Re: [IxDA Discuss] Nested Table Alternatives?

Hi Chris, Couple of questions... What technology(s) are you working with? Can the user only edit one thingy at a time? Did you mean that all of a thingy's property cells are editable? Or all of the thingy rows are editable? Cheers. Marcus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[IxDA Discuss] [JOB] Interaction Designer, Calgary AB, Evoco, Full-time

Evoco develops and markets construction project management software for North American retailers and both commercial and residential developers. The company’s flagship product is a modern, web-based solution deployed in companies of all sizes, from two of the world's largest retailers to local and

Re: [IxDA Discuss] I cannot possibly snark enough

Don't worry, they've got loads of web UX jobs going too :) On a similar note, there's a couple of jobs for front-end technical design going at the BBC. It's only when you try applying for them that you realise just how badly they need them :) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[IxDA Discuss] 1.Job: Interaction Design 2.Job title: Senior User Experience Designer 3.Location: Santa Clara, California 4.Company: CISCO recruiter 5. Fulltime

Senior User Experience Designer (Interaction Design) Location Santa Clara, California Description WebEx is looking for a Senior User Experience Designer to work with the WebEx User Experience Team to design next-generation, web, mobile and rich client applications. We ideally need someone wit

[IxDA Discuss] Nested Table Alternatives?

Does anyone have any good examples of alternatives to nested tables or decent implementations of nested tables? My problem table is made of rows of thingies and there are 3-4 property columns for the thingies. Now each thingy has multiple widgets with 3 or 4 properties that can be added to the th

[IxDA Discuss] [JOB] UX/UI Designer, Calgary AB, Fotolio, Full-time

Fotolia, an international provider of affordable stock currently has an opening for a UX/UI Designer to join their Canadian division in Calgary Alberta. Fotolia.com is has a database of over five million images and over one million international members. With web sites in 10 languages, Fotolia

Re: [IxDA Discuss] I cannot possibly snark enough

Sad thing is that position is closed as far as i know. You can look at active job opportunities here: http://www.blizzard.com/us/jobopp/ I know tons of things that can be improved through many Blizzard stuff. But that's not making Bliz less amazing that they are. It would be better to have some f

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best practices for Country location and languages on Global Websites (was Language Picker)

If you are working on an International site, I'd suggest a 3 level approach - last level optional. First level: Regional Domains. .com for (U.S) English, .co.uk for (U.K) English, .co.au for whatever we speak in Australia, .co.jp for Japanese, etc. I'd start here for the following reasons: a) I'd

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability analytics tools

Chris, Try Loop11 (www.Loop11.com). This is a tool that lets you conduct online, unmoderated user testing. It's in private beta at the moment, but we've been using it to collect quant usability data, which is much better to assess ROI with than qual data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[IxDA Discuss] (JOB) WEB Development Project Manager* Recruiter* Contract* Onsite* Federal Way, WA

6 Month Project in Federal Way, WA Local Candidates preferred -staffing for web projects, how to gather input / feedback on a public facing web page, and the design process for web pages, the Mgr would expect a web dev PM to bring in Information Architects, User Researchers and Visual Designers

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best practices for Country location and languages on Global Websites (was Language Picker)

Gregor. You are in the vast minority. ONLY using IP is dangerous. A splash page is a bad idea because you route 99% of your users to a useless page. Make it easy to switch to a new language, auto-detect, and you will be fine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[IxDA Discuss] Enhancements management tool for applications

I'm looking for recommendations for a secure, web-based tool to help manage updates/enhancements to an application. We already have something we use for development, and it works well when you're actually building something, but less optimal when you are planning for releases down the road. Some

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best practices for Country location and languages on Global Websites (was Language Picker)

As someone who recently returned from Denmark to the US I'm not loving the auto detect of IP address. I got sevved a few sites in Danish...and I don't know any Danish. I understand how valuable it can be for the tons of folks who are on their own environment but for the frequent taveller it

[IxDA Discuss] [Event Reminder] IxDA NYC June 18 - Design Strategy: Building Concentric Circles of Connection: Deadline Tues, June 16th

RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/nyc-ixda-june RSVP will be closed on Wed, June 17th IxDA NYC invites you to our June 2009 event: Design Strategy: Building Concentric Circles of Connection A discussion and working session with ROGER MADER and JAKE SAMUELSON Please join us for the following discussion an

[IxDA Discuss] Barcelona / Vienna IxDA local groups?

Hi all, I will be in Barcelona from June 17th to June 21nd, and will be in Vienna from June 22nd to June 26th, and I was wondering if there are any IxDA meetings I can join during those dates. It´d be real nice to meet up and talk about your IxDA activities. There seems to be no group in Vienna,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Advice on Grid for Visual Studio Developers?

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:09 PM, j.scot wrote: > Is anyone aware of a developer's reference on defining a layout grid > (or the atomic unit thereof) in Visual Studio? Full disclosure: I work for Infragistics. But I'm not recommending this because of that fact. It's just we have something that

[IxDA Discuss] I cannot possibly snark enough

About a company with 11 million paid subscription customers for its most popular product... That claims to be hiring a Director of User Experience (http://www.blizzard.com/us/) That puts up a URL for said job (http://www.blizzard.com/us/jobopp/battlenet-user-experience-director.html) That leads

[IxDA Discuss] From Business to Buttons videos happening live today & tomorrow (or archived for later)

Just go here: http://bambuser.com/channel/fbtb09 Lots of great talks, interviews with speakers and other environmental content all available) -- Dave Malouf http://davemalouf.com/ http://twitter.com/daveixd http://scad.edu/industrialdesign http://ixda.org/

[IxDA Discuss] SharePoint & Semantic Web events

The Montague Institute will offer the following teleconferences this summer & fall: Managing SharePoint metadata: The HP/EDS experience (July 22, 2009 via teleconference) Customizing — and governing — SharePoint search

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability analytics tools

We do a baseline measurement capturing time, effort, and satisfaction of 5-6 key scenarios. Then once we have a prototype, we run a test with the same scenarios measuring time, effort, and satisfaction and ask them to rate it compared to the previous version. If the product is something they're us

[IxDA Discuss] PhD examiners?

Hi folks - I'm looking for a PhD examiner. Ideally in Australia or New Zealand but it could be worldwide. If anyone is qualified (i.e. already holds PhD or at least and MA and is in academia) and interested, can you ping me a mail or a tweet: @apolaine Best, Andy :::

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best practices for Country location and languages on Global Websites (was Language Picker)

" A few questions... Should sites auto detect IP addresses and serve default settings according to country, language?" I would say no, if only based on personal experience. Our corporate connection goes through our headquarters in France. Google in particular seems to be determined to direct me t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Advice on Grid for Visual Studio Developers?

Hello Scott, Maybe you can use the flow layout options for the form designing? In V isual Studio in .NET applications the form designer own task is a two- way conversion. If you add components in the form designer code will be generated and added to the source file, and the other way around

[IxDA Discuss] Usability analytics tools

Hi everyone. Anyone know of any good usability analytics tools out there? I've had a look a crazyegg.com but not sure about its effectiveness. I basically want to start proving the ROI of usability testing. Any help will be really appreciated. ___

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability Lab Survey :2009

Hi Everyone! Some of you have already responded to the survey. I appreciate your enthusiasm. I hhope that more responses will come in . Whoever hasnt done it yet, I urge you to please spare a little time to do so...its only a matter of 10 questions. http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/144726/user-exp

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Low Cost, Off Site, Remote Testing Options and Strategies

Yeah, I've used Silverback. It's really nice and simple. It doesn't have any stats or anything, but you can use the Mac Remote to add markers on the fly and you can set Silverback to include visual cues for clicks and special key presses. It takes almost no time to set up, but the export takes a l

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Data of lift provided by good UI

Hi Brian, I think what you are looking for is to quantify ROI due to an UX/UI improvement. We tried to do this, but we didn't suceed, but for sure there are many effective ways to do it, in our particular situation it was almost impossible to quantify it because on new releases were involved not

Re: [IxDA Discuss] JOB: mobile ux documentation wizard / nyc / frog design / contract

email generated incorrectly. please email to j.gros...@frogdesign.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42733 Welcome to the Interacti

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best practices for Country location and languages on Global Websites (was Language Picker)

William stole my reply! ;-) And of course, write the names of the languages *in* their own language (Español, not Spanish). Not sure about everyone else, but I don't know how to read the word "English" written in Mandarin characters ;-) I would be careful (avoid?) using country flags as icons for

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] - Chicago event video stream

For those unable to attend tonight UX & Agile panel in Chicago, visit http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ixda-chicago-local-event. We're scheduled to begin at 6:30 PM CDT. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to t