If I have an IM open in the background and someone sends me a message,
I should get a preview of the message. Aidum and Digsby do this by
showing you the message in a popup window in a the corner of your
screen that disappears after a couple of seconds.
Digsby has taken it an extra step by lettin
All I can say is "Wow!!"
I just started clicking around exploring and was amazed at
everything.
The only thing that took me a second to figure out how to do was
start and pause a song. But, now that I know I will never forget.
My two suggestions:
1) The color mash up on the front, some of the
As being a person that deals with users on a normal basis in the
physical world and playing in the virtual, it has been my experience
that the qualities of a person that are normally down played in the
physical are more pronounced in the virtual.
I have known people virtually that I know are norma
I go nuts with my organization on my desktop, which is odd goes my
non-virtual organization is, to be honest, very lacking.
I am a firm believer in two things, a clean desktop and an
intelligent file structure. I try to keep my desktop limited to a
dozen icons, which include commonly used programs
I have to agree with Dave here. The prospect of having devices that
behave in a completly different way based on context would be earth
shattering.
An example is one of the first iPhone commercials that came out with
the guy that was complaining about having to always carry around 3
different dev
Jazz, Bluegrass, and Irish Punk. These three genre's will get the
creative juices flowing like nothing else.
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I attended the Cooper U 4 day course this past December. It is well
worth it in my book. I come from a User Centered Design and Usability
background, so some of the topics that covered performing initial user
research I was already pretty familiar with. However, seeing how to
take the results from
The general rule in my book is interviewing and observing friends and
family is better than nothing.
What you describe is a scenario of what I like to refer to as "How
right do you want it?" with regards to your persona development.
Think of the answer to that question as a spectrum, where using
For me intuitive means how long does it take for the user to obtain
the "I Get It" sensation. Depending on the medium that the user is
working in the amount of time could be very short, or slightly
pro-longed.
What I mean is, if you stumble across a website as an everyday web
user and you don't ge
