[IxDA Discuss] shopping.rediff.com - too much simplicity?

2009-08-23 Thread Rajesh Sundaram
Rediff, one of the leading portals in India recently underwent an entire redesign focusing on simplicity. But I guess it did the worse thing to their online shopping site. Can anyone locate "Womens ear rings" in their categories page? http://shopping.rediff.com/categories The old site was way bet

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability Reports: A waste of time?

2009-08-23 Thread Julie Stanford
I personally like summary reports (not huge reports but a nice manageable size) for several reason: - When I am designing, I go back to the findings/recommendations and makes sure that I have addressed all of them - In fact, sometimes some of the findings/recommendations are small and not

[IxDA Discuss] Lag in IxDA posts & comments fixed

2009-08-23 Thread Janna Hicks DeVylder
Hi all, Apologies for the delay in posts to the list over the past 24 hours. We're back in business with posts and comments. If you don't see something come through by tomorrow, feel free to repost. thanks, Janna Welcome to the In

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Eye-Tracker software/hardware recommendations

2009-08-23 Thread Caroline Jarrett
On another list recently, Carolyn Snyder pointed out that there are two purposes to user research: 1. Finding out about the product 2. Changing the product (I paraphrase). Jared seems to be focusing strongly on point 1. I somewhat sympathise with his point of view, in that I've not found that t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] best practices for a secure forgot password process

2009-08-23 Thread Corn Walker
On Aug 21, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Laura Malone wrote: My question is, have you resolved this conflict in your website, and if so, how? Facebook pretends to send the email. Of course when the user doesn't receive the message, they lose confidence in whether the "lost password" function is worki

[IxDA Discuss] IxDA Board Retreat – August 200 9

2009-08-23 Thread Steve Baty
Hello IxDA, The Board of Directors of the IxDA met recently - over the weekend of August 14-16 - to discuss the progress the organization is making towards its mission to advance the discipline of interaction design. We'd like to share with you some of our discussions and decisions from that weeke

[IxDA Discuss] Launching "User Interface Trends" site -- http://uitrends.com

2009-08-23 Thread Russell Wilson
I'm in the process of launching a new site (http://uitrends.com) with the purpose of: 1) collecting trends and interesting user interface designs for websites and web applications 2) promoting discussion (comments, rating, etc.) of the trends/designs The site is definitely in beta, but want to sh

[IxDA Discuss] Usability Reports: A waste of time?

2009-08-23 Thread Mashhoor Aldubayan
Hi, I'm wondering: how many of you think that writing a big report on the findings/recommendations for a project is inefficient? >From my experience, it seems that I end up discussing (and often justifying) almost every single thing I write on the report, no matter how logical it is. Isn't a bet

[IxDA Discuss] best practices for a secure forgot password process

2009-08-23 Thread Laura Malone
The use case I'm asking for input on is this: The user has forgotten their password and types in an email address that is not in our system. Currently we tell them that we don't have that email address in our system and to try another or register. However, we have been mandated to address the secur

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Nintendo Wii and \"Side Effects\"

2009-08-23 Thread Adam Tramposh
I've always been skeptical at the prospect of wii-fitness. The wii-mote is localized to a specific region of the body, however many fitness activities require proper form throughout the whole body. The equipment is simply not designed to monitor things as nuanced as overall posture. Without the cap