Due to heavy RSI I dumped the mouse some time ago and switched
completely to a trackball and a tablet. Which alternatingly are
placed where the mouse pad used to be (I use one of them
predominantly, depending on the task at hand). I prefer to use a
compact keyboard (w/out number block) with this
Has anyone used Protoshare for prototyping? Would love to hear any good/bad
experiences.
www.protoshare.com
Thanks,
Gitika
*Gitika Ahuja, CUA*
Internet Development Group
Business Analyst/Information Architect
HarperCollins*Publishers*
10 E 53rd Street, New York, NY
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Welcome to the Interaction Design
My data on ctrl-click is fairly old, but working with about 50 upstate South
Carolina factory workers in 2004, while the majority checked their email
daily, only 1 knew about control click.
hth, A
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Danny Hope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/11/6 Cyrus Karbassiyoon
Billie,
While I have not been involved with different layouts for touchscreen
keyboards, foillowing is what I have done, and was interesting.
I was working with the FreePad research group - using fingers to write 'text
messages'. We did a study to compare the performance with users using the
T-9
Thanks for the terrific list of resources. We are always struggling
with ways to communicate what we do to the larger team and to clients
and sponsors. They LIKE posters...
Blue blue window, factory
Big bad boss man can't find me
Smell of coffee, crack of dawn
Work is there when love is gone
Hey everyone,
I have been following this thread very closely, and I feel it
appropriate to comment after Andy's last post. I am leading a
fully-funded startup that has been conceiving, documenting, and
developing an online application for this very purpose. : ) We are
*very* close to launching
Quick comment. Maybe this is a little old.
A good feature of this shopping bag is that once you confirm the
item, a pop up will show on the item selection page for adding the
item to the bag. This is good when you added an item and left for a
while then came back, you may not be sure whether you
The best way that several books (e.g., 37 Signals, and I believe Luke
Wroblewski's Web Form Design book has it as well) have shown to display
an error message is to use an error icon, such as an X or a ! (often
surrounded by a circle or triangle or diamond), and to the right of that
error icon,
When I had a 6x9 Wacom tab, I had it where I'd place my mouse. I used
it almost exclusively and almost never used my mouse anymore -- the
level of fine-grain control you get with the tablet blows the mouse
out of the water.
As far as the awkwardness, yeah, you'll have that at first. I also
draw
It takes more than amazing content and speakers to make a conference.
It's all of us who gather that take it over the top.
So, in that light, if you are going, start encouraging your friends and
esteemed colleagues to join you!
Here are a couple of easy ways to get the word out:
LinkedIn:
Let
Job Title: Head of User Experience
Location: San Francisco - Relocation assistance provided
Duration: Full Time/Permanent
Salary: 140-190k
Our client is home to a new type of search that makes it easy to find
subjective information. Starting in early 2008 the company raised seed
financing from
Great topic! I've been using the smallest of the Wacom tablets for
several years, and I don't use the mouse at all anymore. Mine is to
the right of the keyboard and a little farther away, and where I once
had repetitive stress issues with my wrist and elbow, now it's in my
shoulder. I think
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Loren Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
If you don't want your content to shift around, your error messages really
can't take up any space. It would help to see the interface in question.
However, you can use effects like highlighting the fields in question
Our UI team is getting ready to start a marketing program. The purpose
is to raise awareness of the existence of the team, educate people as
to what we do, what UI is and some basic information about it. This
will lead up to a training class on UI standards. The plan right now
is a series of
Bentley University (my alma mater for UX - so of course, I have to put
that first!)
Stanford
CMU (Carnegie Mellon)
Univ of Michigan
Virginia Tech
Courtney Jordan
Senior Usability Analyst
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Veena Gowthamchand
Without seeing your interface this is tough, but one suggestion would
be to use the field itself to display the error message. Your note
leads me to believe that your only validation is for a required
field. If that is the case, this idea would work, otherwise I would
explore some type of overlay.
I've used a 6x8 Wacom for 10 years. It goes to the right of my
keyboard, where the mouse pad would go.
I still use a mouse too, and it just goes on top of the Wacom. I
switch back and forth quite regularly. I use the pen for drawing apps
or fine-grained work, and the mouse for tasks like email
I have no idea what this site is selling/promoting/describing/explaining as
it's in Dutch and more than a little weird but I love the exploratory
interface. Highly playable for a Friday, ultimately pointless but shows me a
new executional approach.
http://www.bio-bak.nl/
John (baffled)
It makes more sense after you grab a coffee at the cafe - it is the
Netherlands, after all.
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:41 AM, John Gibbard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have no idea what this site is selling/promoting/describing/explaining as
it's in Dutch and more than a little weird but I love
2008/11/7 John Gibbard [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I have no idea what this site is selling/promoting/describing/explaining as
it's in Dutch and more than a little weird but I love the exploratory
interface. Highly playable for a Friday, ultimately pointless but shows me a
new executional approach.
I recommend Luke Wroblewski's book
http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/webforms/
as a source of best practices and examples. I find it a valuable
reference in my work.
Luke is giving an online course Nov. 13 that includes a copy of the
book. The course is described on the above web page.
Esther
I have been asked to come up with an intuitive help method for tooltips
on a very complex dialog. I immediately thought of a question mark which
the customer clicks on and then drags over the interface, but that idea
has been nixed. Our competitors tend to put question marks next to every
main
Hi All,
Imagine you have a web page that displays 100 thumbnails of 100px by 100px
pictures. Futhermore, let's say the user is a non-technical person in their
thirties. What is the best way to enable the described user to choose the
majority of the thumbnails excluding certain ones? For
Hi Cyrus -
As you pointed out, I think SmugMug does a good job of selection with
the checkbox paradigm. It's somewhat more discoverable than
ctrl-click but only marginally, especially for non-experienced users.
I think that a couple of ways you could [minorly] improve on the
SmugMug
I'd also go with Rochester Institute of Technology (my alma mater :-)) This
school is centered in Rochester, NY the imaging capital of the world (think
Kodak, Xerox, etc) and has some really nice endowments leading to state of the
art facilities.
I also put forth Georgia Tech especially for
2008/11/6 Cyrus Karbassiyoon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Explorer Paradigm:
Our first thought is to recreate the explorer paradigm on the web. In order
to select the pictures, the user could rubber band select the 100 pictures
or press [ctrl + a]. The user could then [ctrl + click] to deselect
I love it! It may break some rules, but it's meant for some
nonsensical fun, and so it's nicely built for messing around. And
it's one of the few instances where I kept the sound on!
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I've seen dozens of these efforts over the years and many of them fail for
the same two reasons: 1) a failure to understand who you're marketing to
2) lack of clarity on what you want the campaign to achieve.
On #1: Organizations are big places with lots of roles. Which job
functions do you most
I've seen dozens of these efforts over the years and many of them fail for
the same two reasons: 1) a failure to understand who you're marketing to
2) lack of clarity on what you want the campaign to achieve.
On #1: Organizations are big places with lots of roles. Which job
functions do you most
I have seen blogs and articles on how to be effective as a one person UI
team; However, I would like a practical reference book in the spirit of
Rapid Contextual Design by K Holztblatt.
Any recommendations? Thanks.
Mark
Welcome
How about a non-standard, multiline tooltip? Same simple presentation
as the standard tooltip, showing on mouseover with a reasonable
delay. See, for example, the way news story abstracts display upon
rollover of the headline in the CNN news gadget:
Thanks to everyone for your ideas so far. More ideas are welcome, too!
Space is really tight, so I'm not sure we can allot room for a message
(unless the message appears in an overlay)
Olga, when you say inline field validation, do you mean a popup overlay
message right above the field, which
Wow - what a delightfully bizarre experience. Thanks for the link! I
think I need therapy now.
I think, as Danny pointed out, it's a good example of how usability
principles can be ignored -- or I'd say don't even apply -- in a
game-like exploratory experience.
Part of the fun is figuring out
The institute of design at IIT. http://www.id.iit.edu/
I've worked with and interviewed enough students from that program
to find it to be one of the best in the nation.
If you have not heard of it, do not confuse it with ITT! They are not
related.
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Yes! Its because in Y Messenger does not log you in in 2 places at once.
That's strange!! Why should a user be bumped off just because he has logged
into another instance of the Messenger? Just because the Y Messenger is
Signed On in a machine does not mean the user is right in front of the
On 6 Nov 2008, at 19:30, Cyrus Karbassiyoon wrote:
[snip]
Explorer Paradigm:
Our first thought is to recreate the explorer paradigm on the web.
In order
to select the pictures, the user could rubber band select the 100
pictures
or press [ctrl + a]. The user could then [ctrl + click] to
On Nov 7, 2008, at 12:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When was the last time you were inspired to do something different
at work because of a *poster* ? Probably never.
On the other hand, a well designed poster targeted at the correct
audience can be a powerful means by which to
User Experience Architect / Sr IA - NYC
Did I get you at boombastic? :)
Largest senior-level job site on Earth headquartered in NYC with
enthusiastic, celebratory and gregarious dotcom-esque culture (kitchen full
of treats, spirited rallies/outings/events, Manifest Destiny +
ANSWER:
- How has UI made the difference in the success of product
adoption/closing sales/customer satisfaction?
- How and when can UI work with stakeholders to produce better results?
ASK:
- What problems do you have that UI can potentially help you with?
Short and simple.
On 29 Apr 2008, at 13:31, Paul Reijnierse wrote:
[snip]
What are your experiences with this? How do you use different
versioning
systems in your projects?
[snip]
Personally I try and avoid using multiple systems and encourage
everybody to use the same one.
For example most places I've
hey jessica
i work for an organization that recently moved from RUP to Agile, it
can be a really exciting transition.
before you decide on where you fall on this fence i would soak up all
you can about the ideal agile team and then look at your organization
itself and identify/forecast pain
You might try a static info panel area instead. A very simple example
would be the way the browser status bar used to show links before you
clicked on them. If you want to see the same thing in use in
something that's probably more complicated than your dialog, check out
the integrated
you should check the archives too. this topic comes up a lot. this
page is also a good resource:
http://hcibib.org/education/
MT
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I have a McLuhanism here!
Posters are not our media. In order to raise awareness about what we
do, what about designing messages around stuff people interacts with
everyday?
A QD mockup:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/santiagobustelo/3010566855/
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You could try a tool tip that is a one liner with a link for more...
Clicking the more... link would extend that tool tip into a box with a
more complete help. Perhaps this could link to a page within a full Help
mechanism, instead of just a bunch of free-floating help screens/bubbles.
I would
Hello members,
I recently graduated in user centered design and have been to a few job
interviews. It is almost impossible to get a job as a user experience
designer, interaction designer or a usability consultant since many of the
corporations here wants to hire someone with several years of
Photoshop physical prototype:
http://designyoutrust.com/2008/11/07/as-real-as-it-gets/
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On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Janna Hicks DeVylder [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
It takes more than amazing content and speakers to make a conference.
It's all of us who gather that take it over the top.
So, in that light, if you are going, start encouraging your
Hi Ali,
I'll go ahead and bite. :-)
I did a stint as a Technical Writer, and feel that gave me great experience
for where I am now (senior interaction designer). There actually is quite a
bit of creativity in that role, definitely more than a tester position.
While the tester position would
Hi Ali,
I'll second Dave's recommendation. Many IxD's I know love
started their careers as technical writers. It *is* a role with
creative potential, at least visually if not content-wise. Most
especially, it offers the opportunity to analyze the form behavior
of systems and ensure that the
Hi Ali:
First off your situation is not unusual - lots of new graduates take first
first jobs that aren't in the role they want. It's a very smart move if it
gets you inside the right company, or project, since moving within a
company is always a zillion times easier than working from the
A good helptips is none helptips.
Cheers,
Jarod
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Mark Pawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been asked to come up with an intuitive help method for tooltips
on a very complex dialog. I immediately thought of a question mark which
the customer clicks on and then
There is the first time for everything: no one has called me Olga before.
Yes, by inline I meant validation on field blur. The Required! message
can be delivered in many ways. I think Gregory's idea of placing suggestion
inside the field itself is worth testing.
--
Oleh Kovalchuke
Interaction
http://www.dexodesign.com/2008/11/07/review-16-user-interface-prototyping-tools/
Russell Wilson
Vice President of Product Design, NetQoS
Blog: http://www.dexodesign.com
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My initial thought of the site was, fancy but utterly useless. Then,
after reading the previous posts in this thread, I realised that the
author of the site had done (nearly) everything the way it should be
done.
Let's apply some quick and dirty JJ Garret to his site
The strategy plane:
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