Re: [IxDA Discuss] When to use faceted navigation
One area is in search. Faceted search such as what's offered in Solr search (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/features.html) can afford some real power filtering for the user. With rich search results, the benefits are obvious, but I could see the benefit of being able to drill down into one of two facets. Sorry I don't have any links to any resources or thoughtful posts on this subject. Hope someone else can! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46764 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Twitter mashups / aggregators
I wonder if the P2 Wordpress theme could be hacked to do something similar http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/p2 I should also bust out my neglected PHP skills. It's been a while! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46639 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] When to use faceted navigation
My gut says don't bother with facets if you have less than five. Any fewer and I think you're better off with a more basic tagging approach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from ixda.org (via iPhone) http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46764 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Firefox tilting web pages
I think this feature was designed to consider mobile context (it doesn't mean mobile phone usage only). Even its tilting feature is not adaptable for desktop users, it may open the horizon to deal with very new style web. It means to handle parameters from accelerometers to show tilting feature; such as to change perspective of contents or to trigger certain actions according to those parameters. I imagined interesting contents which are likely adaptable including 3D like map, which is switchable between 2D and 3D based on angle of display (like Google Earth), and Switchable view mode, which shows brief information only by default and present detail and huge information when display turns into vertically. In short, it is quite interesting and worth to considered by web publishers to differentiate own user experience. ^^; Tony 2009/10/15 Charles Boyung charles.boy...@nexustechnologiesllc.com Erik, I was just thinking the same thing as you - I'm really glad that they're focusing on garbage like this rather than making FireFox an actual, usable browser for me. As for its use, unless they start writing more browser-specific garbage into their rendering engine (thus moving them even FURTHER from true w3c compliance for HTML and CSS), it really won't have much use beyond rotating full pages, which doesn't honestly mean much, and after playing with it for a few minutes, even the biggest hardcore FireFox nerds are going to abandon it and turn the feature off. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46731 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] When to use faceted navigation
It is especially useful when there are many different types of criteria, such as price-range, maximum attendees, duration, themes, which are somehow linked to one another with many article, product or data entries. Especially useful: 1. when there are many criteria in different fields 2. similar data entries with subtle differences (hard to scan or filter requiring advanced user knowledge) 3. if you have a very specific set of requirements for a user (e.g. behaves like a non-linear wizard) I am using faceted navigation for a client who has products with many criteria, also including 'themes', which can be expanded and interconnected endlessly. As you point out yourself, it may be overkill with only 2 facets. But if it's about combining parameters, the technique itself could be interesting. There's a good webshop in the Netherlands using multilevel facets which is an interesting approach. You can remove breadcrumbs if you've dug deep enough. http://www.bol.com/nl/l/boeken-engels/engelse-boeken-academic-study-tot-euro-20-2008/N/2900 1283 1285 4854 5260 7373 3139/index.html . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46764 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Required fields - one or the other
I personally would not want to fill a phone number field in any form, especially into a machine knowing that it will get stored in some database. So I won't know who can misuse it anytime. If the users for whom you design for think that giving a phone number there can serve them (such as confirmation for an expensive courier delivery, or sort of something that mean important to them) it is fine to ask for a phone number. Otherwise always provide with an alternate as Marcus suggests to have one field asking for either email or phone. The forms I saw in the examples mentioned above have labels positioned to the left of the input fields. I have been lately reading repeatedly at many places advising to place the form labels above the input fields. Hope this helps too :) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46747 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] A vision for the 10-finger desktop
Nice video there. I sense there could be a difficulty initially in identifying which of the 5 pointers belonged to its respective finger while they all are closely placed and look the same round with at the center. The mouse pointer is just one thing we need to focus on now which is relatively easy to follow as we make mouse movements. But, with these 5 pointers, one will have to quickly confirm that focus is on the right finger and that the pointer is at the right place before doing anything there :D Can't image doing the right thing with 10 pointers on screen and you can use any one of them to click or make selection. How would you get the system to identify that when only one finger is pressed, say my index finger when I actually start applying pressure on the pad with little finger? But nice post, interesting to think about :) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46632 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] 10gui responses?
I've mostly had this problem of using the mouse pad to execute a press click wrongly when I actually wanted to move the mouse at the first tap and drag action. I wonder if this would exist on this type of touch pad too. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46673 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] New IxDA in Limerick, Ireland.
Hi Everyone, I'm currently involved in setting up an IxDA local group in Limerick, Ireland. I wondering is there anyone else from the Mid-west of Ireland interested in becoming involved in our group? If so feel free to get in contact. Looking forward to hearing from you. Marc Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] When to use faceted navigation
check out the master thesis of Moritz Stefaner about VISUAL TOOLS FOR THE SOCIO%u2013SEMANTIC WEB http://moritz.stefaner.eu/write-talk/ma-thesis-visual-tools/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46764 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Mega Drop-Down Navigation menus
@Neil - I think structure should be clear and logical, having said that I still undecided yet whether a category or url-segment such as 'sports' could return a 404 if the user chooses to chop the url to get to it. No links within the site would point to /sports, only /sports/windsurfing etc.. so is there an argument to say that any user who chooses to navigate to /sports via amending the url, would understand the 404 returned. @Charles - I'm not sure the pages for the categories should always exist. If you look at http://www.johnlewis.com/Electricals/Area.aspx Could you argue the content they have pulled in to that page is a bit superfluous and simply to populate the category page they have created? Interestingly the link http://www.johnlewis.com/Electricals returns a 404, but that's more to do with their dev setup I guess. http://www.millfieldschool.com In terms of accessibility, this site uses, what I consider, a very good technique in that the tabs are not links to the category pages, but anchor links to the large footer, which is hidden by JS. Therefore if a users has JS disabled, the mega drop-downs won't work, but the lack of JS will also reveal the large footer, where the tabs anchor links now navigate to when the user clicks. This must be good for SEO (pulling in second level content), accessibility (non JS users still access the menu) and screen readers? Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far. Nik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46723 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] A vision for the 10-finger desktop
I have another question Clayton, more of a technical detail than anything With the hybrid resistive-capacitive hardware you propose. And with the limitation of resistive sensors to only being able to register a single x-y coord at any point in time. How does the 10gui system detect the multifinger clicks required for the advanced window manipulation? As an aside, for the list's benefit, I've been using the latest wacom touch-pen tablet for a couple of days now. Its a really exciting and natural way to interact with the OS. However, with the capacitive only input one has to hover their fingers above the surface a lot. Resting a finger on to the surface is an action. In short, its becomes a little tiring to use a capacitive only multitouch surface for prolonged heavy duty input. http://www.wacom.com/bamboo/bamboo_pen_touch.php I only see touch as a primary method of input working through Clayton's proposed solution. However, I don't think I fully understand how multiple clicks are achieved with current technology. thanks! /pauric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46632 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Interaction 10 - Launching Monday 10/19
We're still cranking through the site content, registration process, and a 1,000 little details. Rather than open up registrations and have you experience frustrating issues, we're planning on opening up registrations for Interaction 10 on Monday, October 19. We know you're all as excited as we are about the conference, and thank you for your patience. We hope to see you all in Savannah in February. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Mega Drop-Down Navigation menus
Hmm, the greater than sign has been lost in the web ether, I guess. It is the former: Home Sports: Windsurfing Oleh Kovalchuke Interaction Design is design of time http://www.tangospring.com/IxDtopicWhatIsInteractionDesign.htm On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Charles Boyung charles.boy...@nexustechnologiesllc.com wrote: If you decide to skip building category pages, incorporate categories in breadcrumbs. For instance: Home Sports: Windsurfing What would your links be here? Home and Sports: Windsurfing or Home Sports: and Windsurfing? I could potentially see a case for what you are saying if you use the former, but not if you use the latter. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Mega Drop-Down Navigation menus
Nik, Yes, site structure should be clear and logical, but at what point in the URL is the URL no longer important to users? I'd really like to do a study to find out. But my guess is that if your navigation is clear and logical, users won't care what the site structure is. I'd say the only time a URL is important to the user is if someone has copied it and sent it them via email or IM. And in that case it's important in deciding if they want to click on it or not. Do they trust the URL or not. Going back to the REI example, does it matter that the URL for Camping Hiking is http://www.rei.com/category/451; and not rei.com/campingandhiking/? I don't think so. The navigation shows that Health and Safety is a subset of Camping Hiking, but there's no /campingandhiking/healthandsafety/. Decoupling the navigation from site structure allows you an amazing amount of freedom. Yes, sometimes it is a 1:1 to structure, but it doesn't have to be. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46723 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Firefox tilting web pages
C'mon people, the implemented feature is not tilting web pages, it's detecting accelerometers as an input device. Link to the original source: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/10/orientation-for-firefox/ This feature is becoming a standard in mobile devices, it just makes sense adding an API to it in a major development platform. It's true that the video showcases a (lame) feature with little real utility, but that's just a proof of concept. A context-aware input device opens new possibilities for physical interactions (think flash games, automatic portrait/landscape switch, GPS/digital compass/map orientation, gestures detection...) How can those be a bad thing? Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Mega Drop-Down Navigation menus
Neil, Thanks for your reply. I see what you mean, but I would think having category/sub-category titles and product names in urls would be better for SEO. It's only my personal preference, but having a 1:1 to structure helps me get a 'feel' for the site, the content architecture and generally how/where things generally sit in the site. Navigating around pages /about/ and /camping-and-hiking/ would give me a good feel for the site and confidence that I would likely find contact or sitemap in /contact/ or /sitemap/ respectively. URL's such as /category/4501/ give me no real feel for the site. -Nik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46723 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Intuitive vs. Conventional
Would love thoughts/opinions on this diagram: http://www.dexodesign.com/2009/10/15/intuitive-vs-conventional/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Intuitive vs. Conventional
Seems fairly accurate. Intuitive is a combination of familiarity of past experiences and newer innovation which utilizes the psychology of the user in various ways but just as this shows, there are parts where the familiar isn't intuitive (and makes a user want to pull their hair out, or think that it would be easier to give themselves a root-canal than to use the program/tool) and there are very new intuitive interfaces which feel so new that it takes a little for the user to get their brain wrapped around how to use the app/tool because they're not used to something feeling so elementarily easy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46793 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] When to use faceted navigation
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:28 PM, suze ingram suze.ing...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, When would you use faceted navigation in your designs? In design patterns, this question is addressed. For instance, in Quince, below is what we have for the Faceted Navigation patternhttp://quince.infragistics.com/#/Main/ViewPattern$pattern=Faceted+Navigation. The Problem is the first thing to consider--if that's not the problem your facing, that pattern probably doesn't apply. The Context further qualifies with other considerations that should help you decide if you should use it. Then you can also look at the Rationale and even Implementation and Examples to further get a sense of whether it applies. I'm not saying our pattern is perfect--we have a suggestions mechanism in Quince to collaboratively improve our patterns; I'm just saying that design patterns do address this question if done well. I totally disagree with the notion that it depends on # of facets, and in fact, tag is a facet--you can use this with just the tag facet and it works well. Problem People want to find something but usually have only a fuzzy idea of some parameters in mind. Solution Help people gradually find what they want by providing them with various facets that they can use to filter a result set. Context - You have a large set of information, too large for a person to easily sift through without being able to narrow it down. - Your information shares a set of common facets that they could be filtered by. - The facets you have are easily understandable by the users and are something they would likely want to filter based on. - Your users don’t prefer to navigate this kind of information in another way. HTH. -ambrose Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Measuring forms performance
Brian Heumann Hmm, sounds like secretly submitting the form without the users's consent ... Technically you could easily add Javascript to the unload event of the page to send the required data. And hope the users don't find out. No, definitely not. The client merely wants to have some way of measuring what the users are doing - not to secretly grab data or anything like that. They'd be pretty horrified if anyone thought that they were trying to do something underhand. It's a highly reputable non-profit. So I think I'd need to add 'nothing underhand' to the requirements for the tool. Best Caroline Jarrett Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Measuring forms performance
How about crazyegg? http://crazyegg.com/ Sean On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Caroline Jarrett caroline.jarr...@effortmark.co.uk wrote: Brian Heumann Hmm, sounds like secretly submitting the form without the users's consent ... Technically you could easily add Javascript to the unload event of the page to send the required data. And hope the users don't find out. No, definitely not. The client merely wants to have some way of measuring what the users are doing - not to secretly grab data or anything like that. They'd be pretty horrified if anyone thought that they were trying to do something underhand. It's a highly reputable non-profit. So I think I'd need to add 'nothing underhand' to the requirements for the tool. Best Caroline Jarrett Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] [Bogota - Event] Pablo Herrera talks about Interactive Media @ Universidad de los Andes
Dear all, We´re having a visitor at our University which might be interesting to go and talk to. Following a very short english info: Pablo Herrera (Peru), Industrial Designer, MA in Theory, History and Architecture Critic, SIGRADI (Digital Graphics Iberoamerican Society) General Coordinator, full time professor at UPC (Peru), and guest professor at Universidad de Chile, will be speaking about interactive media: learning, implementation, and general issues on a global and local context. Algorythms: complex shapes in Design and Architecture. Monday 19, Room SD 1003, 3:00pm (15:00h), Universidad de los Andes. Cra 1 No 18a-10. Bogota, Colombia. I´m hoping to meet a lot of IxDA local members at this talk. Drop me a line if you´re attending. Further info in spanish here: http://designblog.uniandes.edu.co/blogs/presencias/ Cheers, -- Leonardo Parra Profesor Departamento de Diseño Universidad de los Andes Bogotá, Colombia. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Measuring forms performance
Sean Gerety How about crazyegg? http://crazyegg.com/ I heard a rumour that crazyegg had some security problem: any truth in that? Cheers Caroline Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Oct 17: iPhone Development for Designers Workshop - San Francisco
*** Only 2 days left! *** Whether you're a designer with some or no programming skills, this workshop is for you! Learn to build iPhone applications with a new and revolutionary tool called Corona, in this 4-hour workshop this coming Saturday morning October 17, in San Francisco. Workshop details and registration at http://iphonenetworklounge.eventbrite.com :: What You'll Learn :: Learn to build a simple iPhone application and install it on your phone! You'll learn to add an image, text, sound and touch behaviors, using Corona. You will familiarize yourself with Lua, an easy language that resembles Actionscript or Javascript. :: About Corona :: Corona is the recently released product of Ansca (http://www.anscamobile.com), a Palo Alto-based mobile software company. Corona is a powerful collaborative mobile development environment that enables designers, engineers, and non-traditional developers to quickly create and share iPhone applications. This revolutionary tool offers rapid prototyping and iteration, reliable development, and faster publishing directly to the App Store. With Corona, you'll access the full power of the iPhone's capabilities such as accelerometer, touch, photos, video, and more! Several applications built in Corona are currently available in the App Store. Download Ansca Corona SDK (beta version) while it's free at http://developer.anscamobile.com :: Instructors :: This workshop is tought by Carlos Icaza, co-founder of Ansca, and Marine Leroux, founder of Bamboudesign (http://www.bamboudesign.com), a San Francisco-based mobile software design company. Carlos and Marine will teach you how to use Corona and build an iPhone app in minutes! That's how easy Corona is. You'll be off to build your own iPhone applications quickly and reliably, without ever touching Objective C! :: Sponsor :: This workshop is sponsored by Bamboudesign (http://www.bamboudesign.com). The company designs and develops branded mobile applications based on high-end user experience design. Workshop details and registration at http://iphonenetworklounge.eventbrite.com Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] [Event] IxDA SF Presents Social Design Patterns with Erin Malone and Christian Crumlish
IxDA San Francisco Presents a Special Halloween Event at San Francisco's Armory Building home of Kink.com: *Costumes Desired* *Social Design Patterns* In the first half of the session, Erin and Christian will present a family of social web design principles and interaction patterns to help user experience designers and strategists grapple with the social dimensions of their products and services. In the second half of the session, we will invite the audience to learn about designing social interfaces through an interactive, collaborative, and competitive game. Bios *Christian Crumlish* is the curator of Yahoo!’s pattern library, although he prefers to describe himself as a pattern detective. He’s a design evangelist on the Yahoo! Developer Network team and helped develop the Yahoo! Open Strategy. He has been participating in, analyzing, designing, and drawing social interactive spaces online since 1994. He is the author of the bestselling The Internet for Busy People (McGraw-Hill, 1994), and The Power of Many: How the Living Web is Transforming Politics, Business, and Everyday Life (Sybex, now Wiley, 2004). He co-hosts the blog conference on the Well and is mediajunkie on Twitter. He has spoken about social patterns at BarCamp Block, BayCHI, South by Southwest, the IA Summit, Ignite 2 (SF Web 2.0 Expo), and iPhoneDevCamp. Christian has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Princeton. He is currently serving on the board of directors of the Information Architecture Institute as director of technology. Follow Christian on twitter @mediajunkie *Erin Malone* is currently a partner with the user experience design firm Tangible UX. Previously she was at Yahoo! managing experience design teams and designing websites and applications, social experiences and components, and building the internal and external Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. During her tenure at Yahoo! she was responsible for Community products and platforms, and for helping develop the Yahoo! Open Strategy, including its social offerings. Before Yahoo!, she was a Design Director at AOL, with teams working across community, and personalized products, including AOL groups, AOL Journals—the first AOL blogging tool, My AOL and You’ve Got Pictures—AOLs picture sharing tool. Prior to AOL, she was the Creative Director at AltaVista and launched the AltaVista Live portal and their community offerings. She built first generation community tools at Zip2 for national newspaper consortiums, including the NY Times offering NYToday, and for AOL greenhouse partners before AltaVista. She was the founding editor-in-chief of Boxes and Arrows, author of several articles on interaction design history and design management, and a founding member of the IA Institute. Erin has a BFA in Communication Design from East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina and an MFA in Graphic/Information Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York. Follow Erin on twitter @emalone *NOTE:* 21 and older at this event, you MUST RSVP for entry and provide photo ID to enter. Photography is allowed. Our friends at kink.com have asked that we remind folks that the Armory is an adult space. There will tours of the space available. Please sign up at October Armory Tour http://ixdasf.ning.com/group/octobereventtour group. Space is limited. Questions? Comments? Contact your IxDA SF Ring Mistress: Aynne Valenciahttp://ixdasf.ning.com/profile/aynne http://ixdasf.ning.com/profile/aynne Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] [Event] IxDA SF Presents Social Design Patterns with Erin Malone and Christian Crumlish on October 29, 2009
IxDA San Francisco Presents a Special Halloween Event at San Francisco's Armory Building home of Kink.com: Costumes Desired Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009 Time: 6:30pm - 10pm Location: Kink.com Headquarters - 1800 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 Social Design Patterns In the first half of the session, Erin and Christian will present a family of social web design principles and interaction patterns to help user experience designers and strategists grapple with the social dimensions of their products and services. In the second half of the session, we will invite the audience to learn about designing social interfaces through an interactive, collaborative, and competitive game. Bios Christian Crumlish is the curator of Yahoo!’s pattern library, although he prefers to describe himself as a pattern detective. He’s a design evangelist on the Yahoo! Developer Network team and helped develop the Yahoo! Open Strategy. He has been participating in, analyzing, designing, and drawing social interactive spaces online since 1994. He is the author of the bestselling The Internet for Busy People (McGraw-Hill, 1994), and The Power of Many: How the Living Web is Transforming Politics, Business, and Everyday Life (Sybex, now Wiley, 2004). He co-hosts the blog conference on the Well and is mediajunkie on Twitter. He has spoken about social patterns at BarCamp Block, BayCHI, South by Southwest, the IA Summit, Ignite 2 (SF Web 2.0 Expo), and iPhoneDevCamp. Christian has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Princeton. He is currently serving on the board of directors of the Information Architecture Institute as director of technology. Follow Christian on twitter @mediajunkie Erin Malone is currently a partner with the user experience design firm Tangible UX. Previously she was at Yahoo! managing experience design teams and designing websites and applications, social experiences and components, and building the internal and external Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. During her tenure at Yahoo! she was responsible for Community products and platforms, and for helping develop the Yahoo! Open Strategy, including its social offerings. Before Yahoo!, she was a Design Director at AOL, with teams working across community, and personalized products, including AOL groups, AOL Journals—the first AOL blogging tool, My AOL and You’ve Got Pictures—AOLs picture sharing tool. Prior to AOL, she was the Creative Director at AltaVista and launched the AltaVista Live portal and their community offerings. She built first generation community tools at Zip2 for national newspaper consortiums, including the NY Times offering NYToday, and for AOL greenhouse partners before AltaVista. She was the founding editor-in-chief of Boxes and Arrows, author of several articles on interaction design history and design management, and a founding member of the IA Institute. Erin has a BFA in Communication Design from East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina and an MFA in Graphic/Information Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York. Follow Erin on twitter @emalone NOTE: 21 and older at this event, you MUST RSVP for entry and provide photo ID to enter. Photography is allowed. Our friends at kink.com have asked that we remind folks that the Armory is an adult space. There will tours of the space available. Please sign up at October Armory Tour group. Space is limited. Questions? Comments? Contact your IxDA SF Ring Mistress: Aynne Valencia http://ixdasf.ning.com/profile/aynne Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Measuring forms performance
+1 for Clicktale. We've had done good results using it although have run into problems across multi-page forms. -Nik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from ixda.org (via iPhone) http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46698 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Honoraria for remote usability study participants from multiple countries
I'm wondering how others offer compensation in remote usability studies where participants are drawn from multiple countries. I've been looking into PayPal, and we've used Amazon in the past but I'd prefer not to tie people to a particular vendor/site. Thoughts? Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Web 2.0 Survey
Hi, Info-Tech Research Group is currently conducting an in-depth research project on Web Site Redesign and Web 2.0 Technologies. We have a short survey, and would appreciate your input. Participation will take less than 5 minutes. If you participate you will receive: 1. An exclusive summary report of the results of the survey so you can see the practices of your peers. 2. The opportunity to discuss the results of the survey with an analyst over the phone. Click Here to participate: https://infotech.3uu.us/uc/admin/13d3/ Thanks, Matt Matthew Mandich Research Analyst Info-Tech Research Group Phone: 888.670.8889 ext. 2947 E-mail: mmand...@infotech.com Web: http://www.infotech.com http://www.infotech.com/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Honoraria for remote usability study participants from multiple countries
On Oct 15, 2009, at 9:48 AM, Scott Weidman wrote: I'm wondering how others offer compensation in remote usability studies where participants are drawn from multiple countries. I've been looking into PayPal, and we've used Amazon in the past but I'd prefer not to tie people to a particular vendor/site. Thoughts? Scott, This very same thing has come up on another list I'm on. Here are some thoughts about it: Amounts vary by country. Cash is best, but could be $25 USD in India for the same work and amount of time as someone would get $100 for in the US or 75 pounds for in the UK. Someone suggested using https://www.obopay.com . I haven't done this, myself. Dana :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: Dana Chisnell 415.519.1148 dana AT usabilityworks DOT net www.usabilityworks.net http://usabilitytestinghowto.blogspot.com/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Intuitive vs. Conventional
The intersection is dynamic, too. Unconventional intuitive paradigms can become conventional given time, as they cement into established patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46793 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] A vision for the 10-finger desktop
Thanks to everyone for the very insightful comments! I hope I can address some of the questions in depth soon, and really appreciate the thought that has gone into your responses. Thanks also to whoever tipped off TechCrunch early Tuesday... it's been a strange and exciting week since then! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46632 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
