Re: [IxDA Discuss] Guidelines for opening a printer-friendly page

I think there's a nomenclature issue here. If you have a button on the page that says... *Print* The user clicking this will expect the page to print but will not be given the chance to preview the output before their print dialogue appears. *Print(er) Friendly* The user will click expecting to s

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Guidelines for opening a printer-friendly page

My personal experience, and the experience of (non-professional) people I've discussed this with is in line with yours, Owen. If I push the "Printer Friendly" button, I expect to see what the printer will print and have the opportunity to change my mind if I don't like what I see. Frankly, par

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Guidelines for opening a printer-friendly page

> Without a 'Printer Friendly' pop-up, they would need to use the bowser 'Page > Preview' to view the page in this manner. If I click on a print button on a web page, I expect to /see/ the printer-friendly version. If the button just pops up the browser's print dialog, my reaction is to wonder w

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How do you use different version control systems for your designs?

we are using a wiki called Confluence it automatically saves previous versions of files - but i have to admit i have only done it with JPG comps i am also a naming fanatic - 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.3.1, etc. - to track version jd On Apr 29, 2008,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How do you use different version control systems for your designs?

I'm on a project where we just started using Google Docs for version control. It seems to work well within its limits - once you upload a file, users edit it online using Google apps for text (word) documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Google stores previous versions, which are

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Patterns for complaints

This is quite an interesting question - a complaint system. I would start by asking how people make complaints, what does it mean to be a "good recipient" of a complaint (in the real world or online), and how to you handle local versus global complaints about a product (global here being more whol

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Guidelines for opening a printer-friendly page

"if there's a particular page that people are urged to print, you can just include a button that calls upon the system's printing mechanism, and you don't need a separate page." I have seen people use the 'printer friendly' view to copy and save content to a word file etc. for archival without re

[IxDA Discuss] The Documentation View of Design

I'd like to validate the following sentiment that dawned at me. Wireframes and prototypes suggest primarily that the design solutions are presented visually, annotated with callouts or footnotes at the sidebar. However, the same thing can be also presented in form of documentation (text or spre

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Guidelines for opening a printer-friendly page

Agreed. A print stylesheet is completely the right way to do this. A lot of people will just hit the print button anyway, so making sure that all pages print nicely is important. On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Bryan J Busch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Owen, > > You could be marking up ev

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Guidelines for opening a printer-friendly page

Hi, Owen, You could be marking up every page with HTML/CSS so that they are "printer-friendly" by default, by using a print stylesheet. In which case, if there's a particular page that people are urged to print, you can just include a button that calls upon the system's printing mechanism, and you

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing for Specific Audiences- in this case Finance

I share the experience that professionals in the financial services industry seem to crave a remarkably high level of information density and favor what they perceive as "quick" access to information. For example, in one application we found that potential users disfavored a navigation design that

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Difference b/w online & installed apps

The browser until now has been primarily an information exchange application, hence the bookmarks, back button, refresh, history etc. With the rapid increase in task based applications over the web, the next generation browser (and front-end scripting) will potentially further reduce reduce the gap

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing for Specific Audiences- in this case Finance

Thanks so much for all the advice so far. I am definitely getting a better hold on what is being built and for whom. My biggest concerns so far have been around exactly what has been spoken to; The level of interaction density, the complicated interfaces that defy my understanding and the level o

Re: [IxDA Discuss] DC Ixda

"I am looking for companies who can run focus groups in the following locations: Brazil %u2013 Rio or San Paulo" Hello Gil, I have a few vendors I found in Brazil (Rio and Sao Paulo), but I haven't had the opportunity to work with them yet. Unfortunately, I can't speak to their work, but I feel

[IxDA Discuss] JOB: Senior Interaction Designer, Ann Taylor, Inc., NYC, Long-Term Contract

Ann Taylor is looking for a senior user-interaction designer to lead an IxD team on several related projects for the Design and Global Sourcing divisions. This position will establish a design vision for the applications with standards and guidelines for the IxD team. Responsibilities include all a

[IxDA Discuss] JOB - UI Designer -NYC -The Wonderfactory - Full Time

The Wonderfactory is a premier interactive design firm in NYC and we're looking for a UI Designer. Responsibilities: Works closely with Sr UI Designer to translate requirements, feature concepts, use cases and design challenges into site maps, user flows, user scenarios, wireframe schem

[IxDA Discuss] JOB: Boston, MA - Senior Interaction Designers - RDVO - Full-Time

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[IxDA Discuss] Job: Brisbane Australia - Senior Usability Specialist/UX Designer

Peak Usability is Brisbane's leading web usability and user experience consultancy. Established in 2003, we work with a wide range of clients from small start ups to museums to government and large organisations. We are rapidly growing and have some exciting and interesting work coming up. We ne

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Placement of username and password on homepage

Melinda's post correlates to what we discovered when redesigning our homepage. Our usability participants expected username and password to be in the upper left of the homepage. Keep in mind that logging-in is what over 90% of our visitors do when visiting our site. If logging-in is not your site's

[IxDA Discuss] How do you use different version control systems for your designs?

Hi everyone, I think a lot of people here that work in a team are familiar with the hassle of version control. Now of course there are several systems available for keeping your files and versions in sync and for some type of files this works fine. For instance we use subversion to manage all

[IxDA Discuss] Guidelines for opening a printer-friendly page

I'm helping to build a web application that from time to time offers the user with a printer-friendly version of pages. It seems there are several choices when it comes to providing the user with a printer-friendly page. You can open the page in a couple of different wasy: - open the printer-frien

Re: [IxDA Discuss] DC Ixda

Hello, I am looking for companies who can run focus groups in the following locations: US %u2013 New York Spain %u2013 Barcelona or Madrid Brazil %u2013 Rio or San Paulo China %u2013 Beijing or Shanghai India %u2013 Mumbai or Delhi Russia %u2013 Moscow Will be great if you can recommend companies

[IxDA Discuss] Patterns for complaints

Hey all, What do the Interaction Designers here think is the best way for making a complaint through the internet. Im working on a complaint system. People need to specify there complaint (Location / Complaint base on..) I was thinking of filtering it down with dropdown lists, but im not quit

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Thinking

Suggest there is a nice opportunity (sweet spot) for designers to help the business translate strategy into design - so design not as it relates to screens, products or services but as it relates to the business communicating a vision, business plan or road map. If you can help management do that

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing for Specific Audiences- in this case Finance

Hi Paige- I'll echo what Dante said - the professionals in financial services are very happy with dense information. If you are afraid of making your screens dense, you can often slow down the interaction enough to frustrate these users. This is an area that really needs good personas and task an

Re: [IxDA Discuss] HCI / Interaction Design- The difference?

I'm afraid I'm the worst person to ask about today's programs.I can think of a few highly regarded ones. Carnegie Mellon is probably the best, and very design oriented. UC Berkely has the SILS program, which has a CS history but is good at design process. UC San Diego has a program that is m

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Difference b/w online & installed apps

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Vishal Iyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was asking from a IxD perspective (conceptually too). Say you're > designing > an image editing tool that will be distributed both online and as an > installable s/w. Assuming there are no technical limitations, would they

[IxDA Discuss] Workshops on HCI Design in Mumbai (India)

Dear Friends, I am happy to announce "Weekend Workshops on User Centered Design 2008-Mumbai" on behalf of Design Incubator R&D Labs. This year, we plan to conduct 4 Modules of Workshops spanning over 7 weekends (14 Days!). The Modules are: UCD 01 – Introduction to User Centered Design (2 days

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Difference b/w online & installed apps

Michael, I totally agree, these are the technical decisions that our dev team is making. Photoshop won't be an online app in the near future, but there are basic image editing programs that are. I was asking from a IxD perspective (conceptually too). Say you're designing an image editing tool tha

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Difference b/w online & installed apps

Hi Vishal, I work in a real-time two-way communications domain, so I'm off at the edge here. But I find there are a small constellation of functions that just don't work now with browser-based applications without either employing crazy architectures or shoveling massive traffic across the network

[IxDA Discuss] DC Ixda

Thanks Will, for organizing the meet and greet last night in Dupont Circle. Nice to meet all of you - great turnout. I hope we can do that again, and on a regular basis. Mark Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To po

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Sign in/Login a button and Sign Out/ Log Out link?

I am working on an enterprise web app for a certain set of users.  And they might not hit sign out/ log out often since they have to always perform certain tasks.   For ecommerce or external web apps my understanding is that sign out is a link so it is not prominent and we don’t lose the user bu

[IxDA Discuss] Sign in/Login a button and Sign Out/ Log Out link?

Anybody conducted research on having Sign in/Login a button and Sign Out/ Log Out link? Regards, Kinjal Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.ya

[IxDA Discuss] Difference b/w online & installed apps

I'm designing Interaction models, process flows and interfaces for an application that can potentially be an online app or an installed one (depending on capability, performance needs). From a design perspective, should there be a difference between the two? There are of course inherent interface e

[IxDA Discuss] [PLUG] Adaptive Path Events - Price Increase after April 30!

IxDers-- At Adaptive Path, we've got two upcoming events of potential interest here, and the prices for both increase April 30. UX Intensive - Minneapolis, June 16-19 http://www.adaptivepath.com/events/2008/jun/ This is our four-day, hand-on, skills-building event, each day covering a distin

Re: [IxDA Discuss] how to position a new "beta" feature -- examples?

> Can anyone think of any sites that are currently offering > two versions of a particular feature, classic and > beta? Microsoft's download service is currently being offered-up in two flavours with a pop-up/overlay inviting you to try the 'enhanced' version. Just in time for XP SP3 :-/ J.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Thinking

- Original Message - > From: "Kontra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Scott Berkun: > > Apple is a great example of what can happen when they do (although to be > > fair, I doubt Jobs or Wozniak would call themselves designers.Certainly not > > when they started). > > I'm baffled by this examp

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Thinking

> - Original Message - > From: "Christopher Fahey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If you broaden the definition of design in this way, then it's clear > that countless companies were founded by and/or eventually helmed by > designers. > > (long stretch of excellent stuff trimmed out) I agree. I'