Personally, I've learned to live with it, mostly by virtue of
right-click menus (some increased functionality in Office 2007 Word
and PPT, which I have to use for the occasional company presentation,
is what encouraged me to upgrade in the first place).
Certainly adoption should not be based on "t
Who said they didn't walk on water? Not me.
I will play in this little betting game u have started Will. Whoever gives me
an unretouched photo of Will walking on water gets a signed (by me) copy of the
dead sea scrolls. Game on!
Ps who won? + r u sure they won?
:)
Joanne
Sent from my Verizon
We have a winner. 8:04pm
Runner up @ 8:52pm, Both EST.
As soon as we can ascertain that neither was directly involved with the
company or the recruiter, we can award the book.
Thanks for those that played - and Joanne - while "one of the most
rockin'..." isn't exactly hyperbole in the technical s
Thanks to all for the great replies.
One key piece of the puzzle that I omitted (apologies) is that the key use
of the tree
will be to browse or scan large hierarchical data sets *without* the user
knowing an
appropriate filter or search phrase to use. That is, they really need to be
able to
scan
Nasir, great thoughts!!!
An example I've been following with great interest us the work Leisa
Reichtl is doing for drupal.org. Her blog has been filled with great
stuff. Disambiguity is the name of her blog.
Dell, & starbucks have been doing great work in this arena.
- dave
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I am all in, in any way I can help - I will do grunt work, sketch,
wireframe, prototype - whatever.
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:25 PM, David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The board does have requirement documents and even some wireframes. Good
> stuff!
> But the board will not be able to "do"
Some might have been favorable - I thought the Office 2007 redesign was
terrible - so much so that as soon as I could afford it, I bought a Mac -
Specifically b/c of the redesigned GUI in Office 07 - and mostly b/c of the
ribbon.
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Jan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
The board does have requirement documents and even some wireframes. Good
stuff!
But the board will not be able to "do" this work themselves, nor should
they, as the work should come from the community, steered by the board. They
have a lot of material in place, waiting for the right people to step
Back toward the end of 2006, there was some fairly favorable discussion about
the changes in Office 2007's GUI's (ref.
http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=12762). It's two years later now, and at
least one segment of users that I know has a lot of mixed feelings about those
changes. Specific
Okay, time to out ourselves :-). I'm the lead designer/architect for the new
infrastructre initiative. Right now we have deliverables at all levels, from
personas down to page mockups. There are obviously lots of lines to color in
between, but at the moment we've focused on events management/calend
Googling around, here's a contrarian view of crowdsourcing as applied to
(graphic) design:
http://andrewhyde.net/spec-work-is-evil-why-i-hate-crowdspring/
Scroll down for a scalding message from our analog for graphic designers,
the AIGA. Does crowdsourcing for the creative world diminish the valu
No fair- I know Exactly who it is (I guessed, but I know I'm right) - but I
ain't tellin' --
People submit your guesses to me. The first one to guess right gets my Bill
Moggridge book.
- Will
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Will Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> You know what would be funny -
You know what would be funny - if we took bets as to what company this was
based on your write-up.
I have my ideas but don't want to poison the well - so to speak.
- W
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Joanne Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Apologies for x-post. Just really stoked to get th
Apologies for x-post. Just really stoked to get the word out.
JUNIOR INTERACTION DESIGNER - Chicago
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please forward to your top-notch friends
THE CLIENT:
You know
For those who are interested in this subject, I know some people who are
working on the problem:
http://usable.com/
Also, you might want to check out the SOUPS conference:
http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2009/
Cheers,
J.A.
Welcom
Hi folks,
Yes, Will is correct! The IxDA Board is actively working on providing
improved infrastructure for IxDA.org so that we can better support our
community and pursue our mission of making the world a better place to
be.
I am project manager of this initiative and of course have been
workin
Dave,
Can we save this email for a bit b/c I think it's a huge deal that requires
a full time dedicated group of people to at least stear it over the next
year. Even if many of the problems can be broken down into simple problems,
stemming from objectives and goals - those parts should have a cham
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the board currently working on all this
right now?
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:11 PM, David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The board for the last 3 years has defined the problem of how to create a
> vibrant, valuable and effective community of practice. We've
The board for the last 3 years has defined the problem of how to create a
vibrant, valuable and effective community of practice. We've looked at
existing solutions and when we map them against our requirements and
resources they all come up very short. So let me go from vague to more
specific.
We
Hello Jeff,
yes I agree. Getting 8,500 people switched to a new system is going
to be hard. I myself was a member of a discussion group back in 1999
and used mIRC. The admins decided to switch to a forum 3 years later.
2000 members switched over. Now the forum has 12,792 members.
My point is that
Funny -- I guess there's no way we'll ever know the user's intentions
on social media then!
On Oct 31, 2008, at 9:00 AM, Jared Spool wrote:
On Oct 31, 2008, at 5:32 AM, Benjamin Ho wrote:
I use Twitter to stalk my friends.
I use twitter to keep people from guessing my real intentions.
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I have a feeling this could turn into an interesting discussion! I'm
actually shaping up a follow-up piece to the primer on social
interaction design i blogged a couple weeks ago. My own theoretical
framework aside, however, a couple points, for clarification purposes.
--I don't think we sh
Our New York City client is seeking a User Experience Architect who will
work closely with the business, design and development teams to deliver
elegant, intuitive and compelling UX solutions. Responsibilities will
include developing process flows, functional specifications, wireframes and
inter
I just wanted to add to this thread that we went with the Human Bar
Charts. Since there weren't enough people in the audience to
"create bars", instead, we used the surveying as a mechanism to
start discussion about general usability subjects. This got people
engaged and thinking about what usabi
On Oct 31, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Will Evans wrote:
Could you define the problem space a little better? I am unsure what
problem
we face and therefore can't think of what solution we might use.
I think that's the problem we should solve: that we don't know what
the problem we solve is.
Thin
Could you define the problem space a little better? I am unsure what problem
we face and therefore can't think of what solution we might use.
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:52 PM, David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why don't we start with a more altruistic project? Let's crowdsource
> the desi
Hi Ali,
The search on ixda.org is terrible; guilty as charged. I've been
toying around with an implementation of Google search for the site,
though it's not ready for prime time.
But as to why it wasn't built as an online forum: the discussion
list actually began life as an e-mail list. The goal
I have been looking into Sourceforge and your idea is great.
We just need to take the next step.
Ali
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Like many design problems, you can't ignore the legacy issues when
designing for the future solutions.
Jeff has done an amazing job, pretty much single-handedly of making
up for the negatives of a pure email system, while maintaining its
advantages.
Jeff Howard FTW (on ixda.org)
-- dave
. . .
That's an excellent point, and I think it highlights the growth and
use patterns for
most social interactions that have grown and prospered - there are
intended, designed
uses and how the users decide to use them. The intended design can
and will factor in,
but it remains important - perhaps most
Thats a great idea David. I dont understand why ixda.org isnt built up
as an online forum thing... I mean like the pre made forums that only
needs to be activated. I dont know if it is MY computer or my lack of
computer expertise, but at times ixda.org and searching for topics can
be very time cons
Jeff,
Thanks are due to you and all those who made this subscription option
possible. My email client was flooded with IxDA chatter. This is the
perfect solution.
Paul Eisen
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I believe we still cannot design a "mediated social interaction" as
the tools used for this purposes are still evolving and changing
their shape continuously.
The example of the conversation in a pub ("do you want fries?") or
in a prison comes from the normalisation effect of the use. You can
fore
Andy, you might be interested in this segment from CBC's great
digital culture show, Spark:
http://www.cbc.ca/spark/blog/2008/04/full_interview_derek_k_miller_1.html
(CBC = Canadian Broadcasting Corporation... Canada's BBC or NPR)
It's an interview with a man who has cancer and is thinking about
Why don't we start with a more altruistic project? Let's crowdsource
the design of the community of practice!
Let's start a Sourceforge site and go! Maybe an OSS corp like
Mozilla will support us. But a design led OSS project could be a HUGE
evangelism effort, as well as produce something we need
Kick the "bit" bucket ??
--
Regards
Terry
http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?trk=hb_side_pro
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Something I've been thinking about for a while is what will happen to
all my digital assets - all my online accounts, etc. - when I die.
More particularly, if I die suddenly in an accident, etc.
I own all the domains for my family's name and the hosting accounts
they (and several clients) a
Two memes relevant to this discussion:
1. "Clarity is better than brevity" by Jef Raskin [or simplicity - OK]
2. Tesler's law of Conservation of Complexity: "One cannot reduce the
complexity of a task. One can only shift the burden." (
http://www.asktog.com/columns/011complexity.html)
--
Oleh K
Whoops...an errant less-than sign truncated my reply, here's another
go at it (continued from "Root Node" above):
Root Node
Node1(300 items)
Node2(5200 items)
[New Record] !!!You are here!!!
Node3(12000 items)
I think you only need to display as much of the tree as necessa
It seems like the interaction you're talking about is "adding items
to a tree", and "displaying the tree" is a sub-component of that.
It's hard to know what to recommend without knowing what benefit they
get from seeing the whole tree while they're adding to it, but
here's what I assumed from your
Hey Will,
well I was more into making some money I assume Ixda needs some
financial assistance eventhough members donate. But Ixda could really
become a hub for many corporations. So many intelligent people here
with so much experience.
MATSUI is a company that makes DVD players and their remot
Complex and complcated are complete different thing.
Complex- the essence or nature of a thing
Complicated: the subjective experience (qualia) of a thing.
will evans
emotive architect &
hedonic designer
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I use twitter to keep people from guessing my real intentions.
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Before you switch gears from brainstorming costumes to prepping for
Thanksgiving, take some time to join us for the November IxDA event. In
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*Social to Mobile: Importing big web-based dashboards onto little
>
> and of course, for a UI that needs to display thousands of items, search is
> your best friend, as far as the end user is concerned. =)
>
> Interesting you should mention search because we ae looking at the problem
> of too many results to display from a search so
>
in our case search is not ou
The hair: complex vs complicated
This might imply: you are in control vs the program/device is in
control
There are subtle differences between word usage and their meaning. You
will call something complicated if you can't manage it (which implies
that it doesn't have to be complex to be complicate
Ali,
One idea I have been toying with is based on the old IASlam concept, but
having instead an IxD Slam - but the problem would be for something worthy -
like an all day competition to design something for a non-profit, best
designs pass various rounds, and the winning design is implemented and
h
If you guys noticed my post earlier this week about how/what designers use
to keep, collect, organize their inspirations, designs, etc - I was
tribe-sourcing requirements and specifications from all of you - and I will
be using it for something I am sketching.
Thanks for that guys :-)
BTW: becaus
I think that social interactions are an incredibly important facet of
interaction design. One of my favorite examples of this is from the
Spring 2004 issue of Design Issues. It's about Kate Wells and the
Siyazama Project in South Africa.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=6&tid
what's the difference between yellow and maize.
You can't eat yellow. ;-)
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benefit ixda.org...
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Welc
What do people feel about crowdsourcing design efforts like the new WePC.com
by ASUS & Intel?
http://www.wepc.com/
-- dave
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http://ixda.org/
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depending on how the list of items is sorted, you can try using 'grouping'.
it may demand too many extra clicks from users but i think you can find a
favorable solution if you combine grouping with pagination.
(assuming the list is sorted by numbers)
+ Root Node
+ Node1 (300 items)
- Nod
y. :-)
MT
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Okay - not sure that you can design what people say to each other, but I
completely flaked and forgot the Stanford and Milgram experiments - in both
cases the researchers were able to "design" the interactions between
prisoners/prison guards and torturer/tortured and showed pretty decisively
that i
I've discussed this with the Project Manager at OmniGroup. Previous
versions of OmniGraffle had Masters. This is only one of the
features of the application that have been dropped/changed that make
it less useful for creating wireframes and similar documents. Page
numbering is another feature tha
Thanks for the video and references! The video really shows the value
of marking menu. An earlier conparison of pie vs linear menu was
made, that you might know about, Kaleem, and I post it as reference
purposes.
CALLAHAN J., HOPKINS D., WEISER M., SHNEIDERMAN B. (1988). « An
empirical comparison
We have a situation where our users will be selecting items to add to atree
that could get very large (e.g. >5000) and I'm wondering if anyone has
an elegant solution for displaying the tree.
+ Root Node
+ Node1 (300 items)
- Node2 (5670 items)
item1
item2
Rob & Andy this is a key point (redistribution of complexity - does
this make us all socialists?). It is a key problem for us in dealing
with stakeholders. Biz folks see a simpler GUI, and think it should
be cheaper, but in fact is much more of an investment to do this type
of redistribution. I hav
Andy - That's spot on - complexity is an objective quality of the
system. Like the example of going from a manual to an automatic
transmission - the transmission is not getting simpler (it's
actually more complicated), but because of where the complexity is
distributed, the interaction is easier f
Thanks Ricardo. I think that sort of breakdown would be good for a
small number of repeating sessions but when you get to eight, I think
I lean towards Jeff's feeling: it might be too complicated for
people. Still a good idea though; I will keep it in my back pocket
for a shorter study.
Jeff, all
DeBono's version of Simplicity is useful here. In his book on the
subject (which, IMHO is the best one he's written) he compares
complexity to energy. You can't remove it, you can only shunt it
around to different places. Sometimes that means pushing it onto the
computer to do some complexi
How do folks handle Masters (elements that repeat) in Omnigraffle? I'm using
v5.02. Yes there are shared layers, but its not very useful because the xy
coordinates of shared layer are defined in the layer property as well. As a
result of that I can't have Master elements that appear in different
po
Simplicity is not opposed to complexity.
Is opposed to complicatedness.
--
Santiago Bustelo // icograma
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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I recommend ReQall (http://www.reqall.com/). I use it from the car all the
time.
I dial the phone number, say "Add" and voice my message. It records my
message and emails me a transcript (fairly accurate) and the recording (for
when the transcript is way off). If there is a date and time involve
Okay - not sure that you can design what people say to each other,
but I completely flaked and forgot the Stanford and Milgram
experiments - in both cases the researchers were able to "design"
the interactions between prisoners/prison guards and torturer/
tortured and showed pretty decisivel
What Dave is getting at here is that design isn't so much about
simplicity as it is about clarity.
Simplicity is a lack of complexity. It is easy to make the simple
clear. It is difficult to bring clarity to the complex. Design isn’t
about making the complex simple—it is making the complex
To address semantic differences I suggest defining "Simplicity" and
"Complexity" with respect to objective, technical aspects of the
product or interface. For example, the number of features, options,
controls, etc.
THEN, use the term "Clarity" when describing the quality of
interacting with the
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"My question is to what extent we really can design social interactions? I
think we design spaces and places, just like we throw a good or bad party."
Adrian has actually stated his position about this fairly successfully
meaning that we can't design the social interactions themselves, but we can
I think what comes out of a lot of the examples that you mentioned is
just how much people will bend almost any media into a form of
communication. This is, for me, one of the most fascinating things
about humans and also one of most interesting aspects of designing
interaction or, rather,
Simple and yes even simplicity is right up there with intuitive on
words to describe the quality of something that lead to long drawn
out threads without a lot of practical gibblets in there.
Why? B/c both terms are about mental models. What is "simple" is a
personal reaction to the system one is
I see alot of good responds. I myself believe that IF reducing
features can make a thing more userfriendly, then that should be done
right away. It all depends on the context. My DVD remote control has
the following buttons-
eject/switch off (same button)
standby/switch on (same button)
a clear but
I think this paragraph might have slipped the "not"
"So simplicity is [not] always about loss of features, it is about
creating
tools that fit the task. If that means more tools, that is fine."
If it was intended to be without the "not", the comma after features
should have been a semi-colon, if
Simplicity gets confused with minimalism too often.
The simplest interface is the one you don't notice, but that doesn't
mean it can't be complex.
Best,
Andy
Andy Polaine
Research | Writing | Strategy
Interaction Concept Design
E
I thought I'd start a new thread on designing social interactions
based on Adrian's reply about understanding social connections,
interactions and media, because we were getting quite off the topic of
visual/interaction design skills. But it's an interesting area.
There's an awful lot still
Melissa,
I use Twitter primarily for:
Sharing - I'll post links of what I find is interesting and give some commentary
Learning - It's interesting to find out what others are sharing and
talking about
In order to keep the signal to noise ratio down, I choose to follow
people who post content, co
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