[IxDA Discuss] Welie.com and Design Patterns
All, A recent Google search of mine returned the site Welie.com as one of the first hits. I've never seen this site before and couldn't find anything about it in the IxDA archives. Since the site is about patterns in design interaction, I was wondering if any of you have used the site and what you thought of it? It appears to be published by a single individual, but he does seem to have some decent credentials. Thanks, Brian J. Hoffman Interface Designer Minitab Inc. Quality Plaza 1829 Pine Hall Road State College, PA 16801-3008 USA/CAN/MEX: +1 800 448-3555 Ext.#514 Tel: +1 814-238-3280 Ext.#514 Fax: +1 814-238-4383 Web site: www.minitab.com http:// 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] Overall Web Development Process
All, I'm glad to hear the IxDA conference went well. Hopefully I can attend next year and meet a few of you. For those of you involved with website creation and assuming you are part of a larger team that includes graphics artists, developers, etc., what overall process does your team or company use and are you happy with it? I've done a fair amount of research into this topic and eventually settled on the process presented in the book by Kelly Goto and Emily Cotler, Web Redesign: Workflow that Works. However, I'm working at a new company and the developers have started to utilize Agile development methodologies and I don't believe Goto and Cotler's process takes that style of development into consideration. (Does it need to?) So, does anyone have an overarching website development process they can recommend that would fit well with the Agile development process? Thanks, Brian *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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] Adding Depth to Skills
All, While many of you have followed a very straight career path into interaction design, I'm probably not alone here in having come into this field along a more winding path. Even now I'm in a position where I get to wear several specialized hats and would like to add some depth to my knowledge of those fields. Given that, what resources can any of you recommend for the following fields? These could be books, websites, conferences, user/professional organizations (such as IxDA), or other things. * Information Architecture * Interaction Design * Interface Design * Usability * Other related areas I'm aware of some resources, such as IAI and the UPA (Ultimate Players Association?!), but suspect I'm missing quite a few. Thanks! Brian J. Hoffman Interface Designer Minitab Inc. Quality Plaza 1829 Pine Hall Road State College, PA 16801-3008 USA/CAN/MEX: +1 800 448-3555 Ext.#514 Tel: +1 814-238-3280 Ext.#514 Fax: +1 814-238-4383 Web site: www.minitab.com http:// *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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] Bulk-content creators
-Original Message- We're considering using an SEO strategy whereby a company creates several hundred content pages with relevant keywords (to our site) that link back to our site, in order to increase our search engine rankings. Bryan, I'm skeptical that this strategy will be effective and generally think it's a bad idea since it's basically trying to trick the search engines. The value of inbound links is directly proportional to the ranking of the pages those links are coming from. The pages being created by the company you mentioned are likely to have a very low ranking themselves, thereby giving you little value for your time and money. As your website says, Anything worth doing, is worth doing well... So spend the time and money asking for legitimate links to your sites instead, along with other standardized SEO techniques. Brian *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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] Examples where personas are *not* useful
-Original Message- Once again, that just goes to show that we need more education on how to create and properly use personas. Used properly, they are one of our most useful tools. But like any other tool, used incorrectly, or not at all, well, we all know what happens then. Bad data in bad data out. Please forgive me if this should be a new thread... So what resources do folks on this list recommend for acquiring the proper education on how to create and properly use personas? Thanks, Brian J. Hoffman Interface Designer Minitab Inc. Quality Plaza 1829 Pine Hall Road State College, PA 16801-3008 USA/CAN/MEX: +1 800 448-3555 Ext.#514 Tel: +1 814-238-3280 Ext.#514 Fax: +1 814-238-4383 Web site: www.minitab.com *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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] OK/Cancel
-Original Message- I think Luke W's article (posted on this thread previously) answers a lot of our questions based on research and statistical data. Primary button should be on the left, secondary button on the right. Buttons should be left aligned. -Juan [Brian Hoffman] Greetings everyone! New subscriber here. Unless I'm missing something, I don't believe this conclusion can be drawn from Luke W's article. Of the options he studied, none of them had the primary button to the right next to the secondary button with both of them left aligned. Only one of the variations had the primary button to the right of the secondary button and in that case the buttons were fill-justified, which could make an enormous difference with a left-justified form. What I'm wondering is, did participants have the option to hit Enter on their keyboard instead of clicking on a button to submit the form and, if so, how many people used that option and never even looked at the buttons? Thanks, Brian J. Hoffman Interface Designer Minitab Inc. Quality Plaza 1829 Pine Hall Road State College, PA 16801-3008 USA/CAN/MEX: +1 800 448-3555 Ext.#514 Tel: +1 814-238-3280 Ext.#514 Fax: +1 814-238-4383 Web site: www.minitab.com *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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
