Re: [IxDA Discuss] Location/Geographic Search Design Patterns

2010-02-15 Thread Jason Pamental
Andy, If you have exact addresses for businesses (rather than just zip), the Google Maps query can get more precise latitude/longitude, so if the user supplies an address you could give a more accurate sorted list (maybe sorted by proximity initially). The grouping on everyblock.com is really

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Software for transcription?

2010-01-24 Thread Jason Pamental
If you have the budget and the audio isn't too long you might look at http://castingwords.com - you upload your audio and based on rate you get your transcription back in a few days or a couple weeks. The lowest/slowest turnaround is 2 weeks for .75 per minute. When the clips are short, it's

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Latimes.com Redesign - No Link Colors

2009-08-14 Thread Jason Pamental
Andrei, I have to disagree. Your point can be taken on the home page, but what about every other page of the site? That's where I think it's even more problematic. When you go to an interior page they carry the same design through, and then the percentage of non-linked body copy to other links is

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Dynamic graphics

2009-08-13 Thread Jason Pamental
If it's charting/graphing, you could look at Open Flash Charts here: http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart-2/ I've been looking a little at it and integration with Drupal here as well: http://drupal.org/project/open_flash_chart_api Nothing built yet, but it looks interesting so far...

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability review of sharepoint application

2009-08-10 Thread Jason Pamental
I think you've got most of the points covered; it's just tough sometimes to distinguish between what can and can't easily be addressed. The unfortunate thing is even in a new implementation there are often so many issues in play it's difficult to tell. A recent review I helped conduct of a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digitial newspaper/magazine editions user experience

2009-07-14 Thread Jason Pamental
I agree with what's been written: the web-based experience seems much more worthwhile than the 'digital versions' with their interface quirks. What does seem to be an interesting development are the iPhone versions of things like NY Times: it's really quite good, and appropriate to the medium. A

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Going beyond Usability: The need to design for Persuasion, Emotion, and Trust

2009-07-14 Thread Jason Pamental
Another book worth mentioning is 'Subject to Change' from the people at Adaptive Path (including Peter Merholz). The focus on experience design and user empathy is really compelling, and has had a big influence on my thinking as a designer. Cheers- Jason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Who codes your production HTML/CSS/JS?

2009-04-24 Thread Jason Pamental
I think that we've probably all seen situations all across the spectrum - but ideally I think that HTML/CSS creation and prototyping belong earlier in the process, so that interative design can take place and as mentioned above, when it's time to implement the system (theming in Drupal, .aspx in

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The role of detailed footers

2009-04-22 Thread Jason Pamental
We've used it in a site and I think that others have summed it up - it's there as a more visible illustration of the top two levels of the site to help users move laterally with greater ease. By tucking it down at the footer it's less obtrusive but easily found when reaching the bottom of the page

[IxDA Discuss] stop trying

2008-12-03 Thread Jason Pamental
the experience from there. Cheers, Jason Jason Pamental director, interactive/technology (add)ventures 117 chapman street providence, ri 02905 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.addventures.com Welcome to the Interaction Design

[IxDA Discuss] Google SearchWiki

2008-12-02 Thread Jason Pamental
. And I did find myself clicking on a result or two voting them 'up' before I really knew what the feature was all about. Pretty easy to grasp. Cheers, Jason Jason Pamental director, interactive/technology (add)ventures 117 chapman street providence, ri 02905 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[IxDA Discuss] Interface Design vs Interaction Design

2008-10-23 Thread Jason Pamental
There certainly is a lot of crossover between this thread and the one on 'What to teach interaction design students' - and the heart of both topics seems to center around language and understanding. First, needing to have a clearly articulated definition of the discipline and it's