Dave,
Most of your list truly represent the way I approach design. Coming from an
Architecture background, terms like holistic, contextual, inclusive,
viable represent key values in an architect's endeavor. The same apply to
Industrial design and the like.
I wonder what is your perspective
I would add:
- Pragmatism over Idealization: design is not liberal arts, we have a
commitment to craft products that solve people problems within a finite set
of resources and plenty of constrains. At certain point during our design
process, efforts should be taken to understand the medium in
Alrighty folks, for some this is probably good news; for others,
you'll have to wait until I get my new blog up and running to hear me
rant about all things design related in the tech sector.
I'm signing off the list.
Why? I've decided to take a position at Yahoo! to help in the design
of
Hi Andrei (if you read this),
As a quiet observer of this list I'd personally like to thank you for
all you've taught me. No text book, blog post, article can replace the
valuable input you've provided me.
If there was some way to sign a 'bring Andrei back' request I'd do it
now.
Best of luck Andrei! Great news for you - and I'll look for
improvements in Yahoo!'s products soon (my wife and her friends use
Yahoo! a lot). Don't forget to call those programmers out when
they're being lazy! ;-)
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Place: IxDA web
Users: English writing/speaking users
Navigation labels: in plain English words - works good
Place: Public subway station
Users: Multi lingual users? (Yes, possible!!! - tourists)
Labels: Ain't symbols along with text in whatever language work
better, than just text alone?
I have a word template that I've been using that is effective and user
friendly. Contact me offline and I'll send you a copy of a version.
alexhogan
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
To post to this list
It's only one facet of the discussion, but along with your concern
about complexity (which I took to mean the actual integration of the
legacy product with the new portlet wrapper), I would bring up the
problem with mixing interfaces.
When you have an intranet (with its navigation, search and
if youre looking for a good alternative to
fireworks/visio/omnigraffle, check out balsamiq. it has a decent
template list, quick file save as .png, easily resize
windows/components, change text and allows you to link buttons,
links, whatever to show the flow of each page to page.
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Just to clarify some points that Ron George made (Thanks for the
mention, Ron!)
* Flow's versioning function was designed to be insanely easy - in
short, when you save a file in any supported app, Flow creates a
version (list can be found here
Hi Pietro,
This article posted on A List Apart by Luke Wroblewski tackles inline
validation. You might want to check the different pattern libraries out
there (Yahoo, Welie, Quince, etc) for other examples.
This is the article:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/inline-validation-in-web-forms/
The jQuery Javascript framework has a plugin called Validate that
does exactly what you just described.
It's quite customizable so you can design the validation rules, the
error message texts, plus the visual design of the messages.
This is a demo page they use to show off that plug-in, but it
BuyerZone is expanding its UX team. Please email j...@buyerzone.com
or ping me directly if you are interested.
Interaction Designer - BuyerZone, Inc.
Responsibilities
Lead efforts to better understand how to make our customers happy.
You should know how to run an effective usability
From the the form master himself, Luke Wroblewski:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/inline-validation-in-web-forms/
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Hi Andrei,
I regret that you're signing off the list. Strong opinions make great
discussion.
Why not ask the list manager to put your account back under moderation? Just
kidding.
I sincerely hope you will find some time to publish new articles in your
blog again.
Looking forward to catch up next
On Sep 19, 2009, at 12:02 AM, Gilberto Medrano wrote:
A beautiful interface that does not work becomes ugly. I am
with you
100% on giving aesthetics the relevance that some usability gurus
try to
diminish. I just think that aesthetics can be a vehicle of usability.
Good thing I'm not a
Though not a book that exclusively handles sitemaps within Excel, you
might want to check out Effective Prototyping with Excel (more
information to be found at www.effectiveprototyping.com).
Personally I use Excel to create anything from concept model, a
content inverntory, to sitemaps and even
Like someone else here, this is my first post (although I've been an
interested reader for a while), so hello!
Glad to see such support for Fireworks for wireframing. I've been
using it for many years now for such purposes and for me anyway,
there is no alternative for rapid development right
Gilberto, I totally agree w/ your take that aesthetics can lead to
usability and even the opposite, that usability can lead to
aesthetics.
Jared, it isn't absolutely a dichotomy and maybe, I'm using the
wrong terms.
While I agree that a beautiful interface that doesn't work (in some
ways) may
Andrei,
This seems like a very odd move on your part. I don't get it.
I've never known Yahoo! to restrict the chatter of their staff on
the interwebs. I also don't see a tendency for folks on this list to
confuse a someone's personal views with that of their employer. Tell
us again why you can't
Congratulations on the new position at Yahoo. I hope it is everything
you want it to be and more. I
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lets try this again. Apparently the comment system doesn't like the
greater than sign ...
Congratulations on the new position at Yahoo. I hope it is everything
you want it to be and more. I heart Yahoo so it will be great to see
the company continue to change, have a unified design site wide and
Good point! Aesthetics is really powerful and its effect on people's
emotions is instantaneous. Therefore the need to use it as an integral
component of the design (IMHO).
I would like to argue that there is an important emotional charge coming
from usability too. Perhaps in a much slower
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