Re: [IxDA Discuss] Nested Table Alternatives?

[Marcus Coghlan]

Hi Chris,
Couple of questions...

What technology(s) are you working with?

Can the user only edit one thingy at a time?

Did you mean that all of a thingy's property cells are editable? Or
all of the thingy rows are editable?

Cheers. Marcus.


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[IxDA Discuss] [JOB] Interaction Designer, Calgary AB, Evoco, Full-time

[Kerry Sedran]

Evoco develops and markets construction project management software for
North American retailers and both commercial and residential developers. The
company’s flagship product is a modern, web-based solution deployed in
companies of all sizes, from two of the world's largest retailers to local
and regional land developers across Canada, the United States and Mexico.



As an *Interaction Designer*, you will help drive the design process for new
products and features, as well as improving existing ones. You are a
critical thinker with a strong design and technical background and a knack
for improving things.



If you think you’re the right fit or someone in your network is email me for
additional information.



Regards,

Kerry Sedran





*Full job description** *– { url - http://www.techbent.com/default.asp?id=74}

* *

*Major duties and responsibilities: *

* *

*• Helping to define and refine the user interface for new and existing
products   *

*• Being a primary advocate for users and the user experience   *

*• Developing and maintaining user interface standards specifications   *

*• Creating both high level and detailed storyboards, user flows, mockups
and prototypes   *

*• Evaluating and constantly improving the usability of new and existing
products   *

*• Understanding user needs and designing to meet or exceed them *

* *

*Experience and skills in the following areas are required:*

* *

*• An academic background in HCI, interaction design, product design,
industrial design, graphic design or a suitable combination of relevant
education and/or proven professional experience *

*• Minimum 2 years in an Interaction Designer role (or similar) *

*• Strong understanding of usability and accessibility concepts, web
standards and user-centered design principles in web-based interfaces *

*• Creative ability to leverage user interface design conventions in new and
exciting ways *

*• A strong clean visual design sense *

*• Keen attention to detail, thorough and organized *

*• A technical skill set that supports rapid prototyping and iterative
development *

*• Excellent written and verbal communication skills *

*• Team player with excellent critical thinking skills *

* *

* Beneficial:

*

*• Experience in ACAD or construction software *

* *

*The pace is fast, the stakes are high, and the rewards are exciting! Get in
on the ground floor of one fastest growing companies in Alberta, where you
can really make a difference*



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Re: [IxDA Discuss] I cannot possibly snark enough

[Barney]

Don't worry, they've got loads of web UX jobs going too :)

On a similar note, there's a couple of jobs for front-end technical
design going at the BBC. It's only when you try applying for them
that you realise just how badly they need them :)


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[IxDA Discuss] 1.Job: Interaction Design 2.Job title: Senior User Experience Designer 3.Location: Santa Clara, California 4.Company: CISCO recruiter 5. Fulltime

[Brent Rogers (breroger)]

Senior User Experience Designer (Interaction Design)

 
Location
Santa Clara, California
 
Description
WebEx 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. We ideally need someone with at least 2 years
of interaction design experience.

Contact Brent if you are interested: Brent brero...@cisco.com
 
 
 

Brent Rogers
Recruiter

Staffing
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Phone :469-255-0254
Mobile :469-223-2085

Cisco Systems. Inc.
2200 E. President George Bush 
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United States

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[IxDA Discuss] Nested Table Alternatives?

[Chris Heckler]

Does anyone have any good examples of alternatives to nested tables or
decent implementations of nested tables?

My problem table is made of rows of thingies and there are 3-4
property columns for the thingies.  Now each thingy has multiple
widgets with 3 or 4 properties that can be added to the thingy.  All
of the cells are editable because the user builds the table by adding
a thingy and then its associated widgets.

Currently we have a solution that involves the thingy row being
exandable/collapsible to show the widget table.  

Any more elegant ideas?

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[IxDA Discuss] [JOB] UX/UI Designer, Calgary AB, Fotolio, Full-time

[Kerry Sedran]

Fotolia, an international provider of affordable stock currently has an
opening for a UX/UI Designer to join their Canadian division in Calgary
Alberta.



Fotolia.com is has a database of over five million images and over one
million international members.   With web sites in 10 languages, Fotolia,
LLC is based in New York and has offices in 11 countries.



This candidate’s primary responsibilities would be to analyse the current
site to improve design, UX and flow.  As well as to propose, execute, and
implement new pages on an ongoing basis.  What we need to see is some really
great ideas after the analysis.



If you think you’re the right fit or someone in your network is email me for
additional information.



Regards,

Kerry Sedran





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*Position Profile: **UX/UI Designer** *

*Location: **Calgary** *

*Industry: **Microstock** *

*Type: **Full-time** *

* *

*About Fotolia *



Fotolia.com is one of the world's leading providers of affordable stock
imagery, with a database of over five million images and over one million
international members. With web sites in 10 languages, Fotolia, LLC is based
in New York and has offices in 11 countries. In 2007, Fotolia became the
first independent microstock agency to enter the traditional stock
marketplace with the launch of Fotolia Infinite Collections. For more
information, please visit   www.fotolia.com.

Fotolia is a small, highly-talented, strike-force-like team on the edge of
conquering the stock photography world! We need to add to this aggressive
group of individuals, does this sound like you so far? Have you managed to
avoid O&G? Do you know who Guy Kawasaki, Michael Arrington, Larry & Sergei,
and Evan & Biz are? Do you actually know the difference between SEO & SEM?
If you can answer YES, then read on. If you don’t have a favourite blogger?
stop reading.



*UX/UI Designer *



Responsibilities:

· Analysis of the current site to improve design, UX and flow, so obviously
this is crucial to your role at Fotolia, what we need to see is some really
great ideas after the analysis

· Propose, execute, and implement new pages on an ongoing basis, this point
will help you keep your job longer, if you keep creating really cool stuff
we can stay in business longer, everyone wins

· Implement recommendations made by SEO/SEM Analysts

· Develop new pages for business development and marketing purposes, really
the same concept as the second point

· Occasionally design print collateral, we know this may not be your chosen
forte but it?s always a good idea to have some really cool print materials
for trade shows and such, just think a whole booth designed by you

· Working with our technical team in France, the business team in Calgary
and the CEO in Switzerland, sorry you likely won?t get to travel to those
places monthly



Skills & Experience:

· Minimum 2 years experience in a similar role

· Strong ability to develop pages from concept to server push

· Experience at a web 2.0/e-commerce/web design company

· Experience in a start-up tech environment

· Excellent communication skills, both written and oral

· Detail oriented, able to grasp the subtleties of Web interface problems

· Strong ability to think in terms of the user's experience

· Applicable degree, HCI degree an asset



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Re: [IxDA Discuss] I cannot possibly snark enough

[Stanislav Shymansky]

Sad thing is that position is closed as far as i know. You can look at
active job opportunities here: http://www.blizzard.com/us/jobopp/

I know tons of things that can be improved through many Blizzard
stuff. But that's not making Bliz less amazing that they are.

It would be better to have some focused UX discussion though.


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best practices for Country location and languages on Global Websites (was Language Picker)

[Marcus Coghlan]

If you are working on an International site, I'd suggest a 3 level
approach - last level optional.

First level: Regional Domains.
.com for (U.S) English, .co.uk for (U.K) English, .co.au for whatever
we speak in Australia, .co.jp for Japanese, etc. I'd start here for
the following reasons:
a) I'd hazard a guess that most people around the globe would be
familiar with the region domains associated with their country/native
language and may even be familiar with the technique of directly
switching .co.au to .co.jp to get to the Japanese site.
b) if your user's use Google for their search, chances are they'll
be doing it from their native region domain - e.g. google.com.au or
google.co.jp. When I run a search for "Sony" from these 2 places,
the (Australian) English Sony site and Japanese Sony site come back
in no. 1 place respectively.
c) you have the advantage of another layer of segmentation to play
with - language plus region.

Second Level: IP Address for best second guess.
Say your user is in Japan, but somehow ends up on sony.com.au where
everything is in Australian English. Use their IP address to provide
a customized link to the Japanese version of the site, but don't
force them to go there as they may well be looking for the
English/Australian version of the site. The link should, of course,
be in the language associated with the IP address. In this example,
Japanese.

Third level: Manual override.
If you feel you need to go even further than this (perhaps to cater
for diverse ethnic groups within a single region), then I'd
recommend either:
a) links (in appropriate language) to the region/language specific
sites - in the footer should suffice.
b) a combo-box to the same effect.

Hope this helps. Cheers.

Marcus.



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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability analytics tools

[Toby Biddle]

Chris,
Try Loop11 (www.Loop11.com).  This is a tool that lets you conduct
online, unmoderated user testing.  It's in private beta at the
moment, but we've been using it to collect quant usability data,
which is much better to assess ROI with than qual data.


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[IxDA Discuss] (JOB) WEB Development Project Manager* Recruiter* Contract* Onsite* Federal Way, WA

[Ryan Lum]

6 Month Project in Federal Way, WA

Local Candidates preferred

-staffing for web projects, how to gather input / feedback on a public facing 
web page, and the design process for web pages, the Mgr would expect a web dev 
PM to bring in Information Architects, User Researchers and Visual Designers, 
for example, during those phases or to handle those tasks.

Notes from Hiring Manager

"Apologies for my limited bandwidth - while I try to catch up, here's an answer 
to the question: what do I expect the successful candidate to do?
The short answer: manage multiple projects, some simultaneously.

The three current examples I would expect an appropriately senior PM to manage 
concurrently include:
1) Migrating 53 pages of internal fail-over eCommerce product from old look & 
feel into new redesign
2) Managing the RF(x), selection and implementation of a replacement ESP (email 
service provider)
3) Gathering the items scoped out of recent redesign and organizing them into 
scheduled release packages

Other candidate projects will be efforts such as
 - Moving localized apps into a production environment
 - Selection and implementation of an outsource / third-party production 
partner for both emailprod and webprod work
 - Migrate away from current full site failover ASP to geographically 
load-balanced company-owned site
 - Formalizing QA within our team's processes
...etc.., etc., etc. "


Web Development Team Project Manager

Here's what the team does:
 - They manage the production, maintenance and operations of the public facing 
website (sustainment engineering) managed via a project ticketing system by 
taking the assets (graphic, copy, creative, etc.) provided by the marketers (or 
their agents), optimizing them for the web, and publishing

 - They execute larger projects outside the ticketing system, such as 
re-skinning our eCommerce systems for new look & feel; re-platforming an Email 
Service Provider; conducting version and dot-release planning for website 
enhancements; etc.

 - They send outbound mass marketing emails and report on the performance
 - They support and interact with other departments as needed on issues related 
to eCommerce and website operations

Here's what They  do not do:
 - Server farms, networks or infrastructure
 - Marketing campaign strategy or merchandising
 - Creative design

They use the following platforms / technologies:
 - Lotus Notes (CMS, application serving platform)
 - Oracle's eBusiness Suite
 - Java / JS
 - Epsilon (ESP)
 - Apache
(plus of course a host of other technologies, these are the primary platforms)

The Sr. PM I need will:
 - Have direct B2C eCommerce experience, including eCommerce, CMSs, Web 
Analytics, etc.
 - Be able to manage (ie: hands-on lead) multiple, concurrent projects
 - Have worked directly in a staffing model with matrix managed teams across 
departments (they will not have a dedicated team of developers)

 - Have deep understanding of web and internet related methodologies, delivery, 
architecture, analytics, performance and resource models

 - Have led eCommerce and related custom development or Commercial Off The 
Shelf system implementations from conception and visual design through 
analysis, build, QA, deployment and into a sustainment state

 - Understand nTier architectures; the difference between UI/UX/design, 
interaction modeling, logic & database layers
 - Have a strong understanding of what templates / artifacts best support the 
necessary amount of process and be able to scale as needed

 - Understand the technology stack of web applications (but will not be coding)
 - Be able to articulate the resources necessary to build a team to manage 
various projects (see above) as needed, and be able to manage the artifacts, 
life cycles, methodologies, 3rd party vendors, etc.

 - Have hands-on, direct experience building, leading and managing a web 
development team
 - Will have web design, build, operational and/or maintenance experience

Bonus points for experience with:
 - Lotus Notes (as a CMS)
 - Oracle's eBusiness Suite (specifically iStore)
 - Stellent (CMS)
 - Moving development offshore and managing for a season



Description


This  position  will manage the execution of project-oriented work efforts, 
ensuring  that project objectives and client expectations for time and cost are 
 met. Projects will start from the ideation/brainstorming/concept stage and  
require  the  ability  to  apply  boundaries around scope, prioritize,
organize,   and   create   executable   project  plans  from  unstructured, 
disorganized, ororganicstate. Responsibleforleading
cross-organizational  projects  in  which  the  primary  goal  is either to 
enhance   existing   processes/systems/technologies   or   to  develop  new
processes/systems/technologies.  Will  require direct hands-on analysis and 
documentation  efforts.  Typically, project budget is less than $1 million, 
team has 10 or fewer members, and duration i

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best practices for Country location and languages on Global Websites (was Language Picker)

[William Brall]

Gregor. You are in the vast minority.

ONLY using IP is dangerous. A splash page is a bad idea because you
route 99% of your users to a useless page. Make it easy to switch to
a new language, auto-detect, and you will be fine.




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[IxDA Discuss] Enhancements management tool for applications

[Rachel]

I'm looking for recommendations for a secure, web-based tool to help manage
updates/enhancements to an application.

We already have something we use for development, and it works well when
you're actually building something, but less optimal when you are planning
for releases down the road.

Some features I would like:
- Can quickly enter in & organize the enhancements (maybe even an online
spreadsheet)
- Parent/child relationships (2-3 layers of grouping)
- Tagging
- Color coding or other visual to indicate how far along the UI
specs/requirements are (not started, in progress, complete, needs revision)
and to indicate if it has been handed over to the developers and if it's
built. We could do this color coding manually.
- Ability to add custom columns
- Each enhancement has a unique ID, shown in the interface
- Search
- A simple view for executives, so it's easy for them to see what's already
completed, what's currently built, what's coming up next, and what's further
down the road. For other users, a way to see more detail.
- Export to csv/xls
- Ability to crosslink to other enhancements (to indicate relantionships or
dependencies)
- Some users would need "read only" access
- I'm not sure yet if this will be the repository of the UI specifications
docs

Thanks!
Rachel

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best practices for Country location and languages on Global Websites (was Language Picker)

[USABILITY MEDIC]

As someone who recently returned from Denmark to the US I'm not loving  
the auto detect of IP address.


I got sevved a few sites in Danish...and I don't know any Danish.

I understand how valuable it can be for the tons of folks who are on  
their own environment but for the frequent taveller it must be a pain.


If there's a way around this, i'm unaware so any insight would be  
great.  Thx.


-mm

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On Jun 10, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Catriona Lohan-conway > wrote:



Jason,

Did you read my mind I was just about to send out a similar post.

My line of thought was about best practices on how users select  
countries and languages on global websites.


A few questions...
Should sites auto detect IP addresses and serve default settings  
according to country, language?
Should users have ability to chose their preferred country and  
language preferences off a splash page as in Ikea.com on a first  
visit (and/or subsequent visits) and have the ability to change at  
will?


Thanks

Catríona
__
Catríona Lohan-Conway
User Experience Architect
917 405 5127
clohancon...@mac.com





On Wednesday, June 10, 2009, at 03:51AM, "Jason Robb" > wrote:

Hi all,

I'm new to building internationalized web sites, and so I'm looking
at design patterns for language pickers.

Have you seen any good ones? Much appreciated. Thanks!

Jason R.

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[IxDA Discuss] [Event Reminder] IxDA NYC June 18 - Design Strategy: Building Concentric Circles of Connection: Deadline Tues, June 16th

[NYC IxDA]

RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/nyc-ixda-june

RSVP will be closed on Wed, June 17th

IxDA NYC invites you to our June 2009 event:
Design Strategy: Building Concentric Circles of Connection A
discussion and working session with ROGER MADER and JAKE SAMUELSON

Please join us for the following discussion and working session to
apply a tiered strategy to your interaction design challenges in a
variety of applications. Noble Desktop will be raffling off a free,
3-day computer graphics training class! 

--——— 

Interaction is connection. But what if you can’t connect? How do you
design an interaction for someone who can neither see these words,
nor hear you speak them?

In 1887, that was the challenge confronted by Anne Sullivan as she
attempted to connect a seven year old Helen Keller to a world she
could only feel, only smell. The brilliant connection made – feeling
water on one palm while receiving the symbols for it on the other,
has been dramatized as an act of seeming desperation. It was anything
but – and produced a monumental breakthrough – a complex interaction
combining two sensory experiences to construct a new language.

To the countless beneficiaries of this historic interaction, design
strategy may seem secondary. But an examination of Sullivan’s
disciplined methods indicates that a thoughtful design strategy
informed – possibly even inspired – this iconic event.

Effective interaction design calls on a complex web of expertise and
insights – from cognitive psychology to interface mapping, from the
arcana of academia to the practical experience we all bring from the
joys and frustrations of our everyday interactions. Examining extreme
users, such as Helen Keller, adds to our design insights. But how
often do we get to step back and ask “why”? What am I really trying
to achieve with this interaction? Is this the best form of
interaction for my user – or is it just the best compromise in a
series of trade-offs? If I was given a blank slate – is this the
design I would recommend?

The biggest challenge then, is to challenge ourselves. This session
will discuss ways to relentlessly question our goals, as we march
down a logical hierarchy from the overall design strategy. Or, just
as relevant, we can climb back up the ladder from the interaction to
the overarching objective. And all too often, we discover that the
strategic objective went unstated, the user was never fully
understood, and the broader constituency was never considered.

One way to visualize this process is to consider the “rings of
inference” used to translate design strategy into tiered design
decisions, tying overall strategy to interaction design. This session
will help you to consider the design process from the bottom up (when
you’re already at the stage of interaction design), or top-down –
posing a cascading series of design questions: what is the social or
commercial objective? Who are the beneficiaries beyond the end user?
What is each audience’s unmet need? What action string is required to
fulfill that need? How can that string be made better, faster,
cheaper, more intuitive? And ultimately, what form of interaction
best serves that function? Participants will be encouraged to share a
current design challenge, and work together to craft a design strategy
that coherently serves the interaction objectives.

The event is free of charge and open to all interested parties.
However, for security reasons, only those on the guest list will be
admitted. Please bring photo ID.

WHEN Thursday, June 18, 2009

6:30 – 7:00pm Networking and light refreshments, provided by Noble
Desktop 

7:00 – 8:00pm Presentation

8:00 – 8:30pm Networking and Conversation

WHERE Google
76 Ninth Ave (entrance at 16th street)
New York, NY 10011
http://www.google.com

Map: http://tinyurl.com/qn32yd
Subway: A, C, E or L to 8th Ave and 14th St.

RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/nyc-ixda-june

See you there!
The IxDA NYC local leaders

--———

ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS: Roger Mader & Jake Samuelson 

Roger Mader
A global account executive for Doblin, in the innovation practice of
The Monitor Group, Roger and his design teams work with companies,
particularly in Financial Services and Life Sciences, to discover
emerging and unmet needs, craft design strategies and conceive new
businesses to capture growth ahead of the market.

Roger has designed innovation strategies for a global bank, and a
global pharma company, and the growth strategy for a Big Four
accounting firm. He served as an advisor to the advisory and
investment firm founded by former New York City mayor Rudolph W.
Giuliani. In 1992 Roger co-founded VIA International,
a global consultancy based in London, setting channel and change
strategies to transform some of the world’s best-known companies. He
launched his career as an original member of Accenture’s Change
Management practice, specializing in design for advanced media, where
he worked extensively for IBM. With co-author, Jeffrey P. Semenchuk,
Roger published “F

[IxDA Discuss] Barcelona / Vienna IxDA local groups?

[Leonardo Parra]

Hi all,

I will be in Barcelona from June 17th to June 21nd, and will be in Vienna
from June 22nd to June 26th, and I was wondering if there are any IxDA
meetings I can join during those dates. It´d be real nice to meet up and
talk about your IxDA activities.

There seems to be no group in Vienna, but who knows, someone might want to
meet up and chat.

Best,

Leonardo.

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Advice on Grid for Visual Studio Developers?

[J. Ambrose Little]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:09 PM, j.scot  wrote:

> Is anyone aware of a developer's reference on defining a layout grid
> (or the atomic unit thereof) in Visual Studio?


Full disclosure: I work for Infragistics.

But I'm not recommending this because of that fact. It's just we have
something that can help with this:
http://www.infragistics.com/dotnet/netadvantage/winforms/wingridbaglayoutpanel.aspx


WPF has a built in Grid layout element that I suspect you could use to
create a consistent grid layout in that technology.

Also, FWIW, we cover the Grid Layout pattern
(Rich
/HTML ) in our
UX patterns explorer, Quince.

HTH.

-ambrose

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[IxDA Discuss] I cannot possibly snark enough

[Alan Wexelblat]

About a company with 11 million paid subscription customers for its
most popular product...

That claims to be hiring a Director of User Experience
(http://www.blizzard.com/us/)

That puts up a URL for said job
(http://www.blizzard.com/us/jobopp/battlenet-user-experience-director.html)

That leads you to a 404 page.

(Yes, I play World of Warcraft.  Yes, I would consider moving across
the country for this job. Yes, I think this is intensely funny.  Maybe
I need more caffeine this AM.)

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[IxDA Discuss] From Business to Buttons videos happening live today & tomorrow (or archived for later)

[Dave Malouf]

Just go here: http://bambuser.com/channel/fbtb09
Lots of great
talks, interviews with speakers and other environmental content all available)

-- 
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http://davemalouf.com/
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[IxDA Discuss] SharePoint & Semantic Web events

[Jean Graef]

The Montague Institute will offer the following teleconferences this summer & 
fall:

Managing SharePoint metadata: The HP/EDS 
experience (July 22, 2009 via 
teleconference)

Customizing — and governing — SharePoint 
search (August 25, 2009 via 
teleconference)

The Semantic Web in practice 
(September 22 - 24, 2009 via teleconference)

Taxonomies, Search and SharePoint 
How-to (October 20 - 22, 2009 
via teleconference)
If you’re interested in these topics but can’t attend, see our complimentary 
articles and A – Z 
index.


Jean Graef
The Montague Institute
www.montague.com



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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability analytics tools

[Todd Warfel]

We do a baseline measurement capturing time, effort, and satisfaction
of 5-6 key scenarios. Then once we have a prototype, we run a test
with the same scenarios measuring time, effort, and satisfaction and
ask them to rate it compared to the previous version.

If the product is something they're using every day, say web-based
email, we'll ask them to rate the prototype compared to the current
web-based application. In other cases, we'll run A/B testing. Have
them run us through one model and rate it, then the other and rate
it. Either way, we get a comparison. 

Usually, that's an improvement, but we can also measure damage if it
happens. 


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[IxDA Discuss] PhD examiners?

[Andy Polaine]

Hi folks - I'm looking for a PhD examiner. Ideally in Australia or New  
Zealand but it could be worldwide.


If anyone is qualified (i.e. already holds PhD or at least and MA and  
is in academia) and interested, can you ping me a mail or a tweet:  
@apolaine


Best,

Andy


Andy Polaine

Interaction & Experience Design +
Service Design Research +
Writing

Twitter: apolaine
Skype: apolaine

http://www.polaine.com
http://www.designersreviewofbooks.com
http://www.omnium.net.au
http://www.antirom.com


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best practices for Country location and languages on Global Websites (was Language Picker)

[Gregor Kiddie]

" A few questions...
Should sites auto detect IP addresses and serve default settings
according to country, language?"

I would say no, if only based on personal experience. 
Our corporate connection goes through our headquarters in France.
Google in particular seems to be determined to direct me to the French
version of all its pages, which is extremely annoying.


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Advice on Grid for Visual Studio Developers?

[Weyert de Boer]

Hello Scott,

Maybe you can use the flow layout options for the form designing? In V  
isual Studio in .NET applications the form designer own task is a two- 
way conversion. If you add components in the form designer code will  
be generated and added to the source file, and the other way around it  
will be shown in the form designer. If you are interested in some grid- 
based layour you could consider writing a few layout management  
controls. Check the descriptions below to find out what might fit the  
best:


*BorderLayout*
Allows 5 different Layoutable objects, one in each of the north,  
south, east and west and one in the center. All the size components  
are compressed in size, north and south are as small as they can be  
vertically and as large as they can be horizontally. West and east are  
as small as they can be horizontally and as large as they can be  
vertically. The center Layoutable object fills all of the space that  
remains.


*GridLayout*
Takes a number of rows and columns and creates a grid to which the  
user can add Controls. Each member in the grid is made the same size  
and laid out from left to right down the rows in the order that they  
are added.


*FlowLayout*
Tries to add Controls in a horizontal line, once the line is too big  
for the width of the container, it starts a new line. It can be  
aligned to the left, center, or right of the container.
Using these classes in GUI creation is straightforward. When you  
create a Control which will contain other controls, you wrap it in a  
ContainerBox, set the box's layout, and then add all of the child  
Controls to the box. The only containing Control which is not added to  
a ContainerBox is the top level Control (usually a Form) which is  
wrapped in either an AreaPane or a ResizeablePane. A ResizeablePane  
will take the shape of its parent Control, but an AreaPane will be the  
area which is specified.


(from: http://www.csharphelp.com/archives/archive7.html)

Maybe this will help your developers out to improve or great their own  
layout manager for their applications based on the code offered at the  
url above.


Yours,

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[IxDA Discuss] Usability analytics tools

[chris samms]

Hi everyone. Anyone know of any good usability analytics tools out
there? I've had a look a crazyegg.com but not sure about its
effectiveness. I basically want to start proving the ROI of usability
testing. Any help will be really appreciated.

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability Lab Survey :2009

[vineeth]

Hi Everyone! Some of you have already responded to the survey. I
appreciate your enthusiasm. I hhope that more responses will come in
. Whoever hasnt done it yet, I urge you to please spare a little time
to do so...its only a matter of 10 questions.

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/144726/user-experience-labs-survey 



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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Low Cost, Off Site, Remote Testing Options and Strategies

[Will Meurer]

Yeah, I've used Silverback. It's really nice and simple. It doesn't
have any stats or anything, but you can use the Mac Remote to add
markers on the fly and you can set Silverback to include visual cues
for clicks and special key presses.

It takes almost no time to set up, but the export takes a long time,
which is annoying. The newest update is supposed to fix that and
other minor issues.

There is no remote option on Silverback and it is Mac only.

Overall, great experience using the software for the few tests I've
run it on.


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Data of lift provided by good UI

[Camilo Sabogal]

Hi Brian,

I think what you are looking for is to quantify ROI due to an UX/UI
improvement. We tried to do this, but we didn't suceed, but for sure
there are many effective ways to do it, in our particular situation it
was almost impossible to quantify it because on new releases were 
involved  not only UX/UI improvements, and  also because our
datawarehouse wasn't designed for track such things.




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Re: [IxDA Discuss] JOB: mobile ux documentation wizard / nyc / frog design / contract

[jfgrossen]

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best practices for Country location and languages on Global Websites (was Language Picker)

[Brian O'Neill]

William stole my reply! ;-)

And of course, write the names of the languages *in* their own
language (Español, not Spanish). Not sure about everyone else, but I
don't know how to read the word "English" written in Mandarin
characters ;-)

I would be careful (avoid?) using country flags as icons for language
too since many countries have multiple languages. You do see that on
European travel sites a fair amount but it breaks down (Switzerland
is a great example). Not to mention oh how it burns me having to
click a British flag to see a website in English for a hotel in
Paris!  j.k. ;-)  

I also think the language selection dropdown or whatever it is, can
be moved to the bottom of the UI or somewhere out of the way; you
don't need constant reminders that you can switch languages on the
site. Classic example of Set and Forget. 

Good luck Jason!
Brian

www.rhythmspice.com
 


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[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] - Chicago event video stream

[Chicago IxDA]

For those unable to attend tonight UX & Agile panel in Chicago, visit
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ixda-chicago-local-event.

We're scheduled to begin at 6:30 PM CDT.

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