Jared,
If most readers think this has gone on too long, we should wind it down.
On Apr 22, 2008, at 5:59 AM, Jared M. Spool wrote:
On Apr 22, 2008, at 3:08 AM, Larry Tesler wrote:
The fact that different observers see different things in the same
raw eye tracking data is of no more
What about using a tool akin to ephox' editlive application to track
changes in translations?
Again, maybe the google docs API can help us as that has track
changes, doesn't it?
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in
http://www.ixda.org/digests/digest_german.html
The German translation is quite bad (though Milan is probably right
that you can understand 30-60% of the sense anyway), and this
appears to apply to the other translations as well. However, providing
automated translations might be an option
I would like to pose a thought here in the guise of a question:
Is it harder to read stuff in English or to write/contribute in
English?
My experience with working a lot of with non-English speakers is that
they can consume English a lot easier than contribute in English?
Are the people who
As others have already pointed out, the primary benefactor of eye-tracking
studies is the coordinator of the studies. After many such studies, I
gradually have absorbed what textbooks could not teach me effectively about
this science. What draws the human eye is not quite unpredictable, but the
There are some very interesting insights raise by Alan Cooper on his
keynote on IxDA Interactions '08 conference, The Insurgency of
Quality (http://interaction08.ixda.org/Alan_Cooper.php), which
generated a very long thread of discussion on the list
(http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=25686).
Before testing: If you want a product with good UX, do you give the
programmers a list of functions or a list of scenarios?
Usually people write a functional spec for a software/website they want,
which they then give to the programmer. The programmer will create a
program/website with the
Hi,
To begin with; I'm impressed that Google Translator supports
translation to Swedish. Unfortunately the outcome isn't as
impressive.
The following Swedish sentence:
du vill se fakta ät en masse IxDA medlemmen ( det vill si den här
vem er
plågattill deklarera deras läge) komma av Europa.
R. Groot kirjoitti 20.4.2008 kello 15:29:
Dear all,
my question is simple in its former but probably less so in its
answer. Therefore I would like to ask you all for input on the
following:
-- How to start creating an awareness of the need for Interaction
(/user experience) design in a
On Apr 23, 2008, at 6:23 AM, David Malouf wrote:
I know that Jorge said that ya gotta play in English today to be a
part of the world, but I'm not sure ethically I'm all for that.
I hope my comments weren't misunderstood -- I didn't mean to imply
that English is the only solution for
Thanks for the feedback everyone.
Based off these comments and the comments off-list it seems like the
translations are pretty universally lackluster--except for Swedish,
which holds a special place in terms of incomprehensibility.
Portuguese was the most well-received, but I'm not sure this
Hello fellow IxDs,
long time lurker found something that might be of interest to more
people here on this list.
In iTunesU 36 tracks from the Stanford Human-Computer Interaction
Seminar (2006-2007) are available for free.
Hi folks,
My Human Factors team colleagues and I are working to formalize our
processes at our company, and one of the areas that is new for us is the
formal design review. Right now, our UX designs are reviewed as part of the
software requirements specification (SRS), but we've found that
Where does that come from? I have never heard Nussbaum or any one else of
credible substance state this. This sounds like a large heaping of angst
talking to me.
Mark
...the cynical and ironically
designer-hostile Nussbaum/d.School camp in which design is too
important to be left to
This looks amazing, thanks for posting it!
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Phil Suessenguth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello fellow IxDs,
long time lurker found something that might be of interest to more
people here on this list.
In iTunesU 36 tracks from the Stanford Human-Computer
You are correct, anything that isn't building the final release meets
the definition of a prototype. Thus I find it's more practical to
have more specific terms (like mockup) to describe what I expect of a
deliverable, what it does and what it won't do. However in the case
for questions like
Apologies for duplication
The dates announced for the IA 09 Summit at the Peabody
Hotel in Memphis have been changed.
New dates are:
Pre cons on March 18 and 19 (Wed and Thur)
Sessions on March 20, 21, 22 (Fri, Sat and Sun)
NOTE this is also a different pattern, ending on Sunday instead of
Hello Jeff.
Sorry for the late feedback.
I agree that the translated digests help non-English speakers to understand
the discussions and I am not very optimistic either about the quality of
translation services. IMHO, the Portuguese translation (I am Brazilian) is
quite poor because, similarly
I consider a wireframe a type of prototype.
If the type of prototype has active interactive functions I call it
interactive prototype.
Prototype Non-Active Functionality Wireframe
Prototype Active Functionality Interactive Prototype
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(My 2 devaluated cents.)
We should structure our deliverables under the same philosophy of our
general UX work. In other words, do user testing. In this case the
users are the developers. Present both of the above-mentioned
alternatives and find out which one works best for them.
. . . . . . .
Personally I think it's important for designers to own and evolve the
discussion around design thinking.
On the topic of (generic) innovation - well, that's a wider arena
that is not necessarily owned by designers. Generic innovation, (if
you define it as the staging of value-gain and value-loss
On Apr 23, 2008, at 6:53 AM, AJ Kock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Before testing: If you want a product with good UX, do you give the
programmers a list of functions or a list of scenarios?
Neither. If I want a product with a good user experience, I give the
programmers a detailed specification
Hi Elise:
A few starters -
* Walking Through Your Product Design With Stakeholders -
http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000199.php
* Cognitive Walkthrough and Heuristic Evaluation in the Contemporary
Design Process -
right on...
The business use—the specific goal that motivated the client or sponsor to
initially fund the work—often fades away, sometimes quickly, he says. In
some ways, you might argue that aesthetic value—for an enduring design, at
least—is the only lasting value, since over time functional
Can anyone tell me when and where the next national IXDA conference
will be? I can find zero information on it.
Thanks!
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Posted from the new ixda.org
http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=28213
Hi IxDA,
I'm doing a project on the effectiveness of usability tests done at
different prototyping stages.
I'm having trouble finding expert opinions to provide more support to some
of the points in my report, and thought that I could find a lot of
experience in this list. If you have 10-15
Unfortunately, I think that most programmers wouldn't know what to do
with a scenario. In an elevated organization where everyone gets it,
then the programmers would have been involved in the design from the
beginning and would have a deep understanding of what/why they are
building.
So,
[reminder]
Topic: resources you use (books, blogs, other online material)
Share with us the 3 main resources you use for your work and why are they
useful.
It would be nice if you could bring this in a printed format (e.g., print
the book title/cover, or have the, e.g. book's name written in a
Hello Elise,
There are a number of methods that go by various names: walkthroughs,
inspections, design reviews, and expert reviews. Some of the
approaches that you might consider in addition to those that Daniel
listed are listed below. These vary in the degree of formality with
the formal
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