Hi,
I'm working on project that I think is somewhat unique, and unfortunately, I
can only describe it in very general terms.
It's a data entry system for items that contain rather large amounts of data.
There are about 20 categories of data associated with each item. Each category
will
Could be fun.
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http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32535
Is anyone else really impressed that they wrote all of that from their
iPhone?
Hello!
I'm working on communicating the role of usability in the software
process to the development and UX team.
I would like to hear your* *opinions on diagrams or methods to
communicate the steps for ensuring usability in the development
process** (e.g. a graphic that show when to do
I recently read a blog entry by Timothy Ferris, the author of The
4-Hour Workweek, on how to never forget anything and easily find
everything you've saved. Definitely worth a read:
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/09/17/how-to-never-forget-anything-again/
Matt Anderson
Senior User
Some of how you answer this question has to do with how a user would
get to a desired file. Are they searching or sorting or both? If
sorting, can the sort be by file type?
Basically, how does including information about a file's type help
the user find and choose a correct file? If the file
Our UX team has hired multiple people who have focused their strengths
and education on areas that are not directly related to visual design.
The real question is what do you want to do after you have your
masters degree? You certainly can be a UX designer and with your
specialty skills in any
I have owned an iPhone for almost a year now, and my issue with the
touchscreen interface is not that it is hard to hit the keys
accurately the on-screen keyboard. My issue is that on a device with
a hardware keyboard your thumb(s) can be on the keys to hold and
steady the device, without
Hi IxD folks, some of you (Dave) may have seen the latest defining IA
thread on the IAI list and without wanting to encourage the kind of chaos
that erupted there i'd love to reach out to get your perspective on
something I created to try and distinguish disciplines from roles within UX.
There
I'm working on a project for a blog/conversation aggregator site. Does
anyone have any good recommendations for existing models and supporting
technologies?
Thanks for your help.
Robert
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association
Thank you all for the advice! I will definitely keep this all in mind.
Looks like the next year or so will be to develop a solid, cohesive
portfolio.
Cheers,
Robert
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:08 PM, susan dybbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Robert,
Looks like you already have some great
£50-60k+bonus+benefits
My top tier client is seeking to add to it's core UX management with the
addition of a proven Principle/Senior UX Consultant.
This role will see the incumbent slot next two the current principle team and
take part of the reigns for part of the UX business development,
*Contact: Stephanie Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Company: YELLOWPAGES.COM
Position Title: Senior Human Factors Engineer*
Department: Consumer Product
Reports to: Associate Director of Human Factors
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I will take a slightly different view from most of you and suggest
that i actually like the change in colors. I think it adds interest
and liveliness to the site. Esp if it is an ecommerce site.
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Posted from the new ixda.org
Site Map: I have been wondering how important the link Site Map is which I
am planning to do away with on a corporate website?
What I am looking at is to have those few sections and their sub-links
upfront at the bottom of the page for all the subsequent pages besides the
home page. Is this going
Hello all,
I have short question. Do any of you know of any good argumentation for when
to use a 'shopping cart' and when to use a 'shopping basked' (both image
and/or term) in an e-commerce website.
I myself would think that the choice would depend on whether you expect
people to buy a lot
I love this [http://www.mondex.org/] left-nav. One to chalk-up for screen
grabbing opportunities to demonstrate worst-case-scenarios.
Anyone care to share any other website howlers? (in a vain attempt to add
some levity to this list for the first time in weeks).
J.
What I am looking at is to have those few sections and their sub-links
upfront at the bottom of the page for all the subsequent pages besides the
home page.
This limits the scalability of the links when there may be more coming in.
And it is not obvious for a user to look for the links of other
I'm asking myself how important is a Site Map at all? I never search
for it on a site not to mention to use it.
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Posted from the new ixda.org
http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=33722
In my opinion - when your site's architecture and navigation are
brilliant, you don't need to prepare site map.
You don't need even if they're just OK.
BUT in some cases, when I just HAD TO find specific document inside
of complicated site - site maps was the last life belt for me. So
- unless
Of course, its good to have important links at the bottom of the page. But
the fact that it is not obvious means when a user is lost, he has no way to
know where to look for information, unless he notices it at the bottom of
the page. Secondly, links as few as 4 or 5 per section is good to have at
Sitemaps don't need to live on separate pages and they don't just
serve lost users.
Sitemaps can live comfortably at the foot of the page [1],[2],[3],[4]
and are particularly powerful from an SEO perspective [5]. It's there
when you need it, and it's out of the way when you don't.
[1]
Three things -
1. I believe that the 'lost user' will have scrolled to the bottom
of the page and, if executed as well as the Plusnet example ([3] in
my previous post), they will find the sitemap.
2. Sitemaps in the footer are a safety net - not a principle
navigation tool
3. Footer sitemaps are
I have noticed that amazon.co.uk uses Basket and amazon.com uses Cart,
both with the same shopping cart icon.
Andreas
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Posted from the new ixda.org
http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=33723
That is impressively bad. On a serious note, chunking long menus has a
highly demonstrable ROI. We obtained a 25% decrease in bounce rate and
overall 10% boost in revenue by chunking and adding headine to a left nav on
an e-commerce site.
Case study presented @ minute 16 at
Looking at the current conversation here i am lead to believe that for
a site which is not so heavily laden with links its appropriate to
have it at the bottom and below the fold. But then does it really
matter to have a site map for small sites with few links? However,
big sites, which have
Guillermo,
You asked:
I would like to hear your opinions on diagrams or methods to
communicate the steps for ensuring usability in the development
process
In the latter half of my presentation StUX - integrating IA deliverables in a
software development methodology for the IA Summit 2005, I
smartest way for a person to know where each of your website's pages are
locate. With the help of a sitemap a user does not need to go around
your website trying to search the information he requires. A simple look
at sitemap will show him the page and a click will take him there. This
is simply
Sachin,
I have a strong leaning regarding my position on sitemaps which I will not
get into.
My focus rather will be on the placement of your sections.
'Upfront' and 'bottom of the page' seem to be contradictory to me.
Also, when you say 'bottom of the page', is it possible that this solution
may
what is a top-tier client -- does that mean they pay their bills on time?
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Sean @ IC Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
£50-60k+bonus+benefits
My top tier client is seeking to add to it's core UX management with the
addition of a proven Principle/Senior UX
Hello Jennifer (and All),
I recommend, my brother, The InDesigner. He is an Adobe Certified
Expert, the host of TheInDesigner video podcasts, currently writing a
book on InDesign, and also does speaking engagements.
He may not be intimate with wireframing as a use case but he is known
Aside from it being a navigation crutch. I've been told by our SEO
manager that it's useful for spiders to index so that could be a
reason to include it.
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Jared Spool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 1, 2008, at 4:01 AM, Sachin wrote:
Site Map: I have been
Someone actually goes by the name the InDesigner? That is either silly
or wrong for so many reasons
- The UnDesigner
will evans
emotive architect
hedonic designer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
617.281.1281
twitter: semanticwill
aim: semanticwill
gtalk: wkevans4
skype: semanticwill
Rein,
Shopping cart is the prevalent US/Canadian English term; shopping
basket is the UK English equivalent. Shopping bag is also used in
some contexts (e.g. a high-end clothing site).
Also, take a look at this blog post:
http://www.getelastic.com/add-to-cart-buttons/
Hope this helps,
Dmitry
A 'destination page' site map may be useful for spiders to crawl,
but two of the biggest engines (Yahoo and Google) don't even require
normal folks to get to it. Instead, you can point them to XML
versions of your site map and keep them out of the navigation flow if
you choose not to offer them
Oh there is so much wrong with that, it's amazing. This one makes my brain
hurt: http://www.cuh2a.com/
-L
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Andy Edmonds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That is impressively bad. On a serious note, chunking long menus has a
highly demonstrable ROI. We obtained a 25%
Carl Simpson
I'm working on project that I think is somewhat unique, and
unfortunately, I can only describe it in very general terms.
It's a data entry system for items that contain rather large amounts of
data. There are about 20 categories of data associated with each item.
Each
Jared,
Most of your inputs on Site map and SEO are well taken. I must say a
good insight and a perspective to what i thought was always right. It
is customary to put in Site Map as a link where I work but I feel
its only essential if ever required.
And as you have said, If users are going to
Howdy Folks,
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Where: The South William on 52 South William Street, South Dublin
Centre, Dublin 2
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It would be awesome if you
On Oct 1, 2008, at 11:31 AM, Sachin Ghodke wrote:
There is this new trend of getting the site map below the fold by
listing all the links in the web site but to me i see no point of
doing this if the site as perfect navigation.
Exactly right.
There's a general perception that users *want*
4 months later.
I was surprised to find out that Mark Coleran wasn't responsible for this.
Kent Seki of the Pixel Liberation Front, in Collaboration with The
Orphanage...
There's a great article / interview here *http://tinyurl.com/kentseki
*regarding
the movie.
Shaun
On Tue, May 13, 2008
Here is a link to a process diagram created by John Stickley to
describe the role of our User Experience team within PeopleSoft. The
audience was developers and product strategists and was unveiled at
an internal Open House our team held.
http://www.visualvocab.com/projects/peoplesoftuescm.html
On Oct 1, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Danna Hudson wrote:
There is this new trend of getting the site map below the fold by
listing all the links in the web site but to me i see no point of
doing this if the site as perfect navigation.
The main reason I as an IxD add navigation as text links in the
Hi all
If you are researcher, practitioner, advocate, or just interested in
designing for people who do not read easily, then please come to the next
Design to Read workshop.
Date: Monday 9th December 2008
Location: Cairns, Australia, part of the OzCHI 2008 conference www.ozchi.org
We will:
Coming in a bit late here - you can see how behind i am in list reading.
My Secret Weapon:
netdiver.net
On Sep 24, 2008, at 3:02 AM, Tamlyn Rhodes wrote:
There's ScrnShots too [http://www.scrnshots.com/] which is a catalogue
of tagged screenshots by and for designers. They even provide a
There's a general perception that users *want* global navigation, but
if you spend any time watching folks on sites, you quickly realize
they are *only* interested in local navigation -- how do I get from
*here* to *where I want to be*?
So, any effort to add global nav to a page is a
I found a program that is available to the public, unlike Swype!
It's called SlideIT, has a working demo and a purchasing option.
Check it out guys:
http://www.mobiletextinput.com/Product/SlideIT/SlideIT.php
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Posted from the
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There is this new trend of getting the site map below the fold by
listing all the links in the web site but to me i see no point of
doing this if the site as perfect navigation.
The main reason I as an IxD add navigation as text links in the footer is
because Search Engine bots eat the links
You might also factor the mental model that best fits for the type of
items being sold. A site selling services or information-based items
might see better results using a word such as Checkout over
Cart.
Matt Anderson
Senior User Experience Designer
Citrix Online
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Sr Usability Engr
Great opportunity to be part of a team of outstanding usability engrs and UX
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Responsibilities
² Develop and implement user-focused design and research methodologies
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Cool, besides, also find JJG's Elements of User Experience helps on
this problem.
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Jeff English [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is a link to a process diagram created by John Stickley to
describe the role of our User Experience team within PeopleSoft. The
audience
Hi IxD folks, some of you (Dave) may have seen the latest defining IA
thread on the IAI list and without wanting to encourage the kind of chaos
that erupted there i'd love to reach out to get your perspective on
something I created to try and distinguish disciplines from roles within UX.
There
On Oct 1, 2008, at 9:06 PM, Paul Eisen wrote:
There's a general perception that users *want* global navigation, but
if you spend any time watching folks on sites, you quickly realize
they are *only* interested in local navigation -- how do I get from
*here* to *where I want to be*?
So, any
On Oct 1, 2008, at 6:51 PM, Jared Spool wrote:
Again, I'm in a minority with this opinion. I've only come to it
from watching a couple of thousand people work with sites. There are
millions who I haven't watched, so, I'm probably missing a big piece
of the data. :)
I share your opinion
@Matthew Anderson
I agree when it comes to using the appropriate word for the current
context, but in you example you used Checkout.
Does not checkout indicate that the user is about to pay for the
items and leave, while cart/basket etc indicates an option to view
the contents and continiue
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