A lot of this is covered in Web Form Design by Luke Wroblevski.
http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/webforms/
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I haven't connected my iPhone to my mac in months, and my e-mail and
calendar sync wirelessly.
The iPhone and iPad (and all the other phones out there) are
information appliances, not computers.
IMHO, of course.
-Fredrik
Thanks for creating CTRL-Z, John!
Is your article (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=743034) available via
open access somewhere?
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"The solution must be common for both BrewMP and Android platforms."
How strong is this requirement? Will people be using both platforms
regularly?
Both of your suggestions could work, and could even be combined. I'm sure
you have prototypes, so start testing them with actual users, and you'll
ha
I've found this option to be quite efficient:
onClick, reveal a box around the search field and search button. Below the
search field, add a list of useful filters (can vary across contexts).
Pressing Enter/the search button = a search w/o pre-filtering
Selecting one of the filters = easy pre-fil
Err, I'm not sure I understand what you want to know.
What kind of information are you looking for?
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The Scientific American example is very nice. What could we do to make
this community-driven mailing list lik
I'm glad to see that you're interested in improving the IXDA list. I
believe there a project underway to improve some sections of IXDA.
Tagging topics certainly seems like a good idea, but good subject titles
are important, too.
I think it's important to remember that the simplicity of this m
Agreed, Fritz! It seems that even stand-alone applications such as
iMovie have a share menu these days.
I wonder if About Face 3 includes the following as fundamental interactions:
* discuss with other participants
* give feedback to source/author
* share with friends etc
If anyone's
Most likely OT, but I'll wager that "Share" has become a "fundamental"
interaction now.
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Think of it this way: if you give me the presentation I'm familiar with,
I'll give you your data that much faster. You say that the week starts on
Sunday; I am equally adamant about it starting on a Monday, and nothing
anyone says will make any of us change our minds.
Therefore, you should support
> • Provide a clear path to completion for every day you work. Since a day
is
> represented as a column, you could place a button below the hour entry
rows.
Can you also hint what that button should do?
Of course :-) Lock the hours for that day.
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A few questions:
• Can you add a project inside this view?
• What is the benefit of grouping projects?
• Why did you choose a standard calendar for navigating across weeks?
• Have you considered the input efficiency of text boxes versus drop-downs
for the hour entry fields?
• It's a good idea to ha
If I remember correctly, Lotus Notes hashes password entry with a random
number of X's, but cycles between different icons as you type to help you
confirm that you've typed the right number of characters.
Might be worth looking at.
We
I'm pretty sure the puppet masters know who they are.
However, I am glad to see us take our responsibilities as designers
seriously, as John Thackara discusses in his book *In the bubble*
http://bit.ly/29AmwK
If you'd like a more thoroughly researched exploration of how people take
care of busines
So, has anyone tried EP3 with Sketchflow? What's your experience so far?
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http://lab.arc90.com/2009/07/halfmask.php is an experiment in half-masking
passwords. Might be worth looking at.
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While it certainly is interesting to share snapshots of our individual
vantage points, I doubt it makes me a better interaction designer.
I'd much rather be tutored by the many masters on our list, but that's hard
when we're spread across different time zones.
One of my colleagues recently began g
Perhaps you can reassure them without numbers by demonstrating some of the
problems first hand. I'm sure you remember the [apocryphal story about the]
video of two guys who can't figure out how a copier works, and then it turns
out that they're both Nobel Laureates, so if they can't use it, who can
Happily, Google Sites seems to have been designed with great care for the
details. Not that it *looks* designed at all, of course.
Note the iPhone-like page scrolling actions – when you scroll on a page
you're editing, the top menu with your info etc disappears, but the bar
holding save/cancel etc
BTW, the "Continuous Scroll" discussion from January 2008 also contains a
number of great suggestions for and examples of scrolling-vs-pagination.
→ http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=25287
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I'm seeing more implementations of a "more" button rather than pagination
controls.
http://projects.nytimes.com/survival-strategies is a nice example of "X more
items". Notice how it adds just ten more items at a time and requires a
button push, but adds content to the page, rather than moving you
An additional advantage of continuous scrolling is that we get to stay
focused on what we're looking for, rather than fumble with the keyboard.
Evan pointed out the challenges of RSI, but as the universal design adage
goes, what works well for those with physical disabilities or injuries works
even
An even more elegant version of a scrollable paginator can be found at
www.designyoutrust.com
The advantage of scrollable paginators is that you're free to move to any
page at any time with a tolerable amount of effort. The Flickr paginator,
for example, introduces quite a bit of complexity when yo
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Well, that's certainly a tall order. I'm surprised that you've created a
sort of chronology in your diagram.
To me, this structure leads the diagram to say "we used to do graphic
design, but now we do urban planning", etc.
Have you seen the History Shots poster "Genealogy of Pop/Rock Music" (
http
That sounds like a great cue. Could you share a link to a screenshot?
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Adding a visual cue is a good idea here.
1. Style the type-ahead text box differently (larger, border, background
etc) so the users don't confuse the interactive one with the regular one
2. Show the user that something is happening while they type, e.g. a
rotating loading/activity icon that demonst
I have no idea what it's called, but it does offer a responsive, fluid
transition between its expanded and collapsed states. I rather like it.
If you want a name for it, I can suggest:
- an in-situ fluid x-axis expander with a column-deforming y-axis expanding
reveal
- a front-focused baseline lock
Indeed, Humanized sports Aza Raskin, who helped create the Ubiquity
plugin/interface for Mozilla Firefox.
The Humane Interface, written by Jef Raskin, is well worth a read, and
discusses many of the CLI/GUI details we've touched upon here.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0201379376
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I've witnessed the insane efficiency of insurance reps working green
screens. The entry barrier is huge, but after striving to learn it, most of
them became extremely adept at making the software do what *they* needed.
OS X enables searching for a command from the help menu. This inelegant hack
let
Think of these lists as just one view of the content you have and the
surrounding activity.
By slicing, curating and tuning the lists and damping them you can turn one
list ("Popular") into many, many lists based on:
- activity: e-mailed, commented, view length, tagging
- user segmentation:
As far as I know, there's no central location for posting images/sketches.
You are of course free to use Skitch.com, Flickr or any other solution to
host your stuff, and share a link here on the list.
- Fredrik
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Yes, skilled users should be able to configure their tools to suit their
(expert) needs.
You might be interested in Vimperator for Firefox: http://is.gd/fRbU
Novice/less skilled users will require other solutions, of course, so we'll
have to live with a dash of chrome for some time to come.
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This is a great discussion.
Can anybody suggest a way of adding the individuals, teams and concepts
discussed here to a list of some sort that can be navigated, edited and
visualized?
Timo Arnall, Anne Galloway et al have created
http://www.nearfield.org/retouch/ for exploring touch-related intera
Eight years ago I worked for a company that sold sms services – ringtones,
icons, downloads of all kinds and chat.
My suggestions might be out of date, but we made terrific amounts of money,
so some of them might still hold.
1) Best practice in designing an SMS information service
Yep, you've got
A little more investigation reveals that the system is call-driven. You dial
a number (that you of course can store in your contacts) and enter the six
digit code to turn on the lights in your street.
That way, even old landline phones that can send DTMF signals can be used to
turn on the lights, b
Using time delay light switches in common areas of residential buildings is
common in Germany, so it's interesting to see that this approach has been
take outdoors. Fumbling around for the light switch (which is usually
illuminated but not always easy to find) is a little annoying, but they turn
of
Personally I see it as shortcuts.
I've used Quicksilver for quite some time. Typing "PS4" and hitting return
launches Photoshop CS4. This is far faster than locating the app itself and
launching it.
The location bar of the browser has become packed with functionality over
the last few years. Omni
The search wiki interaction design will be a huge boon to intranets
everywhere. Imagine fixing the results in situ, instead of having to tweak
all that metadata to get a decent result. Finally we can get good first
results pages for just about any search, with less fuss.
Visually, I think Google co
Supporting multiple date formats is a great idea and reduces errors.
I'd suggest looking into the flexible date/time picker used in iCal (
http://is.gd/9hPY) which is an array of date/time fields masquerading as one
text field. Arrow up/down lets you step the number up/down and arrow
left/right (an
@ William Brail: Twitter is fun when your friends are using it. I was on
Twitter for about a year before my colleagues and friends got in, and it's
gotten a lot more fun after that. I like having a balance of colleagues,
friends and IXDA'ers on my list.
@Niklas: lots of languages are spoken on Twit
I agree with Lauren – there's so much that the financial industry could do
if it allowed its customers to participate more and do something with their
data.
Examples:
• Prosper: peer to peer banking. http://www.prosper.com/
• Widgets: pay bills more quickly using a widget tied to an account, and
Ah, they've added subtitles, that's great!
The video demonstrates why no *new* interface can be intuited. The user
always has to make *some* effort to get up and running.
Thanks for sharing!
- Fredrik
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I'm a little curious about the revenue issue here.
Let's assume that Facebook really does have 80 million users plus millions
visitors without accounts. (http://is.gd/2Y6d)
These people spend lots of time creating a map of their social network,
taking tests wherein they describe their preferences
It looks fascinating, thanks for sharing!
Jef Raskin originally introduced similar core ideas in the Canon Cat [1] and
gave a thorough explanation of the concept in his book The Humane Interface
[2].
I'm glad we're seeing a few breaks from the usual WIMP ways of doing things.
Multi-touch and type-a
Heck, I'd say that the greatest resistance I get from IxD work is that there
is no material whatsoever, so I'm not really held on track by a material's
inherent limitations. Sketching on paper is nice, but it's merely a proxy.
When working with industrial design and physical products, there's so mu
It depends on what you want to use it for.
For broadcasting "hey this might be interesting" bits of information to your
friends, it works well.
Just like shouting across a room to a friend, sending a message to one
friend and letting everyone in your "gang" hear what you're saying adds a
dimension
Here's a good quote for this problem:
Instead of using words which already have common uses, we should dig up
archaic words which might or might not have related meaning and just use
those, since no one knows what they mean anyway and it makes you sound
erudite to use them.
- Robert "r0ml" Lefkow
Inspired by the recent Cuil discussion I've made a breadcrumb trail that's
always visible at the bottom of your browser window.
I'm testing it on an intranet where:
• users spend anywhere from five minutes to several hours every day
• there are thousands of pages in many folders, etc
• the built
Hmm … I'm not quite sure I understood your point about hitting hitting zero
nine times to enter "0900". If there are two fields/drop-downs, you press
tab to enter the field, press "9" (and the field knows that must mean "09"
as the first number can't exceed 2), and tab past the minute field, onto t
In that case, I'd say it's more a case of the users having enjoyed the
luxury of entering imprecise data and that it's merely a matter of making
them aware of the change to more precise time notation.
We use 24-hour time notation here in Norway and I find it far more precise
than AM/PM time – I can
If you're at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, reply to this thread,
and we'll all get together for a lunch tomorrow or Wednesday.
Hope to see you there!
- Fredrik
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That might be a reason, yes. I'd love to hear the answer from them directly,
because wordings like that make me wonder how well they really know the area
they're advising on.
I've tried contacting the authors at Forrester, but the report doesn't
mention their e-mail addresses, nor is any offered on
I was just reading through Forrester's report "The Seven Tenets Of The
Information Workplace" by Erica Driver and Connie Moore.
Among others, it recommends that IT departments acquire usability and
design skills. Note the last sentence in the quote:
"We're just starting to see IT groups design ap
I agree that we could all keep our products a little – or a lot – longer.
To do this, businesses would have to figure out how to continue making a
mint selling us services instead of products. When this happens, more
durable products will be more profitable. Until then, it won't make sense
for anyo
If you are, give me a holler and we'll arrange a meet-up sometime
during the week.
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That's great! Thanks a bunch!
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