Re: [IxDA Discuss] Graduate School Conundrum

2010-01-18 Thread Brooke Baldwin
Rita We're all going to give you different answers - the answer we would/have already given ourselves. Of course Dave, JET, and Dan encourage you to attend grad school. It's what they've done/do. It's what has worked for them. It's what worked for me, too. There's no easy answer here. There ar

[IxDA Discuss] Pie Menu Spotted on the Web

2008-06-25 Thread Brooke Baldwin
Is it possible that our reactions are at least partially biased by our ages? The site appears to be designed for a younger generation than (I'm guessing!) we all are. According to Susan Weinschenk (Chief Technical Officer of HFI) in some research she's currently conducting, the majority of UX pra

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Using a Survey to Asses Usability

2008-06-10 Thread Brooke Baldwin
Tamlyn A survey can be helpful, and it's not uncommon for a company to prefer this mechanism of collecting data. You're right that it generally won't paint as clear a picture as observations - but what is the goal that you (or the business) are trying to accomplish by collecting this data? Is it

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Need Suggestions for 2-D Display of 3-D Quantitive Data

2008-05-21 Thread Brooke Baldwin
Todd wrote: Brooke, could you give an example of what you're trying to show? And what data users would be trying to compare? ~~~ I've got lines of data that share many attributes (column headings) and that each have unique attributes (other column heading

[IxDA Discuss] Need Suggestions for 2-D Display of 3-D Quantitive Data

2008-05-21 Thread Brooke Baldwin
Hi folks, I need a little help here. I'm trying to design a grid display (table of numerical data) that really has a dataset more appropriate for a three-dimensional display. But I'm constrained to two axis. This is a web application were the user's preference is to see whole numbers indicating q