Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should Interaction Design control/influence user behavior?

2009-05-10 Thread Jared Spool
On May 8, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Brad Nunnally wrote: Some claim there is an ethical issue that arises any time someone tries to influence another with or without their consent. Being a student of philosophy I can see the gray line that separates the ethical issue, but I rest that on the should

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Feedback on Redesigned BART Ticket Kiosk Interface

2009-05-10 Thread Eugene Kim
Hi Ljuba and Ben, sounds like a fun project. I took the liberty of making a couple changes: http://tinyurl.com/r45gwc - I brought back the bounding boxes around the selection items... I thought it might help distinguish between the top and bottom sections. It's also familiar to existing users.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The PocketMod

2009-05-10 Thread Todd Zaki Warfel
We're already well on our way to something like this. Thanks for the link :). On May 9, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Angel Anderson wrote: This would be great for the Interaction '10 schedule and program instead of the bulky menu from last year. Cheers! Todd Zaki Warfel Principal Design Researcher

[IxDA Discuss] Voice interfaces aren\'t Visual interfaces WAS Any data on users making use of Help?

2009-05-10 Thread William Brall
http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=41773 My experiences with voice-based interfaces has always been pretty caustic. Often you have a voice command-line, where in the user can speak commands that the computer understands (let's ignore imperfections in recognition for now) and the computer perform

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Voice interfaces aren\'t Visual interfaces WAS Any data on users making use of Help?

2009-05-10 Thread Angel Marquez
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUcOaGawIW0 http://www.de-han.org/vietnam/chuliau/lunsoat/sound/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.or

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Voice interfaces aren\'t Visual interfaces WAS Any data on users making use of Help?

2009-05-10 Thread William Brall
I'm not sure what all these links have to do with each other. Or what they have to do with the topic. The last one sure. But Morse Code is difficult to learn and doesn't really offer anything to a modern voice-based interface... Unless I'm really missing something. And I understand the implication

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Voice interfaces aren\'t Visual interfaces WAS Any data on users making use of Help?

2009-05-10 Thread Angel Marquez
What are my options? [?] <<1E3.gif>> Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://w

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Any data on users making use of Help?

2009-05-10 Thread Joe Sokohl
Lots of stuff on how to write & design help. As Jared said, technical communicators have been doing this work for years...and also struggling with the question, "Does anyone use help?" Indeed, writing and designing online help systems helped me move from tech writing to UI design to HCI/IA/IxD to U

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Ungraceful degradation of HTML emails and conversion rates.

2009-05-10 Thread Elizabeth Buie
At 9:55 AM -0400 5/9/09, William Brall wrote: >Focus on making HTML email more secure, rather than making it look >good when people turn it, or part of it, off. > >Crack that egg, and no one will turn it off anymore. I will. Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Buie Luminanze Consulting, LLC +1.301.943.4168

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] IxDA NYC - RSVP deadline for Cindy Chastain's talk is Monday midnight ET

2009-05-10 Thread NYC IxDA
If you haven't signed up already, today is your last chance to get on the guest list for Cindy Chastain's wildly popular talk...which is looking to be a standing-room only event! Registration closes tonight, Monday, May 11 at midnight (Eastern Time) so we can provide the list to Digitas, our wonde

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Ungraceful degradation of HTML emails and conversion rates.

2009-05-10 Thread Harry
I agree that security is worthy concern, but I expect that it's something that only relatively technical users think about. For most people, I think having to click a link to see images is just a "strange" extra step that many don't bother doing. (I'm guessing.) Email is stuck in the dark ages. -