Re: [IxDA Discuss] Good examples of branched flow

2009-05-12 Thread Harry
Hi Alan You might find the NHS Direct self help guide interesting. http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/help/index.aspx Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of Good Customer Support Sites

2009-05-12 Thread Adrian Howard
On 11 May 2009, at 20:48, Victor Lombardi wrote: Hi Stephanie, Get Satisfaction has a useful method for surfacing information -- a dynamic search form that delivers answers as you type your question. For example, try typing custom bag into the Timbuk2 customer support area...

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Good examples of branched flow

2009-05-12 Thread Joshua Porter
Check out Hunch: http://hunch.com I'm not sure if it branches immediately based on answers, but I know that it asks future questions based on past answers (perhaps a kind of delayed branching). It's also ridiculously addictive. Joshua Porter, Founder Bokardo Design Interface design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of Good Customer Support Sites

2009-05-12 Thread Trit Mulligan
Timely to this topic. One note..some of these Support sites are only accessible with a customer login. http://www.asponline.com/awards.html The Association of Support Professionals (ASP) has announced the winners of its twelfth annual Ten Best Web Support Sites competition, a prestigious award

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pagination best practices

2009-05-12 Thread Nik Lazell
Rightmove (www.rightmove.co.uk) has applied a nice jQuery slider to their pagination nav at the bottom of their results page. See the UI here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/niklazell/3512730552/ Nik Welcome to the Interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pagination best practices

2009-05-12 Thread Fredrik Matheson
An even more elegant version of a scrollable paginator can be found at www.designyoutrust.com The advantage of scrollable paginators is that you're free to move to any page at any time with a tolerable amount of effort. The Flickr paginator, for example, introduces quite a bit of complexity when

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Good examples of branched flow

2009-05-12 Thread Victor Lombardi
Hunch is all about that: http://www.hunch.com/fact-sheet/ Victor http://victorlombardi.com/ On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Alan Mazzan amaz...@mac.com wrote: Hello, I'm looking for some good examples of web-based logic flow that guides a user though a series of questions that are

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of Good Customer Support Sites

2009-05-12 Thread Martina Gobec
Hey Stephanie, Skype and Ebay are quite easy: http://support.skype.com/en_US http://pages.ebay.com/help/index.html Cannon has good product support: http://tinyurl.com/n7fv2 Target gives a good mulitple entrance access - good information, but not that visually appealing:

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Top Ten IxD Must Read Articles.

2009-05-12 Thread Victor Lombardi
Here's two that strongly influenced my perspective on interaction design: INTUITIVE EQUALS FAMILIAR http://www.asktog.com/papers/raskinintuit.html Direct Manipulation for Comprehensible, Predictable and Controllable User Interfaces http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/old/shneiderman97direct.html Victor

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Top Ten IxD Must Read Articles.

2009-05-12 Thread Andrew Schechterman
Prototyping for Tiny Fingers (Rettig) . . . timeless and relevant for digital and non-digital, regardless of the technology or medium: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=175288 Andrew Schechterman User Experience Architect LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewschechterman

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Top Ten IxD Must Read Articles.

2009-05-12 Thread Tom Sakell
I'd like recommend a book I just finished: Observing the User Experience, by Mike Kuniavsky. He works at Adaptive Path. The book is a beginner intermediate primer on conducing focus groups, usability testing and research. It's quite insightful, and makes most work seem obvious. I learned

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Organizing files and folders

2009-05-12 Thread plnelson
What research have you done on available products and papers on information organization so far? ( I'm not interested in products - just academic research.) I'm just starting so don't know what the readily-available searchable databases are for this sort of material. My undergraduate

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

2009-05-12 Thread Bill Marshall
Thanks for all the great feedback, everyone. And, Hi, Mary--I took a Tech Comm class with you at BCC a while ago. :) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=41773

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Top Ten IxD Must Read Articles.

2009-05-12 Thread Jack Moffett
Two that immediately came to mind for me are: At the Heart of Interaction Design by Lauralee Alben http://www.albenfaris.com/publications/pub_heart.shtml Interaction Design History in a Teeny Little Nutshell by Marc Rettig http://www.slideshare.net/mrettig/interaction-design-history I wish Marc

[IxDA Discuss] Best practices to use videos on websites

2009-05-12 Thread Shashank
I am trying to figure out ways to best display video content on websites. Anyone seen any literature on this before? For e.g. Opening a new tab versus Javascript pop ups Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pagination best practices

2009-05-12 Thread Evan K. Stone
However, when I tried Google's 10, 20, 30, 50, 100 results preferences, it was much easier for me to scan through 10 results, didn't require as much scrolling (which is painful to people with repetitive stress injuries, fibromyalgia, arthritis, etc.), Speaking as someone with RSI problems,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Any one from South Korea ?

2009-05-12 Thread Janna Hicks DeVylder
Check out the IxDA Local Groups page: http://www.ixda.org/local.php There is a group in Seoul, contact them to see what they have been doing! For anyone else, if you don't see a group in your area, consider starting one! Janna On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Deok Gun Park intui...@gmail.com

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Top Ten IxD Must Read Articles.

2009-05-12 Thread Dan Saffer
First Principles of Interaction Design, Bruce Tognazzini http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html A Software Design Manifesto, Mitch Kapor http://hci.stanford.edu/bds/1-kapor.html Affordances and Design, Don Norman http://jnd.org/dn.mss/affordances_and_design.html Good Design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pagination best practices

2009-05-12 Thread William Brall
http://search.ahp.us.army.mil/search/slideshows/ I'd like to say we did a decent job with army.mil's pagination. I would have liked the tabs to be larger, along with the clickable area. I would have liked to color the clickable items more obviously. I would have liked to omit the last link on the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Any one from South Korea ?

2009-05-12 Thread Calvin Park 박상빈
I'm from Korea but I'm in San Diego, California! On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Janna Hicks DeVylder ja...@devylder.comwrote: Check out the IxDA Local Groups page: http://www.ixda.org/local.php There is a group in Seoul, contact them to see what they have been doing! For anyone else, if