Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fonts and paper prototyping

2008-09-09 Thread Ron Vutpakdi
We have been using Tekton Pro as the sketchy font. To my eyes, Tekton Pro appears hand written, but neat enough to avoid being childish. Another advantage is that Tekton Pro seems to ship with Adobe products from Photoshop Elements on up. But, I think that the more important issue is making the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fonts and paper prototyping

2008-09-09 Thread Bryan Minihan
Funny, but I was going to suggest Tekton as well...one of my favorite fonts for its proximity to my own handwriting (just...legible =]). One method I've used for sketchy looking boxes is to give them a rap sheet and a back-story, in case they get ratted out by a CI... No really...you could try

[IxDA Discuss] [JOB] Experience Lead, NYC, Wechsler, full time/perm

2008-09-09 Thread Mark Green
Wechsler is a leading marketing communications firm serving the financial services industry. We're searching for an Experience Lead to join our team of multi-faceted web professionals to guide web projects from discovery to launch. Experience in an interactive agency or e-business team of

[IxDA Discuss] Sparse Member Profiles: To show or not show?

2008-09-09 Thread Heather Anderson
Hi there! I've recently run into an interesting challenge where a new community site is launching, however, for it to be useful the member profiles need to contain content, more than just a name and a city. As an experience architect, I wouldn't create a process where a user would end up at a

[IxDA Discuss] A question about the discussion forum experience

2008-09-09 Thread Alex Jones
Howdy all, I'm wrestling with a small difference around forum behavior that I hope will generate some interesting conversation here. When you return to a forum that you are a member of (you have an account and are logged in), and that forum displays the count of unread posts for each

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2008-09-09 Thread Dave Meeker
All - Please forgive my LinkedIn Request. I am about to fire off an email to them to tell them that the user experience of adding your friends from email is pretty poor, seeing as how every single person in my gmail account happened to get an email from them last evening... including about 5000

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2008-09-09 Thread Will Evans
I believe we have a friend over at LinkedIn - Christina W. who can apologize for LinkedIn's Bac'n generator :-) I have come to despise Bac'n. On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Dave Meeker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All - Please forgive my LinkedIn Request. I am about to fire off an email to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2008-09-09 Thread Dave Meeker
Thanks Will... and again, sorry everyone! What a bad situation! For anyone who cares... here is the experience that I had which has led to a zillion people I don't know that well getting LinkedIn requests from me. That bothers me because I like LinkedIn a lot, but ONLY use it for people I

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Why are password fields asterisked on join-up forms?

2008-09-09 Thread Carolynn Stanford
Jake, I'm not understanding your comment... *You should never EVER input your password into a field that isn't asterisked. This goes way beyond someone peering over your shoulder.* I've been experimenting with this on a new site and from what my developer colleagues have told me, using

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Sparse Member Profiles: To show or not show?

2008-09-09 Thread pauric
Heather: Can anyone provide solid data as to why or why not to show this type of content? Nope, but... I'd turn the perspective around to two questions 1) As a searcher, why give results with no valuable content? If people wanted directory listings, fine. However its a community site and so

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2008-09-09 Thread Andrew Jaswa
But Bac'n is so tasty! Is it anything like spam? On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Will Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe we have a friend over at LinkedIn - Christina W. who can apologize for LinkedIn's Bac'n generator :-) I have come to despise Bac'n. On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:00

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Sparse Member Profiles: To show or not show?

2008-09-09 Thread Mark Hurd
Privacy would be the primary factor to me. Take Facebook - I want my friends to find me in search results, but I don't want all my profile information available to John Q. Stalker. I may have a very extensive profile that *appears* sparse in a search executed by a user I don't know. . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Why are password fields asterisked on join-up forms?

2008-09-09 Thread Jim Burrows
While I agree that the Enter your email again to confirm is problematic fr a number of reasons (power users will cut and paste, forms fill-in will fill in the first correctly leaving the second empty which the user can then fill in incorrectly and double entry being close enough to error recovery

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fonts and paper prototyping

2008-09-09 Thread Janna
Thanks to all for the great insights. I plan to download the paper and the team has agreed to use a less obtrusive font for the testing. Janna C. Kimel, JK Consulting Career: Design Research/User Experience Volunteer: Co Vice-Chair OR-IDSA Blogging: http://seenheardnoticed.blogspot.com/ Calling:

[IxDA Discuss] Native vs. Non-native look-and-feel

2008-09-09 Thread Matt Doe
Hi everyone, We are charged with the redesign of a cross platform (Windows, Mac and Linux) application. From data we've collected, we know about 93 percent of users are Windows users, 6-7 percent are Mac and the remaining 1 percent are some flavor of Linux. The application was originally written

[IxDA Discuss] Volunteer! IxDA Local Groups needs you!

2008-09-09 Thread IxDA Local Groups
Did you know that IxDA has over FIFTY IxDA Local Groups around the world? IxDA St. Petersburg (Russia)... to IxDA Belo Horizonte (Brazil)... to IxDA Columbus (Ohio), word is spreading and people are gathering to bring IxD topics to life within their communities of practice. Check out our growing

Re: [IxDA Discuss] chrome license terms and conditions

2008-09-09 Thread Nasir Barday
Google: Our bad, we'll change it - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080903-google-on-chrome-eula-controversy-our-bad-well-change-it.html :-) - Nasir Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Native vs. Non-native look-and-feel

2008-09-09 Thread Katie Albers
Hi, Color me confused. What exactly do you mean by native? Do you mean you've designed a different interface for each platform (which is what I usually understand native to mean in this context) or do you mean that you're designing a single interface for all 3 that is native to some unspoken

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Axure Pattern Library

2008-09-09 Thread Kristopher Kinlen
Put them to good use today actually! Am a newbie to Axure and these were a big help. Good stuff! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32792

[IxDA Discuss] Job: Lawrence, Kansas, USA: mobile interaction designer, mobile design producer

2008-09-09 Thread Barbara Ballard
Looking to work in mobile design?http://www.littlespringsdesign.com/blog/blog/2008/09/09/looking-to-work-in-mobile-design/ Looking to expand your stellar interaction design skills into mobile? Or perhaps you are already a rock star mobile designer? Like working with companies from startups to