I¡¯m a Year 3 student in a business school. However, I want to apply
a graduate program of interaction design.
I have only a year before application and decide to learn by myself.
Some knowledge can be acquired by reading books and articles. But
I'm really confused about how to practice "design
I¡¯m a Year 3 student in a business school. However, I want to apply
a graduate program of interaction design.
I have only a year before application and decide to learn by myself.
Some knowledge can be acquired by reading books and articles. But
I'm really confused about how to practice "design
Interaction designers!
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skills and who's a master at concepting and designing rich internet
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I echo Erik and Mehdi's suggestions. Rest assured you are not the
only person in this position. I recently wrote a couple blog posts
about just this problem after seeing others in a similar situation.
You might find them helpful:
http://www.benry.net/blog/2009/08/12/finding-an-ia-job-idea-1-practi
I'm on your page, Jayson. There are plenty of situations where Flash
is really helpful (or your clients beg for it), but for the most part
it's over the top, unnecessary and very hard on the user experience.
I attended the Future of Web Design in NYC last month and saw dozens
of great ideas and ex
I just posted some of my thoughts about the Litl, after seeing it at
last week's IxDA Boston meeting.
http://abbett.org/post/litl-it-thinks-it-can
Long story short: I think we were all surprised to hear what sounded
like their utter disregard for (or ignorance of) the user research
process.
Best
I've been looking at agency websites for the past couple hours on theFWA.com
and my eyes are bleeding. It's one bizarre Flash disaster after another.
Does anyone have a favorite site (or resource for looking at some) that is
both engaging & cool AND usable?
Evan Meagher wrote:
about the complexity of customer service is a good example of this. If
you stick to solid design and UX principles to make things easy to use
out of the box, you'll prevent having to screw around with
unproductive business practices later on.
It's not just about reducing the
>
> It's been a usability disaster.
>
Do you have research to support this? I'm neither agreeing nor
disagreeing with you, I would just like to see the test results so I can
make up my own mind.
Incidentally, we've discussed the infinite scroll before recently.
There may be some more ideas
I think you're missing an important point.
Clicking on the image in Bing does open the site within a frame, but not the
full image. If you use the "back" button in your browser, you will be taken
to a different place than you were previously.
If you click the "back" link on the page (not using th
> Honestly, have you ever had a need to go back to images after you've
> google/binged them?
> Can you imagine a use case scenario?
I often go back to a specific page in Google image results. Here's my most
common use (anecdotally):
I'm usually looking for an example to use as a reference to he
You don't lose your place in Bing images.
Try it.
Search for something, scroll for awhile, click on it. Not good? Click
back link. Still in search spot.
On Dec 7, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Jayson Elliot wrote:
Speaking anecdotally, I would say I come back to the images results
page about 90% of th
Speaking anecdotally, I would say I come back to the images results page
about 90% of the time.
Some of the ways I use Google Images is when looking for a company logo for
a presentation, album artwork for my MP3 library, book art for my Delicious
Library database, etc.
In all of those cases, I of
Yes.
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:19 PM, live wrote:
> Come back?
> Honestly, have you ever had a need to go back to images after you've
> google/binged them?
> Can you imagine a use case scenario?
>
>
> On Dec 7, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Jayson Elliot wrote:
>>
>> I would caution STRONGLY against the "bot
Come back?
Honestly, have you ever had a need to go back to images after you've
google/binged them?
Can you imagine a use case scenario?
On Dec 7, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Jayson Elliot wrote:
I would caution STRONGLY against the "bottomless scroll," however.
Bing.com
has been using it in their
The one argument I would make to the "pick one optimal size" theory
is that, in some cases, there is no optimal size. One company where I
worked had a catalog of millions of products with images.
Because there were so many products to choose from, users tended to
want to see as many results on a
Agreed, the idea of asking users to customize any level of their online
experience generally meets with limited usage. I'm not a fan of user
customization as a general rule, even in desktop applications, unless it's
for specialized use cases such as professionals rearranging their preferred
tools i
IxDA NYC is pleased to present
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UX Show and Tell is a casual workshop that’s all about the work, where you
get feedback on your UX, IA and IxD deliverables from practitioners instead
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Because let's face it: even the most involved practitioners of
At the end of the day, the approaches listed here are part of our toolbox
that we choose appropriately, based on the context.
But regardless of the approach, we agree that you need to find the right
chunk size to start with. How many results are enough before someone is
satisfied that they've exha
I agree with 37 Signals that you should just choose the paging size.
The page size is really a question of performance. And I don't think
you would ask your user what type of performance they want. You
already know, they want it fast.
That leads to the next question of what you should the paging s
I've not had occasion to make this decision on the development side
but from my own user perspective I really dislike sites that present
a minuscule amount of results with no mechanism for increasing that
quantity. I think many sites do that in order to increase the number
of ad views... the greate
Chris
I was exactly in the same position 2 years ago. I had Just graduated
(MSc Interactive Systems Design) with absolutely no work experience
as we didn't have internships here at Nottingham University. I
worked as a freelance web designer and started doing my personal UX
projects which eventuall
We had this control front and center in my current project, but after
discussions and brief sessions with actual users, found they didn't use it
that often, and it was implemented so badly that it affected our portal
performance. So I changed the way it works, moved it to the bottom of the
page, a
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I tend to think that the # items per page control is pretty useless.
I did some testing with it for a product a couple years ago and found
that it was more important to get the default page size right than to
have the option available. For that product we found the sweet spot
was 16 items/page.
Or, you could go another direction altogether and eliminate paging
entirely:
http://blog.wekeroad.com/2009/11/27/paging-records-sucks--use-jquery-to-scroll-just-in-time
Admittedly, this wouldn't work under all circumstances, but it's an
interesting alternative.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hi all,
How do you decide whether to include a means to control how many list
items to display?
In an earlier thread (http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=46070),
someone pointed to 37Signals' "Getting Real," in which they
suggest that preferences like these are a cop-out, a little decision
that
I *give* (company-logo-and-web-address-imprinted) pens to delivery
drivers in the hope that they will be left with someone who might be
interested. The last thing I want is for the driver to hang on to it.
Regards,
William Hudson
Syntagm Ltd
Design for Usability
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Hi all,
I am currently doing some research on trends in the user experience
design of e-commerce (shopping) sites.
- Which trends are you observing?
- Which concepts work/do not work based on your experience or user
research results?
(i.e., dragging and dropping products into shopping carts, fac
Chris,
I know it probably seems like everything is against you, but there
are many ways to make yourself stand out to potential employers.
Your portfolio and intern experience may be enough to get your foot
in the door. However, you may want to supplement this with some
really interesting persona
As we continue to investigate the role of choice architecture in interaction
design, this post struck me today
::
http://nudges.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/a-nudge-especially-for-delivery-drive
rs/
Rather like the sequencing design that returns your card at the ATM before
your cash in order to
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