Re: [IxDA Discuss] Type ahead vs. auto fill

2009-07-13 Thread Julia
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with Sarah. Auto fill - is the functionality provided by browser or some 3d party plugins such as Google toolbar. This functionality let's you create personal profile and store some of the frequently used details on your PC (for example: First/Last name, phone

[IxDA Discuss] JOB: Interaction Designer - Perficient - Houston, TX - Full Time

2009-07-13 Thread charlotte . schwendeman
Perficient is looking for a dynamic, creative, and passionate interaction designer to work within a user experience team on an exciting project in the oil industry in Houston, TX. The candidate must live in or near the Houston, TX area. The interaction designer will work within a highly

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Type ahead vs. auto fill

2009-07-13 Thread Jeroen Elstgeest
Is there a real difference between the 2 examples? In example 1 Google uses a list with all keywords/sentences Google knows. Example 2 uses a smaller list, but both of them are still lists. Google doesn't make words up on-the-fly. Auto-fill is what Julia says it is. Maybe you mean autocomplete?

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Expression Blend 3.0 with SketchFlow Released Today

2009-07-13 Thread Joshua Muskovitz
David, The simple truth is that you don't like Microsoft. I get it. But it's not a constructive point to make on this list. There is nothing preventing you from using this app on your chosen platform. You aren't being denied anything. You have your personal preferences -- sometimes they work in

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Expression Blend 3.0 with SketchFlow Released Today

2009-07-13 Thread Kristopher Kinlen
Not sure how any of the Apple vs Microsoft banter has anything to do with the subject of this thread... Sketchflow. Just sayin! :) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43633

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Expression Blend 3.0 with SketchFlow Released Today

2009-07-13 Thread Fredrik Matheson
So, has anyone tried EP3 with Sketchflow? What's your experience so far? Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe

[IxDA Discuss] Any chance at extending CONAN review period?

2009-07-13 Thread Maureen
Only got to start looking at it last night and am at work today. Would love to spend more time with it. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Expression Blend 3.0 with SketchFlow Released Today

2009-07-13 Thread josh Seiden
Folks, Please take this conversation offline. And please avoid such topics in the future. The moderation of this community relies to a large degree on the ability of members to police themselves, and to respond to one another with professional courtesy. Chris posted something relevant and

[IxDA Discuss] [WORKSHOP] Mastering Difficul t Conversations in Creative Environments • July 24 • Washington, DC

2009-07-13 Thread Dan Brown
Hello! (please forgive cross-posting) What's the hardest part of your job? Sometimes, the design work is the easy part. But managing all the different personalities, setting client expectations, and dealing with conflict all come with the territory, and this can be the real challenge. To find out

Re: [IxDA Discuss] CONAN Design Review

2009-07-13 Thread A . Mignolo
Is it still possible to jump in on the review? If not, I'd love to participate - amignolo at gmail dot com. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43460

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Type ahead vs. auto fill

2009-07-13 Thread Sarah Weise
Sorry, I was describing autocomplete, not autofill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43610 Welcome to the Interaction Design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Expression Blend 3.0 with SketchFlow Released Today

2009-07-13 Thread Michael Micheletti
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Fredrik Matheson fredrik.mathe...@gmail.com wrote: So, has anyone tried EP3 with Sketchflow? What's your experience so far? I'm sort of living in Blend 3 these days, styling a major WPF application. Haven't had a chance to use the Sketchflow portion yet since

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Expression Blend 3.0 with SketchFlow Released Today

2009-07-13 Thread Diego Moya
2009/7/13 Fredrik Matheson fredrik.mathe...@gmail.com: So, has anyone tried EP3 with Sketchflow? What's your experience so far? I've given EB3.0 a quick run. Everything below is the result of a very rough first impression based on few minutes of usage. On first opening, it looks very similar

[IxDA Discuss] Digitial newspaper/magazine editions user experience

2009-07-13 Thread Rob Enslin
Good afternoon, With print production costs spiralling out of control I'm currently looking at alternative ways at presenting our magazine content - perhaps in a digital format? Our product is currently available online, but I've noticed many newspapers offer a digital edition to its users... in

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Going beyond Usability: The need to design for Persuasion, Emotion, and Trust

2009-07-13 Thread Brian Mila
One of the other researchers at HFI, Susan Weinschenk, recently published a book called Neuro Web Design - What makes them click? It was a good read and covered 9 different persuasion techniques. My only complaint is that I wish it covered even more. To the points made by others, I agree,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Going beyond Usability: The need to design for Persuasion, Emotion, and Trust

2009-07-13 Thread Adrian Howard
On 12 Jul 2009, at 18:24, Sachendra Yadav wrote: Is it just me or do you think that this is what we’ve been doing all along anyway? It's certainly not new (even to folk who are just doing usability... when _did_ that get redefined into such a narrow domain... but I digress... ). Folk

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digitial newspaper/magazine editions user experience

2009-07-13 Thread Patrick
I've talked to a few publishers, and they said that interest in the digital edition (PDF, etc.) was limited at best (proved by web stats). The publishers were interested in recouping some of the advertising costs, but the results were negligible. On Jul 13, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Rob Enslin

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digitial newspaper/magazine editions user experience

2009-07-13 Thread jesse
In my experience, users are looking for the same general content online as in print, but there are vastly different expectations in terms of presentation. For the most part these expectations make sense. Why would a publisher simply place their print materials online? Was early TV just a video

[IxDA Discuss] IxD event at 10th National Design Awards

2009-07-13 Thread Fritz Desir
Just received information on this event but it looks interesting hosted the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and a part of the 10th Annual National Design Awards. Perceptive Pixel won the Interaction Design award (http://bit.ly/2HtFFh). There seems to be several other FREE public programs

[IxDA Discuss] Meaning of Hard Coding Colors?

2009-07-13 Thread Shima Kazerooni
Hi, I have seen that it is recommended to avoid hard coding colors.  Does anyone know what exactly hard coding colors means?  Any specific examples are appreciated. Thank you, Shima Welcome to the Interaction Design

[IxDA Discuss] Locast: location-based user and professional content platform for Venice, Italy. Can it provide smooth and convenient user experience to travellers?

2009-07-13 Thread Calvin
http://locast.mit.edu Quoted from their site: Locast is an innovative platform for sharing and discovering location-based user-generated videos and production quality multimedia content provided by RAI TV. It consists of a combination of mobile and wearable computing elements supported by a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Going beyond Usability: The need to design for Persuasion, Emotion, and Trust

2009-07-13 Thread Shima Kazerooni
I recently took Susan's HFI PET design course (design for persuation, emotion and trust) course and really like it.  It was a 3-day couse and she covered a lot in it. Shima From: Brian Mila brian.m...@trizetto.com To: disc...@ixda.org Sent: Monday, July 13,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digitial newspaper/magazine editions user experience

2009-07-13 Thread Jared Spool
On Jul 13, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Rob Enslin wrote: Does anyone know if research has been conducted (or has conducted research) to support digital editions in terms of a positive user experience (user outcomes)? There's been a lot of research on this topic, primarily from the folks at

[IxDA Discuss] [Event Reminder] Chicago IxDA July Event - Rapid Prototyping

2009-07-13 Thread Chicago IxDA
Our July event for Chicago IxDA is coming up on Wednesday! Don't forget to RSVP by end of the day tomorrow (Tuesday the 14th) by visiting our form here: http://tinyurl.com/mk36bx Here are those details: Erik Klimczak of Clarity Consulting will be discussing rapid prototyping. The need for

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Meaning of Hard Coding Colors?

2009-07-13 Thread Stephen Holmes
It is best to not hard-code anything on a page that can be better coded in a CSS file as a class. It just means that if you need to change anything it is changed once in the CSS file and then all pages that use that CSS file to define positioning, padding, colours etc. are all changed at once. It

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Meaning of Hard Coding Colors?

2009-07-13 Thread Dan Harrelson
I think that Stephen is on the right track. The person who suggested to you that colors not be hard coded is likely trying to ensure that the swapping of one or more colors throughout the system is as painless as possible. Minimize the amount of find and replace. ...Dan . . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Meaning of Hard Coding Colors?

2009-07-13 Thread Jarrod Lombardo
There's also a problem from the accessibility standpoint. You can't know if a user of your product does or does not have some sort of color-blindness or other visual impariment. The best case for the user is for every color (and font, and font-size) you use by default to be customizable to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Going beyond Usability: The need to design for Persuasion, Emotion, and Trust

2009-07-13 Thread adrian chan
Don't forget social interaction design ideas. Especially if the interaction model is communication-based. Persuasion could then be divided into commercial or strategic persuasiveness, and mutually- reciprocated persuasion (implying understanding or even agreement). When two parties are

[IxDA Discuss] game design for business apps

2009-07-13 Thread Victor Lombardi
I saw John Ferrara give an earlier version of this presentation in Amsterdam last year and he blew me away. Everyone I talked to wanted to learn game design after seeing him, and I knew we had to make his work available to a wider audience. His webinar will be this Thursday at 18:00 GMT / 1pm EST

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [PLUG] My Blog - Edible/Usable - the usability of cooking and eating

2009-07-13 Thread Julie Stanford
Kim, I LOVE your blog. Simply love the concept of what you are doing. This has been an issue that has been on my mind for a long time because I think there is a lot of similarlity between cooking/recipes/users and design/users. For example, when I visited Sunset Magazine recently at their open