Computers are used in sociable situations, for example during customer
meetings. This is seldom recognized in design, which means that
computers often become a hindrance in the meeting. Based on empirical
studies and socio-cultural theory, this thesis provides perspectives
on sociable use and
From a legal perspective, your employer generally owns all the
intellectual property associated with your work (though you could have
a contract that does allow you certain joint rights). If you develop
a method inside a company, say a particular way to do workflow design,
there might be aspects
On Jun 16, 2008, at 5:42 AM, Liou Yamane wrote:
I have encountered the following problem several times at my current
job as a IxD-er without finding a satisfying solution:
What to do when a search is executed with no input, thus an empty
search query? Concretely, this means hitting the
On Jun 15, 2008, at 7:23 AM, AmirBehzad Eslami wrote:
What articles have written on this
subject?
In 1997, my colleagues and I wrote an entire book on the subject:
http://tinyurl.com/4hx9sz
How do you evaluate websites if you're in hurry?
It's simple. There's only one question: Can the
On Jun 13, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Paolo Passeri wrote:
I'm trying to find good interaction design, innovation, prototyping,
usability...podcasts!
You can find our podcasts at http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/topics/podcasts/
I'd like to think they are pretty good...
Jared
Jared M. Spool
User
Caroline,
Thanks for the thoughtful response! I suspect that the context of form may
play a greater role than number of fields. Applying for a loan vs. Sign in
to an instant message program.
Thanks for the lead on survey research!
b v
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Caroline Jarrett
[EMAIL
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Dear Shrikant, and
Dear Itamar,
I was aware of heuristic evaluation. The problem with this approach,
- IMO - is that it requires one or more Usability Engineers(s) for
conducting
the evaluation. But thank you anyway; I appreciate your kind and informative
replies.
Dear Charles,
I'm going to stick
I guess you already know: http://www.uxpod.com/
This one's on user experience and more than a nice to have.
Bengi
www.bilende.com
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Chauncey Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
A few more:
Design Critique: Products for People (iTunes)
PRI: Design for the Real
Imagine you're invited to take a pre-release peek at the next multi-billion
dollar development for the world's premier software firm. Now imagine that
you more than peek, you're INSIDE, managing, building, fostering the User
Experience Team and actually helping to set the vision for ensuring
Looking for a UI designer/specialist. This person should have two years
experience designing user interfaces. Understanding the benefits of process
headers, buttons vs. links and common usability guidelines is desired. A UI
specialist who also brings copy skills to the table -- writing/editing
Hey, hey.
I'm doing a benchmark about isometric navigation abd perspective in
navigation. Anyone can help me? I need some examples about this themes.
Thank you,
--
adelle araujo
55 11 93600875
Welcome to the Interaction
After spending some time with Everything is Miscellaneous
organization alphaebetically is starting to look so arbitrary to me
as to be verging on absurd. But I guess some merging of the two would
be best in this case.
Tabs for lumping together categories and some finer sorting
alphabetically
I think this post by Seth Godin (who is not a UX person - he's a
marketing person, even if he sometimes thinks he is a UX person -
snark!),
http://tinyurl.com/c2lyt
All customers are smarter than average...
In study after study, respondents rate themselves as less racist than
average, smarter
The survey literature does contain some studies that examine the
number of questions and the density of questions and there is a
moderate relationship between the number of questions and response
rates; however, as Caroline notes, motivation and other factors play a
role. There is some discussion
One laptop with webcam built-in mic works better than a webcam and separate
headset.
However, ...
I have just come to the conclusion that I need to have a second computer in the
room -- networked to the user's computer -- so that I can use Morae Observer to
annotate things as they're
One of the organizations I volunteer for get hit counts from Go Daddy
for its website (www.rutlandhistory.com http://www.rutlandhistory.com/
).
We are getting about 20,000 hits a month.
How many of these hits can I believe to be searchers, rather than
spiders, etc?
Is there any way to tell?
They probably do include spiders. I have a domain they host as well, but
I've never looked at their analytics tools.
You should look into google analytics, www.google.com/analytics. It's a
free page tag based analytics tool that will give you much richer data than
the log analyzers from
Another tool (free and open source) along these lines is Compendium
(www.compendiuminstitute.org). Some are using it for IA and similar
applications.
Al
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Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:32:08 -0700
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Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Open source wireframe software
On Jun 16, 2008, at 4:59 PM, Leah Buley wrote:
Ok, so maybe a full blown thesaurus is overkill for an office supply
site. But you can't convince me that alphabetical order is obsolete.
No, it's not obsolete.
However, it *is* akin to random order.
There are few exceptions where
Doesn't matter. Hits are a meaningless metric.
Check out Robert Hoakman's blog posting, Myth of the Magic Metric. as well
as thousands of other articles written about site analytics and the fact
that hits, isn't worth the time it takes to say that one syllable word :-)
Myth of the Magic Metric:
The one exception to that rule...Hits are quite valuable in
determining load capacity and performance planning for infrastructure.
Bryan Minihan
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On Jun 17, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Will Evans wrote:
Doesn't matter. Hits are a meaningless metric.
Check out Robert Hoakman's blog
If you look at the referrer string of each request, if it has a query on it,
like a Google search, then it's probably a person.
Also, the user agent strings of bots tend to identify themselves as bots.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Piotrowski, Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
One of the
I use Morae Recorder, Observer, and Manager regularly. Manager is a little
bit clunky, but now that I understand how it works I don't find it to be all
that difficult to use.
The only reason to use Observer, IMO, is if you planning on logging during
the session. For example, I've used a
There have been a number of attempts at wireframing support for Cold
Fusion over the years. Pretty niche, but I do like playing in the open
source world a lot for establishing clear prior art (ala the p*tent
dialogue). I open sourced an early javascript web analytics bug back
in '01 for
Hi Behzad:
It sounds like you have plenty of good advice already, but let me add
my two bits. For website clients whom I was pretty sure wouldn't
understand Nielsen's heuristics, I created this 4-item list (with
explanatory bullets):
I know where I am.
* The system provides clear answers
LUNAR is doing weekly podcasts, some of which are about IxD, some about
design in general, ID and Mechanical Engineering.
http://iconocast.typepad.com/
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Bengi Turgan
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 5:01 AM
Hey Amir,
Use 'Heuristics' evaluation approach -
http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html. These are a set
of guidelines which will help you in reviewing the design. This quick, easy
and cheap.
Ofcourse you will also get plenty information on internet on many guidelines
and
One of the organizations I volunteer for get hit counts from Go Daddy
for its website (www.rutlandhistory.com http://www.rutlandhistory.com/
).
If you're actually looking at hits, the number will be totally
meaningless. A hit is any requested file. This can include XML and
Javascript files,
Although...typically most web analytic tools have been set up (either
by default or during installation) to ignore non-layout pages (gif,
jpg, css, js, inc, cgi, etc) and should just return hits
representing single pages. As Robert mentions, though, Google and
other tools do a better job
I suggest: Blog about principles instead of methodology. Methodology
seems more contextual (varies much) whereas principles - stuff you
learned for yourself - can help others create a foundation. You can
do this without even mentioning your employer.
What you learn is more important than how a
Adelle,
http://www.miamiadschool.com/ comes to mind as a good example of
navigation in perspective. It's taken some obvious queues from Sim City,
but should help provide some direction.
Pace Koenig
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Adelle
[ Apologies to those who receive more than one copy of this. ]
Greetings,
You're invited to attend a party to honor the launch of the second
edition of the Handbook of Usability Testing.
Where:
Cinghiale Restaurant
822 Lancaster Street,
Baltimore, MD 21202
When:
Wednesday, June 18,
If your email had not indicate there would be navigation in
perspective I don't think I would have clicked on anything in the
image. I almost didn't anyway. There is no affordance and I thought
it was just artwork.
On Jun 17, 2008, at 8:56 AM, Pace Koenig wrote:
Adelle,
I went to this site.
The navigation was horrible. One link - to get the Flash plugin. And the
message lied to me. It said for optimum viewing experience you need Flash
when the truth was that for Any viewing experience you MUST have flash
Lame. Flash only sites are so 1999.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008
No sure if this an appropriate forum, but a friend asked me for a
opinion on a shopping cart solution. Anybody have a good or great
recommendation for such a service? It is a small two person business
shipping hand made products (think etsy).
Thanks in advance,
Mark
On Jun 17, 2008, at 3:25 PM, Diana Wynne wrote:
I rely on alphabetical order at the bookstore and the library. Makes
me crazy trying to find non-fiction titles when I don't understand
the classification system (oh, this is California history, not
travel).
Oh, really? I've never seen an
Jared Spool wrote:
Oh, really? I've never seen an alphabetical bookstore
or library. ...
Again, unless you shopped in a record that didn't
have much a selection, I doubt this was true.
This is a little disingenuous. I think it's perfectly valid to
describe alphabetical order within a genre
Hi Folks,
there was a discussion about Serena Composer in November 2007:
http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=22516
Has anyone had the chance to use Serena Composer for a while and might be able
to share their experiences?
--
Sascha
Hey there,
Do any of y¹all have a one-sheet or perhaps a tri-fold that you distribute
to your clients to educate them in the importance if IxD? Often times, I
find my clients either 1) feel the time and workflow we dedicate to IxD is
wasteful and needlessly expensive or 2) even worse, they feel
How efficient Morae Observer makes you depends on how you analyze your data and
your ability to multi-task (if you're doing it on your own, it can be quite a
task to moderate as well as take detailed notes).
I use Recorder, Observer, and Manager and find Observer to be very helpful.
The
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In my opinion the search engines should always show some kind of
results. Why? Because that's the main thing what they should do:
show results (no blank pages or 0 results). If searching word is
stupid, just write a message: we couldn't finde words that are 100%
relevant for your searching word,
Brett, I should've been more clear. I got my start out of school working
in architecture and, as a result, took Adelle's request for isometric
navigation a bit too literally. This site happens to be the only
example I can recall seeing that addresses this particular type of
perspective. Isometric
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