Re: [IxDA Discuss] Has anyone been asked to create a directory of UI elements?

we do not have a library of UI elements as of now. But its been quite some time now that we have initiated the process of having a UI library containing most of the UI elements. It is essential: 1. As we have team of UI designers working on same product. 2. We can share these elements as standard w

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Masters Thesis & Extent of Realization

Hi Jack, I did my Masters by research actually, and I thought I would provide my 2 cents. ;P The question in my view is not about a finished product ready to be launched and used, as that goes beyond the research area, and involves other items that are more inline to business. It all depends on

[IxDA Discuss] Design Masters Thesis & Extent of Realization

I took part yesterday in a Thesis Committee meeting for a student working on a project for her Masters degree in design. She is designing a website with the purpose of facilitating a community for female cancer victims. There was a fair amount of discussion surrounding how far she must take

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA give-back

On Dec 12, 2007 3:14 PM, Fred Beecher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/12/07, Michael Tuminello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do have one question though... will non-profits > *know* what kind of expertise they need? I'm guessing they might know that > their site is hard to use or that it's not

[IxDA Discuss] (JOB) Interaction Design Consultants Downtown Seattle 'Recruiter' Fulltime

My client is a growing startup founded in 2000 and has been profitable since. Large and small including lots of cool startup projects are so abundant, my client is in a position where they have to turn down business. However this gives them the leisure of being able to pick and choose. I

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Has anyone been asked to create a directory of UI elements?

We've been using a similar approach for about 2 years now and found it to be extremely effective and productive. It's taking wireframing/ patterns to the level that software development is—object/pattern based. On Dec 12, 2007, at 4:54 PM, Dan Brown wrote: > These days, we're making > modular

Re: [IxDA Discuss] When those who know little about Usability offer Usability Services

I'm happy you are happy to see action from Lisbon. :) When I've made reference the closed way in the APPU, was not in the context of the civil association and the open associative membership, that I think it's great and a an important initiative. I don't want to be unfair. And I don't what to me

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Forward/reverse in a mobile phone's music player

I'm starting work on audio functions and have looked at audio controls key mapping: The majority of phones share the same general idea, but there is a lot of variations in the details. Morten On Dec 11, 2007 6:20 PM, Sachendra Yadav <

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Has anyone been asked to create a directory of UI elements?

When I originally posted this I was thinking of distinct data elements such as order type, customer number, credit card number, which are UI fields as well as database fields. However, UI elements would more appropriately reference widgets and style elements. I love Dan's solution, which is kind

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Has anyone been asked to create a directory of UI elements?

Mark, Not sure if this addresses your question... These days, we're making modular wireframes: creating individual screen components and assembling wireframes from those "lego bricks". As part of that process, we usually generate a spreadsheet of all the components we want to create. This allows us

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Has anyone been asked to create a directory of UI elements?

Bryan-- I actually did something like that once when I inherited (and had to extend) a large set of document-fomrat icons. On the Mac I wrote an AppleScript script that read through the folders of icons and copied the graphics and the names into a FileMaker database. This became the basis of

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Has anyone been asked to create a directory of UI elements?

a good design pattern library might include this if you're lucky enough to have to time to create one. some tools like Axure allow you to assemble libraries of UI elements you use in your prototypes and it has a 'Masters' option that allows you to include them in specs you generate. On 12/12/07,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Has anyone been asked to create a directory of UI elements?

Mark-- None of my clients have yet required such a directory of me, but upon occasion I have found it useful to create one on my own: For example in a network administration application that I was redesigning the UI for from the ground up, that had a few hundred configuration settings that ha

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Has anyone been asked to create a directory of UI elements?

I don't have a hardened process, but for projects that need to build on what I've done (long term), I tend to deliver the following: Functioning DHTML prototype connecting all of the graphic assets together Documented CSS explaining what the key styles are Palette file listing the colors used in th

[IxDA Discuss] Has anyone been asked to create a directory of UI elements?

I was discussing a new project with someone from our Sales group, and they asked me how I kept track of fields in case they were dropped from the actual implementation for some reason. I said that I kept old versions of the wire frames and usually commented any changes following the first version.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA give-back

On 12/12/07, Michael Tuminello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As a next step, maybe we generate a list of things we'd like to be > able to do with it? please feel free to chip in to the list below. > It's great people on the list (susie at least) already have experience > with doing something li

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA give-back

So, this seems to gel with what people have said, in that it is both tangible and possibly doable for Feb, and also a framework rather than just a one-off. As a next step, maybe we generate a list of things we'd like to be able to do with it? please feel free to chip in to the list below.

[IxDA Discuss] Collaborative Design Tools

Hi Folks, I'm looking for recommendations on a collaborative design tool that can be used in meetings with remote teams. The tool I'm looking for replaces the "everyone-getting-together and-working-through-design-ideas-on-the-whiteboard", which is great when everyone is in the same location, but d

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Office or Vista - That is the Question

I made the switch to Office 2007 and have found the ribbon to work, on the whole, better than the old file menus. The round File Menu button is probably the worst part, and while confusing at first, did not take long to learn. Microsoft certainly should have rethought the placement and styling of

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Screen Capture Software of Interest

What appeals to me most about Jing is the quick video snagging. I always want to capture interesting dynamic interactions for later reference (you never know when a site will be redesigned and your great example will be gone)! This is the first tool I've seen that can help me do this quickly, but

Re: [IxDA Discuss] FW: Office or Vista - That is the Question

My team just finished a project were we implemented the Ribbon bar using the DotNetBar Suite: http://www.devcomponents.com/dotnetbar/. We are currently conducting training sessions and I haven't seen any major problems besides the file menu. No one wants to click on it. Hmmm... maybe because all y

Re: [IxDA Discuss] FW: Office or Vista - That is the Question

I agree with you Katie, with one exception: if the company is a small software vendor with a strategic partnership with Microsoft, then doing the whole Office 2007 Ribbon thing may get your program shown off by a very large distributed Microsoft sales team. If I was deciding based upon usability an

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA give-back

On Dec 11, 2007 9:00 PM, Fred Beecher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/11/07, Michael Tuminello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > We could add something to the ixda site that let non-profits submit > > projects for consideration for pro-bono work by our members... > > That sounds like a fab

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Screen Capture Software of Interest

I have installed http://www.jingproject.com/ It has a cool UI with some nice ideas and it%u2019s also pretty easy to use, the only major problem is that you cannot copy an image to your clipboard and paste it in another program (Outlook e-mail for instance), They missed the most common task for so

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UX Holiday Party in NYC was a huge success!!!

Wow! I am so bummed I couldnt make it. will evans user experience architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.281.1281 On Dec 12, 2007, at 9:52 AM, Bryan Haggerty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Certainly one of the best UX social events yet. It was great to see > that there was a good contingent of people

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UX Holiday Party in NYC was a huge success!!!

Certainly one of the best UX social events yet. It was great to see that there was a good contingent of people from the various UX groups show up. Bryan Haggerty On Dec 11, 9:53 pm, David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wow! what a turn out and what avfreat mix of people!!! great event!! > >

[IxDA Discuss] article on interactive identity

I wrote an article on the future of Corporate Design and how this discipline relates to Enterprise IT, Intranet Design, Software User Interfaces, and the expected rise of the consolidated Information Workplace. http://www.guenther.cx/index.php/a.Interactive+Identity Since my thoughts on those to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Screen Capture Software of Interest

I've been using Jing for internal sharing. If someone doesn't already have a tool to use I think it's worth a look. It's a lightweight tool but quick, easy to use, and free. Still captures only capture the viewport, not a whole page, however, you can select different regions of a window or screen

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Screen Capture Software of Interest

Thank you Robby! Skitch, video: http://plasq.com/skitch#demo looks perfect for one of my clients.. they usually put all their 'ideas' in to a ppt. I've put them on to this app, and with the upload to flickr functionaly, we should be able to get a more fluid conversation going with a closed flickr

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Screen Capture Software of Interest

Jing is nice because it works on multiple platforms, but the workflow in Skitch (OSX-based) is far more streamlined. I recently wrote a blog post[1] about it to show how we're using it to our process for providing feedback for wireframes and when submitting bug tickets. It doesn't handle video, b

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UX Holiday Party in NYC was a huge success!!!

I'm bummed that I couldn't make it. Way too far from Seattle... Maybe next year when I'm in DC. Callie Neylan, MFA | Visual + Interaction Design | NEYLAN DESIGN COMPANY | T 206 718 9909 | F 206 400 1664 | E [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Forward/reverse in a mobile phone's music player

On Dec 11, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Sachendra Yadav wrote: > Hi, > > Initially mobile phones used to have Play, Pause, Previous, Next (in > some cases Stop instead of Pause). Of late, quite a few mobile phones > have started adding Forward and Reverse within the current song. > > Does Forward/Reverse add

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Forward/reverse in a mobile phone's music player

I think it is a really useful feature for (as has been mentioned) Podcasts and those annoying 'secret tracks' that come 15 minutes into the last track on a CD. If I haven't been paying enough attention when ripping, or don't have the time to edit the track it is very useful to be able to skip thr

[IxDA Discuss] [Event] Chicago IxDA - Jan. 9th - Designing with the mobile experience in mind

Hello fellow Chicagoans, We're excited to announce our first event of 2008: Designing with the mobile experience in mind. Some say 2007 was the year of social media. Will 2008 be the year of mobile media? Come join us for an interactive discussion--and bring relevant examples as well as your mo

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Office or Vista - That is the Question

I have been using Office 2007 and to be honest, I like the new ribbon. It kind of makes more sense and the frequently used buttons are bigger so they're easier to select. About Vista, well, it has some nice features but looks otherwise unpolished. And the dialogs demanding authorization every time,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Forward/reverse in a mobile phone's music player

I think that only user research can tell you that. Sometimes I think we can safely drop a feature from an application only to find out in user research that users want that feature after all. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://g