Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction flow as subterfuge.

2009-06-20 Thread William Brall
Don't Ask applies to the men and women who are enlisted or are officers in the military. Not to the men and women who work for the military or for contractors who work for the military. I don't agree with Don't Ask. And I look forward to its end. Thankfully, my job deals with army.mil which is a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Seeking iPhone UX Designers

2009-06-20 Thread Dan Harrelson
A team at Adaptive Path is bringing our work re-envisioning the smart.fm web site to iPhone. This is definitely not a project coming from a developers perspective. We are taking an approach to determine what experience users want in the mobile context, when learning on the smart.fm platform. The en

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction flow as subterfuge.

2009-06-20 Thread j. eric townsend
There are always slimeballs who will ask you to compromise your beliefs. Back in the "webmaster-as-designer" days, a marketing manager type came to me and said something to the effect of, "I read that there's a bug in Netscape that lets websites get the email address of anyone who visits a s

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction flow as subterfuge.

2009-06-20 Thread live
Ethical except for, you know, this kind of one act play- A Military Monday Morning Water Cooler: Bill: Hello John. How was your weekend? John: It was great. The wife and the kids and I went to the zoo, saw the penguins. How was your weekend? Bill: Good - me and the boyfriend took the dogs to th

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction flow as subterfuge.

2009-06-20 Thread William Brall
Stick to your guns. Be ethical. Be personally responsible. Advertise that you do these things and give examples of where you have left jobs due to ethics. Ethical people will hire you and the others will not. Which is where you want to be anyway. At least that is my opinion. Then again. I work fo

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Seeking iPhone UX Designers

2009-06-20 Thread William Brall
We are currently in the process of bringing an iPhone app to market for army.mil. If anyone is interested, I can do a postmortem. Will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43042 ___

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Seeking iPhone UX Designers

2009-06-20 Thread Thomas Davies
Though it isn't totally related to your topic, I thought I'd mention that for a university assignment I produced a heuristic evaluation on Tap Tap Revenge for the iPhone. It was a very interesting project as it allowed me to understand the Mobile HIG and see how it related to immersive gami

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Seeking iPhone UX Designers

2009-06-20 Thread live
May I ask, my just iPhone apps? Why not mobile apps on a whole? My friends who are in the mobile software biz make them for all platforms On Jun 20, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Suzanne Ginsburg wrote: Hello IXDA community, Has anyone brought an iPhone app to market? Did you take an end-to- end

[IxDA Discuss] Seeking iPhone UX Designers

2009-06-20 Thread Suzanne Ginsburg
Hello IXDA community, Has anyone brought an iPhone app to market? Did you take an end-to- end user-centered design approach (upfront research, iterative prototyping & all that fun stuff)? I'm working on an article about user-centered iPhone app design. Finding a range of real world examp

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Difference between Heuristic Evaluation and Expert Review

2009-06-20 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On Jun 20, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Jared Spool wrote: I've seen "heuristic evaluations" that didn't involve any heuristics at all. I've seen "expert reviews" where no-one in the room was actually an expert beyond just being a smart person who could write a report. Yet, everyone believed the labe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Shaun Inman\'s Fever

2009-06-20 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On Jun 19, 2009, at 7:20 PM, dave malouf wrote: If the Mint out of box, purchasing, installing, etc. experience is anything like what I went through with Fever, i can't believe that it is lauded in any way what so ever. It was the convoluted and scary. I'm not going to defend the installation

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Difference between Heuristic Evaluation and Expert Review

2009-06-20 Thread Jared Spool
On Jun 17, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Kishor Sonawane wrote: In Heuristic evaluation, evaluator evaluates design with reference of design principles to find out the usability issues. How “Expert Review” is different from this? Is there any major difference or it’s the same? As you can see from the ans

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Palm Pre

2009-06-20 Thread Jarod Tang
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:23 PM, William Brall wrote: > I wasn't talking about what the iPhone looks like. I was talking about > the easy in which it does things. It isn't perfect. I've seen a pre now and > they are good too. Still not perfect. > > I agree with what you said, other than suggesti

Re: [IxDA Discuss] iPhone Number Conversion

2009-06-20 Thread Marty DeAngelo
Phil, I think that the combo solution (disable auto, add the tel: tag to actual phone numbers) is the way we will go. FYI - it's not the phone numbers we're worried about - it's other 6- and 8- digit numbers that AREN'T phone numbers that appear as links on the iPhone but go nowhere. We didn't wan

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Palm Pre

2009-06-20 Thread William Brall
I wasn't talking about what the iPhone looks like. I was talking about the easy in which it does things. It isn't perfect. I've seen a pre now and they are good too. Still not perfect. I agree with what you said, other than suggesting I didn't say the same thing. :) If anything. What I said i

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Palm Pre

2009-06-20 Thread Jarod Tang
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 3:32 AM, William Brall wrote: > I'm all for some competition for Apple. I think the future of all > personal computing are in something iPhone like. I've already seen > some people stop using their PC in favor of the iPhone. I'm not sure japanness will agree with you whi

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction flow as subterfuge.

2009-06-20 Thread Stephen Nitz
I think that one has to ask the ethical question very often. In fact it can be helpful to sort things out. Is making the logo bigger an ethical question? You can argue that the logo is shouting or harder to read but in the end if the client insists, it is not a moral issue, even if it offends on