Re: [IxDA Discuss] seo and usability

I beg to differ Andy. Much of SEO is hard fact. The superstitious ones were driven out by Google and its relentless drive to create a "perfect" search tool. Give me a superstition and I'll find you the patent or research to support it as a best practice. SEO did not kill the splash page. It is al

Re: [IxDA Discuss] seo and usability

And I would agree. All search engine optimization should do is provide the optimum visibility to the dominant information finding technology. Anyone who says differently is a quack by my book. The value add to optimizing your sites for search is that you take giant steps towards making it more ac

[IxDA Discuss] (Job) User Experience Designers, Seattle, Artefact

User Experience Designer Artefact Site: http://www.artefactgroup.com Blog: http://artefactgroup.com/frontier/ Location - Seattle, WA Submissions - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send resume and cover letter with "User Experience Designer job application" in the subject line. Job reports to: Owne

[IxDA Discuss] JOB::: USER INTERFACE DESIGNERS: Central NJ: Long term Freelance-:Recruiter

I am recruiting for 2 UX positions in Central New Jersey 1. ASSOCIATE CREATIVE DIRECTOR Responsibilities > Leads senior and junior visual designers with daily interaction and review of work > Participates in research, project meetings and strategic presentations > Schedules and allocates v

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Gorgeous Mobile UI eye-candy

Cool, wildly unrealistic mobile concepts? Sounds like Flash Lite to me. Just kidding, but IIRC the Flash Lite gallery used to present some unorthodox designs when it was under Macromedia. Not sure how it's evolved under Adobe: http://www.adobe.com/mobile/gallery/ Here's another gallery of apps for

[IxDA Discuss] Gorgeous Mobile UI eye-candy

Hello, I am working on designing a mobile application, and I am trying to spark some inspiration from good designs by previous designers - does anyone know where I can find a gallery of cool, good looking mobile UI concepts, even if wildly unrealistic? I'm just trying to get out of the paradigm I'

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Live.com and font size

Right, they allow zooming (by specifing font size in percents) but I'm not sure if doing font-size: 70% is good default. -- Maxim Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] U

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Live.com and font size

I checked it both in FF and IE. Live Search looks good, but many other services of Live.com family use that small font in both browsers. -- Maxim Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [E

[IxDA Discuss] more on twitter as an emerging important medium

http://tinyurl.com/3ktwyj this is about how it was used in China's relief efforts. -- dave -- David Malouf http://synapticburn.com/ http://ixda.org/ http://motorola.com/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To po

Re: [IxDA Discuss] getting into a master's program when you have poorundergraduate grades?

HI Michael, I found myself in a similar situation a few years ago. I had to take courses to prove I wasn't an idiot before being admitted to grad school. (The penalty for having too much fun as an undergrad.) Are there no courses you can take to earn your entry, that would fit with the program

[IxDA Discuss] Google Group's View All

I am also finding setting up a Group page is not that easy. I'm not quite sure what they had in mind when developing the interface, but it's clearly not what *I* have in mind! Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To p

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IRC for IXDA?

Hi, Here's a suggestion for an alternative to IRC. I'm co-founder of a web-based chat startup called Chatroll, and it sounds like it would be an ideal home for an informal chat group like the one being discussed. It's very lightweight, easy to get to (an IxDA group would have its own permanent UR

[IxDA Discuss] Live.com and font size

Hi there, I have a question (may be if there designers of Live.com services they will answer it): Why many of Live.com sections and services use small font size (about 11px in browsers I have). I've though it common wisdom to go with at least 12px for main content. Few examples: - http://publish

[IxDA Discuss] Quality Assurance in a Web group

Does anyone have any feedback on attributes that work best or even better practices in unleashing a QA person in an UCD environment? My company needs to step up the quality of our deliverables but we are concerned that we may need to be taking additional items into consideration as we seek the rig

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Why isn't voice-based UI mainstream?

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Michael Micheletti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Jeff Garbers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Why aren't we talking to our computers yet? Should we be? Apple includes basic speech recognition on Macs: http://www.apple.com/accessi

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Why isn't voice-based UI mainstream?

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Jeff Garbers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why aren't we talking to our computers yet? Should we be? > Or cars. I've been thinking about BMW's iDrive while following this thread. This is a screen-based control system that also has a voice control interface. I reme

Re: [IxDA Discuss] seo and usability

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:08 AM, AJKock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If longer is better, how can there be a specific optimal length? > Wouldn't long as possible be the optimal length? I think what you're pointing to is an unfortunate contraction in the phrase "longer is better." What I take t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] seo and usability

SEO can lead to some odd permutations... I'm not saying it is necessarily "good" SEO, but I've seen it happen. Example: Jamming up an HTML page title with SEO-specific keywords in the FRONT of the title, and the actual name of the site after a colon or a pipe at the end. Usability Problem: Ultima

Re: [IxDA Discuss] adding the twitter badge to the IxDA site?

I thought about this more - while I was on the phone with Todd W this morning, and for some reason Todd reminded me of Marshall McCluhan, the Medium Is The Message -- What is the message for Twitter vis a vis email or ixda.org discussion or IRC? Each can be assumed to be nothing more than agnostic

Re: [IxDA Discuss] adding the twitter badge to the IxDA site?

AJ, This to me is all about one of the core areas that defines decisions in interaction design. -- "posture" as Cooper discusses it. I call it focus. How much focus do I want to or need to or can put on a given task? IRC is chat. It's design intention and its formatting and functionality are all d

Re: [IxDA Discuss] adding the twitter badge to the IxDA site?

Will, you are serving your @semanticwill moniker well.;-) Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guideline

Re: [IxDA Discuss] seo and usability

"But UIE has strong data showing that longer links work better." - A Aaah, you see I have this rule. Under certain conditions anything can be possible. What are important are those conditions. Firstly I haven't read the book "The scent of Information", but it looks very interesting and I definite

Re: [IxDA Discuss] getting into a master's program when you have poor undergraduate grades?

Michael, I think you are limiting yourself and letting your past dictate what your future is going to be. I went through a similar situation years ago. Find schools you want to go to and who are going to help you succeed. Why waste your time and money at place that is too focused on your grades?

Re: [IxDA Discuss] adding the twitter badge to the IxDA site?

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:46 PM, David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if the quality of the twitter group is going to be high or low, > but it is happening and I wonder if people might want to see what is > happening on it. > > Anyone can see what is posted to the group here: http

Re: [IxDA Discuss] adding the twitter badge to the IxDA site?

Dave, how would this be more than IRC for the masses? Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ..

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Terminology issues

Not quite. I believe (though I'm trying to confirm) that people in our offices in China, Japan, and Korea will use their own language and English and will manually enter this information. If someone is in our France office, they enter the information once in either French or English as their Lo

Re: [IxDA Discuss] adding the twitter badge to the IxDA site?

Okay - I read the BW article - which I humbly think was complete fluff - there was no there, there (an unbearable lightness of non being). I am really warming up to twitter, and have found that it is definitely creating more immediacy in my conversations in the third place with folks. I know that

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Terminology issues

No, at this time there is no plans to do the translations. I also feel for these users, especially since the large majority of the time, nobody needs both sets of data. The problem is that we can't always predict when someone will need to see both languages and for what reason. For 2 applicatio

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Creating notes for affinity diagrams

There are several issues here: 1. How do the people going through the interview code items that are very similar (making the same point with a high-degree of inter-rater reliability). 2. What if a single user repeats something more than once during a single interview. 3. What if the same item com

[IxDA Discuss] Odd web design problems

Hi Christine, interesting problem and no small order for a new recruit to the field of interaction design! My suggestion would be to look in to 'elastic lists' as a way to solve this problem. My favourite example is: http://well-formed-data.net/experiments/elastic_lists/ I'm not suggesting you n

Re: [IxDA Discuss] adding the twitter badge to the IxDA site?

Hi gang, BW has a nice article on Twitter that I thought relevant to people. http://tinyurl.com/3ssj5l As to the "intimacy" discussion that Will brings up, I totally disagree. My use of twitter and experience of it, totally leads to "closeness" in my own personal feelings with many of the people

[IxDA Discuss] Odd web design problems

Hello, I can't seem to phrase this in 160 characters or less, so I decided to switch from Twittering to the list. I'm creating a website for a client. She has a series of fantasy books (unpublished) that she wants to put into a website. She doesn't want her readers to be locked into a linear story

[IxDA Discuss] JOB: Junior UX Designer / Solutions Architect : Boulder, CO : Full-Time : HiveLive

We are looking for a talented junior UX / IA designer to join our well funded and quickly growing startup. Situated near the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, HiveLive offers a high energy work environment focused on teamwork and collaboration. Applicants for this position should include a: link to the

[IxDA Discuss] The Rise of Contextual User Interfaces

Stumbled upon this great article on ReadWriteWeb http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_rise_of_contextual_user_interfaces.php It talks about the journey from Microsoft's "Throw every imaginable choice at users at once" to Apple's "liberating movement towards simplistic, contextual interfaces" a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Creating notes for affinity diagrams

It depends on the application - I generally don't weight items as a result of frequency as it can be tough to know why one item was mentioned more than others. For example, many people might notice that a car is dirty, but thats not necessarily more important that the fact the it has a flat tire.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] seo and usability

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:23 PM, mark schraad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://searchengineland.com/080514-075657.php > I found this article a bit disturbing and am curious what others think, > particularly those that specialize in usability and usability research? I agree; it is a little di

Re: [IxDA Discuss] adding the twitter badge to the IxDA site?

I have been thinking alot about Twitter and "ambiant intimacy..." First - I object to the term, since it is not intimacy at all. Knowing what you are up to does not intimacy make. The term is completely wrong - unless we redefine intimacy as nothing more that knowing whats going on in each others

Re: [IxDA Discuss] adding the twitter badge to the IxDA site?

AJ I think your problem is the way you are thinking about using Twitter. The term "ambient intimacy" has been thrown about (coined by Leisa Reichtl) to describe what Twitter, Jaiku, and similar micro-blogging services are all about. So what does that mean? Well, basically it is ambient. It is abou

Re: [IxDA Discuss] seo and usability

Yes, your hamburger example is funny! But UIE has strong data showing that longer links work better. See http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.uie.com+link+length and specifically the commercial offering: http://www.uie.com/reports/scent_of_information/ -A AJKock wrote: "Where in particu

Re: [IxDA Discuss] seo and usability

"Where in particular do you find SEO at odds with good UX?" SEO prefers descriptive links, which leads to some people creating long phrases which they link. Usability: I find them less readable and distracting when reading. They are also loaded with keywords which are vague, but descriptive of the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] adding the twitter badge to the IxDA site?

"Why isn't there some sort of live subject cloud, which reflects the popularity of a particular discussion?" tweetclouds generates tag clouds. But I don't think it has a backward time limit—it uses all the tweets for the specified username to generate the cloud. Martin _

[IxDA Discuss] Google Group's View All

Is it just me or does anybody else find the Google Groups "View All" function, non-intuitive? You are busy readin down through the list of discussions and get to the bottom, realising that you discussion is on another page, you click "View All". Only to realise that it is the "View All" for members

Re: [IxDA Discuss] adding the twitter badge to the IxDA site?

I have always heard about twitter and it's popularity, but has never taken any time to really use it. I didn't see the attraction in just another chatbox. So I took a look at http://twitter.com/ixda and the first two questions that came up were: "Why doesn't the chats have some sort of subject head

[IxDA Discuss] Final call for papers for EuroIA

The submissions are rolling in these days for EuroIA in Amsterdam on September 26-27. That means we have no plans to extend the deadline for submissions. The deadline is set for this coming Sunday, May 19th at midnight CET. So, if you've been thinking about submitting, get cracking. You can read