so (1) think of how you would like to be seen by others and (2) picture yourself as the one who is sitting across the table. This should be a good thread to follow. -- Mario Bourque mariobourque.com / [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Alan Wexelblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's assume that you've done the proper work to provide a Skip Intro button. Let's further assume that you've done at least the minimum to make your content accessible to people without the Flash player. The question I ask, then, is: does having a Flash intro to a personal site, which may include one's portfolio or resume, make sense in today's job market and design environment? Or does this brand the designer as someone stuck in the last decade? As usual, I suspect the answer is it depends; what I'm really interested in is exploring issues around how we present ourselves in online presences and the Flash-intro or Flash-site is a method I still see from time to time, though not nearly as much as I used to. Best regards, --Alan Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Need Suggestions for 2-D Display of 3-D Quantitive Data
Brooke, If possible, use colour to indicate the distance attribute, although you should keep in mind potential issues for colour-blind audience members. Size (of the dot on a scatter-plot) is another way to indicate the third dimension. Alternatively, plot you data inside a triangle where each side represents a dimension of the data (similar to how RGB colour spaces are represented). Regards Steve 2008/5/22 Brooke Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi folks, I need a little help here. I'm trying to design a grid display (table of numerical data) that really has a dataset more appropriate for a three-dimensional display. But I'm constrained to two axis. This is a web application were the user's preference is to see whole numbers indicating quantity. I've been pouring over Tufte and not found anything that really meets my needs yet. Help! thanks brooke Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help -- -- Steve 'Doc' Baty B.Sc (Maths), M.EC, MBA Principal Consultant Meld Consulting M: +61 417 061 292 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UX Statistics: http://uxstats.blogspot.com Member, UPA - www.upassoc.org Member, IA Institute - www.iainstitute.org Member, IxDA - www.ixda.org Contributor - UXMatters - www.uxmatters.com Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Need Suggestions for 2-D Display of 3-D Quantitive Data
You should check out this website called Information Design
Patterns (http://niceone.org/infodesign/): is a sophisticated
online collection of about 48 design patterns that describe distinct
methods for the display of interactive information graphics, their
active behavior as well as the forms of user interaction with
them...
Hope it helps,
{ Itamar Medeiros } Information Designer
http://designative.info/
http://www.autodesk.com/
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