Re: [IxDA Discuss] Which Job Category is Interaction Design part of?

[Milan Guenther]

Sometimes there are funny misplacements of UX jobs.

I once saw a job offering for a contract information architect. The task
was to work on the global navigation of a large shop/e-commerce site. The
recruiters tagged that with Embedded Systems, Geoinformatics and Mapping.

This is due to the still unsatisfactory awareness of UX in other
professions and HR. The recruiter just didn't hear about IA before, though
was unable to assign the correct categories.

milan

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Video Consumption - the good and the bad

[William Hudson]

Elana -

I have seen a lot of video content on intranets, and of course workplace
provides all of the problems you mention with audio and sometimes even
video (if lighting is not well-controlled near windows, for example).

Even though the WCAG says that sub-titles are adequate for accessibility
purposes, I always recommend that videos have text-only transcripts. As
you point out, these are much easier to skim than a 20 minute media clip
(audio or video). Plus, a content search will actually find them!

I think what a lot of web sites (and some employers) do not realize is
that they are violating anti-discrimination laws in most countries if
they do not provide some kind of text equivalent to media clips. But,
like I said, I think it needs to be text transcript as well as closed
captioning (some systems actually provide the CC from the transcript
which is an ideal solution in my view).

Regards,

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Screen Resolution Sources

[Adrian Howard]

On 12 Aug 2009, at 18:43, Sean Scott wrote:


Hi All.  Currently looking for good sources on screen resolutions in
the Us if at all possible.  Trying to take a wider look than just on
the client site.

Links I've garnered from past discussions include:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=17
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp

Wondering if there are anymore out there people would recommend.



Depending what you're doing you might find it more useful to look for  
stats on browser window dimensions rather than screen resolution.


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[IxDA Discuss] Silverlight and Expression Blend Training

[Maurice Carty]

Hi all,

I'm wondering if anyone knows where I can get some face-to-face
indepth training on Expression Blend for Silverlight applications
interface design.
I'm a contractor in the Toronto area and most of the few courses I
have seen were geared towards corporations at insane prices for a few
days.
Yes. I do know about the Lynda.com option, but I prefer face-to-face
with a pro.

Any help would be great.

Thanks,
-mo-

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[IxDA Discuss] Latimes.com Redesign - No Link Colors

[Steven Johnson]

The new L.A. Times web redesign launched last night.

IA-wise, it's basically the same site, but the look-and-feel more
strongly embraces the print idiom (e.g., Georgia font).

I feel like the big news is that they've dropped link colors from
headlines, nav, etc.

Latimes.com is my alma mater (1999-2006), and I now also teach web
publishing at Annenberg School of Journalism at USC. 

I'd really like to get some feedback on the redesign from the
IxD/UED community to bring back to the J-school and print publishing
worlds.

Please have a look: http://www.latimes.com/

Thanks.

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[IxDA Discuss] Examples of crazy video player interfaces

[Julian Mccrea]

Hey guys,

 

Hope you're all well. Looking for examples of crazy, video interfaces.

 

What I have in my head are examples like this...

 

http://www.neave.com/television/ 

 

Full bleed video, innovative interactions etc. Any more would be much
appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance,

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[IxDA Discuss] [JOB] Interaction Design Lecturer, Singapore, Nanyang Polytechnic, Full-time

[Andrew KHOO]

Greetings, everyone. The School of Interactive & Digital Media at Nanyang 
Polytechnic, Singapore, is looking out for full-time Interaction Design 
Lecturers. We run a full-time, 3-year diploma program in Interaction 
Design. Please review the specs as follows.

Successful candidates can look forward to playing a design-focused role in 
a range of Digital Interactive Media topics that include the understanding 
of interaction in a digital context, human-centric design, user research 
and sociable digital media. Applicants should be adept in both the human 
and technological aspects of digital media design, and be comfortable and 
passionate in guiding students in both elements.

Lecturers will be involved in the development of teaching curriculum for 
2nd and 3rd year modules, including the conducting of lectures/tutorials 
and course delivery. Applicants should preferably come from a 
multi-disciplinary background, and be able to demonstrate skills in 
blending various influences into new designs. A strong and passionate 
desire to teach, guide and inspire students the emerging field of 
Interaction Design should also be an important quality.

Applicants should possess at least a Bachelor's Degree in Design, Arts, 
Fine Arts, Science or Engineering, with at least 3 years of relevant and 
current work experience in one or more of the following:

Interaction Design
User Experience Design
UI Design
Concept Development
Information Architecture
Visual Design
Multimedia/Web Design
Computer Science
Software Engineering/Programming
Media Theory
Social Psychology
Performing Arts
Interactive Media Installation

For more information on Nanyang Polytechnic and the School of Interactive 
& Digtial Media, please go to: http://www.nyp.edu.sg/sidm/sidm.html

How to apply
If you'd like to become part of our hard-working, passionate and dedicated 
team, we'd like you to join us and grow together. Please submit a copy of 
your resume and links to your online portfolio to andrew_khoo [AT] nyp 
[DOT] gov [DOT] sg. Suitable contacts will be contacted via email.


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Birmingham IxDA local group: First meeting

[anees]

Sounds interesting, has this group been in exisitence long? are there
many members?


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Video Consumption - the good and the bad

[Carolyn Dempsey]

While I do not have any research to give you, I know that personally I
have a problem with video-only news stories on sites like CNN or
Yahoo. There are 2 reasons for this:

1. Sometimes, like you said above, I am not in an environment
conducive to watching a video, whether is be the noise level or just
a lack of headphones so I don't disturb others around me. 

2. I can read a lot faster than I can watch a video. I've gotten
used to scanning pages on the web and getting information faster than
watching a 2 minute clip containing the same information. 

For both of the above items, a suggestion would be to provide a
transcript of the stories. Closed captioning really wouldn't help
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Dynamic graphics

[Carl Ververs]

Ian, you may be surprised by what you can do with Excel. It has the
graphics and one can easily outfit a worksheet with controls. You can
also drive graphics with data from live sources, but a little VB
programming may be required.

I'm not one to typically recommend MSFT products, but for rapid
graphic representation prototyping, Excel is something to consider.


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Visio and InDesign compatibility?

[David Drucker]

PDF might work, and I believe that you can export Visio to some other  
vector formats, such as SVG (and then convert from SVG to a more  
InDesign-friendly format - can't remember if InDesign can currently  
incorporate SVG files), but I was never able to get intact layers out  
of Visio without having to split files. Depending on your strategy,  
you might have to think of the InDesign elements as overlays on the  
Visio material, (such as callouts, arrows, etc.) however that might  
not be what you are after here. The other strategy might be to take  
your Visio file, export a layer at a time (as I did), and then open/ 
place these in InDesign (or other software).


In all cases, this is a one-way trip;  I'm pretty sure that you can't  
get anything into Visio once it's exported.


I feel your pain. I hated when I was forced to use Visio  even though  
I could done far better looking work faster with Omnigraffle.


-D

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Visio and InDesign compatibility?

[David Drucker]

I don't think Visio is a Project Management App at all. That would be  
something like Microsoft Project.


Visio is a 'Business Drawing' or diagramming program as some put it.   
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visio )


Also, the visioformac site looks more like an advertisement for  
Conceptdraw, as it's the only alternative they offer for Visio on the  
Mac, despite the fact that Omnigraffle Pro reads and writes Visio XML  
files). In fact, every entry in that site;s blog is about Conceptdraw.


Also Jon's question was about integrating Visio with InDesign (on the  
PC, I assume), not the Mac.



On 11-Aug-09, at 12:42 PM, stevenitz wrote:


Jon,

As you know InDesign is really a page layout program and Visio is a
project management app.

The two will never really mesh, but look at this page for some
suggestions:

http://www.visioformac.com/


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[IxDA Discuss] Information Architect - New York - 3 Days onsite Immediate

[Diane Raffety]

I am looking for an Information Architect for landing pages for some
online marketing efforts.  These pages are complex.

This would be for 3 Days onsite in NYC

Rate deponds on experience

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Visio and InDesign compatibility?

[Druid Michaels]

Great question Jon!  I would also like to know the answer and also if
there is a way to open a Omnigraffle in visio (am new to this stuff).

Thanks.

Dru



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[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] IxDA RheinMain - Wed, Oct 14 - 2. UXBookclub

[Hendrik Sommerfeldt]

Our 2. meeting also will be a UXbookclub. We have created a shortlist
from your suggestions and put it up for vote here:

http://tinyurl.com/RM-IxDA

WHAT
The UX Book Club seeks to enhance the abilities and knowledge of user
experience professionals from information architects and interaction
designers to visual designers and usability specialists to augment
their understanding for excellence in UX practice, ixd design theory
while building a passionate local community.

Subjects of interest to this club span design theory, design research
and user experience research practices and processes. The books
include the strategy and business of design, UX design theory and
history, methodology, usability research, and the ethics of UX
professionals, while networking and having some fun….

WHEN
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
7:30 - 8:00 p.m. Networking & Drinks
8:00 - 9:30 p.m. Discussion of the book chosen

WHERE
Not shure yet probably Sachsenhausen area we´ll keep you posted  - or
better: register at http://tinyurl.com/RM-IxDA to always be up to
date.

rhein-main-lo...@ixda.org.

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Registration: http://tinyurl.com/IxDARMOct09
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See you there!

The IxDA RheinMain Local Leaders

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Click Here

[David Kegel]

"That's the way it always has been done." 

I have found it to be the case that many best practice fallbacks like
this come from the early days of web/app design. Because it was a new
experience for everyone, a lot was dumbed down. I would not jump to
the conclusion that designers are the ones making this choice. I
still rail against this in work with those who think the general
public is too dumb to know how to use a computer. If a child can
figure out how to turn a page in a book without clearly written
instructions, why do we continue this?


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Dynamic graphics

[ian Carr]

Ok Thanks, 
Take a look at 
http://iancarr.net/test.pdf

So I have designed it in illustrator cs3 with the proposal of making
the circles change size when a spreadsheet is updated. This is just
one concept. I can import  the samples in to flash but is it possible
to then link the diagrams with spreadsheet or database?

Hope you can help. 
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Video Consumption - the good and the bad

[Ivan Burmistrov]

May I ask you to give a couple of examples of websites with popping up
video, please? (I do not observe this practice on websites I usually
visit...)


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of crazy video player interfaces

[Mike Madaio]

Here are two I've seen recently:

http://www.gatorade.com/default.aspx#/products/g

http://www.razorfish.com/#/home/


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Dynamic graphics

[Jason Pamental]

If it's charting/graphing, you could look at Open Flash Charts here:

http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart-2/

I've been looking a little at it and integration with Drupal here as
well:

http://drupal.org/project/open_flash_chart_api

Nothing built yet, but it looks interesting so far...

Jason


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Current Design Topics

[Laura Malone]

I'd incude


* Social Networking Design Patterns
* Waterfall vs. agile processes
 Laura Malone







From: Jack Moffett 
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Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Current Design Topics

I'm preparing my design seminar for the Fall semester, which is a  
masters-level course. The last time I taught this specific course was  
2005. I assigned readings on the following subjects:

Design Certification
Offshore Outsourcing
Design & Business
Formal Education vs. Self-taught
Design Ethics
Design Leadership
Making a Business Case for Design
Experience Design

Many of these are still relevant four years later, but I want to keep  
the discussions contemporary. If you were picking current topics for  
students to read, write about, and discuss, what would they be? What  
are the big issues? Please keep in mind that this is not an  
Interaction Design classit covers the entire design landscape. I'm  
looking forward to your suggestions.

Thanks,
Jack



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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Flowchart: action box or decision box?

[Paulo Marques]

I think perhaps the conditional branch (triangle) is more appropriate,
however the trick is to look at what the outcome of a step is. 

Basically: Does choosing any of the 5 options returns the same page?
Or does it return one of 5 possible pages depending on the choice? 

For example:
If the outcome is one two possible paths depending on an answer
(yes/no), then branch = diamond

If the the outcome is one of 3 or more paths depending on multiple
choice, then branch = triangle

If the outcome is only one path regardless of which options where
chosen, then no branching

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Which Job Category is Interaction Design part of?

[Cooper, Robert]

User Experience.
That's what it's all about now.

On Aug 12, 2009, at 9:49 AM, Rick Spencer wrote:


I would probably try IT, maybe New Media, but you're definitely going
to have to look around.  Companies that post jobs and roles often
themselves have a difficult time with deciding what category it
belongs in. Their needs and expectations are almost NEVER exactly
inline with either the industry standard, the labels available on job
sites, or your qualifications and experience.

I tend to try a few different titles and terms Interaction Designer,
Architect, Design, Designer, Information Architect, UxD, IxD, etc.

If I'm job searching I want to throw a wide net and catch everything
out there, then decide more judiciously what jobs I'll apply to.

Once I've bookmarked a BUNCH of jobs that seem remotely designerish,
then I start deciding which ones I want to apply to/ focus on, and I
try to get more info to decide whether I could be a good fit or not.

Go wide with your search, and then spend focused time and effort on
jobs that interest you.


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[IxDA Discuss] Native iPhone vs web view app

[rohitkulthia]

Hi members,

I came along a huge debate about why Chase iPhone app and Bank of
America iPhone came up with a hybrid model rather than a complete
Native iPhone app design..!!! 

Kindly put up light on this discussion. 

WHY HYBRID!! WHY NOT NATIVE!!

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Screen Resolution Sources

[Ron Vutpakdi]

Seems like standard screen resolutions have changed dramatically in
the last few years with the rise of both netbooks/smartphones and the
decreases in prices for widescreen LCDs.

Also depends on what your target market is.  For example, for my
industry, a source for"standard" screen resolutions for a home
users is somewhat useless for someone like me whose users are
technical specialists in oil and gas exploration.  In my case, direct
observation or surveys of customer sites is more useful.


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Latimes.com Redesign - No Link Colors

[Mike Myles]

I can't distinguish link text from static text unless I painstakingly
mouse over the whole page. What were they thinking!?

- Make out website look like a news paper, because we're a news
paper company.

- News papers don't have hyperlinks.

- Don't show hyperlinks on our website.

I think someone at the LA Times needs to do a quick CSS tweak.


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Latimes.com Redesign - No Link Colors

[bill fraser]

It's a little disconcerting at first, but by now I know where the
links will be in a news site, so I naturally mouse to the appropriate
spots, and the underlines immediately come into view to confirm my
choices. It's an interesting concept. Keeps the news looking like a
newspaper.


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Silverlight and Expression Blend Training

[jenisadler]

You should try the training videos on Lynda.com.  A monthly
subscription is worth it for all of the training videos they have.


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Native iPhone vs web view app

[Marvin Smith]

Hi,

The iPhone Human Interface guidelines includes a section on this
topic:


%u201CContent on iPhone: Is It a Webpage or an Application?%u201D
(page 15) defines the different types of iPhone
content you can develop and how that influences what you decide to do
with your existing content. It
also discusses how to define your user audience so you can customize
your user experience and user
interface design.


The link to the guide is:
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/mobilehig/Introduction/Introduction.htm

Thanks,
Marvin 


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Latimes.com Redesign - No Link Colors

[William Hudson]

Steven -

I don't recall the previous site although I have visited it from
time-to-time. I agree that the current design looks much more print
based (being primarily black!), but the inability for users to easily
spot links slightly worries me. I know that most will work it out, but
my own feeling is that playing hide-and-seek with the mouse is only fun
for so long. I would much rather that people could quickly and
accurately mark all the links on a screen shot, without having to
mouse-around looking for them. Having said that, they are being fairly
consistent in making headings links, but their occasional use of colour
is sometimes for a link ('photos' for example) and sometimes for other
reasons ('7:30 am'). It's pretty, but not good UX design, albeit at a
micro level.

Regards,

William Hudson
Syntagm Ltd
Design for Usability
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Latimes.com Redesign - No Link Colors

[Neil Cadsawan]

While we all can give our collective opinions on this redesign, what
I'd like to know is if they did any testing on their design before
it went live.  Maybe they discovered that their users didn't have
any issues with no colors or underlines on links.  Maybe they didn't
do any testing and will now be inundated with emails.  Maybe someone
has contacts there and can find out?

>From a design standpoint, I love the graphic of the inkblot at the
bottom of the footer.


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Screen Resolution Sources

[Sean Scott]

Thank you for the great feedback and links.  Totally agree that the
first step in answering that question is knowing your won ecosystem. 
However was interested in contrasting our current customers web
profiles with more mainstream targets like twitter or facebook users.

Thanks again


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Greyed background for popups

[McLaughlin Designs]

Perhaps everyone understands this already, but just in case ...
The way a 'lightbox' works is to set a percent of transparency on a color 
swatch that repeats to fill the viewport.
So you can have opaque or transparent (dark or light) of whatever color you 
want. So it can white (which would desaturate the background colors) or black 
(which "grays" out the color background) or you can have blue (which creates a 
blue tinted background) etc.
You can also use patterns. So you could have a transparent plaid overlaid on 
the background if you felt the need.

Brian McLaughlin


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To: "Oleh Kovalchuke" 
Cc: disc...@ixda.org
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Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Greyed background for popups

Do you think the change to semi-transparent black would be more acceptable
(less jarring) if it happened gradually? That's what happens when you
activate the dashboard in Mac OS X (though the background is not darkened
very much).

Cheers,

Martin Polley
Technical writer, interaction designer
+972 52 3864280
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Oleh Kovalchuke wrote:

> Launching videos from the side bar at Facebook utilizes this
> semitransparent
> "white screen" effect. It is indeed much less jarring than semitransparent
> black.
>
> Oleh Kovalchuke
> Interaction Design is design of time
> http://www.tangospring.com/IxDtopicWhatIsInteractionDesign.htm
>
>

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Visio and InDesign compatibility?

[Jonathan Cohen]

@druid %u2013 thanks, have you tried exporting your doc as a visio xml
drawing?

@maurice, @david %u2013 no dice %u2013 visio doesn%u2019t like pdfs.
Tried all the format options and nothing worked. Thanks though.

@stevenitz %u2013 can%u2019t use a mac at work. =(  wish I could
though, apps like coda, textmate, cssedit really helped me up my
game. 

@david %u2013 yeah, diagramming for sure, no pixels allowed.

@kim %u2013 yep, I%u2019d need to copy and paste each object/layer
separately. Obviously not going to scale.

@todd %u2013 agreed

@stephen %u2013 that would be great, but I%u2019m not allowed to use
my personal comp at work for anything. Looked into it already. =)

@renee %u2013 all this pdf talk makes me wonder if one of my settings
is incorrect. I couldn%u2019t get a pdf created by one program to open
in the other.

Visio gets the job done, but not without quirks. Alt Shift F6 to
zoom? I can work around its refusal to allow pixels as a metric with
stencils, but Visio forces me to think about regions in inches or
points, which obviously isn%u2019t a digital display language. I
built a persona template yesterday with a ton of guides and when it
came time to make an attributes tab, couldn%u2019t duplicate the
layout. Each guide needed to be manually selected, copied and pasted,
and then moved to its appropriate spot since Visio flung them into a
random place. =)  Also, no one wants to navigate through a large
wireframe deck with tabs. Haven%u2019t made a wireframe yet, but I
suspect I%u2019ll miss layers quite a bit. 

Anyway, it%u2019s always good to focus on what makes something
usable. Thanks for the responses all!



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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Screen Resolution Sources

[Barbara Ballard]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Sean Scott wrote:
> Hi All.  Currently looking for good sources on screen resolutions in
> the Us if at all possible.  Trying to take a wider look than just on
> the client site.
>

Probably not what you are looking for, but Device Atlas gives (among
many things) mobile screen sizes.

http://deviceatlas.com/ (free registration)


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Latimes.com Redesign - No Link Colors

[Andrei Herasimchuk]

On Aug 13, 2009, at 9:13 AM, William Hudson wrote:


I agree that the current design looks much more print
based (being primarily black!), but the inability for users to easily
spot links slightly worries me.


More than 90% of the content on the home page is a link. What's the  
point of adding underlines to everything when nearly everything is  
clickable?


I think the redesign is great. And now the major media companies have  
all finally gotten on the bandwagon to bring structured, clean graphic  
design back in fashion. It's about time.


--
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Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios
innovating the digital world

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Visio and InDesign compatibility?

[Renee Rosen-Wakeford]

What are you using to generate PDFs? Are you using the PDF exporter that
Microsoft does which has to be downloaded separately or a third party one?
When you generate a PDF, do you do it through Save As, Export As or Print?

I usually use Save As and do it with the Microsoft one, despite that it's
quirky. Files I do with it don't work 100% right in Preview. You can't go
forward and backwards using either the visual list of pages or the page
back/forward buttons at the top (can't remember off the top of my head which
one it is). I know I tried changing some settings, but it didn't make any
difference. I suspect it's something like Microsoft hasn't implemented the
standard 100% correctly, or else Preview doesn't interpret it 100%
correctly.

I've also used one of the free third-party ones, but it didn't preserve
transparancies correctly.

If you're saving things to PDF in order to have a vector illustration that
you can put into InDesign, you do need to make sure you're only saving a
one-page document. So if you've created things as multiple pages in Visio,
just copy and paste it into a new document and save that one out.

Hope that helps. If my suggestions don't work, let me know off-list and I
can tell you the exact settings I have on my computer at work.

Renée

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Jonathan Cohen
wrote:

> @druid %u2013 thanks, have you tried exporting your doc as a visio xml
> drawing?
>
> @maurice, @david %u2013 no dice %u2013 visio doesn%u2019t like pdfs.
> Tried all the format options and nothing worked. Thanks though.
>
> @stevenitz %u2013 can%u2019t use a mac at work. =(  wish I could
> though, apps like coda, textmate, cssedit really helped me up my
> game.
>
> @david %u2013 yeah, diagramming for sure, no pixels allowed.
>
> @kim %u2013 yep, I%u2019d need to copy and paste each object/layer
> separately. Obviously not going to scale.
>
> @todd %u2013 agreed
>
> @stephen %u2013 that would be great, but I%u2019m not allowed to use
> my personal comp at work for anything. Looked into it already. =)
>
> @renee %u2013 all this pdf talk makes me wonder if one of my settings
> is incorrect. I couldn%u2019t get a pdf created by one program to open
> in the other.
>
> Visio gets the job done, but not without quirks. Alt Shift F6 to
> zoom? I can work around its refusal to allow pixels as a metric with
> stencils, but Visio forces me to think about regions in inches or
> points, which obviously isn%u2019t a digital display language. I
> built a persona template yesterday with a ton of guides and when it
> came time to make an attributes tab, couldn%u2019t duplicate the
> layout. Each guide needed to be manually selected, copied and pasted,
> and then moved to its appropriate spot since Visio flung them into a
> random place. =)  Also, no one wants to navigate through a large
> wireframe deck with tabs. Haven%u2019t made a wireframe yet, but I
> suspect I%u2019ll miss layers quite a bit.
>
> Anyway, it%u2019s always good to focus on what makes something
> usable. Thanks for the responses all!
>
>
>
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Visio and InDesign compatibility?

[Jonathan Abbett]

Jon--

You absolutely need to setup these macros:
http://www.welie.com/visio/index.php

There are copy/paste-in-place macros that make working in Visio so much nicer!

There's also lots of power in Visio's "background" pages -- since
backgrounds themselves can have backgrounds... sort of like layers.
Put your layout guides in a background and you won't have to copy them
around so much.

When I'm ready to review wireframes with my team, I generate PDFs
rather than distribute the Visio file -- Microsoft provides a great
(and free!) PDF generator add-in for Office --
http://tinyurl.com/2v77sn

I've become very proficient at using Visio for my IxD tasks -- since
it's not your lingua franca, it'll take some getting used to, but try
not to despair!

Best,
Jon

P.S. The next version of Office has a brand new version of Visio
(finally!) ... I've done some beta testing, and it's a welcome
improvement. Get it as soon as you can.


On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Jonathan Cohen wrote:
> @druid %u2013 thanks, have you tried exporting your doc as a visio xml
> drawing?
>
> @maurice, @david %u2013 no dice %u2013 visio doesn%u2019t like pdfs.
> Tried all the format options and nothing worked. Thanks though.
>
> @stevenitz %u2013 can%u2019t use a mac at work. =(  wish I could
> though, apps like coda, textmate, cssedit really helped me up my
> game.
>
> @david %u2013 yeah, diagramming for sure, no pixels allowed.
>
> @kim %u2013 yep, I%u2019d need to copy and paste each object/layer
> separately. Obviously not going to scale.
>
> @todd %u2013 agreed
>
> @stephen %u2013 that would be great, but I%u2019m not allowed to use
> my personal comp at work for anything. Looked into it already. =)
>
> @renee %u2013 all this pdf talk makes me wonder if one of my settings
> is incorrect. I couldn%u2019t get a pdf created by one program to open
> in the other.
>
> Visio gets the job done, but not without quirks. Alt Shift F6 to
> zoom? I can work around its refusal to allow pixels as a metric with
> stencils, but Visio forces me to think about regions in inches or
> points, which obviously isn%u2019t a digital display language. I
> built a persona template yesterday with a ton of guides and when it
> came time to make an attributes tab, couldn%u2019t duplicate the
> layout. Each guide needed to be manually selected, copied and pasted,
> and then moved to its appropriate spot since Visio flung them into a
> random place. =)  Also, no one wants to navigate through a large
> wireframe deck with tabs. Haven%u2019t made a wireframe yet, but I
> suspect I%u2019ll miss layers quite a bit.
>
> Anyway, it%u2019s always good to focus on what makes something
> usable. Thanks for the responses all!
>
>
>
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[IxDA Discuss] 2009 IDEA Conference early bird pricing ends August 15th, 2009

[Mario Bourque]

Early Bird pricing for IDEA is over in just a few days (August 15th to be
exact). So now’s the time to storm into your boss’ office and demand
approval for registration!
Already approved? Register now:
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If you haven’t gotten approval to attend IDEA2009 yet, here’s a short list
of reasons why your boss is crazy for not sending you (print and tape to
forearm for help during conversation):

1) Return on Insights
With Fifteen of the worlds foremost thinkers in Strategy, event and
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2) Competitive Advantage
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your competition. It’s that simple. Going to IDEA2009 means bringing the
leading edge of social and experience design back to the office. For your
co-workers, for your company’s brand equity, and every future conversation
with prospects.

3) Client Retention
We can assure you that the range of practical, inspiring insights on your
work can’t be found at any other conference. The perspectives you’ll bring
back to the office are incredibly important in this economy so your clients
won’t go looking for cheaper. You’ll be giving them deliverables they simply
wouldn’t be getting anywhere else.

Need more tips for convincing your boss? Check out the entire site for more:
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Do you have any tips that worked to get you funded for IDEA2009? Please
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See you in Toronto!

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Which Job Category is Interaction Design part of?

[Alan Salmoni]

Milan: I've seen similar things myself. It surprises me when a quick
google will usually show what the field is about.

Ali: it would be quite difficult to lobby government organisations
though I guess it could be possible. Part of the difficulty is that
it's made up of other fields (human factors, human-computer
interaction, usability, graphic design, etc) and people doing IxD
used to be doing these things. I have no doubt that in a few years,
another field will be created with a new name that is pretty much
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Latimes.com Redesign - No Link Colors

[Brian Durkin]

I have to agree with Andrei on this one. The home page looks nice and
clean and readable. It also happens to be almost all links. If you
filter into an actual article you will see that the links are
actually called out in a different color. Take this article for
example:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-clunkers14-2009aug14,0,6884703.story


In it you see there is a link to cars.gov which is in blue. If
everything on the home page is understandably linkable then I don't
expect it to all be in a bright blue color but instead readable. I
think the one thing they could have done is maybe make those one or
two intro lines for the one or two stories that are not links on the
page links but at that point, who really cares. The headline and the
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Latimes.com Redesign - No Link Colors

[j . scot]

A particular area I find awkward is the traffic page. Was it like this
before the redesign? The size of the page's primary content prevents
it from fitting "above the fold" -- you have to scroll to see the
bottom of the iFrame, and even then you still have to scroll on the
iFrame to see all of what's in it. I get that it's syndicated
content, but... surely there's a better way.

I like the revised look, and don't mind the lack of colored links,
but can't wait to hear whether they did testing.


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Forms as gates to further information

[jennifer wolfgang]

Thanks again, all for the advice. 

I must say, though I agree with Joshua and Christopher (as well as
others) about getting the data to support or dispel the notion that
the behavior is truly acceptable, the situation we're in is much
like what Caroline suggested in her last response: sometimes it is
just the way it is.

Rather, I'm in a situation where I am the sole internal UX person at
a company that though it's been in business for over 20 years, has
internal processes that don't yet gel with what we UX practitioners
understand to be the most useful in designing an easy-to-use website.

The group I'm in is making slow progress in that direction, but for
the most part, every meaty interaction design project that I see
float by me is only that in *my* eyes. It's a constant, "choose
your battle" situation, in which I'm fighting fires, not studying
what's causing them in order to keep them at bay.

Our team is trying to make progress, but it's a large shift in
internal processes that needs to occur from the top down, and we're
trying to weave UX into that as we go.

-Jennifer


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Screen Resolution Sources

[James Page]

It totally depends on who your users are.
One of our clients who have a large general demographic; screen sizes seam
to be all over the place. Including quite small (think of all those netbooks
out there).

On our own site www.webnographer.com   which is
aimed at people in the usability field screen sizes tends to be either
large, with a significant minority with very small screens (hypothesises
again been netbooks). Another site I have access to the stats of
UXBrighton follows
this pattern.

Key difference between the sites is that the large site, mac's make up less
than 10%. On our site they make up about 50%, and on
UXBrighton they
are the majority. Also on the UXB site there has been no IE6 users ever.
(except while testing it)

One thing to bear in mind is that people with large screens, and Mac users
don't have their browsers maximised.  So viewport size of user browser is
what is important.

All the best

James
http://blog.feralabs.com



2009/8/13 Barbara Ballard 

> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Sean Scott wrote:
> > Hi All.  Currently looking for good sources on screen resolutions in
> > the Us if at all possible.  Trying to take a wider look than just on
> > the client site.
> >
>
> Probably not what you are looking for, but Device Atlas gives (among
> many things) mobile screen sizes.
>
> http://deviceatlas.com/ (free registration)
>
>
> ~
> Barbara Ballard
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Latimes.com Redesign - No Link Colors

[susan doran]

echoing Neil Cadsawanwould love to know about LAT's user research
and testing efforts!  


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Forms as gates to further information

[Christopher Monnier]

> ...the sole internal UX person at a company that though it's been
in business for over 20 years...

I can definitely appreciate the frustration that comes with working
within an entrenched system and veteran engineers/developers that are
used to a certain way of doing things and don't necessarily care
about your "artsy" ideas.  And I agree, you definitely have to pick
your battles, and hopefully let the data you accumulate from usability
speak for itself.

One way to get coworkers who might be skeptical of the value of UX is
to invite them to watch some usability testing, which can be a very
eye opening experience.

Best wishes!


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Current Design Topics

[Sascha Brossmann | brsma : designificance]

Hi Jack,

I'd like to throw in (rather rough and unordered):

* Designing for sustainability (one could argue that good design has
always considered & done this)

* Design as an agent for economic, political, and social change (see
Marc's reply, as well)

* Design Thinking (also already hinted at by Marc) – IMHO an important
differentiation lies in the topic of analytical (the common method of
thought which we are mainly schooled and elsewise trained for) vs.
synthetical strategies for tackling a problem space. (Someone in the
back of my head also is waving a sign with ‘exploration!’ and
‘iterations!’ written on it in large print & bold) Of course, in
practice there should be no ‘versus’ applied, but a rather strong
‘and’. ;-)

* Agility (see also Laura's reply) – most agencies and the people
in/around them still seem to think/run in a waterfall model.
Especially if they have their background in print or more traditional
ID. I'd like to make a bet that at least some change is ahead here.

* Cross-media and media agnostic design strategies

* Designing for behaviour – though I'd still like to argue against
Fabricant that all communicative human activity aims at influencing
behaviour, somehow – behaviour is utterly relevant, but IMHO
definitely NOT a kind of medium, and even less a design-specific one
(might provide a good starting point for a discussion to reflect on
the specific core ‘materials’ one is concerned with)

* Design as a ‘pure’ service industry producing media artifacts vs.
design as consultancy or development partnership. The typical
artifacts produced by designers in the latter case become more a kind
of (necessary & important) side-product then (hopefully a rather well
refined and distilled one).

* Speculative/discourse/fictional design (e.g. much work done at RCA's
Designing Interactions programme) vs. applied solutions.

* Many-to-many communication

* Mass customisation

BTW, it might be interesting to read e.g. Otl Aicher's seminal “Die
Welt als Entwurf” (World as Design) as an important historical trace
of current ideas re: design thinking and the like. In any case, I
think that designers should become better aware of designs own short
(intellectual) history. The whole discipline could still improve on
reflecting itself (ha! à propos, another interesting read: D. Schoen
‘The Reflective Practitioner’ ;-)) Besides: a notable topic to look
for when reflecting on design as discipline or designer's
self-conception: designer's omnipotence (modernism[?]) vs. designer's
impotence (post-modernism[?]) in terms of impact on the world around
us.

Cheers,

Sascha
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] date pickers starting on Sunday

[Jim Drew]

On Aug 6, 2009, at 6:55 AM, USABILITY MEDIC wrote:

I considered the Judeo-Christian influence as well but it doesn't  
make sense.


If God rested on the seventh day, why did calendars get produced  
with Sunday as the first day of the week?



Because putting Sunday at the start of the week puts God "first" in  
all parts of your life, most likely.


-- Jim

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] [WAY OT] date pickers starting on Sunday

[Brandon E. B. Ward]

So WAAY off-topic, but relevant to the last post...

The Jewish Sabbath (and 7th Day Adventists etc.) is still the 7th day  
- which in our Calendar is Saturday.


The Sabbath for most of Christianity was changed to the First day of  
the week (Sunday) following Christ's resurrection as the new holy day.


Brandon E. B. Ward
UI • UX • Ix Design
Flex • Flash Development
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brandonebw...@gmail.com

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,  
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance  
accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders,  
give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new  
problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight  
efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-Robert A. Heinlein




On Aug 14, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Jim Drew wrote:



On Aug 6, 2009, at 6:55 AM, USABILITY MEDIC wrote:

I considered the Judeo-Christian influence as well but it doesn't  
make sense.


If God rested on the seventh day, why did calendars get produced  
with Sunday as the first day of the week?



Because putting Sunday at the start of the week puts God "first" in  
all parts of your life, most likely.


-- Jim

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