Re: [IxDA Discuss] Public Transportation Experiences
Hi Jennifer, http://www.sbb.ch/, used it for long time, for me, the good experience lies in two parts 1. it's very easy to lookup and plan your schedule (just point the begin and end) 2. the subway/train always on time Regards, Jarod On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Jennifer Hoppenrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, I'm researching options for improving public transportation websites, particularly bus transportation. I've found most city sites to be lacking, but have found some nice mapping, real-time route information on the Chicago CTA site and onebusaway.org for the Seattle Metro area. Google maps integrates well with mobile, particularly the iPhone and has a bus routing feature for many cities. Has anyone found anything they feel has been a great experience that they can share? Thanks, Jennifer Hoppenrath Razorfish Seattle 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://designforuse.blogspot.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] Paper Form Design Usability
From Michael Andrews snip - recommendation The chapter on forms (chapter 20) is only 15 pages, but is very modern in its discussion of user centered approaches and graphic treatments. I understand that David Sless, an Aussie who is a major researcher of forms, contributed to the chapter. (I am guessing Caroline Jarret would approve??) I would certainly recommending reading and thinking about anything written by David Sless. It's just not all that easy to get hold of his publications. Much of his forms material was published by his Communications Research Institute of Australia, on paper, in the 1980s and early 1990s. His site is currently saying 'closed for maintenance' http://communication.org.au While we're on the topic of Australian forms persons, I can also strongly recommend Robert Barnett, who has also been writing about usability of forms for over 20 years (he uses the Australian spelling useability): http://www.rbainformationdesign.com.au/ If you're in the USA, it might be easier for you to get his books from the Business Forms Management Association (BFMA): http://www.bfma.org/bookstore/main.php And there's also Jessica Enders, who's business Formulate is just a year old: http://formulate.com.au/ If you're wondering why I'm mentioning several Australian forms people and none from the rest of the world, that's because there aren't all that many elsewhere. You can track some of them down through BFMA, but to be honest if you ask a question about usability of paper forms on their list (formspace), you're likely to get answers from me again, and/or possibly Jessica or Rob Barnett - the usual suspects, in other words. There are other people on that list who know a LOT about forms, but it's other aspects of forms e.g. the management of forms, the details of programming Acrobat forms, career progression of forms professionals. There are three heroes of the world of paper document design who have great things to say about forms: Patricia Wright, now at Cardiff University researching medical information devices. Published extensively on forms and information design of paper from the mid-1970s. Her bibliography is here: http://www.cf.ac.uk/psych/contactsandpeople/lecturing/wright-patricia-prof-p ublications_new.html but it doesn't mention her earlier stuff, such as the excellent paper Just fill in this form (with Barnard). I'm away from my library at the moment so I can't give the exact reference. Ginny Redish (Janice C. Redish), http://www.redish.net/. Ginny used to be director of the Document Design group at American Institutes for Research and they did loads of work on paper forms and indeed paper documents in general. If you are lucky enough to come across the AIR Guidelines for Document Designers, treasure it. I got my copy by persuading someone to let me photocopy his disintegrating version (obviously I made him a copy as well). (USA government material is not copryright, so this was legal). I wrote a brief summary of the guidelines here: http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article1224.asp These days, Ginny is concentrating on writing for the web and usability in general, and if you ask her about forms she's rather likely to refer back to me :-) Karen Schriver (long interview with her at http://www.informationdesign.org/special/schriver_interview.php) Karen is interested in information design in general. Her book is EASY to get hold of (hurrah), and it's called 'Dynamics in Document Design' http://www.amazon.com/Dynamics-Document-Design-Creating-Readers/dp/047130636 3 Although it's not about forms as such, it does have a lot to say about the design of documents in general (and can therefore be applied to forms in particular. If you'd like a more comprehensive bibliography, then (shameless plug, again, I'm afraid), I've put a whole bunch of suggestions in the back of our book. Best Caroline Jarrett Out now: Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability http://www.amazon.co.uk/Forms-that-Work-Interactive-Technologies/ dp/1558607102 http://www.amazon.com/Forms-that-Work-Interactive-Technologies/dp/product-de scription/1558607102 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] ThoughtPile.org
To Janna's point, http://well-formed-data.net/experiments/konduit/ Remember - this example is not a corporate product - it's one really talented grad student that has done some great work in dynamic information visualization - but this is not a finished product, but it points to just some nice additions - for instance, look closely and you see histograms which show density of results over an interval within a facet for the content as well as faceted navigation over the content and dynamic filtering - this would be a really cool discussion visualization with some ux and ria development resources behind it - his other examples - like the nobel prize navigator are kewl too. - w On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Janna Hicks DeVylder [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Well, there you go. I guess it wasn't designed with you in mind. :) Just made me wonder if we could have some kind of visualization of IxDA threads...a visual thesaurus of topics as Will mentioned re: this. Affinity of topic, amount of interest/participation of the topic, over a span of time... Certainly easier to engage with than simply searching the archives. On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Michael Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I find this silly. What am I supposed to click on? It is a treasure hunt, which assumes I am interested in other people's spewing of random thoughts to begin with -- which I am not. 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 -- ~ 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] aim: semanticwill gtalk: semanticwill twitter: semanticwill skype: 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] Date display formats in tables
I think that spelling the month out as shown by Shep is best, even if your target audience is US. If any your audience have spent a significant period of time outside of the US then just showing numbers can lead to confusion; I am British (we do dd-mm-yy), living in China (they use yy-mm-dd)working with many people from the US (who use mm-dd-yy)! Trying to figure out which of the three ways is being used is frustrating sometimes! -Karl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36335 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] ThoughtPile.org
I see that the site is put together to promote the new Herman Miller Embody chair. I always find it strange how companies that are traditionally associated with good design get the web so wrong. Another example is http://www.vitra.com , looks really well but is a complete pain to navigate. On 10 Dec 2008, at 06:49, Janna Hicks DeVylder wrote: Well, there you go. I guess it wasn't designed with you in mind. :) Just made me wonder if we could have some kind of visualization of IxDA threads...a visual thesaurus of topics as Will mentioned re: this. Affinity of topic, amount of interest/participation of the topic, over a span of time... Certainly easier to engage with than simply searching the archives. On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Michael Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I find this silly. What am I supposed to click on? It is a treasure hunt, which assumes I am interested in other people's spewing of random thoughts to begin with -- which I am not. 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] ThoughtPile.org
Well I never said it was good, just visually remarkable...and there have been quite a few remarks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36319 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] Conducting remote session in Africa
Does anyone have experience conducting remote usability sessions from the US via the Web with participants in Africa? I am using UserVue, which cannot handle telephone connections outside the US and Canada. However, none of the web conferencing vendors we have researched offer toll-free call-in numbers in Africa, very few in South America, and India is spotty. I tried to use Skype as a means for me to call out to the participants with the notion I could then record the conversation on my end, but I do not have a phone that can accept a recording device and so I have not found a really good way to record the Skype call off my computer. I would appreciate any suggestions people have, and as soon as possible. Please email me directly and then I will summarize and post back to these lists what I learn. And perhaps the user experience community should begin some sort of movement to make the availability of toll-free numbers in the developing world something not so dependent on whether someone can make a profit by offering them. End of rant. Mary Deaton Deaton Interactive Design, Manager, STC Usability and User Experience Community 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] Conducting remote session in Africa
Mary, If using skype you can try one of those skype recording plugins. You can find some in the link below. http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/06/how-to-record-skype-conversations.html -- Gustavo Gawry Interaction Designer Mobile: +55 21 9498-7923 Email: gustavogawry at gmail.com Blog: http://gawry.com (in portuguese) Twitter: gawry On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Mary Deaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have experience conducting remote usability sessions from the US via the Web with participants in Africa? I am using UserVue, which cannot handle telephone connections outside the US and Canada. However, none of the web conferencing vendors we have researched offer toll-free call-in numbers in Africa, very few in South America, and India is spotty. I tried to use Skype as a means for me to call out to the participants with the notion I could then record the conversation on my end, but I do not have a phone that can accept a recording device and so I have not found a really good way to record the Skype call off my computer. I would appreciate any suggestions people have, and as soon as possible. Please email me directly and then I will summarize and post back to these lists what I learn. And perhaps the user experience community should begin some sort of movement to make the availability of toll-free numbers in the developing world something not so dependent on whether someone can make a profit by offering them. End of rant. Mary Deaton Deaton Interactive Design, Manager, STC Usability and User Experience Community 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] [event] IxDA-Dallas/Ft. Worth at DFW UPA Social on Tuesday, Dec 16
Hi Everyone, The DFW UPA is kindly hosting us at their December Social on Tuesday, Dec 16 at The Londoner in Addison. Please see http://dfw-upa.org/2008/11/dfw-upa-december-social/ for more details. Also, Candy Bernhardt will become the new Dallas/Ft. Worth IxDA Local Coordinator as of January 1. I know she will do a fabulous job! Please email me if you would like to be added to the IxDA-D/FW email list. Best, Janet Six IxDA - Dallas/Ft. Worth -- Local Coordinator 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] Voting system design
There's a guy here in Toronto working on a continuous open election platform that's really interesting. http://zelea.com/project/votorola/ On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Dana Chisnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you could design a voting system from scratch - with no constraints - what would that look like? Dana Chisnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent from my iPhone 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 -- Matt Nish-Lapidus -- personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] twitter: emenel 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] New article vs Create article vs Add article
Hi guys, Could you please tell what do you think is better to use as link text in CMS: - New article - Create article - Add Article ? On one hand, it's good to use verbs/actions - Create, Add. On another - people are used to New command in desktop apps (at least on Windows). Thank you. -- Maxim Soloviev Director of Product Development www.nakea.net 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] New article vs Create article vs Add article
All of those will probably suffice for *most* people, but there may be a few nuances that could cause problems: * In MS Word, when I click File/New, it creates a blank page, but doesn't save my document. Therefore, I take new in a desktop app to mean Create but don't save yet * Create and/or Add might be more appropriate if, when someone clicks the button, the record is saved first, then edited, in anticipation of the user saving again afterwards. * Depends on context, but Add might make people think they can upload an article, or have more options than just creating something new from scratch (link to an article somewhere else, upload, create from scratch are all things you might expect to do after clicking Add Article) My gut would probably go with Create, as I just like the word (it's more creative and descriptive of the actual result - creating an article from whole cloth). But hey, that's just me =] Good luck! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36376 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] New article vs Create article vs Add article
On Dec 10, 2008, at 11:46 AM, Maxim Soloviev wrote: Hi guys, Could you please tell what do you think is better to use as link text in CMS: - New article - Create article - Add Article ? On one hand, it's good to use verbs/actions - Create, Add. On another - people are used to New command in desktop apps (at least on Windows). I'd go with 'create' as it is the most descriptive of the action. New could mean articles that were just posted Add could mean post an article from someplace else 2¢ -- Jeff Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.springstudio.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] [Event] DETAILS: Wed. December 10 -- IxDA NYC's David Malouf and guests discuss The State of IxD Today -- hosted by Bloomberg
A ping to everyone about tonight's event. This is your last chance to see Dave Malouf speak in NYC! And for those of you waiting for him to come to Savannah, Georgia, and for people in other cities, check out the stream we're setting up here: http://snipurl.com/7qwel [www_ustream_tv]. The show starts at 7:00pm EST, with To boot, the setup for tonight's event is going to be off the chain! Needless to say, the physical experience will be worth weathering the rain, not to mention the afterparty around the block! Refreshments start at 6:15pm, and the talk starts at 7:00pm EST (come before 7pm to avoid disappointment!). Cheers, and see y'all tonight! - Nasir On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:20 PM, NYC IxDA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please join us at a very special December event: IxDA co-founder David Malouf and guest colleagues will engage the NYC community in a discussion of the state of interaction design today. Topics covered will include General IxD Practice, Sketching and Prototyping, Education, Richness and Openness, and Defining The Damn Thing. David's guests include Ted Booth, Interaction Design Director at Smart Design, and Jennifer Bove, Vice President of Interaction Design at HUGE, Inc. Everyone is welcome—bring your colleagues, your thoughts, questions, and experiences! The event format is intended to be a lively, participatory discussion. Our host for the evening is Bloomberg, the leading global provider of financial data, news and analytics. Refreshments will be served. View Bloomberg's creative digital invitation here: http://tinyurl.com/5vmrd9 = RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/6c57pk The event is free of charge. Only those on the guest list will be admitted; please bring photo ID. = WHEN Wednesday, December 10, 2008 6:15 – 7:00 networking and refreshments 7:00 – 8:00 presentation 8:00 – 8:30 QA and discussion (Please arrive promptly. Guests may not be admitted after 7:00 PM) WHERE Bloomberg L.P. 731 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10022 http://www.bloomberg.com Map: http://tinyurl.com/6jc7n8 Subway: 4, 5, 6 to 59th Street station After the presentation, we'll head to a nearby location (TBD) to give David a proper send-off; he departs NYC to move to Savannah in mid-December. ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS David Malouf—Professor of Interaction Design, Savannah College of Art Design After 15 years of working in industry as an interaction designer, most recently at Motorola Enterprise Mobility, David will move to academia in January 2009 and begin teaching interaction design within the Industrial Design Department of the Savannah College of Art Design (SCAD.edu). David is also a founder and the first Vice President of the Interaction Design Association. Ted Booth—Interaction Design Director, Smart Design Ted leads interaction design at Smart Design. His team focuses on designing new experiences for a wide range of consumer products and services. Interaction designers at Smart work closely with industrial designers, researchers and engineers to create enjoyable and satisfying consumer experiences. Prior to joining Smart, Ted led interaction design at Motorola Enterprise Mobility (formerly Symbol Technologies) working on a wide range of mobile computers, RFID devices, and remote management tools. Before that, he led interaction design at Method, a consulting firm specializing in brand identity, web design, and product user interface. He began his career at MetaDesign in San Francisco. He holds a Masters of Design from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Jennifer Bove—Vice President, User Experience, HUGE Jennifer leads the Interaction Design, Content Strategy and Research teams for HUGE, with particular emphasis on mobile and emerging platforms. Prior to joining HUGE, Jenn was VP of User Experience at Schematic, where she oversaw all user experience work in the Atlantic region. She has developed services for mobile, PC and ITV, and over the past ten years has created experience strategies for a number of large consumer-facing projects reaching broad audiences across the United States and Europe, for clients including Yahoo!, Nokia, BBC, Prada, and America Online. Jenn has a masters degree in interaction design from Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Ivrea, Italy. ABOUT OUR HOST Bloomberg is the leading global provider of financial data, news and analytics. The BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service and Bloomberg's media services provide real-time and archived financial and market data, pricing, trading, news and communications tools in a single, integrated package to corporations, news organizations, financial and legal professionals and individuals around the world. ABOUT IxDA The Interaction Design Association (IxDA.org) is a member-supported organization committed to serving the needs of the international interaction design community. With the help of more than 10,000 members worldwide, we provide a
Re: [IxDA Discuss] ThoughtPile.org
Bleh. I thought the days of completely Flash sites were a thing of the past. And the interaction with the site is poor -- the text fields don't look like text fields, the buttons don't look like buttons and the navigation just isn't intuitive. The site does have a nice visual design look to it, but aesthetic is only a fraction of good user experience design -- if people can't intuitively use a site, what good does how cool it looks do? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36319 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] Conducting remote session in Africa
Mary, At Feralabs using our Webnographer Remote usability software we have carried out a number of Remote Usability tests in Africa. I also used to work for one of the largest Sub Saharan African owned software companies. Your idea of using Skype with Africa runs into a number of challenges, both legal and ethical :- 1) Legal and Ethical. By using Skype you could be making your Participant break the law in their country. Using software like Skype that uses Voice Over IP(VOIP) is still mainly illegal in most African countries. See: http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/telecoms/2008/0805231036.asp?S=All%20Africa%20NewsA=AFNO=FRGN(Russell Southwood is a consultant to the organisations such as the World Bank and runs the main news letter on African Telephony - ballancingact.) 2) Legal. Recording the telephone conversation call in some African countries is illegal, even with the participants permission. 3) Ethical. The last issue is that Voice over IP uses allot of bandwidth.It costs African ISP's over $8.00 usd per kb of bandwidth per year (that is about 40 times it costs in the States). http://ethanzuckerman.com/ericatberkman.pdf It is the African ISP that pays for the connection from Europe or America, not your ISP, so by using VOIP you are increasing the cost to the African ISP and therefore making Internet Access more expensive in Africa. Also Africa still has limited Bandwidth to the rest of the world, so you are slowing everybodies connection. My connection at the office is more than some ISP's in Africa have! Solutions. Either use Webnograpther, or another Asynchronous system. Or use Critical Incident Reporting over Email, or we can also help with finding people that can conduct tests on the ground. There may not be many usability people there, but there are many trained ethnographers in Africa, with very high standards. All the best James http://blog.feralabs.com 2008/12/10 Gustavo Gawry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mary, If using skype you can try one of those skype recording plugins. You can find some in the link below. http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/06/how-to-record-skype-conversations.html -- Gustavo Gawry Interaction Designer Mobile: +55 21 9498-7923 Email: gustavogawry at gmail.com Blog: http://gawry.com (in portuguese) Twitter: gawry On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Mary Deaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have experience conducting remote usability sessions from the US via the Web with participants in Africa? I am using UserVue, which cannot handle telephone connections outside the US and Canada. However, none of the web conferencing vendors we have researched offer toll-free call-in numbers in Africa, very few in South America, and India is spotty. I tried to use Skype as a means for me to call out to the participants with the notion I could then record the conversation on my end, but I do not have a phone that can accept a recording device and so I have not found a really good way to record the Skype call off my computer. I would appreciate any suggestions people have, and as soon as possible. Please email me directly and then I will summarize and post back to these lists what I learn. And perhaps the user experience community should begin some sort of movement to make the availability of toll-free numbers in the developing world something not so dependent on whether someone can make a profit by offering them. End of rant. Mary Deaton Deaton Interactive Design, Manager, STC Usability and User Experience Community 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 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] ThoughtPile.org
Really? Have you ever been here? http://www.thefwa.com/ Do you have any idea how high a demand there is for Actionscript programmers? Oh, and as to your point about the UX- If everybody did the same thing all the time instead of trying new methods to see if they might work, where does that leave innovation? I think some elements don't work, but there's enough interesting ideas here to warrant discussion. On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bleh. I thought the days of completely Flash sites were a thing of the past. And the interaction with the site is poor -- the text fields don't look like text fields, the buttons don't look like buttons and the navigation just isn't intuitive. The site does have a nice visual design look to it, but aesthetic is only a fraction of good user experience design -- if people can't intuitively use a site, what good does how cool it looks do? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36319 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] ThoughtPile.org
gavin burke|FAW kirjoitti 10.12.2008 kello 12:59: I always find it strange how companies that are traditionally associated with good design get the web so wrong. Another example is http://www.vitra.com , looks really well but is a complete pain to navigate. I've noticed the same. Traditional form function thinking seems to miss the concept of behavior completely. Everything looks and feels perfect at first, but as soon as you interact with anything, the attention to details drops from 100 to 0. In Vitra's case it only took four clicks along the key paths to find a state where nothing about the navigation made sense anymore: http://www.vitra.com/en-un/home/products/wiggle-side-chair/ You end up here, according to the navigation: Welcome to Vitra / Home / By Space / By Designer / By Space / By Designer / By Designer / By Designer / Wiggle Side Chair Side Chair. Not so long ago there was a discussion about the lack of Bang Olufsen design process. Try to enjoy 3 minutes at their website, speakers on. http://www.bang-olufsen.com/ (as seen 2008-12-10) - Petteri -- Petteri Hiisilä palvelumuotoilija / Senior Interaction Designer iXDesign / +358505050123 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] In this island, everything happens for a reason. - John Locke, LOST 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] ThoughtPile.org
I'm with Michael. This may not fit the concept of universal design, but there are things to be learned from it. I found it readily intuitive. Perhaps it depends on the individual user's cognitive preference (spatial vs linguistic, etc.). Design innovation is like evolutional innovation. A broad variety of possible models and approaches appear. Some become broadly useful and disseminate across many geographies and contexts (cats, for example, exist as predators in a wide variety of ecologies); some end up filling very specific niches in limited ways (pandas and eucalyptus). Some fail altogether. Cultural and thought evolution occurs similarly. Memes (thought units, not viral games) that are useful spread through a society and become adapted to a broad variety of uses. When a designer chooses a format, that designer is buying into a particular thought mem re: design. The OLPC designers applied a systems psychology approach to their work, treating each child as a knowledge worker, and the resulting OS interface is very different from the pre-determined desktop metaphor to which we are used. See here: http://laptop.org/en/laptop/interface/index.shtml Thoughtpile is a promotional site, designed to provide fun, a sense of engagement and participation, and perhaps even social utility. Not the worst thought in the world, and a refreshing break from banner ad promos for office furniture. Take what you find useful to your purpose, and leave the rest :-) Alex O'Neal UX Manager/SN analysis -- The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The next best time is now. On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Michael Dunn [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Really? Have you ever been here? http://www.thefwa.com/ Do you have any idea how high a demand there is for Actionscript programmers? Oh, and as to your point about the UX- If everybody did the same thing all the time instead of trying new methods to see if they might work, where does that leave innovation? I think some elements don't work, but there's enough interesting ideas here to warrant discussion. On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bleh. I thought the days of completely Flash sites were a thing of the past. And the interaction with the site is poor -- the text fields don't look like text fields, the buttons don't look like buttons and the navigation just isn't intuitive. The site does have a nice visual design look to it, but aesthetic is only a fraction of good user experience design -- if people can't intuitively use a site, what good does how cool it looks do? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36319 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 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] New article vs Create article vs Add article
Thank you, guys! -- Maxim Soloviev Director of Product Development www.nakea.net 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] Public Transportation Experiences
You can take a look at this Seoul, Korea subway website. They provide some great feature that you're looking for. - *Quick to get info* - Provide show/hide interested Line only. This reduce the mental workload trying to find a target station in a highly complex subway system. - *Information guidance* - You're able to input the start/end destination like in Google Map to find your way. It also can suggest a minimum route transfer (click on the tab on the tree) http://www.smrt.co.kr/Train/Subwaymap/Eng/Subwaymap.jsp Hope this help. regards, CHAN On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Jennifer Hoppenrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, I'm researching options for improving public transportation websites, particularly bus transportation. I've found most city sites to be lacking, but have found some nice mapping, real-time route information on the Chicago CTA site and onebusaway.org for the Seattle Metro area. Google maps integrates well with mobile, particularly the iPhone and has a bus routing feature for many cities. Has anyone found anything they feel has been a great experience that they can share? Thanks, Jennifer Hoppenrath Razorfish Seattle 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] Voting system design
In Estonia, we have been using Internet voting for a few years now, and I'd say the voting experience itself is pretty smooth from the IxD perspective. See http://www.jaanuskase.com/en/2007/02/evoting_in_estonias_2007_parli.html for a writeup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36321 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] Date display formats in tables
Hi Rachel, can users sort the data and which elements of the dates are the most important? Are they comparing days, months or years, because those could be determining issues in the design. Best regards, Jeroen. 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] Best practice for touchscreen interfaces in airplanes
He (Alan Cooper) talks about his IFE design in 'The Inmates are Running the Asylum', so I recommend picking up that book and paging through that section. - Leon On Dec 2, 1:22 am, Nathaniel Flick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should have a look at Air New Zealand's in flight entertainment system. It was designed by Al Cooper, I believe. Is very usable and is a great example of IxD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.orghttp://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36083 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] Public Transportation Experiences
I just recently have had to start using the TCAT bus system in Ithaca, NY. I've had reasonable success with their site and interactive maps. The trip planner is lacking somewhat (based on the limited results it generates) but it's a step in the right direction. http://www.tcatbus.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36199 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] Date display formats in tables
Someone asked me can users sort the data and which elements of the dates are the most important? Are they comparing days, months or years, because those could be determining issues in the design. Just to clarify - The table columns are sortable, so they can sort by dates. In most cases they will be comparing days months. Comparing dates in multiple years is rarer. Sometimes (as shown in my example) they could be comparing dates that cross a new year (e.g., Dec, Jan). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36335 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 - User Experience Consultant - Chicago - Recruiter - Full time
User Experience Consultant - Chicago (Location Negotiable) Description Organization: Systems Integration Technology - Global Delivery Excellence - User Experience Location:Chicago, New York City, Reston, San Francisco, Seattle Travel: 100% (Monday - Friday) Systems Integration and Technology (SIT) offers a full range of global delivery services-from enterprise solutions, system integration, technical architectures, business intelligence, infrastructure consulting, and technology research/development. Our SIT consultants can expect to: * work with cutting edge technology * deliver high-quality solutions across multiple industries * work on a variety of projects ranging in both size and scope * receive continuous training * gain rapid career progression The mission of the Global Delivery Excellence group is to support value creation by helping engagements improve productivity, quality and predictability of solution delivery. Job Description User Experience Consultants will assist the application design team with gathering functional and user requirements, creating user profiles and scenarios, planning and executing focus groups, user interviews and JAD sessions. Design information architecture, user interface, and execution of usability tests. Develop UI prototypes, and document user interface design standards and guidelines. Communicate user centered design objectives and goals to client executives and other development teams. Mentor junior team members on user centered design principles and processes. Responsibilities * Conduct front end analysis, interviewing, focus groups, requirements gathering * Use storyboarding, user scenario development, high-level use case definition, user and task analysis, to capture and develop user requirements and integrate elements into user interaction designs. * Create, evaluate, and modify high and low-fidelity prototypes to support development process. Facilitate iterative testing of prototypes. * Design highly usable interfaces for multiple channels - Internet, handheld PDA, tablet PC, and touch screen kiosks, etc. * Design and develop usability plans Qualifications Basic Qualifications * Bachelor's Degree * 4 years experience with User Interface Design and/or Graphical Design Additional Preferred Skill Requirements * Demonstrated ability to incorporate user-centered design principles into the architecture and design of user interfaces * Proficient with HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript and working knowledge of other popular Web technologies * Proficient with Adobe PhotoShop * Demonstrate written and oral communications skills and the ability to articulate ideas effectively * Strong interpersonal skills * Strong communication and conceptual skills * Proficient at project management skills (e.g. project planning and estimating) * Proven ability to meet tight deadlines * Ability to meet travel requirement (100% - Monday-Friday) Email your resumes to [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] ThoughtPile.org
This was mostly my reaction too. The controls were not particularly intuitive, and there was no connection between individuals' contributions nor any information about who the contributors were and why I should be interested in their thoughts. The whole thing seemed gimmicky, especially when I came across plugs for Herman Miller products. It might work better with a topic that lends itself less to platitudinous responses, but beyond that, there isn't a lot of incentive to keep exploring or to go back to the site. 2008/12/9 Michael Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] I find this silly. What am I supposed to click on? It is a treasure hunt, which assumes I am interested in other people's spewing of random thoughts to begin with -- which I am not. Treasure hunts only work when there's a treasure to find. I just see a bunch of orange circles with innane writing in them. Not very interesting, even though I like orange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36319 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] Voting system design
also, i've been helping mako hill and the mit center for future civic media with a preferential voting system: http://selectricity.org/ description: Selectricity is voting machinery for the masses. We help groups make better decisions, more easily. We allow voting, usually in form of ranking a list of choices in order of preference, and have the computer help groups make better decisions. Selectricity is simple to use and convenient. Anyone can create the simplest election in under a minute and voting is even easier. Results can be computed instaneously. we seem to have a similar log to votorola. alyssa. Matthew Nish-Lapidus wrote: There's a guy here in Toronto working on a continuous open election platform that's really interesting. http://zelea.com/project/votorola/ On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Dana Chisnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you could design a voting system from scratch - with no constraints - what would that look like? Dana Chisnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent from my iPhone 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] UK based user experience freelancers?
Hi IXDA list A few questions for UK based UE freelancers / recruitment agencies... *About the current UE industry* • It seems to me there's lots of work about at the moment... how are you currently finding things? • How do you feel about the recession - could it be good for freelancers as companies cut in house headcount? • Are there currently any particular specialties with high demand? • What's your strategy for 2009? *About freelancing in general* • Is freelancing a dead-end career - a nice day rate but no long relationships? • What's the most satisfying thing about freelancing? • What don't you like about freelancing? • What advice would you give someone thinking about full time freelancing? Thanks for you thoughts! All the best, Sam www.pixelthread.co.uk 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] [Event] DETAILS: Wed. December 10 -- IxDA NYC's David Malouf and guests discuss The State of IxD Today -- hosted by Bloomberg
Thanks to everyone who came out tonight! Our amazing hosts at Bloomberg, the cats that made good on their RSVPs, Ted Booth, Jennifer Bove, and Dave Malouf all made this another great NYC event! Add to that the post-post-reception going away afterparty for Dave, and the night was complete :). I want to solicit feedback on our stream of the event tonight, and of our streams of the past few events. If you joined, what went well/ill, and what can we do to add to the ex-event experience? Audio and video quality? Is the chat useful? Helpful to have someone watching and talking back during the evwnt? If you didn't join, what could we have done better on our side? I'm working on a streaming best practices guide for F2Fs around the globe in the hopes of taking out the guesswork (and thus making streams more common). Please send your thawts off-list. Cheers, good night, and good luck! - Nasir On Dec 10, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Nasir Barday [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A ping to everyone about tonight's event. This is your last chance to see Dave Malouf speak in NYC! And for those of you waiting for him to come to Savannah, Georgia, and for people in other cities, check out the stream we're setting up here: http://snipurl.com/7qwel [www_ustream_tv]. The show starts at 7:00pm EST, with To boot, the setup for tonight's event is going to be off the chain! Needless to say, the physical experience will be worth weathering the rain, not to mention the afterparty around the block! Refreshments start at 6:15pm, and the talk starts at 7:00pm EST (come before 7pm to avoid disappointment!). Cheers, and see y'all tonight! - Nasir On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:20 PM, NYC IxDA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please join us at a very special December event: IxDA co-founder David Malouf and guest colleagues will engage the NYC community in a discussion of the state of interaction design today. Topics covered will include General IxD Practice, Sketching and Prototyping, Education, Richness and Openness, and Defining The Damn Thing. David's guests include Ted Booth, Interaction Design Director at Smart Design, and Jennifer Bove, Vice President of Interaction Design at HUGE, Inc. Everyone is welcome—bring your colleagues, your thoughts, questions, and experiences! The event format is intended to be a lively, participatory discussion. Our host for the evening is Bloomberg, the leading global provider of financial data, news and analytics. Refreshments will be served. View Bloomberg's creative digital invitation here: http://tinyurl.com/ 5vmrd9 = RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/6c57pk The event is free of charge. Only those on the guest list will be admitted; please bring photo ID. = WHEN Wednesday, December 10, 2008 6:15 – 7:00 networking and refreshments 7:00 – 8:00 presentation 8:00 – 8:30 QA and discussion (Please arrive promptly. Guests may not be admitted after 7:00 PM) WHERE Bloomberg L.P. 731 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10022 http://www.bloomberg.com Map: http://tinyurl.com/6jc7n8 Subway: 4, 5, 6 to 59th Street station After the presentation, we'll head to a nearby location (TBD) to give David a proper send-off; he departs NYC to move to Savannah in mid-December. ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS David Malouf—Professor of Interaction Design, Savannah College of Ar t Design After 15 years of working in industry as an interaction designer, most recently at Motorola Enterprise Mobility, David will move to academia in January 2009 and begin teaching interaction design within the Industrial Design Department of the Savannah College of Art Design (SCAD.edu). David is also a founder and the first Vice President of the Interaction Design Association. Ted Booth—Interaction Design Director, Smart Design Ted leads interaction design at Smart Design. His team focuses on designing new experiences for a wide range of consumer products and services. Interaction designers at Smart work closely with industrial designers, researchers and engineers to create enjoyable and satisfying consumer experiences. Prior to joining Smart, Ted led interaction design at Motorola Enterprise Mobility (formerly Symbol Technologies) working on a wide range of mobile computers, RFID devices, and remote management tools. Before that, he led interaction design at Method, a consulting firm specializing in brand identity, web design, and product user interface. He began his career at MetaDesign in San Francisco. He holds a Masters of Design from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Jennifer Bove—Vice President, User Experience, HUGE Jennifer leads the Interaction Design, Content Strategy and Research teams for HUGE, with particular emphasis on mobile and emerging platforms. Prior to joining HUGE, Jenn was VP of User Experience at Schematic, where she oversaw all user experience work in the Atlantic region. She has developed services for mobile, PC and ITV, and
