Paige,
Recommended many times before, Tufte's Visual Display of Quantitative
Information would probably be a good read if you haven't got it
already.
http://snipurl.com/tufte_on_amazon_us
It is well worth the $28 and very relevant to your audience.
Regards,
Alex.
Hi Erik,
One of the projects I oversaw while I was at the BBC was the Complaints web
site. The BBC receives a lot of feedback from the British license fee payers
and has a history of creating forums on TV in particular, of airing those
complaints in shows like Points of view
Hi Oleg,
iRise enables you to do this in their Document tab. It's a clunky tool,
but you can easily tie requirements and your own or reviewers' comments
to widgets in the Document tab. Unfortunately, the tool itself is
difficult for non-programmers to use, and what you see (in the design
state) is
Anyone hear when the fabled 3G phone might actually be in stores?
June seems like a likely candidate:
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20080428PB202.html
http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2008/04/foxconn-leaks-like-sieve.html
...since it coincides with two things:
* Apple's WWDC
On Apr 29, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Vishal Iyer wrote:
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
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All,
I am working on the research thread Trust on Mobile.
Could some of you drive me to some research citations, examples, etc.?
Sincerely,
Kunal.
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
To post to this list ...
Hi everyone, I'm just wondering, is there a guideline that one should
follow when it comes to making the site printer-friendly?
I've been reading some articles saying that to make your site
printer-friendly then the images should be taken out, it's ok to use
fixed width etc... Or is it supposed
Dear list,
the organisers of UX08 in Melbourne have extended a promo code for
IxDA members to attend this months conference.. details below
cheers
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Hi Vishal,
A lot of the work we've done here at Picnik.com has been to ensure that
our app is a good web citizen. Meaning, back and forward buttons do in
fact navigate as expected, users can in fact create bookmarks to
specific tools, and perhaps most importantly, the app does everything it
I am finishing my HCI degree I've been contemplating the idea of
getting some courses in web mining and taking the online courses
offered by UBC in Web Analytics.
My take is that it can only make me more marketable besides the fact
that I find it interesting...Or am I completing deviating?
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I am looking for information on Layered (Faceted) Navigation
techniques, especially in regards to e-commerce.
I see this similar type of navigation working very differently between
most sites out there.
I was wondering if there were any favorites out there, or any research/
user studies
I asked about this a while ago:
http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=23190search=facet
Best
Johan
Apr 29, 2008 kl. 10:01 PM skrev Thomas Marks:
I am looking for information on Layered (Faceted) Navigation
techniques, especially in regards to e-commerce.
I see this similar type of
What do the Interaction Designers here think is the best way for making a
complaint through the internet.
Avoiding complaints in the first place ;)
However and relating complaints to errors, mistakes, whatsoever, this
seems to be more of a QA issue. And in this regard, offering a
feedback and
Hi everyone, I'm just wondering, is there a guideline that one should
follow when it comes to making the site printer-friendly?
Somehow, yes:
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20070221/print-style-sheets-the-basics-for-no-excuses/.
Pointing to that since, as has already been pointed out, duplicating
This is a great article about faceted navigation and may help
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/user_interface_implementations_of_faceted_browsing/
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Johan Sjöstrand
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I asked about this a while ago:
Hi
I am looking for pointers on how to design desktop menus for a typical
windows
desktop application. My problem is that in our application we have around
170
menu items and its getting difficult to accomodate all without compromising
on either extending it horizontally (by having more top level
Thomas – first, faceted search/navigation is one possible techinique to use
– but it is not a panacea. There are many types of techniques available
(federated, for instance), which is why you must really start from the
problem space definition (area of concern), and do the user research to find
More resources:
*Information scent as a driver of Web behavior graphs. *
*Proceedings of the Conference on Human factors in computing systems CHI '01
Association for Computing **Machinery. *
By Card, Stuart K., Peter Pirolli
*Sorting out searching: a user-interface framework for text
Here is an update to this post
Leah Buley posted some templates she uses at Adaptive Path on her blog at
http://ugleah.tumblr.com/post/31643831
On 7/9/07, Michele Marut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All,
Looking for any templates that allow groups to capture brainstorm ideas on
individual pieces
- Office style Collapse and hide entries that aren't being used, and
especially those that can't be used at the time.
- OSX style sliding scrollbanes
- Vista style autocomplete commands
- Use the frame around your app to create palettes, like nouns, actions, etc.
- separate into panels that can
I am looking for pointers on how to design desktop menus for a typical
Windows desktop application.
Pankaj,
Love it or hate it, Microsoft has defined guidelines for menus that have
formed de facto patterns by their pervasiveness. Check out
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511502.aspx
Thomas – first,
faceted search/navigation is one possible technique to use – but it is not a
panacea. There are many types of techniques available (federated, for
instance), which is why you must really start from the problem space
definition (area of concern), and do the user research to find
It sounds like you need to do some card-sorting to handle all these
items..to reorganize them.
You may also want to explore what kind of mental models each of these
tasks have so they can be grouped accordingly.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Posted from
Hi Panjak:
I frequently have to accommodate many options and types of navigations
depending on the business and client and the need to align the application
with a specific usage and therefore sometimes the navigation structure.
This may also be affected by the technology used, and the
IxDA Folks -
This year the UPA 2008 conference is in Baltimore. I am going, and I did
notice that the program is filled with sessions of interest to the IxDA
community. If there are those of you that are signed up for the conference -
and there is some interest - I would love to put together a
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/susdesign/design-behaviour/index.htm
This site, Design | Behaviour (from the UK) seems really interesting.
They don't talk about IxD, but it really sounds like they are using core
facets of IxD theory and practice in the work being explored.
We had an event here
Axure just released a new version, version 5, that integrates version
control. I haven't used it myself yet (although I'm about to!).
Here's a demo of how it works: http://www.axure.com/p401_1.aspx
F.
On 4/29/08, Paul Reijnierse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everyone,
I think a lot of people
Matt,
There is an IxDA group already on LinkedIn. See this thread...
http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=20750
Regards, Shep McKee
On Apr 30, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Matthew Nish-Lapidus wrote:
I recently received a number of invitations to groups on LinkedIn...
it occurred to me that we really
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You have a good point Matt -- I only have it because I remember that thread
and immediately joined - but their federated search doesn't allow you to
find groups - which is odd.
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Matthew Nish-Lapidus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Thanks! And now everybody else has
Thanks! And now everybody else has this too.. I actually tried to
find it on LinkedIn but had no luck.
Should this be mailed out as part of the IxDA subscription confirmation?
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Shep McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matt,
There is an IxDA group already on
There's also a Facebook group for the main organization and a few groups for
various local chapters too.
Kind regards,
Angel Anderson
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Will Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
You have a good point Matt -- I only have it because I remember that
thread
and
As Angel mentioned there is an IXDA group on Orkut.
Here you are:
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=47828937
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Angel Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
There's also a Facebook group for the main organization and a few groups
for
various local chapters too.
Anybody have a super-distilled version of the Cooper design process? I'm
thinking something like:
1. Research user goals.
2. Refine research results.
3. Develop personas.
4. Write high-level scenarios.
Etc. etc.
I guess one could make one based on the chapter/section titles from About
Love it or hate it, Microsoft has defined guidelines for menus that
have
formed de facto patterns by their pervasiveness. Check out
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511502.aspx for details.
It's interesting that they didn't include the Ribbon in the guidelines,
but that would be
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For years a debate has persisted between interactive design professionals
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