Make sure to check out AdMob's analytics product:
http://analytics.admob.com/home/
They provide an advertising platform, but I think the analytics
product is free (even if you don't use them for ads). They were
recently bought by Google.
-Adam
On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:05 PM, Hilary Biensto
My experience has been that people usually use the term interactive
design in the context of marketing and advertising, where
"interactive" distinguishes an agency or service from traditional
print, billboard and/or TV marketing & advertising. So, in very broad
strokes, if interaction desig
This orientation and numbering is much easier to follow, but a few
things still stand out for me:
1. Using timelines implies that the dates are laid out to some sort of
scale, but they aren't. For example, the distance between 1642 and
1646 (4 years) is about the same distance as between 16
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I worked on a car stereo project 7 or 8 years ago where we used
exactly this concept (we called it "contextual luminescent feedback").
At the time we couldn't find examples that really did this in any sort
of sophisticated way either, but we ran with it anyway because we
thought it was comp
There are a lot of nice things in the concept. It would be great to
see this on a tall, rather than wide, screen. If you stack the windows
vertically rather than horizontally, you wouldn't need to have that
sideways text, which kind of drives me nuts. Or, like the iPhone, have
a display tha
ision
making (it's broken vs. it doesn't make sense).
On Oct 2, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Adam Korman wrote:
There are a couple of points I wanted to follow up on in this
discussion:
Will Sanbury talked about how usability testing is not meant as a
replacement for QA. I think th
There are a couple of points I wanted to follow up on in this
discussion:
Will Sanbury talked about how usability testing is not meant as a
replacement for QA. I think this is a really important point --
usability testing isn't a good way to measure (or improve) product
quality, but it is
rying to argue that there is always a tradeoff between
aesthetics and usability, but that it's not so black and white as more
usable = more delightful = more successful, in part because there is
no single measure of success.
-Adam
On Sep 24, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Jared Spool wrote:
On
I think where the tension lies is that while aesthetics play a role in
usability, there isn't a two-way correlation between aesthetics &
usability. In other words, making something more usable requires
attention to aesthetics, but the reverse isn't true and focusing on
aesthetics alone won'
I think this view is rooted in a misunderstanding of what personas are
and what they are meant to be used for. Among other things, personas
are a way to represent research about the commonalities among your
user's goals and behavior patterns in a manageable way. I find it hard
to believe th
On Sep 16, 2009, at 6:58 AM, Brian wrote:
why would I use [Fireworks] over using Photoshop or InDesign?
This is how I think about where Fireworks fits relative to other Adobe
apps:
- InDesign is great for creating documents
- Photoshop is great for working with bitmap images
- Illustrator i
Dave,
It seems that you're arguing that the tools and point of view of UCD
aren't relevant because you are now interested in a different class of
problems that is broader than designing products. Where I have trouble
with your argument is when you say that the scale of design problems
has
Another take on this is to consider who can see this info after it's
entered. Is it used only for me to confirm my identity online, or are
the answers to these security questions viewable by any random
customer service rep who looks up my account? Part of the expectation
that's created by m
I haven't read anything about the relationship of the fields, but I
did get my start working as an Instructional Designer for about 3
years before getting into Interaction Design, so I've thought about
this a little bit.
There are definitely similarities and parallels in the work,
especia
Common Craft creates some great explanatory videos. Here's one
example: http://www.commoncraft.com/twitter
On Jun 2, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Gretchen Anderson wrote:
Looking for some inspiration about how to orient people to a UI in a
novel way. Of course, no training should be required, but there'
It's hard to tell without the specifics, but this might be similar to
your challenge: http://www.tigerdirect.com. A good example of how they
deal with filters is to go down the path of browsing for hard drives.
You can keep adding filters by clicking on items in the left rail/
navigation are
On Mar 26, 2009, at 4:33 AM, dave malouf wrote:
Coming in VERY late (for me).
1. I DO think this is a definition problem. Or more accurately a lack
of consensus around both definition and practice.
[snipped a bunch of stuff]
Now putting all this into context, I believe if I was to come up wi
Alan Cooper talks about this at length in About Face (chapter 17 is
"Rethinking Files and Save").
Regards, Adam
On Mar 19, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Coryndon Luxmoore wrote:
Strictly speaking save as a function is a holdover from the day that
computers were not capable of retaining a running list
Here's a pretty good critique that supports what Dave is saying (in a
little more detail): http://www.pointanddo.com/2009/03/assessing-microsofts-future-vision.html
I don't know that I completely agree with all the criticisms, but the
basic point is that businesses aren't going to pay for all
I'll try to put some concrete feedback around the basic criticism.
Because of the criteria you've chosen, the chart has a bias in favor
of prototyping using the tools that are the same (or closest) to how
the product will eventually be built. Tools that are the same or
similar to what will
also didn't put any controls in the top-right of the
screen -- we reserved this area for important status messages, knowing
it would never be obscured by the user while interacting with the
product.
Regards, Adam
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On Feb 11, 2009, at 7:47 AM, Jeff Millington wr
While trying to avoid the discussion of defining any of the terms, I
thought I'd write about what I've seen (from my personal experience
and job seeking) in the marketplace in terms of job titles.
Interaction Designer, User Experience Designer and User Interface
Designer are usually interch
I won't repeat a lot of the other good comments, but will add that in
terms of making sure the word mark is distinctive, the specific
letterforms involved play a big factor. In your example, the all
lowercase "once" may not be very distinctive because none of the
letters have ascenders or d
I want to kind of expand on Liz's point a little, and maybe take this
in a slightly different direction. Personas are to digital products as
a tape measure is to a bookcase. Critics of personas often seem to
have an intense focus on validity of the tool, without a lot of
discussion about wh
I've used Morae in the past. It's sort of like Silverback (from what I
can see on the site), but more sophisticated. Main differences:
- it's Windows based
- in addition to recording sessions, you can stream live to observers'
computers
- it has tools for annotating sessions and creating grap
Since your users don't have email, it sounds like the plan is to use
the hint (and response) to directly gain access to the account. So
really you're creating two paths to sign in, and you're asking your
users to come up with two passwords instead of one.
First, consider dropping one of the
Just started using it a little yesterday and today. My initial thoughts:
- It seems like most of the effort was spent on updating the UI to be
more consistent across the Adobe products. The jury's out for me on
whether this is better or worse. Probably some of both, but mostly
it's just dif
The standard Mac OS behavior is to indicate partial selection with a
horizontal line instead of a check mark. I think this is more
successful than the "greyed out" check mark that a couple of people
mentioned, since the greying may make the control look unclickable
(unless that's what you w
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