Re: [IxDA Discuss] best practice for security questions

2008-12-26 Thread Andrew Boyd
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Sam Menter s...@pixelthread.co.uk wrote: Hi there Can anyone point me in the direction of sample security questions that could be used to verify a user's identity if they don't have an email address and have forgotten a password? EG Mother's maiden name,

[IxDA Discuss] How does knowledge of CMSs make you a better UX designer?

2008-12-26 Thread Brian Henkel
I'm planning to teach a course on how knowledge of Content Management Systems makes us better user experience designers. In this course, we will survey many prevalent CMS tools (slated at the moment: WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Sharepoint, Expression Engine) to review how they work, analyze their

Re: [IxDA Discuss] good examples for disability and web 2.0??

2008-12-26 Thread Casey Edgeton
and then 6.0 is The Matrix On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Will Evans w...@semanticfoundry.comwrote: Oh. And 5.0 The Singularity Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ...

Re: [IxDA Discuss] best practice for security questions

2008-12-26 Thread Atul Thanvi
I agree that security questions has always been a pain for the users but then what ? We need a alternate for this or a need to approach it in right manner ? William also have a nice set of suggestion but its more personalized approach and this can be good for limited amount of users. But,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [IxDA Shanghai] Interactin designers in China?

2008-12-26 Thread Douglas Wang
Hi, Joe, Thanks for yur interests in learning more about the China UX community. In Shanghai, there are many RD centers for renown software companies, such as Microsoft, Autodesk, Google, HP, SAP, WebEx, as well as many design/usability consulting firms like FROG, IDEO, HFI and some local

Re: [IxDA Discuss] People are Used to it

2008-12-26 Thread darci
People are used to it is a horrible excuse for just about anything. And I doubt many people would argue that point. That aside, when examining the usability of anything, it is important to understand people's goals. Are people interested in quickly scrolling through channels? Are people

Re: [IxDA Discuss] best practice for security questions

2008-12-26 Thread Jaanus Kase
At http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2008/program.html, there was an interesting paper on this: look for Personal knowledge questions for fallback authentication on the page. It highlights many problems with the security questions, but also offers some solutions. It does not really contain a checklist

Re: [IxDA Discuss] dd character sheet as a persona model

2008-12-26 Thread Jared Hawkins
Hi Jared, Can you provide an updated link for that presentation? Jared Hawkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36587 Welcome to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Designers: What is your elevator pitch?

2008-12-26 Thread Kshitiz Anand
This is indeed a nice thread.. I help spread the smile when dealing with products and the products could range from a simple website to physical products to entire systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org

Re: [IxDA Discuss] dd character sheet as a persona model

2008-12-26 Thread Lance
I think this is the presentation Jared mentioned: http://www.slideshare.net/toddwarfel/data-driven-design-research-personas I'm not sure if you literally meant using the DD character sheet for personas. If so, I think the attributes section might distract people from the actual task. I do

Re: [IxDA Discuss] dd character sheet as a persona model

2008-12-26 Thread morpheusathame
I have done, and do, use them, but I thought I was the only person geeky enough to do such a thing. I find a lot of value in them, but I confess I don't often reveal my process to my clients. :-D Glad to see I'm not alone! Thanks to Jared Spool for the awesome referral above. Checked into

Re: [IxDA Discuss] good examples for disability and web 2.0??

2008-12-26 Thread R Sengers
You might want to take a look at webAIM.org (a good resource for accessibility). There have been some discussions on Web 2.0/ajax/etc in the email discussion group. Maybe search for terms like ajax or ria or web 2.0 in the archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives.php Also some articles

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Neat use of Tufte's sparklines: Airline pet incidents

2008-12-26 Thread Rob Fay
A sparkline is good in that it can convey a number of pieces of information that show a larger trend. This kind of data, however, does not warrant a trend because there's not enough data to analyze. Tell me that the data covers 4 years and allow me to sort by count. The reason a sparkline isn't

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Mobile (Cellphone) Activated Streetlamps

2008-12-26 Thread Tamlyn Rhodes
Perhaps, but voice recognition has its own problems. Most people probably only have 2 or 3 streets they regularly need to light up so keeping a note of those by the telephone shouldn't be much of a problem. With a bit of extra technology they could use bluetooth proximity sensors to switch on the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Mobile (Cellphone) Activated Streetlamps

2008-12-26 Thread Victor Zambrano
I see a match to pre-registered mobile phones with enabled bluetooth that turns up lights along the person's path. Given bluetooth has a 10 metre range, it is perfect for this usage, and the effect is that of magically lighting up your path, like the one in the Wizard of Oz movie. . . . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] good examples for disability and web 2.0??

2008-12-26 Thread Will Evans
Web 7.0 The Schismatrix: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schismatrix On Dec 21, 2008, at 6:16 PM, Casey Edgeton wrote: and then 6.0 is The Matrix On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Will Evans w...@semanticfoundry.comwrote: Oh. And 5.0 The Singularity

Re: [IxDA Discuss] good examples for disability and web 2.0??

2008-12-26 Thread William Brall
All your purchases could be automated. If it can't figure out that you like to keep certain things on hand. (There would be sensors either at the front door or in your pantry as well) You'll still be able to parse lists of what you have bought in the past. And more importantly, What is to stop it

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How does knowledge of CMSs make you a better UX designer?

2008-12-26 Thread William Brall
I'm in the beginning stages of a redesign on the Army's CMS called CORE. I'd be glad to talk to you if you wanted to know my thoughts on CMS. However. I'm a bit confused as to who you intend CMS to help? Most CMS out there are horrific in many ways. They often are built so a single person can do

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Soliciting opinions on voice recognition software for general computer interfaces

2008-12-26 Thread Mark Ahlenius
Hey, nice comments and I generally agree. I speak from someone who has worked a number of years in this space (VUI design, IVR's etc). Speech recognition can be useful, but only when applied to the right application space and for the right reasons. Take for example Goog-411,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] good examples for disability and web 2.0??

2008-12-26 Thread marc resnick
Perhaps we are getting off track on the original question about disability, but I think we will see aware sites well before we see aware refrigerators. It may be easy for the fridge to know that the milk is running low (RFID and weight sensor would take care of that), that I always use milk (a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Designers: What is your elevator pitch?

2008-12-26 Thread Mayur Karnik
this is one of the best threads at IxDA so far! it echoes the very motivation in each one of us to log on to this group and spend a few minutes every day on it, doesn't it? and very rightly put in the subject, professional life is nothing but an elevator pitch where in just a few minutes you need

Re: [IxDA Discuss] dd character sheet as a persona model

2008-12-26 Thread Jared Spool
On Dec 21, 2008, at 10:19 PM, Jared Hawkins wrote: Can you provide an updated link for that presentation? http://is.gd/d4PK Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org

Re: [IxDA Discuss] People are Used to it

2008-12-26 Thread Jared Spool
On Dec 25, 2008, at 11:34 AM, William Brall wrote: I can't be the first person to think of this. Why isn't this the norm? Is it only because of the People are Used to it' mantra? Or is there more to it then that? Can you think of more examples? I think it's lazy business practice.