Re: [IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] IxDA Austin // Tues, April 21 // Panel: Effective Prototyping

[Jesus Adrian Hernandez Lozano]

i really want to assist!


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Thanks IxDA! Accepted to ITP program @ NYU!

[Karen Summers]

I am envious!  Going to class in a loft in the Village!  Does it get
better than that?


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[IxDA Discuss] JOB; Senior UI Designer; San Jose, CA; Recruiter; 3 to 6 month contract

[Macchi, Brandon]

Senior UI Designer 

 

Primary Job Responsibilities:



Our client is looking for a Senior User Interface Designer.  You will be
an important part of the user experience & design team.  The team works
with the user community and business units to understand needs and
opportunities, and design global products that serve users and exceed
business goals.

Job Requirements:



*   At least 6 years of professional design experience preferably
with a focus on creating rich web applications. Experience in ecommerce
is a plus.
*   Bachelors or higher degree in Human-Computer Interaction,
Cognitive Science, or related field. 
*   Writing product specifications (Wireframes, story boards, mock
ups, etc.), used by engineering to build the product.
*   Working with Product Managers to evaluate product success and
next steps.
*   Defining long-term user experience strategies.
*   Presenting new product ideas and strategies to the executive
staff.
*   Leading the design team to explore design options.
*   Creating and applying design frameworks.
*   Setting the design direction for your projects and collaborating
with others designers working in the space.
*   Working with engineering to ensure the product is built
according to your specs.
*   Identifying and leading process improvements that make the UI
Design group more efficient and effective.
*   Contributing to a culture of innovation and teamwork with
measurable positive results.

 

 

If you are interested, please send your resume and portfolio to Brandon
Macchi with Modis at brandon.mac...@modis.com

 

 

 

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[IxDA Discuss] Password Strength Requirements

[Alan Cox]

Does anyone have any evidence, anecdotal or formal, about how
different password strength requirements impact the usability of a
web-based application?

There's a spectrum of different strength requirements.  I've seen
sites that don't have any requirements, other than the password
exists.  I've seen others that require the password to be at least
10 characters, with at least 1 lower case, 1 upper case, 1 digit, 1
"special" character (like #...@!), and then require the password to
be updated regularly while preventing reuse of old passwords.

Our security purists here want "really strong" passwords, though
not as strong as my second example above.  I'm looking to see if
there's any knowledge out there about how different points on the
strength-spectrum impact usability.  Is there a watershed spot where
if we make it more complicated than X, usability really suffers, but
all points less complicated than X are equally easy?

Thanks
Alan

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[IxDA Discuss] Two \"Delete\" behaviors - one type of label?

[Daniel]

There are two "Delete" patterns I have noticed out there: 

1. - Immediate Deletion: As the name implies, the delete action takes
place immediately. There are no confirmation steps of any kind. 

2. - Mediated Deletion: This type usually includes an intermediate
"page" or dialogue box that asks the user to "confirm" that they
indeed do want to delete the item along with very important pertinent
information associated with the delete action.

The problem for me arises when we use the same label for both of
these different types of behaviors. 

In other words, nothing differentiates the different delete actions.
Both of them may simply say "Delete this XYZ"

Has anyone here seen a label that provides the users some sort of
clue as to which action will take place?

DISCLAIMER: 
(In the interest of clarity and saving time...I don't want this
question to be confused with the closely related topic of whether
"Confirmation dialogs" or "confirmation pages" are necessary.
That's another question. 

For now I'd like to ask you to suspend your preference on whether
you think confirmation is needed or not and assume that the system
you are working on will have a "confirmation" step for some of the
delete actions. To complicate things, the system will ALSO use
Immediate Deletion. This way the problem is clear. Once again, this
is not a question of whether you think the choice to allow both types
of deletion is right or wrong. It's a question about labeling and
differentiating two different delete processes.)




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[IxDA Discuss] [Job] NYC - Sr. UX/IA with Flex in RIA - 12+ Months

[Liz Geddes]

 

Hello!

 

 This is a second role our financial client has in downtown Manhattan. It is an 
intense, mission critical project and moving very quickly. Please send your 
updated resume to liz.ged...@sapphire.com and give me a call at 212-257-6123 if 
you are interested. Thanks so much!

 

 -- Liz

 

Sr. UX/IA with Flex

 



 

Job Description: 


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Responsible for thorough usability-focused business requirements, UI designs, 
and usability testing 


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Develop hi-fidelity interactive web 2.0 user interface designs and must have 
strong experience in Flex and RIA concepts



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Serve as the primary contact with business users to gather requirements and 
validate requirements and designs—developing and maintaining strong 
relationships, and keeping them informed and engaged throughout the entire 
project lifecycle.  



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Work closely with project management and the application development teams, to 
provide support for their work products and to act as an informed customer 
advocate within the development team. 


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Responsible for detailed, high-quality documentation which meets the needs of 
the various project stakeholders.


 

Qualifications: 


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Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field


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At least 3 to 4 years experience in business analysis, usability, and UI design 
of both web and client-server applications.


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At least 1 to 2 years experience in various other aspects of systems 
development, including development, architecture, project management, data 
modeling, testing, etc. Experience in multiple areas is required.


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Strong experience in developing Use Cases and wireframe UI specifications and 
conducting usability testing.


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Knowledge of data modeling, normalization, and SQL queries.


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Experience in multi-system application integration.


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Familiarity with multiple architectures: n-tier, .NET, client-server, 
etc.—especially in terms of how to optimize the user experience in these 
environments.


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Fundamental understanding of software development lifecycle.


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Graphic design skills are a plus.


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Experience with a large, functionally diverse, and informed user base that 
demands high quality applications.


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Self-directed, adaptable, flexible, and curious


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Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.


·


Candidate will be required to submit writing samples illustrating their ability 
to author a range of high-quality project deliverables






 

 




Liz Geddes
Sapphire Technologies (A Randstad Company)
liz.ged...@sapphire.com 
voice: 212-257-6123

cell: 360-581-4522
140 Broadway Suite 4450

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Great Personalization Examples

[Angel Marquez]

Maybe if you gave us the name of your persona we would be able to help you
better. Would you let us in on mister or misses X's intel?
Have you ever come across using more that one persona? Like a couples
persona, a family, a team, a community etc...

One monolithic persona seems too selfless when making decisions. I think
since team collaboration and strategy are the current cats meow a little
innovative persona revamp my be in demand. Example, blu ray player for a
family, persona identifies everyones needs not just ma and pa's, right?

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Alan Salmoni  wrote:

> Is Amazon's book / product recommendations the kind of thing you're
> after?
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Great Personalization Examples

[Alan Salmoni]

Is Amazon's book / product recommendations the kind of thing you're
after?




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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Great Personalization Examples

[cbobbett]

Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, but have a look
at Quantcast.

http://www.quantcast.com/


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Concept Project: Touchscreen Conference Phone

[Angel Anderson]

Nicely done! Thank you for sharing your process here. Now when can I have
one of these?

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Dan Saffer  wrote:

> Conference phones suck. That's why we designed our own: the Kicker
> Touchscreen Conference Phone. It's a VoIP phone for small businesses.
>
> We're proud of this design, and I thought I'd share the case study here
> with IxDA. You can read it at <
> http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2009/04/product-concept-touchscreen-conference-phone/>.
> High-res photos of the phone can be found on Flickr at <
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/28596...@n04/sets/72157616636746579/>.
>
> Hope you like it! (And if you like it, send some business our way!)
>
> Dan
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] interesting quote, "Experience design is not about controlling the experience you try to give them"

[Angel Marquez]

Uh yea, elicit to me has a risky connotation. I think a good interaction
designer can dream up new ideas based on research and channel them onto a
piece of paper.

Woo Hoo!
http://www.inspireux.com/2009/04/15/user-experience-is-the-center-of-gravity-of-a-project/

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Francis Norton wrote:

> (As I just commented on Nathaniel's post)
> I googled "define:elicit" and got some interesting definition - my
> favourite
> (in this context) was:
>
> "To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate,
> obtain,
> or provoke as a response or answer; To draw out, bring out, bring forth
> (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something; To use
> logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason; deduce; construe"
>
> I like the "(something latent)" - I don't take "elicit behaviour" as
> getting
> users to do what they don't actually want to do, more to do that which will
> actually achieve their aims. For example, if the user wants to delete a
> tweet, you want him to click on the "dustbin" icon, you want to "elicit"
> that behaviour.
>
> I think your definition does apply, but at a more general level. I like the
> "elicit" definition as being more specific.
>
> 2009/4/15 Nathaniel Flick 
>
> > I wrote something similar on my blog, http://thesalon.blogspot.com.
> > Basically, Interaction Design: Simplify It is a reaction to comments
> > made that IxD elicits responses from users. I believe IxD facilitates
> > instead.
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Online Advertising vs User Experience

[Phil Chung]

You probably want to clarify first how your clients are getting paid -- 
clearly, that will help determine optimal ad placement. Putting
ads in the "third column" makes sense if you only care about page
views not click through rates (e.g. affiliate programs). 

> you gain ad space without negative user impact!




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Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Online Advertising vs User Experience

Katie,

its to do with F pattern reading behaviour.

you can see more info here

http://www.frontend.com/design/webpage-layout-right-hand-side-blindness.html

frank




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Re: [IxDA Discuss] ISO Country List Field

[Jabari Simmons]

Christine:

I'm trying to read between the lines here... Your "design"
problem: A) a reluctance to "maintain a current list of countries
for the application";  B) a fear that countries will be missed
(hence, the inclusion of the "other" free entry option; and C) an
assumption that the data integrity of country names is not-so-crucial
since it won't be otherwise used by the system (you say that
Birth_Country is "stored" in the client record but not queried for
reporting purposes... are these data otherwise *viewable* and by
whom?).

Is that about right?



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Re: [IxDA Discuss] ISO Country List Field

[christine catsifas]

Thanks, Yohan! I will pass along the information to my group.

Christine



  

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Great Personalization Examples

[Angel]

Google analytics, reader, etc...

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 15, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Angel Anderson  
 wrote:



Hi All,

Anyone out there want to share examples of helpful personalization  
that
they've encountered? I'm looking for things that go beyond arranging  
widgets

on a homepage (www.google.com, www.netvibes.com). I'm looking for good
examples of:

  - Data analysis tools used to predict likely future interactions
  - User profiling, using data collected from a number of different  
sites

  to capture and respond to user action across the web.

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Online Advertising vs User Experience

[frank long]

Katie,

its to do with F pattern reading behaviour.

you can see more info here

http://www.frontend.com/design/webpage-layout-right-hand-side-blindness.html

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Online Advertising vs User Experience

[Katie Albers]

I suspect this is analogous to "banner blindness" and that the 3rd  
column invisibility is the effect of the frequent ads there, but it  
exists now, for whatever reason, you may as well use it.


kt

Katie Albers
Founder & Principal Consultant
FirstThought
User Experience Strategy & Project Management
310 356 7550
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On Apr 15, 2009, at 2:50 AM, frank long wrote:


A bit of lateral thinking here...

Through our user research we found that 3 column web pages don't
really work - Users tend to ignore the third column...which makes it
a perfect place to slot in unwanted ads...ala facebook.

It wont effect the User experience as users will not notice content
in this area of the page -

Voila!
you gain ad space without negative user impact!




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[IxDA Discuss] Thanks IxDA! Accepted to ITP program @ NYU!

[Michael Martinez-Campos]

Last year I posted a thread on this list asking about master's programs. My
perspective was changed by the responses I received, reorienting my ideas of
what I want to get out of school. I'm proud to say that i've been accepted
into the Interactive Telecommunications graduate program at NYU! I visited
the program last Fall and it was AMAZING. Dozens of classes on the bleeding
edges of technology with an emphasis on collaboration.

I'm planning on focusing on getting my interaction design skills finely
honed along with classes in mobile applications, multitouch development,
sustainable energy, the list goes on! :)

I'm still working on the details of how i'm going to pay for the program. If
anybody knows of a company that would be willing to give me a grant (or
other aid) in exchange for work later on (or intern work), please let me
know.

Thanks again IxDA! I am EXCITED!

Sincerely,
Michael Martinez-Campos

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] ISO Country List Field

[Katie Albers]

You're very likely to encounter a fundamental problem here: There are  
many people who were born in countries that no longer exist, or who,  
for other reasons are likely to enter a country name that does not  
correspond to an ISO list. Not to mention that we live in a period  
when the list itself is in a state of flux. One way or another, you  
have to let people enter the name of the country they consider they  
were born in, which means that you need to maintain a list.


This is what I did in a similar situation:

There are WAY too many countries to use a drop-down menu. I've never  
seen a useful drop-down menu for the US States - and there are far  
fewer of those than of countries.


I'm not clear whether you are using the ISO list as a way to error  
check entries or as a way to codify entries. In either case, this is  
one of those cases, where it's easiest and best to let the computer do  
the standardization work.


You need 2 lists: The ISO list that you want to codify people by
   The list of likely entries (see above for  
why these are not the same)


Provide a text field for country.
When users enter their country, check the typed entry against your list
  - If the typed entry does not correspond to an item in your list,
   ~ the computer generates a message with the likely correct  
entry and ask if that is correct with radio buttons for yes and no

   ~ If yes then
= the computer displays the corrected entry
= In its database, the computer ties the entered  
country to the ISO country

= the user proceeds to the rest of the data entry
   ~ If no then the entry is added to the computer's list of  
likely entries


Or you could skip the ISO country and just spell check the entries,  
which still requires a list, but a different kind of list. It also has  
the potential of removing comparison possibilities if you want to do  
any cross-time work on places where the country name has changed.


Good luck
kt

Katie Albers
Founder & Principal Consultant
FirstThought
User Experience Strategy & Project Management
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On Apr 15, 2009, at 7:50 AM, christine catsifas wrote:

We are developing an internal application where origin of birth is  
captured. The information is stored on the client's record, but is  
not used for reporting. We do not want to have to maintain a current  
list of countries for the application, but to use a text field will  
allow for spelling and other inaccuracies. One solution is to use a  
drop down menu with the current ISO country list with an option for  
'Other' which would enable a text field.


Has anyone else encountered this situation? Is there a standard  
solution for this problem?


Thanks,
Christine Catsifas






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[IxDA Discuss] Great Personalization Examples

[Angel Anderson]

Hi All,

Anyone out there want to share examples of helpful personalization that
they've encountered? I'm looking for things that go beyond arranging widgets
on a homepage (www.google.com, www.netvibes.com). I'm looking for good
examples of:

   - Data analysis tools used to predict likely future interactions
   - User profiling, using data collected from a number of different sites
   to capture and respond to user action across the web.

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] ISO Country List Field

[Aditya Saxena]

Hi Christine,

Even I think that using an auto complete field would be a much better
solution. I cant point to older requests though as I am new to this
group. However, I have encountered situations during development of
financial applications where auto-complete field makes interaction
way too user-friendly.


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Recommendations on Remote Unmoderated Usability Test Tools?

[Craig Melbourne]

Shima

I've looked at quite a remote tools recently particulalry for
running unmoderated tests for getting some benchmark data. As much as
I hate to admit it the price has always been an issue. UserZoom,
KeyNote look great but way out of my (usual clients) budget. Loop11
and Optimal workshop also have interesting offerings in Beta (with no
costing information). 

@James Page I'm looking forward to seeing Webnographer. 


In the end I followed the lead of Tom Tullis and built my own. It's
does similar things to the UserZoom and Loop11 tools (not quite as
much) but cost me very little. 

I won't bore the group here with what or how but if you want to
discuss this further feel free to mail me direct. 


Craig 


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] ISO Country List Field

[Yohan Creemers]

Hi Christine,
 
To prevent spelling mistakes you could use a textbox with auto complete (aka
type ahead) functionality.
 
I think the current standard solution is: using a dropdown with ISO 3166-1
country names.
There is a previous discussion about selecting a country:
http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=36720
 
- Yohan.


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[IxDA Discuss] ISO Country List Field

[christine catsifas]

We are developing an internal application where origin of birth is captured. 
The information is stored on the client's record, but is not used for 
reporting. We do not want to have to maintain a current list of countries for 
the application, but to use a text field will allow for spelling and other 
inaccuracies. One solution is to use a drop down menu with the current ISO 
country list with an option for 'Other' which would enable a text field.

Has anyone else encountered this situation? Is there a standard solution for 
this problem?

Thanks,
Christine Catsifas




  

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Advice on Masters in Interaction Design

[Matthew Doty]

Great Questions! I just finished a Masters in HCI and have been
working as a UX practitioner for 6 years (and absolutely love it).
I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have.  


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Advice on Masters in Interaction Design

[Scott Berkun]

Hi Chris:

Start here with the archives:
http://www.ixda.org/search.php?tag=masters
http://www.ixda.org/search.php?tag=experience

-Scott 

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Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Advice on Masters in Interaction Design

Hi all,
My name is Chris, and I'm about to make the leap into starting my
interaction design education.  The problem is I'm having a lot of trouble
finding interaction designers willing to talk with me about their careers.
I can't find any alumni in the field from where I did undergraduate studies,
and I can't be sure I'm getting the whole picture from professors I talk to
at graduate schools.

If any of you would be willing to speak with me about your careers, how you
got where you are, if you enjoy the work, what's important, what's not, if
one can make a living doing interaction design, I would appreciate it beyond
words.  I graduated from college about 2 years ago and am interning at NASA
before going to grad school.  I'd love some advice as to how I can get
something useful out of my experience here.


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[IxDA Discuss] Advice on Masters in Interaction Design

[Chris Bierbower]

Hi all,
My name is Chris, and I’m about to make the leap into starting my
interaction design education.  The problem is I’m having a lot of trouble
finding interaction designers willing to talk with me about their careers.
I can’t find any alumni in the field from where I did undergraduate studies,
and I can’t be sure I’m getting the whole picture from professors I talk to
at graduate schools.

If any of you would be willing to speak with me about your careers, how you
got where you are, if you enjoy the work, what’s important, what’s not, if
one can make a living doing interaction design, I would appreciate it beyond
words.  I graduated from college about 2 years ago and am interning at NASA
before going to grad school.  I’d love some advice as to how I can get
something useful out of my experience here.

Thanks in advance,
Chris

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[IxDA Discuss] IxDA Southern Germany -- open for business

[Curt Collinsworth]

Hi all,

Any other members out there interested in starting some meet-ups in
Stuttgart or Munich?

I've just started a group for Southern Germany and would love to get
some events going.

Please let me know if you are interested.


Thanks,

Curt Collinsworth

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Online Advertising vs User Experience

[mark schraad]

Ankit.

One of the problems you will likely encounter is both cultural (to  
the org) and semantic. Try to define what constitutes the user  
experience. And for a frustrating exercise, try to establish metric  
for that. Then, survey your stakeholders to determine what they think  
the user experience is... or what a good one is. This is at the root  
of the problem.


There is little consensus... you will find very few people that won't  
tell you of the importance of the user experience... yet those same  
people will quickly compromise it in exchange for revenue. Look at  
what about.com has become in recent years. Far from its position as a  
quality information site of years ago... it is basically a search  
engine magnet with little if any usable content. User experience (and  
content) have taken a back seat to revenue.


There are also places where the two overlap. When you observe or  
research readers looking through the travel section of a newspaper...  
you will notice that the advertisements, to a great extent, are the  
content. This revenue vs experience issue is not as cut and dry as it  
may seem.


Mark




On Apr 15, 2009, at 1:46 AM, Ankit Shekhawat wrote:


Hi All,

We often end up in a debate with our clients who are desperate for
earning some extra revenue by adding new advertising spots on the
website.

How much ever we hate it, we end up trying to create a balance. It is
often the only source of revenue for many content based sites.

I am currently doing a research on how to deal with advertising with
minimum compromise on user experience.

Do we have any research / guidelines / best practices supporting the
same? How can we explain them the user experience point of view.

Regards

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] interesting quote, "Experience design is not about controlling the experience you try to give them"

[Francis Norton]

(As I just commented on Nathaniel's post)
I googled "define:elicit" and got some interesting definition - my favourite
(in this context) was:

"To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain,
or provoke as a response or answer; To draw out, bring out, bring forth
(something latent); to obtain information from someone or something; To use
logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason; deduce; construe"

I like the "(something latent)" - I don't take "elicit behaviour" as getting
users to do what they don't actually want to do, more to do that which will
actually achieve their aims. For example, if the user wants to delete a
tweet, you want him to click on the "dustbin" icon, you want to "elicit"
that behaviour.

I think your definition does apply, but at a more general level. I like the
"elicit" definition as being more specific.

2009/4/15 Nathaniel Flick 

> I wrote something similar on my blog, http://thesalon.blogspot.com.
> Basically, Interaction Design: Simplify It is a reaction to comments
> made that IxD elicits responses from users. I believe IxD facilitates
> instead.
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Recommendations on Remote Unmoderated Usability Test Tools?

[James Page]

Hi Jay,

There is many different types of remote usability testing. They full into
two different basic types Asynchronous  and Synchronous. Net Meeting falls
into the Synchronous category.

My partner Sabrina Mach explains here in this blog post
http://blog.feralabs.com/2009/02/is-all-remote-usablity-testing-the-same/the
basic types of remote usability.

Hope you find the post useful.

All the best

James
http://blog.feralabs.com

2009/4/14 Melvin Jay Kumar 

> Hi Shima,
>
> We use Net Meeting for our basic remote usability testing.
>
> No special tools, just good internet connection and proper working test
> system.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jay Kumar
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Shima  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Has anyone used tools to conduct remote unmoderated usability
> > sessions?  We are searching to find new tool(s) that can enable us to
> > conduct this type of research in future.  Your suggestions about
> > tools, pricing, what worked,  and what did not work for you, are
> > greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Shima
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Online Advertising vs User Experience

[frank long]

A bit of lateral thinking here...

Through our user research we found that 3 column web pages don't
really work - Users tend to ignore the third column...which makes it
a perfect place to slot in unwanted ads...ala facebook.

It wont effect the User experience as users will not notice content
in this area of the page - 

Voila!
you gain ad space without negative user impact!




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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Online Advertising vs User Experience

[vicki pandit]

@AJKock I dont think we are taking about giving up the ads but about
not making the compromise to giving more space and importance to ads
than the content. Optimum relevant Ads do enhance the user experience
but too many can spoil the same.


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Online Advertising vs User Experience

[merlinvicki]

>From my experience, most of the times user experience has to give way
to the Promo spots. Clients generally want as much as possible ad
spots to generate revenue. Sometimes if seems very funny when sites
are stacked up with too many ads. My common sense says people just
wont click ads if they look like the classifieds page, but its tough
convincing otherwise.


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Online Advertising vs User Experience

[AJKock]

I am going to play the Devil's Advocate here for a second and ask:
"Why is advertising seen as bad user experience?" If users didn't want
ads, why is Google making money? What leads to a bad user experience
is untimely and out of context advertising, but not advertising per se.

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] interesting quote, "Experience design is not about controlling the experience you try to give them"

[Nathaniel Flick]

I wrote something similar on my blog, http://thesalon.blogspot.com.
Basically, Interaction Design: Simplify It is a reaction to comments
made that IxD elicits responses from users. I believe IxD facilitates
instead.


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[IxDA Discuss] Online Advertising vs User Experience

[Ankit Shekhawat]

Hi All,

We often end up in a debate with our clients who are desperate for
earning some extra revenue by adding new advertising spots on the
website.

How much ever we hate it, we end up trying to create a balance. It is
often the only source of revenue for many content based sites. 

I am currently doing a research on how to deal with advertising with
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Regards 

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[IxDA Discuss] JOB / Product Manager (Web 2.0) / Cisco-WebEx / recruiter Brent Rogers/ Fulltime

[Brent Rogers]

Cisco (WebEx) in Santa Clara is looking for a Product Manager with Web
2.0 expertise to create the Web 2.0 revolution at Cisco.

Please visit http://tinyurl.com/Web2-0-ProductManager to get the full
job description and please contact me directly if you are interested.

Thanks in advanced,
Brent

brero...@cisco.com

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[IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design Engineer Job at CISCO (WebEx) Fulltime

[Brent Rogers]

WebEx in Santa Clara is looking for a Senior User Experience Designer
to work with the WebEx User Experience Team to design
next-generation, web, mobile and rich client applications. The right
candidate will have expertise in interaction design.

Please visit http://tinyurl.com/interactionjob to get the full job
description and please email me directly if you are interested.

Regards,
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[IxDA Discuss] JOB/ Senior Interaction Designer/ Santa Clara, CA/ Cisco-WebEx / recruiter Brent Rogers/ fulltime

[Brent Rogers]

WebEx is looking for a Senior Interaction Designer to work with the
WebEx User Experience Team to design next-generation, web, mobile and
rich client applications.
A candidate’s portfolio must demonstrate a broad depth of experience
with emphasis on application and user-interface design, while
leveraging mobile, rich and web clients in innovative ways. The ideal
candidate needs to be part interaction designer, part information
architect, part usability expert, part business analyst, and all
about user experience.

full job description at http://tinyurl.com/InteractionJob

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] IxDA Los Angeles & Yahoo present "Personas SUCK / Personas RULE!", Wednesday, April 29th 7-9pm

[Angel Anderson]

Thanks for the support, Liz! First let me say that this event is very much
inspired by the presentation that you and Steve Calde did for Portland. I'm
hoping to continue the conversation here in Los Angeles because at our last
two UX book club meetings, the topic (and usual debate!) came up and so it
seems like the time is right for our local group to have a deeper discussion
on this topic.  :-)
I believe that great discussions and workshops should absolutely be repeated
in multiple local groups all over the world. That's the power of the local
groups. They let us learn from each other and delve into certain issues
where our community is conflicted.

IxDA Los Angeles is stoked to have a community site on Ning and, as always,
I'll be sharing a review of the event with the global discussion list.

Kind regards,

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On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Elizabeth Bacon
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> Hey folks,
>
> For the record, I do not sense plagiarism here. It's a natural
> dialetic. Personas are a valuable and powerful tool yet they are
> sometimes seen as controversial, for various reasons. I first worked
> with Adam Korman at Cooper, where personas as practiced today were
> invented, so I'm guessing he'll represent the "Personas RULE"
> side of things. All persona proponents need ways to deal with the
> "Personas SUCK" side of the argument, which is certainly out there.
> So I think this is a valuable conversation to have within the
> community, period.
>
> Cheers,
> Liz
>
>
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