I think perhaps that the iPhone borrows from a number of computer-
centric and '1st generation iPod'-centric design patterns, and those
patterns can give you a leg up on learning it. The concept of a drill-
down (and down the hierarchy existing somewhere to the right) is an
iPod pattern. The
Working as a Technical Writer, I VERY often see myself being put in
the final stage of the development process by management.
I came across the following article that i want to share with other
technical writers out there:
http://www.stc.org/confproceed/2001/PDFs/STC48-000107.PDF
I don't have an IPHONE. I do want one but lately articles are written
about IPHONES exploding in people's hands.
The Danish article belows states that there are 10 cases in France.
I also read about cases in the US, Japan and the UK.
http://politiken.dk/tjek/digitalt/telefoni/article775823.ece
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On Aug 28, 2009, at 1:29 AM, Ali Naqvi wrote:
Young children are accustomed to experimenting with their world via
touch (and putting things in their mouth of course) so the iPhone fits
into their normal mode of discovery. Adults by contrast have learned
other means of discovery that might fail them when they have only a
single button and
I am hoping one of you has some legal speak you'd be willing to share
on contract requirements for usability standards. We have a vendor
whose product has serious experience issues and want to make sure
they get addressed throughout the product lifecycle.
On 27 Aug 2009, at 11:08, dave malouf wrote:
I think @jmspool nailed it. the issue isn't whether or not UCD is
needed. the issue is whether or not the product has room for
improvement and that those improvements speak to the core
stakeholders involved.
[snip]
Those problems have also got to
On 27 Aug 2009, at 16:30, dave malouf wrote:
1 of the things that gets me about this conversation is that it is
spoken about in terms of absolutes. the iphone is not easy to
use.
Aye.
I keep wanting to add compare to... on the end.
Adrian
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On 28 Aug 2009, at 07:21, Karen Dee Davis wrote:
I am hoping one of you has some legal speak you'd be willing to share
on contract requirements for usability standards. We have a vendor
whose product has serious experience issues and want to make sure
they get addressed throughout the product
I replied via email to Sascha's question, but I'll share here:
The top search box (in header) is for Trendmicro.com site-wide
search.
The one immediately below the header is for searching the community
only.
This is by far not ideal, I'm aware. Not my design / recommendation.
. . . . . . . .
Paul - Thanks for all the links. The Dell site is more along the lines
of what I am going towards. I've started saying, Micro-header to
help relate the concept to my manager and teammates.
A coworker helped me articulate my reasons for not wanting the full
header on the blogs I'm building right
You are right: profit interests tend to destroy communal spirit -- a lesson
demonstrated time and again in Project Runway and other reality shows, as
well as by behavioral economists (read 'Predictably Irrational' by Dan
Ariely or see author's talk at TED).
--
Oleh Kovalchuke
Interaction Design
Karen, as with any contract question, the two key issues are 1) can
you accurately describe the obligation? and 2) can you get the other
party to agree to it?
In your case, it will be very difficult, in the absence of concrete
metrics (such as SLA-type performance standards, or customer
Hello, IxDers,
I need to indicate that specific cell in a read-only datagrid contains not
one, but multiple values. Putting the cell in focus would reveal the values
in it.
The project team have suggested displaying Multiple... link in the cell.
Clicking the link would open a popup showing the
Do you mean something like this:
--
Column One Column Two
--
Lorem Ipsum 1,240
Dolor sit amet 2,005
Consectetur 1,234 [5v]
Adipiscing elit 2,111 [1v]
Cras lectus -32
Neque
If the number of data elements in the list is limited to 5 /- 2 then
you might be able to show them all inline - with line breaks in the
cell. It's easier to be able to see all the values at once.
Another option could be a tool-tip rollover that showed the rest of
the values. One thing to keep
You have the right idea, and I like Jennifer's idea of the down
arrow.
You might also consider these:
Lorem ipsum
Dolor sit amet
Consectetur [5 more]
Adipiscing elit [1 more]
Cras lectus
Neque [3 more]
Might help if you have numeric multiple values, to avoid 1,234 [
5] seeming to represent
Plus symbols didn't come thru on IxDA, but I meant to say:
Or perhaps just use [ ] (plus symbol) with alt or title text
indicating the number of additional items.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Posted from the new ixda.org
Hi Toby,
I prefer Webnographer http://www.webnographer.com/ for website UI
competitive analysis, but than I am also Founder of
FeraLabshttp://www.feralabs.com/,
who have built Webnographer (a remote usability testing tool).
Of course, I would expect you to promote your own product too :)
I am
Hm, Gmail uses something like that in the Inbox view, however the indicator
does not open a dropdown, it opens a message instead:
Oleh, Jennifer (5)[IxDA Discuss] Indicators for cells with multiple
values in a datagrid
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Oleh
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Oleh Kovalchuke
I have considered displaying [+] only, but this is not as informative as
showing the number of entries next to at least one of them spelled out.
Spelling out More is a bit too long for the datagrid.
Hovers are not very efficient, too transient, and prevent copying data (if
needed).
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Thanks so much!
Whitney
Not to downplay the seriousness of the situation, but in looking at
your description of the scenario, it seems like the recollection of
every other phone compared to the iPhone is a bit misrepresented.
It's kind of like my wife saying how amazing NYC is and only recalling
the best parts of
On Aug 27, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Joan Vermette wrote:
I think the iPhone is hard to learn, and therefore will remain for
me hard to use until I get up to speed with it.
After one week?
Cheers!
Todd Zaki Warfel
Principal Design Researcher
Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully.
On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:12 PM, Jarod Tang wrote:
I'm afraid this will leads designers' work into a trap, if the
designer really assumes the tech driven is right.
What is that trap?
But as a tactic, designer could avoid such fruitless discussion
( like, No, xxx should be user
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Jordan, Courtney cjor...@bbandt.comwrote:
But it still holds true that to the user, Joan, it wasn't immediately
learnable given a high-stress, potentially dangerous situation.
-
All this seems so odd to me, maybe cuz I can't relate directly.. If I were
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Jared Spool jsp...@uie.com wrote:
Personally, I think that trying to force our notion of a good experience
onto companies as some sort of ethical obligation is an arrogant position.
Who is to say we have the right to tell other people how they should design
If usability is the differentiating factor between the competitors,
then a heuristic assessment would be useful. However, in many cases
usability issues are table stakes that should be optimized apart from
what the competition is doing. For a competitive analysis I suggest
starting with the manner
Jordan, Courtney wrote:
People need to make an emergency call in as
little time as possible - as you said, it can make the difference
between living to tell this story and not.
And that emergency call could just as easily be a senior who fell down
the stairs in their home or a cyclist who
Joan Vermette wrote:
With my old phone in that instance, I
would have quickly dialed 911 and kept my thumb poised over the call
button. The motion involved in that would have been:
Flipping open phone.
Feeling for raised keys on a keypad very like every other phone I've had
since 1978.
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Jared Spool jsp...@uie.com wrote:
On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:12 PM, Jarod Tang wrote:
I'm afraid this will leads designers' work into a trap, if the designer
really assumes the tech driven is right.
What is that trap?
Designer should fight for the empathy
RE: Jet Townsend: IMHO, replacing physical buttons with a touch-screen
UI falls into the just because we can, doesn't mean we should bucket.
As an iPhone owner since the first day they came out (and I still own
use the 1st gen), after seeing the Nokia Maemo - with the screen as
big as the
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