Re: [IxDA Discuss] Techniques for multi-platform user experience

2009-11-03 Thread Chris Collingridge
The organisation that leaps out at me in this regard - and one you're no doubt aware of if you're in London - is the BBC. Over the past few years the BBC have taken lots of steps to provide a joined up experience between TV, Radio, PC/standard web, and mobile - on a whole host of different levels.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Tab order - how to escape from a grid that uses tabs

2009-10-01 Thread Chris Collingridge
Thanks for all the responses - very useful. To answer a couple of the questions: A new row is created when you hit tab in the last cell of what is currently the last row, with the focus then being in the first cell of the new row. If the user does not complete a row, it is discarded when the di

[IxDA Discuss] Tab order - how to escape from a grid that uses tabs

2009-09-30 Thread Chris Collingridge
An interesting question has come up on one of our products, and I'd be interested to hear if anyone has (a) come across this before, (b) got any references offering advice, or (c) just has a idea. We have a grid - hosted within a dialog that contains other controls - in which the tab key moves the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Setting up local group in Birmingham, UK

2009-06-17 Thread Chris Collingridge
Good luck with setting up a group in Birmingham. You're right that groups in the UK (outside of London) are quite rare. For anyone further North in England, there is a group called Northern User Experience (google finds it) that - while wider that IXD specifically - might well be of interest to an

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Conditional required fields - how to indicate whether fields are required when the status can change

2009-01-16 Thread Chris Collingridge
So here to would have 2 ways of indicating required: - asterisk for fields that are always (unconditionally) required - red outline for fields that are conditionally required Which could work, and might avoid any annoyance that the moving goalpost of appearing/disappearing asterisks would be. But

[IxDA Discuss] Conditional required fields - how to indicate whether fields are required when the status can change

2009-01-14 Thread Chris Collingridge
I'm looking at a system that's heavy on data entry. On most forms, only some of the fields are required. On some of these forms, whether items are required is dependant on what another item is set to. For a pretend example: There are fields for "Preferred contact method" and "Phone number". If y

[IxDA Discuss] Conditional required fields - how to indicate whether fields are required when the status can change

2009-01-14 Thread Chris Collingridge
I'm looking at a system that's heavy on data entry. On most forms, only some of the fields are required. On some of these forms, whether items are required is dependant on what another item is set to. For a pretend example: There are fields for "Preferred contact method" and "Phone number". If y

[IxDA Discuss] Conditional required fields - how to indicate whether fields are required when the status can change

2009-01-14 Thread Chris Collingridge
I'm looking at a system that's heavy on data entry. On most forms, only some of the fields are required. On some of these forms, whether items are required is dependant on what another item is set to. For a pretend example: There are fields for "Preferred contact method" and "Phone number". If yo

[IxDA Discuss] Installing Windows software: choosing client, server, standalone

2008-11-12 Thread Chris Collingridge
I'm currently writing some guidance for developers who create installers for Windows applications (a sphere for which there seems to be very little advice - book anyone?). An issue that has come up is asking the user whether they want to install the server software, the client software, or (essent

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Advertising in desktop software

2008-09-24 Thread Chris Collingridge
There's advertising in Microsoft Office Accounting (the free version). I don't know what (if any) research they either did or published on that. As a user of the application, do I find it intrusive? Yes. Do I accept it? Yes, because I'm getting something that I would normally expect to have to pay

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Installation Experience

2008-09-17 Thread Chris Collingridge
So is this the situation? Your .NET application is being installed on Machine A, but is going to run .NET code on Machine B? You don't know whether any/the appropriate version of .NET is installed on Machine B? Obviously, if you're installing on Machine A and it's going to run on Machine A, then