I manage a user experience group situated w/in our business and
marketing division. In this organizational location (as opposed to
previous positions w/in IT at other companies), I'm better positioned to
form strategic partnerships w/ my Product Management colleagues and
present the value propositi
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This is almost as funny as the "interaction designer, must be a C++
expert" job posting that provoked a huge discussion on this list a
little while ago.
Coincidentally (or not?), this also comes from a recruiter working
with a certain large Redmond-based company. :)
Dmitry
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FWIW, here's what the Microsoft Vista UX guidelines have to say:
With a *link*, users can navigate to another page, window, or Help topic;
display a definition; initiate a command; or choose an option. A link is
text or a graphic that indicates that it can be clicked, typically by being
displayed
That was exactly my reaction!
Putting aside all the other problem that this form has, this particular
issue could be solved by animating the way that the div materializes. That
way it would be obvious that something is appearing rather than something
disappearing.
Best,
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Martin Polley
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> Meredith, I would not use a progress bar to solve this design problem
> (of the widgets). I would instead state the completion status or
> rather the "not complete" status of the widget definition [B].
> Basically you can't continue with [A] without having completed [B].
> Simple instructions or
Pauric, perhaps all our difficulty is about terminology. I am actually
talking about a stage indicator, but for some reason the term didn't
come to mind when I was first posting. Apologies for the confusion! It
is a web app, so there is no concept of subroutine processing, etc. They
walk through di
Meredith, I would not use a progress bar to solve this design problem
(of the widgets). I would instead state the completion status or
rather the "not complete" status of the widget definition [B].
Basically you can't continue with [A] without having completed [B].
Simple instructions or indicators
Here's an interesting article. I know it focuses on Adobe's Flex
platform but the idea remains the same. Why? > Planning > Prototyping
> Implementation > Deployment.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/planning_ria/planning_ria.pdf
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Let me rephrase what you are describing, Meredith: in the workflow diagram
for this wizard, you have two "if" statements in the row: "Was the path B
completed before?", "Does user want to make another round of the path B?".
The provisional completion check marks along the path B answer "yes" to th
I didnt read your description carefully.. apologies. Point taken on
the labels, Amazon is an excellent example
I guess this boils down to my belief that progress meters are an
illusion. A little trick designers can employ to comfort users in to
thinking things aren't stuck. Borne out of the fla
The check marks for the B path ar provisional, they serve as a reminder
that the work has been done already. If user choses to proceed with another
round along path B, the check marks for that path are cleared, and the user
proceeds on her merry way along the path B one more time).
Oleh
On Nov
Look for a forum entitled, "Sustainably Ours" edited (and sometimes
written) by that unnamed author (???) in upcoming issues of
interactions magazine (under new management), as "announced" in
http://riander.blogspot.com/2007/07/on-green-design.html.
Richard
At 9:13 AM -0500 11/30/07, Jeff Whi
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Location: on Lake Michigan, within 90 minutes of Chicago
Compensation: competitive base and potentially very generous bonus, plus
excellent large company benefits
Design is at the heart of our client Whirlpool Corporation, a global
consu
Go Boilermakers. :-)
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:23:09, Nick Quagliara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can also try contacting Erik Stolterman who is part of the
> Sustainable Interaction Design Research Group (SIDRG) at Indiana
> University (where Eli Blevis the author of the aforementioned paper
> t
Thanks for this, Oleh.
This would work well if Task B was a complete once and only once sort of
thing. What I don't think I managed to get across was that it's fully up
to the user each time whether they want to go through Task B again or
not.
If they've never done Task B before, they are *
Pauric, I'm not sure I understand your point about the labels. It's hard
to get the message across with generic steps! I do think you have
slightly misunderstood my general problem though.
I'm trying to say that people can do Task B at any time, and without
having to do Task A. They might do Task
Meredith, I have to ask about the value of displaying all the labels
in your example. Obviously you have insight to the application . Do
you feel this detail is critical for a user's understanding of
progress, especially when balanced with the cognitive load this may
induce.
>From your initial p
Here is one possible solution for the progress bar.
Progress bar in the beginning of the wizard:
* A step1*
A step2
B step1
B step2
B step3
B step4
A step3
Progress bar at the branching point (B path has been completed):
Replace star (*) with "done" check mark.
*A step1
* A s
Hey Pauric,
Love the filename ;)
It's an interesting idea, though it does seem like it could get
confusing. As you say, maybe with some more refinement it could go
somewhere.
I'm leaning towards my description of option (a) at the moment. I've
sketched it out here:
http://www.usabilitymatters.c
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You can also try contacting Erik Stolterman who is part of the
Sustainable Interaction Design Research Group (SIDRG) at Indiana
University (where Eli Blevis the author of the aforementioned paper
teaches). Erik Stolterman also happens to come to Indiana University
from the Department of Informatic
On Nov 30, 2007 12:12 PM, Ari Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>1. Product Managers can have a technical or design background
Just a quick addition: tech, design, or neither. Lots of PMs I've
worked with in the past are strictly business types - MBAs, managers
from non tech or marketing dep
Michael,
that's an excellent description of the role. as i've been primarily a
product guy in one guise or another for the past 3 yrs, i'd like to split
some hairs:
1. Product Managers can have a technical or design background - some
companies prefer one over the other - it really depends
On Nov 29, 2007 7:24 PM, Billie Mandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It seems to me like this is changing in our wild mashed-up world of web app
> fabulousity - lots of folks are designing apps where a hyperlink invokes an
> action (edit, add, send message, etc).
>
> What do you say - are said des
Could you do Task B in a pop up? Or the appearance of a pop up- gray out the
Task A screen and only return to it after the highlighted Task B screen is
completed. Task B would appear in a smaller window highlighted in the center
but would not be an actual separate window.
Cheers,
Julie
On Nov 30,
Software companies often have a separate Product Manager role or department.
This person or group is responsible for setting strategic product direction,
determining the feature set to be included in specific product releases,
naming of versions, setting the highest level of schedule requirements,
Suggestion: Create a split progress bar once the user jumps from one
task to another.
User some form of colour coding (green = a, blue =b) to allow the
user to connect each bar with its corresponding task.
This is a little half-baked and would need a lot of testing...
http://web.mac.com/pauric_oc
Hi all,
I'm looking for some ideas on how to design progress bars for some
nested flows.
In the application I'm designing right now, we have two flows for two
related tasks, task A and task B. Task A has 3 steps, and Task B has 4
steps. Task B can be done independently, without task A, but
Thanks for all the input guys. You've given me some great ideas - which is
exactly what I was hoping to get.
Cheers,
Chris
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I'm really not sure where I stand on this one. But some food for
thought: why back ourselves into a corner with conventions? Why not
let context determine which approach to use?
Jeff
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:24:50, pauric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I dont think that's ironic at all Bruce: "button
The Design Council of the UK (an amazing organization, BTW) had a
great event looking at the intersection of design disciplines with
each other and with other non-design disciplines. The event brought
together an amazing array of designers mostly from the UK, but with
some other representation.
Th
ReCAPTCHA is an interesting innovation on traditional CAPTCHA
technology:
http://recaptcha.net/
"reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words
that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs
for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that
I thought of that, too...having to remember or copy/paste a license key
might be a PITA for folks, so maybe the software could provide a simpler
"key" just to serve as a simple passcode to support options. Something you
could embed for freeware users as well, like "Your license key is:
XYZ12345645
Hi You Le,
I think your project is a very interesting and worthwhile one, and
frankly one that IxDA has not paid close enough attention to, in my
opinion.
It has come up a few times on the list:
http://beta.ixda.org/search.php?tag=sustainable
Also, see these resources:
ACM Digital library - CHI
> xian:
> I may be mixing this up with something else, but didn't user-centered
> design start as a method that actually involved users in the design
> process? I have vague memories of a story involving a Scandinavian
> country and something like city planning?
There are several threads in the
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