Where do you go for inspiration? Ideas? Trends?
(Returns from the dead and de-lurks)
At IA Summit, Stephen Anderson gave a great presentation on
Inspiration from the Edge. My write up of his talk is here: http://kevnull.com/2008/04/ia-summit-inspiration-from-the-edge.html
His talk
Some great links in these posts ...
I look at
:: Various design pattern libraries (Welie, Yahoo etc.)
:: An array of blogs (too many to mention) but include information
aesthetics, data visualisation, print (e.g. Creative Review)
:: Colour Lovers (http://www.colourlovers.com/)
:: Design
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On 6/2/08, Chicago IxDA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello fellow Chicagoans (and those of
Technology Review (MIT's innovation rag) has an article on Adaptive
UIs for the web.
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/20872/
What do people think about this? Does it scale?
from an IxD perspective?
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My gut reaction was oh no, it's personalized favorites menu all over
again. I like giving Microsoft a chance, and I like giving new technology a
chance, but that was generally regarded as one of the worst user interaction
mechanics in all of Office history, for the reasons that it ran (slightly)
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How many times have you misjudged a person due to a poor first
impression? It seems to me that 10 clicks is an awfully small amount
of data that could easily be misinterpreted. And once the site has
been adapted, how hard is it to find the graphs (or whatever) that
the site decided you
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:12 PM, David Malouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Technology Review (MIT's innovation rag) has an article on Adaptive
UIs for the web.
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/20872/
What do people think about this? Does it scale?
from an IxD perspective?
It does not
I am a user who doesn't appreciate when a system guesses what I might
like. The use of that word makes me nervous for myself as a user and for a
client of mine where guessing may just not be reliable or accurate
enough, leading to more frustration.
If the guessing also is based on click that
On Jun 9, 2008, at 10:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a user who doesn't appreciate when a system guesses what I
might like. The use of that word makes me nervous for myself as a
user and for a client of mine where guessing may just not be
reliable or accurate enough, leading to more
I see it more of what areas are designated as dynamic versus static. There
are tons of recommendation systems out there (Amazon) and no one complains
about the change of the content, because it's pretty much never moving. The
content changes, but the hotspots themselves do not.
Here, we're
I think it might be useful to ask the user before modules of content were
moved, switched, auto-populated, etc. before actually doing so in an
interface.
Perhaps a feature where such a thing could be turned on or off, along the
lines or Don't show this to me again or Remind/Ask me later adapted
No intent to offend in the last post.
Sounds like there is a lot I don't know... and it almost sounds like there
are two levels of involvement at issue here? I just use Axure to create
prototypes for websites and CDs for proof of concept and user testing.
That's it. My big concern would be losing
Has anyone actually used this design? My guess is that it's
impossible to accurately speculate about how good or bad this is
without trying it and without being tainted by pre-knowledge of its
adaptive behavior. It all depends on the execution.
There are plenty of poor examples of adaptive UIs,
I agree with this statement, as moving around entire conten modules is
all bad all the way. I do think that pushing towards more adaptive
interfaces is a positive development as in web application envoirments
where you need to support several audiences you either run into scale
issues or
Thanks, everyone, for the feedback thus far. Let me clarify why it's
important that I come up with a common terminology that people
understand: I'm writing installation instructions for a client that
provides a service that works with different blog services, so being
able to call something
How do you know that no one complains about them?
I see it more of what areas are designated as dynamic versus static. There
are tons of recommendation systems out there (Amazon) and no one complains
about the change of the content, because it's pretty much never moving. The
content changes,
My first thought seeing all the new features in the iPhone 3G, is how easy
it will be to photo, typepad, twitter, and real time blog at next years
Interactions conference, as well as coordinate after hours socializing.
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~ will
Where you innovate, how you innovate,
and what you innovate are
Hey, Jeff
Well in the case of adaptive interfaces making the easy assumptions
should be fairly do-able, but can you give an example where you need to
make guesses in a more dangerous envoirment? I was looking for some, but
untill now I couldnt really come up with viable ones.
Jeff Garbers
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 4:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it might be useful to ask the user before modules of content were
moved, switched, auto-populated, etc. before actually doing so in an
interface.
Perhaps a feature where such a thing could be turned on or off, along the
lines
This is called content analysis. It's a recognized research method that was
developed for texts but has been applied to video or images. The best
strategy for consistent coding in content analysis is to create a codebook
of what it is your looking for and keep to it.
Good luck!
On Fri, May 30,
Also check out Intervals: http://www.myintervals.com/
Intervals does handle expense and income, but is more inclined toward
time tracking and task management. Might be a good fit.
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No, not necessarily. Why would you state such a thing?
You give the user the option to accept recommended changes to the interface
based on their history. This way you could reveal or suggest things that they
might not know how those selections worked but you coud present them contextual
to a
Fred asked:
As a community, do we have the option of posting a formal response
on the IxDA site? Or does the board wish the organization to remain
neutral?
As I noted in my second post on the original thread
(http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=29930), the organization wishes
to remain neutral
Just watched the WWDC 2008 (I know, I know, iPhone3D... half the
price but that's not the point I want to bring to the table) and I
personally think one of the most interesting services introduced in
the keynote was the new .mac, now called MobileMe
(http://www.apple.com/mobileme/)
You might
In UIE's new post on the wheres and whens of users'
expectationshttp://www.uie.com/articles/user_expectations/,
Jared states:
When creating great experiences, it's not so much about doing what users
expect. Instead, it's about creating a design that clearly meets their needs
at the instant they
(I know, I know, iPhone3D...
Actually, it's iPhone 3G. But wow, what an idea — iPhone 3D!
Now that would be interesting. :)
Would make for a heck of a design contest.
-r-
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On Jun 9, 2008, at 6:37 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr wrote:
When creating great experiences, it's not so much about doing what
users
expect. Instead, it's about creating a design that clearly meets
their needs
at the instant they need it.
The article makes a clear case for this statement in the
I'm here in the lobby at WWDC (about to go into the next session) and
it does indeed sound like they are trying to do exactly what Jeff
Pierce is talking about. I'm hoping that by the end of the week I'll
get to see a bit more about MobileMe. If there are other finer points
related to his
On Jun 9, 2008, at 6:45 PM, Jared Spool wrote:
What are you proposing a Save Now button do that would (a) not do
what would be what users expect *and* (b) meet their needs at the
moment they need it?
What if you click Save Now, and the system saves your stuff but it
also gives you a
I personally think one of the most interesting services introduced in
the keynote was the new .mac, now called MobileMe
(http://www.apple.com/mobileme/)
If MobileMe had been offered as a free service, it would have been the most
important announcement of the day. It not only offers a
It's not so much that the Save Now button do what users expect. It's that
it do what users need, which, if I'm not mistaken, is to save the stuff now.
It's possible I'm just overanalyzing your statement, but when I read it
initially, it felt a little unsettling.
Granted, I've said many times
If the system gave me a backrub I wouldn't care if it saved my stuff or not,
I'd
just sit there clicking the button and getting more backrubs.
In my universe, backrubs and footrubs trump all utility.
Quoting Christopher Fahey [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Jun 9, 2008, at 6:45 PM, Jared Spool
Actually, it's iPhone 3G. But wow, what an idea - iPhone 3D!
...according to the WWDC Keynote presentation, it does have OpenGL ES
for 3D graphics in their Media API layer. Not sure what applications
already use this, but it wouldn't surprise me if Cover Flow was one
instance of its use.
It
On Jun 6, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote:
On that note, I think this may need clarification. If by discuss
this you mean the business, practitioner or philosophical issues
and at high level, about one company suing another over tools some
designers use and need for their work, I
Right, don't hide something just because I haven't used it yet.
Taken to an extreme, you might hide all the options besides File
Open because that's the history of what I clicked.
Of course, this program is going to be much more complex.
But let's say it determines that I'm details oriented,
On Jun 9, 2008, at 5:32 PM, Christopher Fahey wrote:
But Jared? Dan? Do you guys really avoid ever looking at patents,
avoid discussing them at conferences or on blogs? Not even, for
example, Nokia or Apple's widely-discussed gesture patents, or
Apple's planned human interface devices?
There was a paper at the CHI2008 conference in Florence Italy that
addressed several aspects of adaptive UIs including predictability and
accuracy. The reference is:
Gajos, K. Z., Everitt, K., Tan, D. S., Czerwinski, M., and Weld, D. S.
2008. Predictability and accuracy in adaptive user
On Jun 9, 2008, at 6:19 PM, Dan Saffer wrote:
But once I started working in the software and hardware world, it's
a whole different ballgame. Intellectual Property is taken seriously.
100% correct. And as the web people evolve back to the where the
future digital game is going to be
I assure you if I walked into the lawyer's offices over at Google, Yahoo,
Adobe, Microsoft, or pretty much any major Silicon Valley company and
informed them that people were discussing and posting patents on it, this
distribution list would *lose* every single one of those people as a
I'm concerned that nearly everyone seems to be looking at this from a
parochial perspective.
I live in the United States, but a huge percentage of this list does
not. It's not necessarily a given that everyone cares about US
patent infringement or the threat of civil suits, whether they work
On Jun 9, 2008, at 7:19 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr wrote:
It's not so much that the Save Now button do what users expect.
It's that it do what users need, which, if I'm not mistaken, is to
save the stuff now.
It's possible I'm just overanalyzing your statement, but when I read
it initially,
On Jun 10, 2008, at 12:08 AM, Kontra wrote:
I assure you if I walked into the lawyer's offices over at Google,
Yahoo,
Adobe, Microsoft, or pretty much any major Silicon Valley company and
informed them that people were discussing and posting patents on
it, this
distribution list would
On Jun 9, 2008, at 8:32 PM, Christopher Fahey wrote:
For those concerned about the legal ramifications of exposure to
competitors' patents, the best solutions seem to be:
1) Quit the list.
2) Quit your company (or client).
Oh, that's just silly.
There's lots of stuff we don't discuss
M2c:
I wouldn't necessarily discourage or disparage this early work.
But until these systems get much smarter, I'd continue to place my money
on well thought-out designs that incorporate faceted classification, simple
yet robuts search capabilities, and multiple navigation systems within a
It works like this:
Anyone can sue you for anything. The opposing lawyer's job is to make
your life as miserable as possible. Heck, they will try to go on a
fishing trip even if you were not involved in the design at all. This
is news to you? They can go through your corporate email, all manner
On Jun 9, 2008, at 10:21 PM, Kontra wrote:
I would when your corporate convenience doesn't trample upon the right
of others to discuss issues they deem important, and when the
arrogance with which this has been presented here is reconsidered.
It's clear there are a select few of you who
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