Hello,
I am a recent CogSci - HCI graduate and I'm looking into Industrial
Design (ID) programs that have close ties with IxD.
Or the other way around...IxD programs that deal beyond digital
media.
I've found the ID program at SCAD close to what I'm looking for.
Their curriculum includes "Method
We currently use Jungledisk Workgroup to manage multiple versions of
comps, icon libraries, interactive prototypes, etc. A new web view
just launched in beta which makes easy access to your files from any
computer.
I like this solution because it scales seamlessly and also works
across Windows, Ma
Dear all,
[apologies for cross-postings]
I've compiled a list of conference dates/deadlines with relevance to
our community. I aim to send an updated overview every once in a
while.
There's a printerfriendly version (for hanging on your wall) at
http://www.interaction-design.org/calendar/printer
(Cross-posted)
When: September 8th, 2009
Where: iCrossing, Black Lion Street, Brighton (Map)
Time: 6:30 pm -
Cost: £ free
Details: http://uxbrighton.org.uk/gameplay-research-and-design
Talk descriptions will follow, but we've got *2 great speakers so book quickly*.
*GiGi Demming* (User Testing M
Hi Tom,
I recommend you take a look at getdropbox.com. It's a great online
backup tool and shared folder with version control that lets you sync
files across different computers %u2013 Windows, Mac and Linux.
Basically you sign up for an account, install their software and
assign a folder in yo
I think some amount of redundant navigation is ok...and breadcrumbs
specifically are a place where navigation redundancy is fine. You
can make a case for or against redundant navigation depending on the
site, the purpose of the site, and the site visitor profile. What is
the nature of the site? D
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I've used SVN for document assets once, but the downside is that the
front-end tools are primitive (like Tortoise SVN)and some folks would
rather not be bothered w/ having to understand all the SVN lingo. To
be honest, almost all the projects I've worked on we have a
commercial CMS like Stellant o
Hi Ali,
Do you believe in a user-centered design process as a benefit to creating
better web interfaces?
It doesn't sound like there's much room for discussion about the topic at
your current company.
Who else shares your view amongst your peers, or even in different
departments?
- Robert
On Mo
Hi Ambrose,
Thanks for posting.
My experience is that all three roles you mention here (software developers,
designers and UX professionals) don't bother pointing out the deficiencies
of the other's approach... they just focus on their roles in whatever
project process is required to do the work.
On 1 Sep 2009, at 21:31, Alok Jain wrote:
Git and svn are comparable but git is better in some respects , for
e.g. handling branches (i.e. if you are production version of the
code , and then you also are working on 1 or more new features. You
can keep one production branch and have another br
On 2 Sep 2009, at 05:27, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote:
Agreed on both counts. And to further reminisce a bit let's not
forget all the stories of people who bought Macs that had the power
switch on the front just under the floppy drive, and they would
press the button thinking it would ejec
Git and svn are comparable but git is better in some respects , for
e.g. handling branches (i.e. if you are production version of the
code , and then you also are working on 1 or more new features. You
can keep one production branch and have another branch for other
features. This way if a hot fix
On Sep 1, 2009, at 9:08 PM, Adrian Howard wrote:
For me the big advantage was
1) impossible to eject mid-read/write causing data loss and possible
damage to drive & disk (folk were _always_ doing this in my
experience)
2) Due to the covered nature of the disk - much harder to get crud
in d
On 2 Sep 2009, at 04:49, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote:
* Implementing 3.5" hard disk floppies when they were not standard
in the market, but contained more data storage. This was a product
design and technology decision, and certainly did not help customers
out of the gate since it could hard
On Sep 1, 2009, at 10:46 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote:
On Sep 1, 2009, at 8:32 PM, Jared Spool wrote:
There's no "guidelines" beyond some vague notion of "involving
users" which, by the way, people (like Andrei) who claim to not be
UCD followers do too.
For the record, I acknowledge that
On Sep 1, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Jarod Tang wrote:
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Andrei Herasimchuk > wrote:
Apple focuses on the customer, the technology, the business and the
product itself. Simple cursory knowledge of their history, their
products, their design choices, and their culture wil
Hi Eric,
On 31 Aug 2009, at 17:03, j. eric townsend wrote:
Adrian Howard wrote:
And, a Todd says, if the majority of your customer base isn't
replacing batteries - is it customer focussed to add a feature that
they don't want or need?
If you take away the choice before they ever have it,
On Sep 1, 2009, at 8:32 PM, Jared Spool wrote:
There's no "guidelines" beyond some vague notion of "involving
users" which, by the way, people (like Andrei) who claim to not be
UCD followers do too.
For the record, I acknowledge that I design for people. What I don't
do is people-centered
On Sep 1, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Audrey Crane wrote:
Their argument is that it's useful to reinforce where the user is,
and that since people don't focus on it unless it's needed
secondarily for navigation, it adds negligible to no visual noise to
the page.
Breadcrumbs are a design cop-out. That'
On Sep 1, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Chad Jennings wrote:
Audrey, I can totally empathize with desire to simplify, simplify,
simplify. There is some credence to the SEO argument as having a
redundancy between the URL, page title (as shown on browser),
headline, and breadcrumbs (or sub header) are variab
On Sep 1, 2009, at 6:34 AM, Ali Naqvi wrote:
But won't you agree that UCD follow a "certain" guideline?
No, I wouldn't. Dozens of interviews I've conducted with self-
proclaimed UCD professionals shows there is very little overlap in
what UCD means or what a UCD professional does.
There'
Sasha, unless you are privy to the requirements for Kristen's site
you cannot make a guided decision on whether the choice of font will
directly impact the goals of the design.
Target audience, context of use, frequency of use. Until we know the
design's requirements we cannot advise on direction
On 2 Sep 2009, at 00:17, Diana Wynne wrote:
[snip]
Only on an airline would you refer to "lavatories" and
"illuminating" the
seat belt sign rather than using more common words.
[snip]
That reminds me of some rather uncomfortable times I had as a first
time tourist in the US before I figure
On 1 Sep 2009, at 15:59, Calvin wrote:
Vancouver, Canada recently opened a new subway system called "Canada
Line" (http://www.canadaline.ca). While I notice quite a few issues
in the whole passenger experience, one thing that makes me wonder the
most is the exit sign: instead of printing "Exit"
Subversion is pretty much the de facto standard as far as centralized
version control goes. It is a fantasic piece of software and there
are loads of tools round for easily integrating it into your
workflow.
Alternatively you may also be interested in looking into distributed
version control syste
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Andrei Herasimchuk <
aherasimc...@involutionstudios.com> wrote:
> On Sep 1, 2009, at 5:17 AM, Ali Naqvi wrote:
>
> With time more and newer methods can be added to UCD. UCD is not ONE
>> specific development process. UCD is an overall term that can have
>> many dif
> sensible/ business issues here.)
Oops, false friend… s/sensible/sensitive/
I hope, they're sensible, nonetheless ;-)
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I would keep the current page title at the end of the breadcrumb trail in
addition to the title.
Users may not mentally link a title that is separated from the breadcrumb.
It's a good 'you are here' tool, but without the current page at the end,
it's more like 'you're in this section'.
Putting 'Y
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 23:32, Paul Trumble wrote:
> Actually we did an a/b test with an auto-complete feature, with disastrous
> results. Personally I think the lack of an agreed upon vocabulary killed
> it. While you know what your high school is called, there might be 25 ways
> to name your job
>
> - "Exit" is almost the international standard word to indicate an
> exit route.
In Australia, New Zealand, Dubai, and Korea, the standard appears to be
"Way Out". I don't recall if these signs were used *every*where, but they
were definitely used in airports and subway stations, and frequentl
Product design requires fast and light weight strategies, in order to make
decisions, changes and true innovation. Building prototypes in same medium
as the final product is something other industries have done for years. If
you want to learn how to push your design process with real collaboration,
Way Out also has the disadvantage of being a pun.
It might be fun and appropriate on a website, but as you point out, in an
airport, where people have plans to catch, the error could be a problem.
Note that at least in the US, FAA language is notoriously unfriendly to
regular people, let alone tho
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 14:58, pauric wrote:
> "Do you think small changes in a font will affect perception of a
> brand in one way or another?"
>
> Depends on your target audience. The only people who notice such
> things are the people who notice such things
I heavily disagree. People might not
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 14:36, Kristen wrote:
> What is your favourite font and why?
Kristen, choosing a font should *not* be a matter of whatever one
personally prefers, but of what one wants to *communicate*. And to
whom.
> Do you think small changes in a font will affect perception of a
> brand
Vancouver, Canada recently opened a new subway system called "Canada
Line" (http://www.canadaline.ca). While I notice quite a few issues
in the whole passenger experience, one thing that makes me wonder the
most is the exit sign: instead of printing "Exit", they use "Way
Out". My thoughts:
- "Exit
Try Dropbox -- for small groups, their folder sharing works pretty well.
Automatically syncs, accessible over the web, keeps historical versions.
http://www.getdropbox.com/
-Jon
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Tom Daly wrote:
> I've suddenly found my team grow from one to three and it's clear
Audrey, I can totally empathize with desire to simplify, simplify,
simplify. There is some credence to the SEO argument as having a
redundancy between the URL, page title (as shown on browser),
headline, and breadcrumbs (or sub header) are variables in improving
page rank.
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Dear IxDAers,
There's been some recent discussion about how to design online help. Did you
know that there's a whole professional society, the Society for Technical
Communication, that's all about writing help (specifically) and helping
users (generally) and designing user experiences?
If you're
Actually we did an a/b test with an auto-complete feature, with disastrous
results. Personally I think the lack of an agreed upon vocabulary killed
it. While you know what your high school is called, there might be 25 ways
to name your job.
Thanks for the ideas. Let me know if you have any othe
Kristen,
You should take a look at www.typophile.com - the definitive
typographic community.
Read this before posting: http://typophile.com/design_readme
Cheers,
Jason R.
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I believe your designers have the right conclusion, but the wrong reason.
Bread crumbs are typically displayed as minor
reference items, and should be complete. The
page title is typically more central.
So we might have a page that looks like this
Repairs | Plumbing
But if it isn't clear (that this is where you are), shouldn't there
be better ways of making it clear than providing a redundant
non-functional element?
Maybe with the You Are Here: and including that last >?
I might test this. I'll let y'all know if I can sneak it into a
usability study and what
If version control problems are likely to cause serial heart attacks,
then I prefer Visual SourceSafe, even though it can be a pain.
In a recent project involving several parties we used Basecamp to
share docs and had no problems (http://basecamphq.com).
Paul Bryan
Usography
Linked In: www.linked
You ask that question as though it perhaps is not conceivable to do so...
I think that is where the element of design comes into the decision process as
well.
Part of the design process is what statement you want the overall impact to be,
and that may factor into the selection of the typeface and
Does anyone have an opinion about changing the font from headers to
main text? For example, using a cleaner, simple font for headers and
potentially one with a little more complexity through serif's to ease
the reader in the main text?
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"Do you think small changes in a font will affect perception of a
brand in one way or another?"
Depends on your target audience. The only people who notice such
things are the people who notice such things
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1919127,00.html
/pauric
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Two of mine (but I have more than two favorites):
Janson
Janson because the letterforms are beautiful and the italics are elegant.
I like the way the capital "J" dips on the baseline.
Janson also uses my favorite type of lowercase "a's.
Helvetica
You can do almost anything with Helvetica, and the
I'm creating a web page and am having issues selecting a font. I
recently watched a documentary on Helvetica, but it left me wondering
if that really is the best way to go. Helvetica seems to be timeless
but also does not stand out.
What is your favourite font and why?
Do you think small chang
The Buddha says, "wherever you go, there you are." He also says
that very few users rely on breadcrumbs to navigate or get themselves
"oriented" within the site: they only care about a fluid nav to
where they need to go (present page) and to the next place (sometimes
back, sometimes not). That sa
I think that including the current page title makes it totally clear that
this is a trail to the current page. Breadcrumbs are sometimes prefaced by
'you are here' which is possibly redundant if you include the current page
title. Without the current title the breadcrumbs would mean 'these are the
I tried to make a change to a site I'm new to working on, to remove
the page title as the last element of the breadcrumb and simply treat
the title itself as the last element in the breadcrumb, including a >
last and keeping the title immediately below. I was surprised that
not only wasn't it a sim
I reached out to the guys at EightShapes and Nathan Curtis responded
with a link to a post on their blog that speaks to this (Thanks
Nathan!)
Link to the article:
http://unify.eightshapes.com/efficiency-tips/8-tips-for-organizing-project-files-folders/
Headlines on the file management aspect:
Us
Tom,
Great question, would love to hear what others are using for version
control.
What about an SVN repository? I've heard from various front-end
developers, visual designers, and UX-ers that using a code repo
works. I haven't personally tried it, but it sounds doable to me.
Cheers,
Jason R.
On Sep 1, 2009, at 5:17 AM, Ali Naqvi wrote:
With time more and newer methods can be added to UCD. UCD is not ONE
specific development process. UCD is an overall term that can have
many different development processes with the focus on the USER. I
think that APPLE does focus on the user and DO u
As fantastic the iPhone is - design-wise, app-wise, user
interface-wise -- it is still not optimum for heavy texting and/or
email. Ali, perhaps your friends were disappointed with having to
type on iPhone's touch key pad which does not give the same tactile
response as other smart phones. I switc
As fantastic the iPhone is - design-wise, app-wise, user
interface-wise -- it is still not optimum for heavy texting and/or
email. Ali, perhaps your friends were disappointed with having to
type on iPhone's touch key pad which does not give the same tactile
response as other smart phones. I switc
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Oops looks like Bryan already submitted the auto complete idea.
:) Darn my distracted typing.
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It seems like having some kind of auto-complete text field to narrow
down choices based on a keyword input by the user might be a good
part of the solution. For instance, someone could type in
"designer" and get back all titles that include
"designer"--interior designer, graphic designer, interact
Go to berecruited.com and register as a high school athlete. While
doing so, you'll be asked to select your high school from a list of
25,000 of them. You'll notice, though, that you have to type its
name, and once done, your dropdown list narrows to show schools in
your state, then just those in
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Have you thought of doing a survey and having people self-identify their
occupation? No constraints, just a text field (or two- one for industry
and one for occupation). You could even do it as a fill in the blank,
eg, "I work as a _ in the __ industry."
You'd need a fairly large sample
I guess you will to address UCD as philosophy.
As previous gays said, there're two level for UCD in the design culture, one
from design philosophy perspective, other from process perspective. Design
cant avoid the former one, because all artifact is "by the people, for the
people and of the peopl
One last reminder about our event tonight - we don't have food and drink
planned, so if you're the hungry type please grab a bite before the event.
Steve and I (Carolyn) will be at Exchequer across the street at around 5pm.
I'll be taking the RSVP form down around noon today:
http://tinyurl.com/m2
I've suddenly found my team grow from one to three and it's clear
that a centralized file system is needed, especially as the team
grows.
I'd love to hear how other teams are working, managing their
documentation for both the UX/IxD/VD phases for projects.
My aim is to have a central file reposit
Hi Billie,
In the project I'm working on now, I made a special effort to document the
important parts of our design and leave many details out of the
specifications. I added a disclaimer in all the documents that the specs
were like a jazz chart, that some improvisation was expected and encouraged
All:
I'm looking for some advice, examples or even recommendations of who might
be good at solving this particular problem for us.
In the context of a longish multi-page web form we have a need for the user
to tell us at a fairly granular level what their occupation is. the total
length of the l
Jared:
Okay I have been reading all your comments carefully. Also the ones
you made in my post.
You are against this term since you claim that "no two practitioners
of UCD do the same thing".
As humans we are different from each other and have a different
creative mind. Following UCD doesnt m
But I don't see that as indication that they are "drinking the Kool-Aid." One
could just as easily say that someone who sticks with Nokia, for example, has
"drank the Kool-Aid" if they refuse to even consider other phones, including
the iPhone. People saw new technology, they liked it, they boug
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Jared Spool wrote:
> Which makes it a practically useless term, since no two practitioners of
> UCD do the same thing and nobody can differentiate quality UCD from poorly
> executed UCD.
>
On the other hand, it may be its flexibility that enables it to succee
Most people I know only upgraded their phones once their contract had
expired and they got a substantial discount on the next phone.
I've seen many iPhone users upgrade well before contract expiration at the
full device cost.That's a big difference.
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Tracy Boyingto
I don't understand your logic here. Are you saying people upgraded while
they still had "perfectly good" phones because they were hopeless Apple
addicts? Are you under the impression that before the iPhone, people
only upgraded when their phones died? Because most people I know upgrade
because they
Jared:
But won't you agree that UCD follow a "certain" guideline? Poorly
executed UCD could for instancebe that not enough qualitative
research was conducted? There could be other examples...
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On Sep 1, 2009, at 5:17 AM, Ali Naqvi wrote:
UCD is not ONE
specific development process. UCD is an overall term that can have
many different development processes with the focus on the USER.
Which makes it a practically useless term, since no two practitioners
of UCD do the same thing and
UCD has many other names and consist of these (and probably many
others): contextual inquiry, customer-focused design, empathic
design, participatory design, usability, usability engineering,
usability testing, user experience design, user-focused design,
user-friendly design.
With time more and n
Apple's design process:
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2008/03/apples_design_p.html
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Seems as if we got some reali IPhone fans here huh? :)
With regards to my friend:
It dropped out of his hands and fell to the ground. No one ran it
over with a truck :)
Let me remind you that in Denmark we chance mobile phones each 6
months due to our contracts. Its not rare at all to change a mobi
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