[IxDA Discuss] A suggestion to this mailing list
Dear IXDA I must say I think this list is not up to standards. If we're talking IxD and UX here then I wonder why the emailings are not categorized in any way. There should be a bunch of checkboxes upon signing up, where you decide what topics you'd like to recieve thread-openings about. There are numerous options... Thanks Andreas Hesse Student Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design mobile: +45 5058 4466 email: an...@ciid.dkds.dk 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] User Information Gathering & Relationship Management (Registration Processes that are less of a bother and other ways)
Hi there, I'd like to invite you guys to share opinions, methodologies, experiments, examples of successful ways of getting the user's information through a registration process or other (more playful) ways. I'm preparing a case study and later a guide for a standarded internal registration process and try to look at it from every possible angle. Your thoughts are gonna be highly appreciated. Andreas 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] What music for interaction designers
Dear all, For some years now the talented people at Intergalactic FM have been supplying my ears with steady stimulus and unsurpassed inspiration. They are based in Rotterdam and their 3-in-1 stream goes 24/7, no advertising (except for stylistic ones for themselves), no talk just quality music, if you're into 1: Electronics 2: Retro/ Disco 3: Ambient .. that's right, you can always switch around between the three. The address is.. and a warm applause to www.intergalacticfm.com Various players, embeds, itunes links etc. are to be found at www.intergalacticfm.com/players Hope you all like it as much as I do - and don't forget to donate! Cheers, Andreas an...@ciid.dkds.dk On Feb 28, 2009, at 01:31 , Pietro Desiato wrote: What kind of music do you listen (when you can) while brainstorming, analysing, designing interactions? Are there any songs that would make our design flow better? Let's make a playlist :) Reply to this thread at ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39321 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] Help on User profiling and Persona
Does your company/client/organization have any existing statistics that is relevant to your task? Get hold of as much relevant background information as possible. If this is a studen project, contact various printer manufacturers, explain your situation and ask if they have any statistics they are willing to share. You mention working men/women, but not if they are at work while printing. There is a huge difference in operating a printer at home and at work. (When was the last time you printed a 104 page report using your 4 year old inkjet at home?) Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36267 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Is Auto-Scrolling Good?
A solution to the variable scroll speed might be to add a speed indicator along the "scrolling edge". When the scrolling starts, place a scrolling indicator just below the cursor, and let the users move position the mouse a little further up/down on the indicator to adjust the speed. Downside: users might have a hard thime figuring out what that thingy underneath the cursor is. Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36058 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] How do you keep track of suggested changes to interaction designs?
It is not a great solution, but we keep it all in our internal wiki (Confluense). Mostly it is just minor changes to existing product interfaces. We keep one page for each change with comments below the main page. When we have multiple versions of the same design, the original is usually posted in the main page, and changes in the comments below. Luckily Confluence supports threaded comments and autogenerates thumbnails of the posted images. As I said, it is not a great solution, but it is a functioning solution. Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35763 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interesting drag interface
My initial thought of the site was, fancy but utterly useless. Then, after reading the previous posts in this thread, I realised that the author of the site had done (nearly) everything the way it should be done. Let's apply some quick and dirty JJ Garret to his site The strategy plane: Site objectives: Sell me in order to bring in more work User needs: Determine how good I am. The scope plane: Must present what I have done in the past and that I can apply various techniques of flash The structure plane: The interaction design might not be great related to "regular" sites, but he as already defined the site as a show-case for what he is capable of, thus it requires a different approach to interaction design than regular sites. Information Architecture: There is not much information, but what is important is available right at the start (after a lengthy intro that is). Skeleton plane: On the first screen the most important elements are ordered in a way that makes them easy to find and click. Visual plane: The playfull UI elements underlines the fact that this is not a regular site and changes the expectations of the users and opens theri minds for alternative experiences. Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35369 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] looking for an article
Does Bill Buxtons Sketching User Experiences cover it? http://www.amazon.com/Sketching-User-Experiences-Interactive-Technologies/dp/0123740371 Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35277 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Favourites or Favorites
If this is a desktop application, you can detect the locale of the user, and adjust accordingly. Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35065 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Twitter
Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in six words. The result: "For sale: baby shoes, never used." Perhaps it is time for the Twitter novel? andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=34682 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Research: Practice noticing stuff and telling stories
Evernote has a great iPhone app that lets you sync text, photo and voice notes with the desktop and web editions of Evernote. The only thing I miss from evernote is the ability to take a photo and draw notes on the photo. Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=34828 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] ISO: Films about interaction design
Stanford on iTunesU has published some guest lectures from their HCI class http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.1357108180 Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=34644 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Initiated Save vs. Implicit Save
I think Confluence from Atlassian has solved quite nicely. When I edit or create a new page in the wiki, the content is saved in the background. If I navigate away from the form, and return at a later stage to either the page I was editing or the new page for, the present a notice above the form with the following text: "A new page you were adding on 2008-10-17 07:10 called %u201Ctestpage %u201D was not saved. Do you want to resume editing or discard it? " (Resume edit and discard is behaving as link buttons). Unless I explisitly clicks the save button, it is not committed to the live content of the wiki. The question here shold not be if you should save the data, but rather how should you handle the process. With the stability of browser and the possibilities of accidental navigating away from the form, you should save all data to a temporary storage. The challenge is how to present the user with automatically saved data. Should the entered data be available to other users, or just the user who has started to enter it into the form? Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=34463 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Advice? Dismissal over "no more design"
Do you want to remain at this company? Another approach might be to start your own business and ask them to hire your new company to handle their overall deign strategy. If you want to start you own business this might help you get started. Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=33867 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Books
A few books I missed from the list. Donald A. Norman. "The design of everyday things". It is 20 years old and still relevant. I re-read it a few months ago, glanced down at our office phone system and laughed. http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/dp/0385267746 And for distribution to everyone that manages the product design/development. Alan Cooper "The inmates are running the asylum" http://www.amazon.com/Inmates-Are-Running-Asylum/dp/0672316498 andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=33808 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Shoppingcart vs shoppingbasket
@Matthew Anderson I agree when it comes to using the appropriate word for the current context, but in you example you used "Checkout". Does not checkout indicate that the user is about to pay for the items and leave, while cart/basket etc indicates an option to view the contents and continiue shopping? Andrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=33723 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Shoppingcart vs shoppingbasket
I have noticed that amazon.co.uk uses Basket and amazon.com uses Cart, both with the same shopping cart icon. Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=33723 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Trends : According to google insight people are lesser and lesser interested in usability
>From the Google page "What does these numbers mean" "The numbers on the graph reflect how many searches have been done for a particular term, relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time. They don't represent absolute search volume numbers, because the data is normalized and presented on a scale from 0-100; each point on the graph is divided by the highest point, or 100. The numbers next to the search terms above the graph are summaries, or totals." Does that mean that fewer people are interested in usability, or that late adopter of internet search has less interest in usability than early adopters? andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=33604 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] G1 Android - case study in inconsistency
Like anything Googely, it is going to be beta until it can either be declared a success, or fade away. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=33456 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Hit button for Search
Remember the users are searching, you do not yet know if they are finding. Based on the numbers Kordian presented you don't even need a button, but remember the button is a clear indicator of what the text box is for, and it draws attention to the search box. Example of search box without button: http://thenoisychannel.com/ The search box on that page i discovered by accident when looking for a comments rss feed. Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=33254 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Search Box Guidelines
My first thought was to loose the radio buttons and search intranet and extranet at the same time using Google api or yahoo BOSS. Advantage: Data on the intranet (internal information) is always presented to the users. Disadvantage: you might have to learn the users what they are searching when they are using the search box on your site. Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=33020 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interesting interface design
I like it as a concept, but I don't think it will be usable for the web anytime soon. The navigation elements move avay from the original location. I wantet to click "The click ergonomy" and ended up on the Click history page. With some research and testing on mouse movements from element to element it will become a lot better. Right now it requires a clear path between all the various navigation elements. Any thoughts regarding how to put a no click interface to use? Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32969 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Next & previous button order
Johan Sjöstrand and Jeff Howard have some good points. "Do we really need the back button?" A multi page form should have a (clickable) index indicating the various steps in the form, and a next button to go to the next page. -- The next and previous buttons do not behave as "action buttons", but as navigation buttons, and it therefor is more natural to go to the next page by clicking on the right-hand side. In left to right cultures that is. Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32945 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction design for developers
My first thought was to give them each a copy of "The Inmates are running the asylum" to read in advance, and use the workshop to discuss the book. But seriously, the important task is to change the focus from what can we create for the users, to how can we help the users achieve their goals. Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32878 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Mobile touch screen UI trends
The iPhone has a First to market advantage (.jp not included). Although there are many mobile browsers, they have not encouraged use. The iPhone is becoming an addition to the way people use online services. I would rather go for optimizing for iPhone than designing for iPhone. Andreas, looking forward to Firefox mobile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32524 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Native vs. Non-native look-and-feel
I think it is more important to keep the core functionality and the process of using the application the same on all platforms. I use Evernote both on Windows, OS X, iPhone and Web, and what really annoys me is that it behaves differently. When creating a new note, the windows version automatically adds the first line as a title and to tagg the note, I have to open a separate window. The OS X and iPhone versions both have separate fields for title and tags. My opinion: make the application look native, but behave the same way. Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32800 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Register vs. Sing-Up vs. Join Us
Keep it simple /join or /register "Sign up", indicates that the users are about to recieve something from you. "Register" indicates that they are about to provide their data for your use "Join" indicates that they are about to participate in something. Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31308 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
