>> Anxious, because I don't trust them;
I remember my mom telling me about the first electronic calculators they had
way back in the day. They'd just switched from mechanical adding machines to
electronic calculators. She said they were great - small, light, fast, but they
couldn't be trusted 1
A friend of mine had voice-recognition software that locked his computer. To
unlock the machine he just talked into the mic. (think Sneakers "My voice is my
passport.")
But if people in the office were being noisy, or the air-conditioner kicked on,
or someone was walking by, or he had a cold -
A friend of mine worked at Indiana University's computer store a few years ago
when the blueberry, orange, lime etc. iBooks had just come out.
All of the new freshman girls w/ their BMWs and Escalades would walk w/ daddy
into the store and exclaim "Oh! It's s cute! I have to have that one da
Anybody have a super-distilled version of the Cooper design process? I'm
thinking something like:
1. Research user goals.
2. Refine research results.
3. Develop personas.
4. Write high-level scenarios.
Etc. etc.
I guess one could make one based on the chapter/section titles from About
I've got a datagrid (oh the humanity!) with lots of columns and rows. In some
of the columns are cumulative numbers (e.g. 124 foos, 203 bars etc.) and in
some columns are averages (1.5 avg. foo per bar, 30 avg. bar per foo etc.)
Below the datagrid is a row matching columns to the grid above with
For a captivating experience, try Adobe Captivate. When I was in the eLearning
biz I fell in love w/ the absolute ease-of-use for both designers, writers and
developers. It only takes an hour or 2 to learn and then you can spend
countless hours tweaking the look and feel etc. ad nauseum.
B
On
The GUI was, IMHO, never intended to make things faster, just easier. The GUI
brought computers to the rest of us who couldn't be bothered to learn
command-line syntax and the mystical inner-workings of an 'invisible' machine.
Now, after years of use for some, some have become computer-savvy (wh
IMHO - None. No hard data needed.
I will never support that browser again, nor will I recommend it be supported.
It's very old, outdated, no longer downloadable, nobody supports it and it's
crazy-broken.
If this is elitist in any way so be it. You have to draw the line somewhere.
B
On 3/31/08
How many experts do you think would actually frequent the n00b forums to answer
their questions though? Maybe a couple of kind-hearted altruists, but really,
it'd end up like posting your question on the event horizon of a black hole.
Maybe it'll get picked up and answered, but more likely it'll
A simple way would be, for the first few posts, when they click on the 'new
thread' button, pop up a message that says something like "Why not try
searching for your topic first ..." with a link to the search portion, and then
another option - "I've already searched, just start a new thread" or
I'm interested in attending any intensive classes, workshops, seminars etc.
related specifically to UX/IxD/IA.
Where might one go to find out about when/where these events are occurring?
B
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As a Flash dev, the actual motion of starting fast the slowing to a stop is
called 'ease out' (ease in would be starting slow then getting faster) ... So
when I'd describe the functionality I'd just say 'scrolling with easing' or
some such combination of words. "The will ease in,
then ease out
I've tried using Flex, but so far the decision-makers didn't like it because it
looked too polished and ready-to-go - they wanted B&W, uber-plain, literally
wireframed graphics.
So, I've been using Illustrator exclusively. It's a bit tedious, but very
flexible.
I hope to move to Thermo when it
Oh snap!
Thanks!
B
On 3/14/08 12:36 AM, "David Kegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Check the Screens function, which overlays a transparent frame over
your design. It shows you the available real estate you have with
each browser under Mac and Windows.
Umm ... I've got xScope (love it) but I don't think it previews your work in
all browsers. Could you be thinking of a different util? If not - please show
me how this is done in xScope.
B
On 3/13/08 1:06 AM, "David Kegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Also a great Mac utility is Xscope, which sho
Unfortunately - none of those browsers matter anymore :-(
Well - except MAYBE IE 6 Win
RE:
Hey Rick,
Perhaps you are thinking of these .psd files found on the last
paragraph of this WebMonkey page:
http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/99/41/index3a_page2.html
_
Can't wait for Thermo!
B
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Jack Moffet: "So, are any of you excited by the opportunities offered by the
SDK announcements yesterday?"
I'm stoked - but I haven't been able to download it yet. I get a little further
each time - but I'm guessing their servers just got hammered yesterday.
Still trying over other hour or so .
I'm about to start designing the UX and UI for the analytics portion of an RIA.
(Flex)
Anybody have any links/books they'd like to share discussing the display of
data, interactivity, preferred visualizations etc.?
Thanks,
B
Welc
I think the 'standard vs automatic' is very much akin to Linux/Unix user vs
Regular user.
I think everyone could agree that automatic is technically 'easier', but you
lose the ability to have fine-tune control if/when you want it like you've got
w/ a stick. The people I know that drive stick do
I agree to the point that, well, 50 yr.s ago the year 2000 sounded like
super-sci-fi - we'd all be living on the moon, flying around in water-powered
cars living in transformable plastic houses (or something). Here we are , 2008,
not much further than we were then in many aspects. So, in 50 year
I sort of agree w/ Wired's take on the whole thing, albeit very cool to think
about.
Nokia's Morph concept phone offers an image of the future. It is a future
where, despite nanotechnology being so advanced we can fabricate integrated
circuits, displays and physical interfaces that are able rec
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