I'm with you, William. I know the site's built to allow this kind of
comp/locational validation, I'm just saying that the experience is
confusing and tedious. An end user doesn't sit back and think how nifty
the authentication system is, they just think "what the heck is this??"
Etc etc.
-Damon
I like how google does it for their site. In that they guess right 99%
of the time and give you a way to change it if they are wrong.
You can guess, based on things like IP and other factors. Where the
user is. And no matter the context, this is the best default.. Unless
you run a service that spe
Have you ever wondered how the site authenticates you?
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Welcome to the Interaction Design Assoc
John,
There are very old semi-standards that companies such as the
pre-breakup AT&T published that also included menu structure
guidelines.
In practice, though, these are not used widely enough to call them
standards. In addition, your example actually mixes a voicemail-type
system references wi
For the most part, yes, though there's an extensive list of how to
incorporate Gravatars on various platforms here:
http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement
Like you said, it's a good step, though not a complete solution.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Sebi Tauciuc wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> Thank
Touch of irony here... I was just trying to update my email address for
this list
So, this hole had probably been excavated before, but does anyone else
find the process of updating you email address on the IxDA website to be
terribly counter intuitive? No offense to the good people who actual
Hi Jason,
Thanks, this looks like a good step, however nothing about the giants I
mentioned - it only seems to work on blogs. Is that right?
Sebi
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:40 PM, jason z wrote:
> Check out Gravatar:
> http://en.gravatar.com/
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Sebi Tauciu
Check out Gravatar:
http://en.gravatar.com/
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Sebi Tauciuc wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This may be obvious to others, but it's not clear to me:
>
> Is there a good enough reason why when I want to change my profile picture
> for Google, Yahoo!, Skype, LinkedIn and all t
Hi all,
This may be obvious to others, but it's not clear to me:
Is there a good enough reason why when I want to change my profile picture
for Google, Yahoo!, Skype, LinkedIn and all the other social networks I'm a
part of (i.e. IxDA :) ), I have to go to all these places and upload the new
pict
On Dec 30, 2008, at 3:26 PM, Allison Walker wrote:
Yes, tiny countries would be difficult. I think you'd need a pretty
big map, unless you can do some type of fish-eye selection like the
Dock on the Mac.
Which is why they typically only use maps for the initial selection of
a continent
Yes, tiny countries would be difficult. I think you'd need a pretty big map,
unless you can do some type of fish-eye selection like the Dock on the Mac.
If you choose auto-complete, after the selection you could show a picture of
the country as a verification. You'd then need to have an accurat
There seem to be some default UI standards in terms of "dedicated" numeric
keypad functionality on most phone-based platforms, s.a:
"1" - Do it
"7" - Delete it
"9" - Save it
"*" - Up one level in hierarchy / Back
"#" - Confirm / Submit entry
Is there a central reference source for such conventio
I think the challenge of maps is trying to select a small country in size.
Try selecting Monte Carlo, the Vatican, St Kits and Nevis, and even slightly
larger ones like Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Montenegro, Bosnia, Benin,
Togo.
James
2008/12/30 Allison
> Well, I don't really see too many map
Well, I don't really see too many maps on web forms...but, it depends
I guess.
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Welcome to the
A rough idea I haven't really thought through yet is a combination of this
and a text form field with autocomplete. You could either click on a country
or start typing. The auto complete suggestions would then correlate to
highlighted countries on the map.
Thanks,
Jeff
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:
Yes, I could. This is the direction I was thinking, but I was curious as to
what other designers are doing or have seen.
Thanks,
Jeff
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Allison wrote:
> I don't know what your limitations are, but could you have an
> auto-complete feature where the user just star
Using a user's IP address to tell you where they are is NOT a good
idea. The proxy will fool you too often.
For accessibility and language issues I would use a graphical map
approach just like Jack suggested. This way even if the language is
different, the user still knows where their country is o
I don't know what your limitations are, but could you have an
auto-complete feature where the user just starts typing and possible
countries show up?
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Hello to the list, hello Jeff.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Jeff White wrote:
> Thanks for all of the responses so far. Yohan, I'd be very interested in
> your multilingual country database - thanks for sharing.
Good default value [1] is your friend here.
IP-address provides information abo
Many support sites begin with a map, having the user select the
continent or region first, and then presenting a list of countries. If
a graphical map isn't feasible, you could use two menus: one for
continent/region that then populates the second with a filtered list
of countries.
Best,
Thanks for all of the responses so far. Yohan, I'd be very interested in
your multilingual country database - thanks for sharing.
Jeff
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Yohan Creemers wrote:
> Michael,
> In this case language and country are not related.
> The language used for the list is the l
On Dec 30, 2008, at 7:36 AM, James Page wrote:
You run into the challenge with that the Persona are validated by
opinion.
Actually, if you look at the model I use, it's heavily based on data.
So, they are created from a combination of qualitative (interview and
observation) data and ofte
Our Customer Evangelist, Betsy Weber, maintains a blog for our products and
company: http://visuallounge.techsmith.com/
I don't have data on how much it drives sales, but it definitely increases
customer engagement. I do have some anecdotal reports via customer feedback
that at least some users
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/nyregion/thecity/28tink.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Revenge%20of%20the%20Nerds&st=cse
By BEN POPPER
Published: December 26, 2008
A ROBOTIC roller skate propels itself across the fifth floor of an old
sewing factory at 397 Bridge Street in Downtown Brooklyn. The softly lig
Hi all,
Any examples or stories about companies using a blog to drive sales of
products on the web? For example, Design Within Reach delivers emails
on request that include products and more - events, background
stories, etc., but they don't put this type of content into a blog
(that I kn
Michael,
In this case language and country are not related.
The language used for the list is the language of the user interface.
In my opinion the list of country names should be in the same language as
the rest of the page. On a French web page the list will start with:
Afghanistan
Afrique du
A common mistake in listing languages for selection is to list them
all in the form designer's native tongue (eg english, french, spanish;
rather than english, francais, espanol). Seeing this post made me
curious about how/if this problem should be addressed in country
listings. It seems
Todd,
You run into the challenge with that the Persona are validated by opinion.
Most Persona I have seen would be statistically imposable to relate back to
a real person. As **Chris Boese discussed before on this list you should not
generalize qualitative data. Or as some Anthropologists would sa
@hannusalonen tweeted this article this morning which was in the Financial
Times. Including the article b/c it was behind an annoying
signup/registration process. http://tinyurl.com/9hmpj4
"The Tog: Mouse users are "little more than cavemen, running around pointing
at symbols and 'grunting' with e
On Dec 30, 2008, at 4:35 AM, James Page wrote:
My argument before that Persona is not a valid method as there is no
way to validate if a persona reflects a real person applies to
design-project-wide personas, and may not apply to Functional Level
Personas.
Once we've developed personas,
Jared,
So just after you have got everybody reading about Activity Theory, now you
are getting them to read up about Functionalism :-) So we now have as basis
of design. UCD, SCD, ACD, and now FCD.
Functionalism is an interesting an idea to use for design. see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functi
Jeff,
We have just done a Remote Usability study where one of the issues was
people selecting their country. The system been tested placed the country
where it thought the user was from at the top of the drop down list of 195
countries. This is a common pattern with sites in America often listing
Sorry to disappoint you, but I think a dropdown with 195 country names
is the most convenient way to select the country you live in. I
propose to use the official UN list * of ISO 3166-1 country names in
the same language as the rest of the form **, ordered alphabetically.
My design consideration
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