[IxDA Discuss] Progress and Delay Indication for Varying Performance

2008-03-11 Thread Chris Ryan
There has been a fair amount written over the years about how to give good feedback for delays of varying lengths. However, what if your application has somewhat unpredictable performance (I won't get into the reasons here; suffice to say it is not sloppy implementation), where a given

[IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design Specification Sites

2008-08-11 Thread Chris Ryan
There¹s been a fair amount of discussion here about documentation formats and software used to produce wireframes, prototypes, and so on. But how do people manage an entire specification? I have been using a hand-coded intranet site, controlled via subversion; but my team is growing and I¹m

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Office 2007 in 2006, two years later

2008-11-02 Thread Chris Ryan
I've been curious, since the release of Office 2008, whether the absence of the ribbon is due to a reconsideration of its value, or simply the result of a different group within Microsoft having developed the suite for Mac OS X. Regardless, I'm not sure what the Mac Business Unit at MS might have

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Office 2007 in 2006, two years later

2008-11-02 Thread Chris Ryan
Yes, Will, I know; that's why I wrote that I didn't know whether the absence of the ribbon from Office 2008 was the result of a different group within Microsoft having developed the suite for Mac OS X. I tend to think that the software is better in general for having been done by the Mac BU (does

[IxDA Discuss] Article on Number of Usability Test Participants

2009-10-01 Thread Chris Ryan
I have been looking, unsuccessfully, through back issues of interactions magazine for an article, published a few years back, written I believe by someone from Microsoft as part of a debate about statistical significance in usability testing. There was something of a debate about testing with