Keyur
Maybe this could help?
http://www.allgraphicdesign.com/competitions.html#competitions
This link will take you to a number of design competitions links and
further.
Hope this helps or has helped!
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Looking forward to seeing you at our next F2F event.
DESCRIPTION: Ash Donaldson (Produxi Consulting) will be presenting Choosing
Your Battles: Getting The Best Result for Your Client, a case study of
Ash's work with the NSW Department of Education and Training that started as
an Intranet
What you've seen to-date is conditional success
All FB needs is a SINGLE acquirer to purchase them. Just a single metric:
one company to buy FB. Just like Skype with eBay, MySpace with News Corp,
Bebo with AOL, etc.
When Google bought YouTube it certainly wasn't profitable in any way and it
Kontra,
You're confusing the distinction between success for the individuals
(founders), and the success of the *business*. I'm referring to the latter;
the former is irrelevant to what I'm saying with respect to the business
model.
Regards
Steve
2008/9/23 Kontra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What
Hi Keyur,
http://www.dexigner.com has some very interesting workshops, competitions
and events.
It's about all kind of design (indutrial, graphics, architecture, etc) but
the interaction and user experience ones are also listed.
BR,
Ricardo Sato
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:02 AM, Sachin Ghodke
You're confusing the distinction between success for the individuals
(founders), and the success of the *business*.
Founders I cited were obviously colorful shorthand for shareholders, as I
have also specifically mentioned them. In fact, I went further to make the
point:
I bet the
Hi All,
Would also like to append to what Keyur has asked...are there any particular
websites/ links where one can know about the *paper submissions/call for
papers* in *user experience* related conferences?
Susheel.
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Keyur Sorathia [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Hi
Kontra,
Not entirely, no. However, at present what you're seeing is investment in
the expectation of an increase in share price irrespective of the underlying
value of the business. It's the financial equivalent of pass-the-parcel and
hoping you're not left holding the bag.
So yes, current
Not entirely, no. However, at present what you're seeing is investment in
the expectation of an increase in share price irrespective of the underlying
value of the business.
You're making gigantic assumptions here. It's perfectly OK to establish a
company SIMPLY to sell it at the earliest
I have been working on this new website and I am uncertain if I should pass
the control from a .NET page to FLASH one by using a pop-up window. Some
opinions in my office are differing and want the control to be within the
same page.
Here are the two scenarios:
(1) Use pop-up to pass control to
Kontra,
There is an inherent relationship between a company's core offering,
end user value, and profit. I believe the conversation was using
profit as a measure of success.
If the end game for the investors is merely further investment, yes
they can cash out... but this is pretty
Kontra,
I'd hate to take up any more of your time pontificating about concepts and
ideas to which I'm blind. I think we're a long way from the original point
of this thread, so I'll respectfully agree to disagree and move on.
Regards
Steve
2008/9/23 Kontra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not entirely, no.
Man. I just managed to twice reply to Susheel and neither time to the list.
You shouldn't need a Ph.D. in computer science to use a mailing list! (I
have a Ph.D. in computer science and apparently can't use the list).
Anyway. Enough grumbling. The HCI bibliography might be a starter...
Leading interactive agency with brand name clients throughout the nation is
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The designer is forward thinking, excels without supervision and has a real
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I am working on an Intranet/product catalog application and many users begin
with an Excel spreadsheet and need to get this data into the online
interface. Has anyone worked on or know of websites which allow copying and
pasting of Excel data, hopefully both ways (eg, paste data into the web
snip
Has anyone worked on or know of websites which allow copying and
pasting of Excel data, hopefully both ways (eg, paste data into the web
interface, or paste data from the web interface into Excel
/snip
You might consider Adobe AIR as a runtime for web-applications, to support this
kind of
Hey gang, I know this is more back-end but here goes...
Please contact me off-list if you meet these parameters and are able to
commit full/over-time as needed. Handsome Compensation.
If you know someone who matches this description please feel free to
introduce me to them.
QUALIFICATIONS:
* *
It's my first time starting a discussion thread. I hope I get this right.
I was visiting Adobe's website just now, checking out the newly released
Creative Suite 4 offerings. On hovered over one of the Creative Suite names
- http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite - displaying the full list
On Sep 23, 2008, at 1:24 AM, Kontra wrote:
Perhaps there's a parallel universe where business success means
something
other than shareholders in a company getting satisfaction, but I'm not
living in it. Separating business success from shareholder
success is so
much gobbledygook, I'm
LOL Toronto everybody! Good Ol T.dot!
(Thanks Donna)
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Brett Lutchman [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Hey gang, I know this is more back-end but here goes...
Please contact me off-list if you meet these parameters and are able to
commit full/over-time as needed.
Our client is offering salary and equity to an experienced professional
who can lead the creation of an Enterprise 2.0 web application. This is
an opportunity to put your signature on a cutting-edge application in a
developing space.
If you've got technical chops to go along with elite
Hi Sheri,
There are plenty of spreadsheet like applications online these days like
Google Spread-sheets
but I'm assuming you would like to do more with data once online.
One very popular and usable tool for non-programmers and programmers alike
would be Zoho Creator http://creator.zoho.com/
Hi Folks, thanks to all those that came to our September event. For those
that could not make it, John delivered a talk that first introduced the
basics and then walked seamlessly through ever increasing degrees of power
up to 'I dont know why you'd want to do this.. but you can' (o;
John has put
Hi guys,
I'd actually like to plug the capabilities of the Dojo Toolkit. I work
for SitePen, the company who's employees helped create the toolkit, and
all I can say is that Dojo is pretty amazing as well. The
implementation, focus and philosophy are a little different from jQuery,
but it has
Hi all,
I'm about to begin documenting a page inventory of an existing medium-sized Web
app. As I'm starting from scratch, I'd love to know which tools you use and how
you organize your list of pages and interactions. In the past I've used a
spreadsheet in which I grouped the pages by sections
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Thanks a lot to everyone for their replies.
Susheel,
The main purpose here for the post was to know about different interaction
design competition and conference happening around. So if some interesting
competition or conferences comes up, we can participate.
Cheers!!
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at
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Intuit is looking for a strong, experienced, Web 2.0 application
So, Jared Spool came up with the 5-second
testhttp://www.uie.com/articles/five_second_test/ .
Then I wrote about it in Designing the Obvious http://www.rhjr.net/dto .
Then a guy named Matt Milosavljevic read the book, got inspired, and built
an app that makes 5-second tests ridiculously easy.
The
All.
I have a request from the client to auto-play a video on load for a given
page. The page contains the video prominently at the top and has significant
additional information below. Our internal discussion is that the user needs
to take an inventory of the content of the page and would miss
Scott, thanks for pointing this out! These kinds of
easter-egg-funcitons can really help out the user in regards to
finding the solutions that will work for them. As a constant Adobe
upgrad-er, I really appreciate any extra steps Adobe takes to educate
me on the differences (and similarities)
Hi Sachin,
There are cases where one needs to use pop-up like functionality, like for
example one needs information from another part of the same application to
complete the task at hand. Like fetching an Email ID from Contacts page of
the same application to input in the Compose page. Even in
I totally agree with Johan Sjöstrand. Also a good example is a book:
If you want to go further, you go to the lower right corner and if
you want to go back, you go to the lower left corner.
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I have found that the line seems to whether the video is embedded or
not. For example, when I go directly to youtube and click on a video
there, it starts automatically. If the youtube video is embedded in a
blog, it does not start until you click it. I think there are three
good reasons for this:
Matt,
Maybe a good analogy is advertising on TV versus advertising at the
movies. Broadcast TV is free (sort of), so you expect to see ads. Plus
you can change the channel or turn off the sound if you don't like the
ads.
But if I've just paid $10 to see a movie, I feel heartily abused
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:50:11 -0400, Randy wrote:
I have a request from the client to auto-play a video on load for a given
page. The page contains the video prominently at the top and has significant
additional information below. Our internal discussion is that the user needs
to take an inventory
On Sep 23, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Nick Gassman wrote:
I think that it might depend on the audience, and the purpose of the
page -can you tell us more?
It totally depends.
We've done a significant amount of testing on sites that have video
content and one of the key factors we've found is
Hey Mansoor,
What i am doing in the child window is to configure a product,
generate price as i configure and then add to wish list or
print or save or email or compare list or add to
cart. All of these choices are present in the child window.
Depending on the user's selection the control is
Hello friends-
Just a quick reminder that our event Breathing Life Into Buildings:
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If the end game for the investors is merely further investment, yes they
can cash out... but this is pretty similar to a pyramid scheme.
A company gets investments throughout its lifecycle, from angels to IPO to
acquisition to bonds. It makes no sense to classify a need or desire to get
Here are my views on your dilemma:
Auto play: I agree with you that if the video was the only content on
the page, it would have made sense to autoplay.
Triggered play: Not everyone likes to arrive at a page and be
surprised by a video playing on screen... more importantly.. if the
user has
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A simple solution: don't want the user to loose relevant data? and
yet want to auto play then put something creatively insignificant at
the beginning of the video. And if the video is the only content on
the website then the usage of creativity to include something not so
important at the
Kontra,
You are confusing the company and the product. You are further
confusing getting rich, with profit. And the discussion was centered
upon profit as a measure of success. I can not for the life of me see
how you could consider either a product, or a company successful
without some sort of
On Sep 23, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Kontra wrote:
A company gets investments throughout its lifecycle, from angels
to IPO to
acquisition to bonds. It makes no sense to classify a need or desire
to get
investment as a pyramid scheme. Are you saying Skype is/was a
pyramid
scheme because they sold
I've seen examples where the video begins to play automatically but is muted
until the user clicks the video.
Chris
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Gaurabh Mathure [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Here are my views on your dilemma:
Auto play: I agree with you that if the video was the only content
I would ask if the user knows in advance that the page they are
advancing to has a video on it. Are they expecting a video when they
get there - and is it the primary content?
The first example that came to mind to me is ESPN.com. I visit the
site daily as a *user* (i/e I leave my developer hat
I can not for the life of me see
how you could consider either a product, or a company successful
without some sort of revenue generation or profit metric.
It's quite simple: YouTube, the product, has been one of the most
spectacularly successful and consumer-appreciated products in the
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The page is question is a content page for a particular in car
information service. The video gives an overview of that service a
describes it's value. It talks about its features and benfits to the
user. The video is not embedded from anywhere. The rest of the content
on the
On Sep 23, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Kontra wrote:
Are you saying Skype is/was a pyramid
scheme because they sold to eBay? Even if the scheme of the
founders and
shareholders were to sell their company to a larger entity as soon
as they
can?
With what they know today, do you really think eBay
Hi Jenny,
some of my colleagues at work have recently summarised the best
practice for text resizing on website - see the Top Tip section in
the link below:
http://www.webcredible.co.uk/about-us/news/aug-2008.shtml
Cheers,
Alex
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Jenny Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Sheri,
If the data is already in Excel, and assuming they're not too
complicated, you can ask your users to export them in CSV format (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values) and upload the
result to the website.
Google uses this method in their GMail for your domain product,
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We did extensive testing in an intensely competitive, and highly
deliberated e-com scenario, myWeddingFavors.com.
The winning solution for short product videos had a dramatic impact on
overall conversion, but several of the intervening steps had a negative
impact. Due to the prominence of the
Hmmm. Here is a test case of one.
I always, guarenteed, leave a site as soon as a video auto-plays without my
consent. And I never go back.
Why? 90% of the time, I work, surf, write with my headphones on, with the
music playing. Autoplay overides what I am listening to, usually at a volume
much
Apologies for the second posting... the first got mangled and was
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Just a quick note:
Google has no plans on making an immediate profit off of the companies they
absolve.
They are buying out all major 'virtual domain' property and services.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Jared Spool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 23, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Kontra wrote:
Are
On Sep 23, 2008, at 9:23 PM, Brett Lutchman wrote:
Google has no plans on making an immediate profit off of the
companies they
absolve.
They are buying out all major 'virtual domain' property and services.
I have no idea what that actually means.
best response of the week on this mailing list!
*still laughing*
- Alvin
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Jared Spool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 23, 2008, at 9:23 PM, Brett Lutchman wrote:
Google has no plans on making an immediate profit off of the companies
they
absolve.
They are
Google has no plans on making an immediate profit off of the companies they
absolve.
They are buying out all major 'virtual domain' property and services.
I have no idea what that actually means. - Jared Spool.
It's very simple. I don't know why you would have 'no idea what that
actually means.'
?
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Alvin Woon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
best response of the week on this mailing list!
*still laughing*
- Alvin
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Jared Spool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 23, 2008, at 9:23 PM, Brett Lutchman wrote:
Google has no plans
*chuckles*
The confusion doesn't stem from the concept (which is merely another way
of expressing monopolist behavior) but the usage of the word absolve.
Unless Google's truly gone off the deep end, I doubt they've been going
around forgiving companies (what -- you're part of the dot-com
Ahh! I see! In my church the word literally means To own. Many people
don't know this but the infant baptism literally meant To own birthright
(the early Roman Empire did this to own the citizenship of the countries and
people it occupied) The word has evolved to 'forgiveness'. But it really
Apparently, not a disciple of Webster.
On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:39 PM, Brett Lutchman wrote:
Ahh! I see! In my church the word literally means To own.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Tim Au Yeung [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The confusion doesn't stem from the concept (which is merely
I always err on the side of the user having full control of the
experience. Also, autoplay wastes bandwidth ANY time the sound or
video is unwanted. As Will's own experience tells us, it is often
unwanted when it isn't expected. I've done accessibility testing
with deaf users for whom sound is
http://www.nationalgridfloe.com/
Anyone know who did it? LBI London?
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PPlease consider our environment before printing.
On 9/19/08, Todd Moy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Right now, my instinct is to prototype (html wireframes) the cases
that I expect people to use--with the knowledge that most of the site
won't be available. The test scenarios, then, would be a bit more
directed than usual. I also suspect that I
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