Re: [IxDA Discuss] Product ratings

2009-10-04 Thread Alina
www.iterating.com uses jreviews. it's a standard in open source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46376 Welcome to the Interaction Des

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Shop or Buy?

2009-09-22 Thread Alina
While I do agree that keeping things simple is the best solution, there's an exception to the rule when you have niche products. For instance I am using this private site called ideeli and they use " I want it!". They are very successful in making woman buy and I do thing the syntax is very appropr

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Mobile (iPhone) Statistics

2009-04-06 Thread Alina
Here's a study on how people really use the iPhone: http://user-experience.iterating.net/2009/01/how-people-really-use-the-iphone/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=41019 ___

Re: [IxDA Discuss] $705k for redesigning a website???

2009-03-24 Thread Alina
It's funny but the actual software development is outsourced in India. And by the looks of it the core is an open source platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40427 ___

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Companies that value UX/IxD/IA - NYC area

2009-03-13 Thread Alina
iterating.net - UX people are the only ones that make a difference in the products we deliver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40020

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the "Program Manager" role does UI design... ????

2009-03-10 Thread Alina
That's the case in what I do: I'm a product manager that does UI design. It woks beautifully! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39701

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA selects Drupal

2009-03-09 Thread Alina
I used both Drupal and Joomla and decided that Joomla is ten folds better. I'm just curious why Drupal over Joomla? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39726 ___

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Experience - Social network for UX professionals

2009-03-07 Thread Alina
Thank you for sharing! Andrew Boyd wrote: Hi Alina, there are a heap of social networks for Ix professionals :) This is not to say that there is not room for more - there certainly is. Some that I've been part of are: - UX Book Club - IA Cocktail Hour/IA Peers/IA Beers - Social Media

[IxDA Discuss] User Experience - Social network for UX professionals

2009-03-07 Thread Alina
Recently after discovering Ning and the great things they realized I created or first social network (to my knowledge) There's little info since I created it 5 minutes ago but it's pretty cool! Here it is, start creating your own groups, it seems that other than google ads nothing bothers us, i

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Looking for feedback on three options for a website design

2009-02-23 Thread Alina Barbuceanu
Thank you Steve for your clarification. Angel and Paul, you'd been of great help! Jordan, your opinion makes a lot of sense, and it's great that it comes from the targeted moms! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Looking for feedback on three options for a website design

2009-02-22 Thread Alina
Thanks so much for this Steve, I'm just curious why you said " http://dev.iterating.net/day-care/kidtown version 2.jpg is a bit more visually appealing than http://www.kidtown-usa.org/ "? Angel I went today and tested the designs on a bunch of people in the target area. Everyone voted for http://

[IxDA Discuss] Looking for feedback on three options for a website design

2009-02-21 Thread Alina
I'll give you no brief as this should be self explanatory. Your feedback would be of great help to me! The 3 designs variations are at the following URLs: http://dev.iterating.net/meandmymom/2mmm.pdf http://dev.iterating.net/meandmymom/meand%20my%20mom.jpg http://dev.iterating.net/meandmymom/me%

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Right-Click Actions in Web Applications (Enterprise)

2009-02-10 Thread Alina
Google Docs has right click! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38441 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] iPhone application

2009-02-10 Thread Alina
This is very cool! I don't see the full page in my browser (Firefox) though -the logo is cut in half - is that on purpose? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38439 ___

Re: [IxDA Discuss] CRM system for a UX team?

2009-02-04 Thread Alina Barbuceanu
I've used Sugar CRM. It's the only stable, popular, open source solution there is. It's a very feature rich CRM, has all you may possibly need or not need. The only drawback - it's not so user friendly :-) Maybe someone will have the brilliant plan to redo a nicer template f

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Telling Interactive Stories - At NYCUPA Event

2009-01-28 Thread Alina
told my story here http://user-experience.iterating.net/ Alina Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Items appearing more than once in a navigation

2009-01-26 Thread Alina Barbuceanu
I had the same problem. The gurus say there's no wrong or right doing in this case. It all depends on how much does it make sense for your users In my case, the "where am I?" question fails to have an answer. Users that land on that area from google organic pages will ask that question. I do not k

Re: [IxDA Discuss] JOB: Lead Experience Architect - Design, Denver, CO, Full-time Employment

2009-01-26 Thread Alina Barbuceanu
Hi, I just have a quick question as I'm somewhat puzzled by Effective Ui blog. The spacing between the text is so crowded and the font so small that even the blog posts say wonderful things, it's basically unreadable. Is it on purpose so that users subscribe to read the text? Or you rely on th

Re: [IxDA Discuss] URL Guidelines

2009-01-26 Thread Alina Barbuceanu
ance if it's a IT company you can have something like companyname.com/our-it-services for about us and companyname.com/our-it-development-team Hope that helps, Alina http://user-experience.iterating.net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the ne