Re: [IxDA Discuss] Wireframes, supporting documentation, and software choices

[Mary Specht]

You could try Axure, if you work on a PC (not available for Mac). It
allows you to build the wireframe and annotate it at once. Then it
automatically builds the product requirements document when you're
done. 

It makes sense if you're working by yourself. But it can be tedious
for collaboration--you have to have Axure to make changes and
generate a new version of the requirements doc. (On the other hand,
if you "own" the requirements doc anyway, it makes sense). 

It might be worth a trial for what you're doing.


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[IxDA Discuss] Instant Messaging UIs and Annoyances

[Alex Carr]

Found myself preparing to design an IM Client today. Was wondering if
anyone has been faced with the many pieces of an IM Client (even a
simple one) and also, in general, what bothers you about you IM
client? Or, what has an IM client done that annoyed you and made you
switch? Looking for the things that irritate people when it comes to
IMing.

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

[Angel Marquez]

Inventions that employed reification, polymorphism and reuse should be
allowed into the ixd fame domain. That would include the origins of machine
uses of transportation & communication.

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

[dave malouf]

Hi Andrei,
I'm not sure why you went that way. I totally agree that its in the
artifact (the DESIGN) that we need to look at the designer and not
the thinking. In fact, I don't think that I was even suggesting
looking at the "designer" at all, nor their thinking.

I thought I was suggesting 2 things:
1) that in choosing what might go into a timeline we develop criteria
for what is a great example of interaction design.

2) I would also suggest that not every great invention is great
interaction design. I.e. the cotton gin was instrumental in
industrializing the production of cotton, but is that great IxD? I
have no idea! There are a host of inventions that were culture
changing for good or bad that I'm not sure were good IxD.But then I
haven't seen the answer to #1 suggestion.

To be clear at no time was I suggesting that we should judge anyone
on the basis of their thinking. THOUGH I do think there were pioneers
in design education who we may want to judge on the work of their
students, and their total contribution to the field/discipline, but
to me this is a different but still important category.

-- dave


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

[Andrei Herasimchuk]

On Feb 19, 2009, at 4:46 PM, dave malouf wrote:


It might even be worthwhile to create a set of criteria that makes
something a great interaction design as opposed to us just randomly
using our gut to express these notions.


This seems appropriate. I would presume that before you can ask  
questions like "Who created Copy & Paste" or "Who developed Graffiti  
for the Palm?" you'd have to first test whether they passed the  
criteria. I just didn't make that explicit.



Again, though I'm not so sure that saying "great invention" is the
same as "great interaction design".


How is there a practical difference? How would we know that Rand was a  
great graphic design without the work he did at Direction or the  
various brands he created, or that Dreyfuss was a great industrial  
designer without the telephone? I mean... the books they wrote are  
certainly inspiring and insightful, but what makes their opinions  
relevant is the fact they had the body of work to back it up.


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

[Christian Crumlish]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:46 PM, dave malouf  wrote:
>
> Despite Christian's snide comment

oh hey i didn't intend to be snide and apologize for giving offense

a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, right? but
given the tradition on this list (and hence in this community) of
emphasizing traditional design studio training as essential to ixd as
a true design practice, that honestly will exclude the many engineers
and other makers who were working out interaction solutions, often in
visionary and pioneering ways in the past, right?

for me, the contradiction doesn't invalidate either point, any more
than andrei's issues with interaction design vs. interface design, or
the importance of being able to draw, or sketch, or place pixels, or
make prototypes detracts from the quest for ancestors.

-x-

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

[dave malouf]

I really don't see the point to all this for us in this community. A
timeline of the greatest "interactive" inventions of all time seems
really pointless as a means of expressing the history of the
discipline of "interaction design". 

Despite Christian's snide comment, what I was referring to was less
about "design" but about using methods, applying known theories,
and understandings for achieving great IxD, as opposed to well,
"genius". 

One might say by acknowledging these earily genius' we are saying
that everything we believe in as a discipline and a practice is well
meaningless. 

On the other hand lauding these accomplishments in such a way that
outlines what makes them great interaction designs. What part of
their aesthetics? their use of time? the quality motions? their use
of affordances? etc. etc. And most importantly how did they impact
behavior?

It might even be worthwhile to create a set of criteria that makes
something a great interaction design as opposed to us just randomly
using our gut to express these notions.

Again, though I'm not so sure that saying "great invention" is the
same as "great interaction design".

- dave


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should IxDA support a US National Design Policy?

[Mary Specht]

To build on Gabby's comment, we could bite off a small piece of #2.
What if IxDA members "adopted" various government sites, and
reviewed their key interactions? 

We'd give advice for making their (often byzantine) sites more
effective, both for end users and for organizations (in the form of
less time wasted on user confusion). 

We could even hand them UX flows and other helpful documentation. But
it would be up to the government to make the changes.


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should IxDA support a US National Design Policy?

[Mary Specht]

To build on Gabby's comment, we could bite off a small piece of #2.
What if IxDA members "adopted" various government sites, and
reviewed their key interactions? 

We'd give advice for making their (often byzantine) sites more
effective, both for end users and for organizations (in the form of
less time wasted on user confusion). 

We could even hand them UX flows and other helpful documentation. But
it would be up to the government to make the changes.


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[IxDA Discuss] Wireframes, supporting documentation, and software choices

[Sheri Hyman]

What software do you use to do the documentation to support your
wireframes? (eg, the tables that list out each interface item,
description, system response, error states, etc.) The same software
that you use to create the wireframes? (and if so, what software is
that?)

At my last company, we did wireframes in Visio and the element tables
in Word. So we had to paste the Visio wireframes into Word and update
two documents, which I hated. But Visio can't handle tables well, in
terms of wrapping the text, tabbing through them, etc. (Or can it?
Perhaps there are features for tables that I don't know about?) Does
Omnigraffle have features for creating and using tables like Word
does?

Or have you dispensed with element tables entirely, in favor of
annotations, and if so, can I see samples and how do your developers
feel about that?

Thanks,
Sheri

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Using this list: How do I change my subscription email address?

[James Wanless]

It's definitely clickable and editable, though not terribly visible. 
As long as you're logged in, go to your profile page, click "edit
profile/subscription" in grey beside the larger word "Members" and
then on the following page you'll default to 'edit details', but in
the left sidebar there's also an 'edit subscription' link which
gives you options.

James



Same question.

[To change, unsubscribe and re-join with new address] - this is
unclickable on the page... 


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

[Katie Albers]

If you check out Timbl's proposal for the development of what came to  
be called the browser   
It deals explicitly with Hypertext, and equally explicitly leaves  
aside other media -- which corroborates my memory that the first  
browsers were all text.


Incidentally, the proposal also includes this statement: "This  
division also is important in order to allow the heterogeneity which  
is required at CERN (and would be a boon for the world in general)."  
Little did he know...


As far as Brewster Kahle...well, the info design and interaction  
design that goes into creating a universal, accessible electronic  
library encompassing all information and all media has to be worth  
*something* :-)


kt

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On Feb 19, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Christian Crumlish wrote:

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Peter Merholz  
 wrote:


If you're going to include Tim Berners-Lee, I think you need to  
also include

Marc Andreessen, as his innovation of bringing imagery into WWW was
fundamental in making it of broad interest.


I thought the earliest prototype browsers had imagery (as well as
read/write, and note-taking functionality)? I realize this is a
quibble, though and the experience I shared with no doubt many people
on this list was going from www/lynx to Mosaic.

I want to add Brewster Kahle but I can't really justify it.

-x-

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

[Angel]

Is lynx better than links? I've been using links for phase1 & and the  
only draw back so far is not being able to open gmail in it. Terminal  
commands seem to have a more intuitive progression than a lot of  
interfaces. Unix international?


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On Feb 19, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Christian Crumlish  wrote:

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Peter Merholz  
 wrote:


If you're going to include Tim Berners-Lee, I think you need to  
also include

Marc Andreessen, as his innovation of bringing imagery into WWW was
fundamental in making it of broad interest.


I thought the earliest prototype browsers had imagery (as well as
read/write, and note-taking functionality)? I realize this is a
quibble, though and the experience I shared with no doubt many people
on this list was going from www/lynx to Mosaic.

I want to add Brewster Kahle but I can't really justify it.

-x-

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

[mike myles]

Andrei,

I agree that the artifacts are as important to acknowledge as the
individuals who created them. I like the timeline approach for that
reason. It's a way to aggregate the artifacts; such as applications,
components, and publications - and the people that created them in a
format that illustrates how each built on what came before. Since all
entries can presumably be cross linked it allows one to follow
whatever thread of connection catches one's interest.


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

[Christian Crumlish]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Peter Merholz  wrote:
>
> If you're going to include Tim Berners-Lee, I think you need to also include
> Marc Andreessen, as his innovation of bringing imagery into WWW was
> fundamental in making it of broad interest.

I thought the earliest prototype browsers had imagery (as well as
read/write, and note-taking functionality)? I realize this is a
quibble, though and the experience I shared with no doubt many people
on this list was going from www/lynx to Mosaic.

I want to add Brewster Kahle but I can't really justify it.

-x-

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

[Christian Crumlish]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:58 AM, dave malouf  wrote:
> Why do I say this. I might have "invented" in the past the most
> amazing interactive systems. BUT did they really practice interaction
> design

clearly not, not having had studio training they weren't doing design
at all, right?

;^)

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[IxDA Discuss] Design For Mobile conference, April 20-22, Early Bird ends March 7

[Barbara Ballard]

In late 2007, we got tired of all the conferences focusing on mobile
user experience being in Europe. Usually London. Since more and more
there's really great mobile design work going on in North America, we
decided to make a new conference. And in 2008 it was terrific.

The 2009 conference is approaching, with topics ranging from academic
to theoretical to incredibly practical, from user research to
implementation. We'll have a workshop on gestures for mobile phones
and a workshop on designing & documenting mobile interaction.

Design For Mobile
April 20-22
Lawrence, KS, USA

http://design4mobile.mobi/conference.html


A limited number of discounts, 15% off, is available using code social_bb


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should IxDA support a US National Design Policy?

[Steve Baty]

Josh,

I'd like to tie this back to the mission of the IxDA and highlight two of
the points from that statement:
*
Evangelism* - Promoting awareness of the discipline, craft, and value of
interaction design and design research among businesses, academia,
consumers, and colleagues

*Innovation* - Advancing the discipline of interaction design

On the surface of it at least it would seem that the US National Design
policy - and specifically the involvement of the IxDA as a professional
association in the formative and developmental stages of that policy - are
consistent with those two objectives. What better way to demonstrate the
relevance and importance of interaction design to a broader audience than to
become actively involved in such an initiative.

I recognise that the IxDA's membership will not benefit equally from
involvement in such a program. As an Australian member of the IxDA the
benefits would be much more indirect than they would for US members.
However, I recognise the leadership role the US plays in public policy on a
global stage; the influence of US on Australian government policy-making is
clear. Similarly, raising the profile of IxD as a discipline with the
ability to tackle "big problems" can only help practitioners in all parts of
the world.

So, with some call for caution with respect to the allocation of overall
resources of the IxDA, I would support our involvement.

Best Regards

Steve
2009/2/19 Josh Seiden 

> Folk,
>
> Recently, a group of leaders from various US design organizations
> came together to discuss the question of a US National design policy.
> This summit meeting resulted in 10 design policy recommendations,
> which can be found here:
> http://www.designpolicy.org/usdp/policy-proposals.html
>
> (The full report on the summit meeting can be found here:
> http://www.designpolicy.org/usdp/summit-report.html)
>
> After the summit meeting, the leaders of this initiative contacted
> IxDA to ask for our participation and endorsement. In turn, the Board
> has asked me to reach out to you--the community--to help us decide how
> (or if) IxDA should participate.
>
> The Board finds much to support in the 10 policy initiatives. In
> particular, the spirit of optimistic patriotism is welcome, and we
> certainly support the efforts of those who are motivated by that
> spirit. That said, the 10 policy proposals include some items that
> the Board strongly disagreed with as well. The Board finds itself
> similarly split on whether or not the very idea of design
> organizations partnering with government is a good idea.
>
> What do you think? Should IxDA get involved? Are there specific
> initiatives that YOU would like to support by working alongside your
> IxDA peers? Are there alternative ways you would like to see IxDA
> proceed?
>
> For quick reference, here are the the 10 recommendations:
>
>   1. Formalize an American Design Council to partner with the U.S.
> Government.
>
>   2. Set guidelines for legibility, literacy, and accessibility for
> all government communications.
>
>   3. Target 2030 for carbon neutral buildings.
>
>   4. Create an Assistant Secretary for Design and Innovation
> position within the Department of Commerce to promote design.
>
>   5. Expand national grants to support interdisciplinary community
> design assistance programs based on human-centered design
> principles.
>
>   6. Commission a report to measure and document design's
> contribution to the U.S. economy.
>
>   7. Revive the Presidential Design Awards to be held every year and
> use triple bottom-line criteria (economic, social, and environmental
> benefit) for evaluation.
>
>   8. Establish national grants for basic design research.
>
>   9. Modify the patent process to reflect the types of intellectual
> property created by designers.
>
>  10. Encourage direct government investment in design innovation.
>
>
> What do you think? How do you see IxDA's role relating to this?
>
> Thanks,
> Josh Seiden
>



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[IxDA Discuss] Embeddable fonts for PowerPoint

[Jonathan Abbett]

In trying to avoid a fiat from management against non-Microsoft fonts
in my PowerPoint presentations, I've been learning more about how to
embed fonts within a PowerPoint 2007 presentation.

Microsoft's reference on the subject was my first destination:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA010348241033.aspx

This site actually included the technical details of PP font embedding
that I was looking for:
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00076.htm

I instaled this Windows explorer extension that provides a surplus of
information about font files, include their embeddability.
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/TrueTypeProperty21.mspx


So, I quickly learned that the OpenType version of Helvetica Neue I've
been using won't be embeddable at all.  (PowerPoint won't embed
OpenType fonts, and the version of the font I have only allows preview
and print embedding, anyhow.)

Is anyone aware of online font search tools that filter based on the
embeddability afforded by a font's license?
Has anyone had positive experiences embedding respectable fonts in PowerPoint?

Thanks,
Jonathan

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

[Angel Marquez]

The victor writes the history.
Did the wright brothers invent the airplane or the montgomery?

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

[Andrei Herasimchuk]

So maybe a different way to consider this topic:

What products, design ideas, or other innovations have been created in  
the field that have lasted the test of time or made a significant  
impact, and who was responsible for them? Then you'd get a more  
practical list and provide create where credit is due.


So, rather than list people, which is prone to popularity and  
unreliable memories of the audience, you'd ask yourself things like...


Who created hyperlinks?
Who created the "desktop" model for the graphical user interface?
Who created the bezier curve drawing interface?
Who created the painting interface?
Who came up with the notion of bookmarks?
Who created the WASD + mouse model for first person 3D environments?
Who came up with Copy & Paste?
Who came up with Undo?
Who came up with the core notions of choice, resulting in Checkboxes,  
Radio Buttons, Menus and core Form controls?

Who designed the Mac IIci?
Who developed the Palm Graffiti input system?
Who designed Microsoft Word 1.0 (or whichever version was the first to  
use an optical mouse instead of pure keyboard input like Wordstar)

Who designed VisiCalc?

And so on and so on... Obviously, again, this line of question is  
computer and software tech heavy. I know the answer to many, but not  
all. Would be nice to get the collective wisdom of the crowd to find  
all the answers.


Getting a list like this made would also go towards a long way of  
collecting more core fundamentals around interface design and  
software, which has been missing for many years now.


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[IxDA Discuss] Job: Technical Writer/Product Communication Specialist

[Michael Tuminello]

Hi -

I'm posting this here because
1.  I consider documentation to be an inseparable part of any product  
that people have to learn, and I would argue as such it's part of user  
experience
2.  I have hopes that once the main documentation has been brought up  
to speed, this position will involve more work on the product side as  
we IxD'ers typically think of it, producing deliverables like  
requirements, wireframes, user stories, personas and so on (see dan  
brown's communicating design book). It's my (currently tiny)  
department, so hopefully I can make that happen.


That said, there is no doubt the primary job will be documentation to  
start.   Might be a good transition for someone with technical  
documentation experience who is interested in moving to product  
management/design.


Apply or inquire at the URL or email at the bottom you can ask me  
questions if you like.  Recruiters - I will forward your emails to the care...@unicast.com 
 address so you might as well use that to start. :-)


thanks -

Michael


Description:
Technical Writer/Product Communication Specialist

Unicast is seeking an individual to lead our product documentation  
effort. This position will be responsible for creating a consistent,  
approachable, and comprehensive means of learning to use our software.  
This will include authoring release notes, in-product help  
documentation, training material and tutorial content. Ideal  
candidates will have a "less is more" approach that keeps the end- 
user's reading time/effort in mind, and be able to communicate  
concisely.


Responsibilities:
•Write software documentation for internal and external customers
•Organize existing documentation, identify any holes and spearhead  
efforts to fill them in

•Manage all content of customer-facing technology training site
•Develop of tutorial-style training material using Captivate
•Contribute to efforts to develop and standardize internal documents  
to support the product development process



Required Experience:
Requirements:
•Bachelors degree or higher
•Exceptional written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
•Proven track record of researching and writing excellent and easy to  
understand software documentation
•Knowledge of HTML, XML and additional web technologies like CSS and  
JavaScript

•Proficiency using Adobe FrameMaker
•Working knowledge of Windows and Macintosh platforms
•Ability to estimate tasks, set priorities and work independently to  
meet deadlines



http://www.abso.com/jobboard/unicast/unicast.html or send an email to care...@unicast.com 
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[IxDA Discuss] Thanks for the stickers gmail team!

[Angel Marquez]

I just received my gmail
stickersin
the mail.
Talk about user experience, getting a self addressed envelope with no return
address in the mail with your own hand writing is odd.

I didn't get a unicorn or a flying robot. What a jip.

The glittery M is r*ckin.

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

[Peter Merholz]

Dan's and Christopher's lists are the best, though I wonder what the  
following people have designed that warrants inclusion:


| - Hugh Dubberly

- Jaron Lanier
- Ted Nelson
- Terry Winograd
- Herbert Simon
- Claude Shannon
- Marvin Minsky


If you're going to include Tim Berners-Lee, I think you need to also  
include Marc Andreessen, as his innovation of bringing imagery into  
WWW was fundamental in making it of broad interest.


Other people I would add:

John Maeda (his interactive toys/tools from the 90s...I wish he'd stop  
theorizing and get back to making stuff

http://www.maedastudio.com/index.php)

Lisa Strausfeld

Jake Barton (http://localprojects.net)

Dan Bricklin (VisiCalc)

Kai Krause (already mentioned by others)

Marc Blank, Dave Lebling (creators of Zork/Infocom)

Steve Jobs (also already mentioned)

--peter

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac

[mark schraad]

if it comes from Apple, software is relatively inexpensive the first time
around, but when a new version comes out, you just buy it again, rather than
upgrade. It is a slightly different pricing model that lowers the hurdle of
switching platforms (in either direction btw). But they are fairly
confident... attrition from Mac to PC is pretty minimal. Over the long haul,
if you upgrade, they get their money just like Microsoft does.
Mark



On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Vishal Iyer  wrote:

> I was an existing PC user & I switched to a Mac (had an option to choose
> either) primarily for Omnigraffle. Also, I find Adobe CS a lot faster on a
> Mac. Though I'm not entirely sure about this- I think that a PC with
> comparable performance for tools that most UX designers use is going to run
> almost as expensive as a MAC.
>
> I'm saying this because even the standard PC desktop I had does not compare
> with my Macbook Pro (the PC laptop was almost unworkable). I use the
> Macbook
> as my primary machine and I find the portability very convenient (also have
> Parallels in the unlikely scenario that I need a PC).
>
> Finally, isn't Mac s/w especially iWork a lot cheaper (did I miss better?)
> than the Windows counterpart.
>
> --
> -Vishal
> http://www.vishaliyer.com
>
> >
> > >> Currently our UX team are PC-based and use Visio. I would like to move
> > >> back to Mac and start using Omnigraffle again.
> >
> > Simple question, Why?
> >
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[IxDA Discuss] Installing Libraries in Axure 5.0

[Maurice Carty]

I have Axure 5.0 installed and not 5.5
I am looking to add some Libraries to my widget panel and can't seem
to get them in. 
Unlike version 5.5, 5.0 does not offer the "Load Library" option. I
would be great to have these installed and have them accessible as
needed similar to my Photoshop "styles, actions or patterns".
For some reason I think this is very simple to accomplish.
Any help would be greatful.

Thanks.

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Theories/principles in interface design

[Adrian Howard]

On 9 Feb 2009, at 22:14, Gretchen Anderson wrote:

Wow! Thanks for this. As someone who misunderstood the research,  
it's helpful. But this brings up a question for me:


Intuitively, 7+-2 *seems* to be a nice boundary for many instances  
(number of choices offered, groupings) and I'm curious if there is  
research that bears this out. I know the book about how too much  
choice actually paralyzes people from choosing. and personally, I do  
have problems when I am forced to peruse a big list to choose  
something.


Anything concrete from people? I think that the original research is  
misconstrued because it reinforces some design judgment/instict, and  
I wonder if there isn't something to that instinct.


Or maybe I just want to oversimplify. ;)


A more relevant bit of research here might be the Hick–Hyman Law http://tinyurl.com/agvhnb 
 which talks about reaction time when presented with a number of items.


Again - people tend to over-generalise the research. Things like  
having the choices in a known predicable order (e.g. an alphabetical  
list of countries), or where different options are presented  
differently (e.g. having the most common choice in a fixed position  
and highlighted) will affect naive interpretations.


As with most things "it depends" :-)

Adrian


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[IxDA Discuss] Doctoral study in design.

[Leonardo Parra Agudelo]

Hi all,

I found a general interest article about why doctoral studies in  
design are necessary, and would like to share it.

http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/481/223

It seems to me that design practices are reaching a point where  
definitions are disappearing, and boundaries are becoming blurry.   
Design itself interacts with many other different disciplines to be  
accurate and meaningful, but where exactly are we? Do we belong to  
the social areas? But then you think, wait a minute, I also need  
engineering here! Some interesting questions are put forward in the  
document. It'd be interesting to read what people on this list think  
about them.


Best,

Leonardo





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Re: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac

[Vishal Iyer]

I was an existing PC user & I switched to a Mac (had an option to choose
either) primarily for Omnigraffle. Also, I find Adobe CS a lot faster on a
Mac. Though I'm not entirely sure about this- I think that a PC with
comparable performance for tools that most UX designers use is going to run
almost as expensive as a MAC.

I'm saying this because even the standard PC desktop I had does not compare
with my Macbook Pro (the PC laptop was almost unworkable). I use the Macbook
as my primary machine and I find the portability very convenient (also have
Parallels in the unlikely scenario that I need a PC).

Finally, isn't Mac s/w especially iWork a lot cheaper (did I miss better?)
than the Windows counterpart.

-- 
-Vishal
http://www.vishaliyer.com

>
> >> Currently our UX team are PC-based and use Visio. I would like to move
> >> back to Mac and start using Omnigraffle again.
>
> Simple question, Why?
>

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[IxDA Discuss] Event: How the Social Web and Mobile are shaking up e-commerce; March 18 in Chicago

[Wunderlich, Judi]

How the Social Web and Mobile are Shaking up E-Commerce

What:  Presentation, Discussion, Networking
When:  Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 5:30 to 8:00pm
Where:  AQUENT, 500 W. Madison, Suite 2600, Chicago, IL 60661
Host:  The Chicago Interactive Design & Development Meetup Group
(http://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Interactive-Design-Development)
Cost:  FREE
RSVP:  No later than March 16 to Judi Wunderlich jwunderl...@aquent.com

THE TOPIC:
The emerging Social Web is exerting a powerful influence on the online
space. Traffic patterns and search engine rank are feeling the influence of
prime movers like Facebook, Digg, Flickr and Twitter, and old school
e-commerce strategies for promoting findability may well lose their
advantage as these new forms propagate. Dayna Bateman, Sr. Strategic Analyst
for Fry, Inc., will speak to how the architecture of the Social Web and the
rise of Mobile promises to influence e-commerce in the years ahead, and
address some of the ways online merchants -- and those who design for
e-commerce -- can incorporate these models in their site designs.

THE PRESENTER:
Dayna Bateman is a senior strategic analyst for the e-commerce consultancy
Fry, Inc. ( http://www.fry.com/ ) where she works with the Product
Development group on the next generation of Fry's Open Commerce Platform and
consults with online retailers to help them make the most of their
multichannel strategy. Dayna came to Fry from Hammacher Schlemmer where she
was Director of Internet Marketing with responsibility for the cataloger's
e-commerce division. In 1999 she was part of the team that developed and
introduced the Blue Nile brand and customer experience to the marketplace.
Dayna has been designing online experiences since 1994 for a client list
that includes Paul Brainerd, creator of PageMaker; usability guru Don
Norman; and the Seattle Public Library.


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac

[Amy Silvers]

Yeah, I can see how the sketchy stencil from Graffletopia wouldn't be
for everybody. I've used it when I needed something quick and didn't
have time to create my own, but it is a little limited.

Having used both Visio and OmniGraffle extensively, I can't say that
OG is exponentially better than Visio--Visio is a decent tool that
does quite a lot. It's just that OmniGraffle does everything more
elegantly (and has a  lower learning curve than Visio). With the
availability of virtualization tools (I prefer VMWare Fusion by many
miles over Parallels), I don't see any reason not to have a Mac, and
just run Windows apps, including Visio, when needed.

2009/2/19 Alex Horstmann :
> Hi Amy,
>
> Thanks! I did look at that, but I just didn't click with it. Sorry that
> that's not an objective reason - perhaps it's a little *too* sketchy!
>
> The exporting to a clickable PDF is a really big factor for Omnigraffles
> though.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Alex
>
>
> 2009/2/19 Amy Silvers 
>>
>> There's already a "sketchy" stencil for Omnigraffle.
>>
>> http://www.graffletopia.com/stencils/414
>>
>> I've also followed Michael Angeles's tips for making your own, and I'm
>> pleased with the results so far.
>>
>> 2009/2/19 Alex Horstmann :
>> > I was very pleased to see that Konigi are working on a sketchy stencil
>> > - it was one of the reasons why I prefer Visio, I'll certainly be
>> > looking at Omnigraffle again once this is out.
>> >
>> >
>> > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
>> > Posted from the new ixda.org
>> > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38871
>> >
>> >
>> > 
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac

[Alex Horstmann]

Hi Amy,

Thanks! I did look at that, but I just didn't click with it. Sorry that
that's not an objective reason - perhaps it's a little *too* sketchy!

The exporting to a clickable PDF is a really big factor for Omnigraffles
though.

Cheers!

Alex


2009/2/19 Amy Silvers 

> There's already a "sketchy" stencil for Omnigraffle.
>
> http://www.graffletopia.com/stencils/414
>
> I've also followed Michael Angeles's tips for making your own, and I'm
> pleased with the results so far.
>
> 2009/2/19 Alex Horstmann :
> > I was very pleased to see that Konigi are working on a sketchy stencil
> > - it was one of the reasons why I prefer Visio, I'll certainly be
> > looking at Omnigraffle again once this is out.
> >
> >
> > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> > Posted from the new ixda.org
> > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38871
> >
> >
> > 
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac

[Amy Silvers]

There's already a "sketchy" stencil for Omnigraffle.

http://www.graffletopia.com/stencils/414

I've also followed Michael Angeles's tips for making your own, and I'm
pleased with the results so far.

2009/2/19 Alex Horstmann :
> I was very pleased to see that Konigi are working on a sketchy stencil
> - it was one of the reasons why I prefer Visio, I'll certainly be
> looking at Omnigraffle again once this is out.
>
>
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> Posted from the new ixda.org
> http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38871
>
>
> 
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] [Event] IxDA Dublin, Ireland: February Meeting %u2013 Mon 16th, 6:30 - 8:30pm

[Cristina Suarez Corzo]

That's great Seamus. Thanks a lot.


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Posted from the new ixda.org
http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38617



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Re: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac

[Alex Horstmann]

I was very pleased to see that Konigi are working on a sketchy stencil
- it was one of the reasons why I prefer Visio, I'll certainly be
looking at Omnigraffle again once this is out.


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38871



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Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

[Scott McDaniel]

To be fair, this didn't read as a statement for shoehorning
author/ities based on categories,
but there is a decent question to be raised about the number of women
(etc) being seen as "IxD Greats",
whether it's presentation, representative imbalance, industry culture
and history, oversight and publication and so on.

The same goes for other groups - for a field that would seem to
consider ethnography as significant,
I think ignoring these aspects would be a mistake (even if not a
subject for this thread).

/tangentially yours,
Scott

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Angel Marquez  wrote:
> That is like me saying their should be more mexican people on the list. I
> wouldn't say that.




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Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

[Dan Saffer]

For completeness, adding Ted Nelson to the list of greats.

(Named hypertext, and his motto is "A user interface should be so  
simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten  
seconds.")


Dan



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Re: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac

[Nik Lazell]

Hi John,

My main reason would be that I find Macs far easier to use and Omnigraffle has 
some fantastic stencils available thanks to communities such as Graffletopia 
and Konigi (http://konigi.com/tools/omnigraffle-wireframe-stencils)

I guess I also find it pretty complicated to do simple tasks in Visio, such as 
duplicate a page, paste-in-place (both of which seemed to required delving into 
the Visual basic Editor, and then running Macros). 

There may well be simpler ways of doing the tasks mentioned above, so obviously 
welcome any suggestions.

Added to this, the simplicity of creating clickable PDF's in Omnigraffle has 
meant I prefer to work in a mac environment these days.

Thanks,
Nik



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Sent: 19 February 2009 14:00
To: Nik Lazell; IXDA list
Subject: RE: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac

>> Currently our UX team are PC-based and use Visio. I would like to move
>> back to Mac and start using Omnigraffle again.

Simple question, Why?



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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of Nik Lazell
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To: IXDA list
Subject: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac

Hi all,

Currently our UX team are PC-based and use Visio. I would like to move
back to Mac and start using Omnigraffle again. 

I have been asked to write a business case for switching. Does anyone
have an suggestions or experience of writing such a case?

Thanks,
Nik


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac

[John M. Morse]

>> Currently our UX team are PC-based and use Visio. I would like to move
>> back to Mac and start using Omnigraffle again.

Simple question, Why?



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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of Nik Lazell
Sent: 18 February 2009 10:25
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Subject: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac

Hi all,

Currently our UX team are PC-based and use Visio. I would like to move
back to Mac and start using Omnigraffle again. 

I have been asked to write a business case for switching. Does anyone
have an suggestions or experience of writing such a case?

Thanks,
Nik


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Blackberry Storm

[John M. Morse]

Had a storm for over month now, my colleagues, on the other had have Iphones 

The screen on the storm does not, as previously stated *require* you to push 
but registers touch also, however there is no feedback, yes the button lights 
up but its under your thumb, so you can't see it unlike the Iphone where is 
'pops out' to give a response.

The screen attempts to orientate itself to how you use the phone, (landscape or 
portait) but is very poor at responding to changes, and can take several 
seconds to re-orientate, 
Web browsing is fine though the built in browser is v poor, I downloaded opera 
mini and its better but not great

As for configurability, frankly it sucks, I've tried several times to change 
the settings so it doesn't lock after 5 seconds (seemingly) of inactivity, the 
touch screen software is poor and counterintuitive with too few opportunities 
to configure to the users personal needs.

Email is ok, it's a blackberry and I expect that, though the desktop software 
IMO rivals Itunes in its stupidity and intrusiveness.

The build is very good and the actually hardware is nicely put together but let 
down by really poor software, which feels like RIM have failed to consider the 
simple human factors needed when using a touch sensitive application.

In short, great phone, terrible software means I'm considering ditching it for 
an Iphone in the very near future, and I HATE apple with a passion, but they do 
have it right when it comes to the touch phone experience.


John Morse
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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of Maria
Sent: 19 February 2009 04:14
To: disc...@ixda.org
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Blackberry Storm

Hi Michael, I also tried it in a shop and had the same experience you
had... After a few mins of frustration, I discovered the double touch
screen function and the rest came natural to me. I do think you should
give it a second chance!!
Cheers...


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] VMWare vs. Parallels (was Re: A business case for switching Mac

[Adrian Howard]

On 18 Feb 2009, at 21:09, j. eric townsend wrote:

VMWare also doesn't slow down your OSX install the way Parallels  
does due to how the virtual machine is implemented.  I regularly  
develop for linux and OSX, running linux under a VMWare partition  
with no hassles. When needed, I also run a xp pro instance under  
VMWare, and it's also quite peppy.


I'd also give VirtualBox a go http://www.virtualbox.org/ - I've been  
very happy using this as my XP/IE6 machine during testing.


Much snappier than Parallels - but not as feature rich as VMWare.  
Can't beat the price though.


Cheers,

Adrian

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Blackberry Storm

[Maria]

Hi Michael, I also tried it in a shop and had the same experience you
had... After a few mins of frustration, I discovered the double touch
screen function and the rest came natural to me. I do think you should
give it a second chance!!
Cheers...


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Using this list: How do I change my subscription email address?

[Christina Li]

Same question.

[To change, unsubscribe and re-join with new address] - this is unclickable
on the page...

2009/2/18 James Wanless 

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should IxDA support a US National Design Policy?

[Caroline Jarrett]

Thanks very much, Jack. I don't know why Google didn't do it for me - but it
didn't.

 

The piece by the ex-Assistant Commissioner will be particularly useful for
me. 

 

Best

Caroline

 

From: Jack Moffett [mailto:jackmoff...@mac.com] 
Sent: 18 February 2009 22:57
To: Caroline Jarrett
Cc: 'IXDA list'
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should IxDA support a US National Design Policy?

 

 

On Feb 18, 2009, at 4:37 PM, Caroline Jarrett wrote:





Jack, could you give me some references to this work? Due to my fascination
with forms in general and tax forms in particular, I'd love to find out more
about this claim, which I'd not heard about previously despite a few
contacts here and there with the Australian Taxation Office.

 

Certainly.

 

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/desi.2008.24.1.55

 
http://design.case.edu/2002workshop/Positions/Preston.doc

http://powerofdesign.aiga.org/content.cfm/smith_cat



 

Google's fast. I got my previous post as one of my search results! :)

 

Best,

Jack

 

Jack L. Moffett

Interaction Designer

inmedius

412.459.0310 x219

http://www.inmedius.com

 

 

First, recognize that the 'right' requirements

are in principle unknowable by users, customers

and designers at the start.

 

Devise the design process, and the formal

agreement between designers and customers and users,

to be sensitive to what is learnt by any of the

parties as the design evolves.

 

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] [Event] IxDA Dublin, Ireland: February Meeting %u2013 Mon 16th, 6:30 - 8:30pm

[seamus]

Hi Cristina,

I uploaded Bill's "Crafting Personas" slides to our local IxDA
Google Group in the "Files" section.

I also attached it to a discussion thread at our new Ning site.

http://ixdadublin.ning.com/forum/topics/bill-caemmerers-crafting




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Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

[Ferran Alvarez]

Ok, if we really need, I agree with the fact that we should consider a
wider spectrum. So, I would like to mention to...

... Enric Bernat, creatorof the Chupa Chups lollipop.
... King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor.
... Emilio Bellvis, re-inventor of the mop.

Ferran


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