Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA Student Organization

2010-02-09 Thread Jonathan Grossman
To everyone- Thank you for all the ideas, I'm going to start writing our constitution and work on starting the group. And for IDSA and IxDA being combined, we were considering this. However, if we split the clubs up, we would have more funding, and thus be able to host more speakers/events.

[IxDA Discuss] IxDA Student Organization

2010-02-07 Thread Jonathan Grossman
Hello, I am a student at the University of Cincinnati, and am planning to start an IxDA student organization- however, I am trying to figure out what we would actually do, outside of hosting speakers and creating an IxDesign elective+curriculum, as to apply for funding as a student group, we need

Re: [IxDA Discuss] iPad.

2010-01-27 Thread Jonathan S. Knoll
You think *that* is what is wrong with the name?! Think feminine hygiene and repeat the product name to yourself. ~ yoni Jonathan S. Knoll email: jonat...@infinityplusone.com web: http://infinityplusone.com/ linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanknoll twitter: @yoni On Wed, Jan 27

Re: [IxDA Discuss] iPad.

2010-01-27 Thread Jonathan S. Knoll
To help this discussion out, the iPad specs: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ and features: http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/ . ~ yoni On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Steve Baty steveb...@gmail.com wrote: Realising that the iPhone also has an iPod app for music/etc. So I recant my

[IxDA Discuss] bulk sticky notes by color

2010-01-13 Thread Jonathan Abbett
Anyone know somewhere (online, preferably) that sells sticky notes by color, i.e. 100 neon green sticky notes, 250 powder blue sticky notes, etc. Thanks! Jon Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Maria T. De Monte wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn

2010-01-11 Thread Jonathan S . Knoll
This seems to happen to Ravi a lot -- and only Ravi. Perhaps Ravi has, for some reason, an aliased email address (which forwards to the discussion list) attached to his LinkedIn account? ~ yoni Jonathan S. Knoll email: jonat...@infinityplusone.com web: http://infinityplusone.com/ linkedin: http

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Arriving late in the game

2010-01-10 Thread Jonathan Abbett
. As such, we're hesitant to get into the often distracting details of a prototype test. Thanks again. On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Alan Wexelblat awexelb...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Jonathan Abbett jonat...@abbett.org wrote: Say you're brought in to do user

[IxDA Discuss] NYCUPA presents Jared Spool at Bloomberg: Revealing Design Treasures from The Amazon: 1/19 at 6PM

2010-01-09 Thread Jonathan Cohen
Register at http://nycupa.org 1/19, Tuesday 6:00-7:00: Networking and Refreshments 7:00-7:15: Announcements 7:15-8:30: Presentation and QA 8:30-9:30: More Networking and Refreshments Bloomberg L.P., 731 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022

[IxDA Discuss] Good news for Visio users

2009-12-31 Thread Jonathan Abbett
It's nice to see some formal recognition of our community by the Microsoft Visio Team. http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2009/12/22/wireframe-shapes-in-visio-2010.aspx Wireframe Shapes in Visio 2010 Visio has long been regarded by interaction designers and information architects as an

[IxDA Discuss] Build It With Me - pairing designers with developers

2009-12-08 Thread Jonathan Abbett
I'm very excited about this: http://builditwith.me/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/08/build-it-with-me/?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29 -Jon Welcome to the Interaction Design

[IxDA Discuss] Thoughts after IxDA Boston demo of Litl

2009-12-07 Thread Jonathan Abbett
I just posted some of my thoughts about the Litl, after seeing it at last week's IxDA Boston meeting. http://abbett.org/post/litl-it-thinks-it-can Long story short: I think we were all surprised to hear what sounded like their utter disregard for (or ignorance of) the user research process.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Question on brainstorming personas

2009-11-24 Thread Jonathan Abbett
Paul is right on. In the middle of a big project this year, our client came to us with another piece of software they were working on, but were having a hard time get off the ground. They asked us to do interaction design to it, but there was no budget or time for research. What did we do? We

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Work in groups or as individuals in your IxD work

2009-11-17 Thread Jonathan Abbett
Dave-- I think it's great that you're asking this question. A lot depends on where you work. Especially in small entrepreneurial teams or in larger organizations that are new to interaction design, it's rare for group design work to occur since there's only one designer. As my team's only IxD

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] National Design Week in NYC is October 18-24, Objectified Film screenings The Biz of Design w/ Bill Moggridge (FREE), who\'s in?

2009-10-20 Thread Jonathan Abbett
It's upsetting that the National Design Week website has such a terrible event listing design: http://www.nationaldesignawards.org/2009/nationaldesignweek You have to click your city on a tiny US map... try distinguishing between the Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut cities. A simple

Re: [IxDA Discuss] To spec or not to spec?

2009-10-16 Thread jonathan berger
I can’t think of a good reason not to spec. Can you? Its important to plan ahead, but specs are artifacts which can easily diverge from reality as code gets written. Agile processes eschew specs, instead favoring the following: - Individuals and interactions over processes and tools - Working

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Twitter mashups / aggregators

2009-10-13 Thread Jonathan Abbett
I appreciate the suggestions. Unfortunately, my challenge is not with finding a Twitter client to manage multiple users, it's with aggregating the information in a way that I can integrate with a blog. Last night, I busted out my PHP skills and came up with a couple concepts. The first is a

[IxDA Discuss] Twitter mashups / aggregators

2009-10-12 Thread Jonathan Abbett
if there are any software packages or online services out there that already do this kind of integration/aggregation, or if anyone's seen good examples of custom integrations on the web that could be emulated or improved upon in a from-scratch implementation. Thanks! Jonathan

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Define a functional spec

2009-10-08 Thread Jonathan Abbett
It sounds like a useful analogy, but it's incomplete. I imagine that an architect knows both how inhabitants interact with a building and how the component parts of the building come together (steel, wood, nails, etc.). Also, an architect still will need an HVAC engineer, a landscape architect,

[IxDA Discuss] 10/20, 6-8PM: Twitter\'s Mobile UX Designer - Leland Rechis - will talk UX at 45 Main St in BK. Near A, C, F, 2, 3. Register at http://nycupa.org

2009-10-07 Thread Jonathan Cohen
As mobile applications, or apps, proliferate in App Stores everywhere, most people focus directly on the app itself. But let's take a step back and look at the environments in which these apps live. How do we effectively design a service that offers not just apps, but SMS, mobile web, HTML5, and

[IxDA Discuss] [JOB] User Experience Lead - New York City - Intent Media - Full-time or 6-12 months contract

2009-10-01 Thread Jonathan Taqqu
User Experience Lead Intent Media stands at the cross-roads of online advertising and e-commerce. We are solving long-standing problems facing online merchants and direct marketers by building a unique technology solution with many interesting challenges to overcome. Intent Media is expanding

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UX'ers on Twitter?

2009-09-27 Thread Jonathan S. Knoll
An admirable list like this has already been created by Elizabeth Buie: http://www.luminanze.com/blog/2009/07/user-experience-tweeps.html ~ yoni Jonathan S. Knoll email: jonat...@infinityplusone.com web: http://infinityplusone.com/ linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanknoll twitter

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Are you a SXSW Interactive veteran? Heading to 2010?

2009-09-25 Thread jonathan berger
I'm a fan of SxSW. Heading back for my third year, and its always been stimulating, good networking, educational, and fun. Its also incredibly intense and I always feel like a zombie by the last day. A few tips: - Accept that you won't be able to do everything you want to do, and don't stress out

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Microsoft Courier ...

2009-09-23 Thread Jonathan Abbett
That reminds me -- I have to plug in my iPod. Thanks! ;) On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 6:42 AM, pauric radioren...@gmail.com wrote: Jack: Dang! I was going to slam you down with a reference to the Panasonic Toughbook. ;-) Best, Jack Just goes to show how out of touch I am, pun intended (o; As

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Google Fast Flip

2009-09-17 Thread Jonathan Cohen
Hey Bailey - Did you click on one of the thumbnails yet? You can cycle through full page thumbnails (oxymoron), one at a time. Here's wishing for a version -- larger thumbnails, fewer categories -- that merges the best of both. On Sep 17, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Bailey Steinfadt wrote: The

[IxDA Discuss] Google Fast Flip

2009-09-16 Thread Jonathan Cohen
Fast Flip is a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles. Like a print magazine, Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top publishers.

[IxDA Discuss] Site-mapping visualization tools (to be run locally)

2009-09-14 Thread jonathan berger
Hi Gang, I've got a big sprawling site that I'd like to crawl and render as a visual sitemap so I can get a better handle on some of the IA concerns. I'd been doing it by hand on earlier versions, but its just gotten too big. Can anyone recommend software that will do this automatically?

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Way Out vs Exit - Signage usability and passenger experience

2009-09-13 Thread jonathan
At times I think our passion clouds our judgement and impacts our professionalism. Through this thread there seem to be a number of incorrect assertions that I find a bit alarming. Are we an opinions-based community? Is Exit an international standard? Clearly not, from what people have said on

[IxDA Discuss] September 15: NYC UPA event at Razorfish - Bryan Hamilton presents The Razorfish Transformation of Billboard.com

2009-09-08 Thread Jonathan Cohen
Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM (presentation 6:45-8:00) Razorfish, 1440 Broadway, between 40th and 41st Streets, New York, NY 10018 http://is.gd/2JBlG (g’maps) NYC UPA invites you to meet Razorfish User Experience Lead Bryan Hamilton as he shares both the process and the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Aside from research, what do you do to relate better to users?

2009-09-04 Thread jonathan berger
Try learning dvorak (an alternative to the QWERTY keyboard layout.) If you want frustration, there ain't nothing better than messing with the connection from your brain to your keyboard. (Worth it in the end though.) On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Jerome Ryckborstj3r...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UX Team Collaboration

2009-09-01 Thread Jonathan Abbett
Try Dropbox -- for small groups, their folder sharing works pretty well. Automatically syncs, accessible over the web, keeps historical versions. http://www.getdropbox.com/ -Jon On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Tom Daly tomcd...@gmail.com wrote: I've suddenly found my team grow from one to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How do you make sure your design gets implemented right?

2009-08-25 Thread Jonathan Abbett
In addition to doing the design in my group, I'm also responsible for most of the HTML/CSS -- so I'll know immediately if something's not implemented to spec. But that fundamental designer-developer chasm remains. We've developed a technology called Clickframes that lets me spec out our web apps

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Visio and InDesign compatibility?

2009-08-13 Thread Jonathan Cohen
@druid %u2013 thanks, have you tried exporting your doc as a visio xml drawing? @maurice, @david %u2013 no dice %u2013 visio doesn%u2019t like pdfs. Tried all the format options and nothing worked. Thanks though. @stevenitz %u2013 can%u2019t use a mac at work. =( wish I could though, apps like

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Visio and InDesign compatibility?

2009-08-13 Thread Jonathan Abbett
improvement. Get it as soon as you can. On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Jonathan Cohenjonathangco...@gmail.com wrote: @druid %u2013 thanks, have you tried exporting your doc as a visio xml drawing? @maurice, @david %u2013 no dice %u2013 visio doesn%u2019t like pdfs. Tried all the format options

[IxDA Discuss] Visio and InDesign compatibility?

2009-08-11 Thread Jonathan Cohen
Hi all- I just started working at a firm that uses Visio as its standard wireframe tool. I also have InDesign on my machine and would prefer to use this instead. (personally, omnigraffle fan here, but I'm required to use Windows) Searches for related keywords, an IxDA discussion search, and

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Q: Persistent header bar from FB and LinkedIn

2009-07-31 Thread jonathan berger
3. How do people feel about these headers? Are they helpful or intrusive? Some people feel VERY strongly that this technique fundamentally rots the web by introducing new and bad URLs for content. There was a big row about this technique this spring. Gruber led the charge, but its worth poking

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Blogger Conor Friedersdorf disses persona use in car design

2009-07-23 Thread Jonathan Abbett
Reading a post like this makes me especially annoyed that Sullivan's blog prohibits comments! (Can you really call it a blog if it doesn't allow commenting?) On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Jim Drew cfmdesi...@earthlink.net wrote: From the New York Times:

Re: [IxDA Discuss] City experience

2009-07-21 Thread jonathan
Hi Rob, Your first post sounded like you are pitching for work, but now you come across as a concerned citizen. Specifically to your last post, I'd check what standards they are referring to. Standards bodies aren't always well funded and therefore aren't able to update standards as regularly.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Who uses Icon View with a file browser?

2009-07-21 Thread jonathan berger
Personally, I use icon view as a quick dirty image preview. In the Mac OS finder, command-1, -2, -3, and -4 map to icon, list, column and coverflow views—once your fingers learn the quick switch, there's no One Best View, you just use whatever's most suited to a given task. Icon view is useful

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designer turned Entrepreneur

2009-07-19 Thread jonathan berger
My company (marketpublique.com) is founded by three designers. Advantages: we get the web, we get design, and we can handle some of the development technical stuff ourselves. Disadvantages: all the business stuff is REALLY aggravating scutwork, and the three of us became designers to avoid that

Re: [IxDA Discuss] CONAN Design Review

2009-07-08 Thread Jonathan S. Knoll
It's not the the e-mail that's an issue, it's how it is displayed on the listserv web page: http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=43460 This said, I would agree that most could just say, yes, as long as they are willing to have their listserv e-mail address used. ~ yoni Jonathan S. Knoll email

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Looking for data to refute crazy client

2009-07-02 Thread jonathan berger
This is a TERRIBLE idea. A mildly sophisticated user—say, someone who knows how to plug in a printer, or use the print preview—can wreck havoc. There's some great security stuff at Schneier's blog: http://www.schneier.com/blog/ On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:47 AM, Matthew Greendcartfi...@gmail.com

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Radio buttons - null option

2009-06-21 Thread Jonathan Abbett
Personal crusade of mine, actually. You didn't explicitly say you're working on a web application, but assuming you are, the W3C provides these instructions... http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#radio Radio buttons are like checkboxes except that when several share the same

Re: [IxDA Discuss] New release of GUI Design Studio

2009-06-06 Thread Jonathan Attias
No offense, but your app doesn't seem to do anything Powerpoint doesn't do? And the Olive XP style for screenshots? A bit Fugly. It's all arrows. What sets this app apart? What makes it remarkable? No offence taken! Although you can use PowerPoint to design UIs, and I've seen it done, it's an

Re: [IxDA Discuss] New release of GUI Design Studio

2009-06-06 Thread Jonathan Attias
business applications (obviously, Macs are used a lot for platform-independent graphics and Web designs). Jonathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42372

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] NYCUPA hosts Mary M. Michaels presenting \The ROI of Usability\ on Tuesday 6/16

2009-06-01 Thread Jonathan Cohen
The ROI of Usability: How to Demonstrate the Value of User-Centered Design Within Your Organization [http://nycupa.org] A presentation by Mary M. Michaels of Human Factors International Tuesday, June 16, 2009 6:30–8:30 p.m. Doors open at 6:00. Please arrive early. JP Morgan Chase, 277 Park Ave.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [Conan Team to IXDA members]: Paying job posts to fund IXDA activitiesother issues

2009-05-19 Thread Jonathan
At this point, we need to do whatever we can to increase the number of practicing Interaction Designers. Providing free contact between employers and seekers helps this effort. Job posters, if they have that kind of budget, will likely be posting to sites like Coroflot anyway. . . . . . . .

[IxDA Discuss] Pagination best practices

2009-05-11 Thread Jonathan Abbett
of a load, but there's no technical reason why we can't show the user 100+ items per page. Is it easier for the user to click next 10 times, rather than scroll down a long list? Thanks in advance, Jonathan Welcome to the Interaction Design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What is a mobile phone called in your country?

2009-05-05 Thread Jonathan S. Knoll
. This is particularly fascinating because Pelephone was actually the first/dominant mobile company in Israel, and it appears the Kleenex-effect is now wearing off. ~ yoni Jonathan S. Knoll email: jonat...@infinityplusone.com web: http://infinityplusone.com/ linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How long should a beta be?

2009-05-05 Thread Jonathan S. Knoll
Judging by your webmail provider, five years. minimum. ~ yoni Jonathan S. Knoll email: jonat...@infinityplusone.com web: http://infinityplusone.com/ linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanknoll twitter: @yoni Welcome

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Diagraming social networks

2009-04-29 Thread Jonathan S. Knoll
Have you looked at Erin Malone Christian Crumlish's Social Patterns wiki? http://designingsocialinterfaces.com/patterns.wiki/index.php Perhaps a little in-the-guts for what you're thinking about, but a great resource. ~ yoni Jonathan S. Knoll email: jonat...@infinityplusone.com web: http

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

2009-04-24 Thread Jonathan S. Knoll
-shoot. ~ yoni Jonathan S. Knoll email: jonat...@infinityplusone.com web: http://infinityplusone.com/ linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanknoll twitter: @yoni On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Richard Dalton rich...@mauvyrusset.comwrote: Who codes your production quality HTML/CSS

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

2009-04-24 Thread Jonathan S. Knoll
scoffed at by development team managers in other places I've lived (including New York, and particularly at agencies). (On the other hand, it usually ends up earning generalists the respect of both fellow team members, as well as leaders of other teams. Go figure.) ~ yoni Jonathan S. Knoll email: jonat

[IxDA Discuss] Certification for usable health software?

2009-04-21 Thread Jonathan Abbett
David Blumenthal (the new National Coordinator for Health IT) and Mark Leavitt (the chair of their certification commission) are suggesting in today's Wall Street Journal that user experience be included in the certification criteria for electronic health records (EHRs) that will be eligible for

[IxDA Discuss] Free copies of Project Guide to UX Design

2009-04-13 Thread Jonathan Abbett
Sign up for a 10-day trial of Safari Books Online, and get a free copy of A Project Guide to UX Design by Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler. http://www.peachpit.com/promotions/promotion.aspx?promo=136966 NB: credit card required -- you'll be charged if subscription not canceled before the trial

Re: [IxDA Discuss] I'm designing in Visio for the last time

2009-04-06 Thread Jonathan Abbett
, the great set of wireframing stencils I use, and the nice set of macros from welie.com I've just adopted, I think I'll be sticking with Visio and keeping my fingers crossed that MS's next version will finally upgrade it from bastard step-child of the Office family of products. -Jonathan On Tue

Re: [IxDA Discuss] roles within a start up

2009-03-30 Thread Jonathan Abbett
  - Chef. Handles all other (random) tasks to keep team functioning. I actually do provide all our corporate catering (kosher, too). Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ...

[IxDA Discuss] IxD Portfolio review resources

2009-03-25 Thread Jonathan Warner
. I must say that I don't understand; it's a perfect platform for interactivity and to present a wide variety of previous work in differing formats. What do you all think? - Jonathan P.S. Though this post is a sincere quest for more formal portfolio review resources, I'm of course open to any

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Portfolio review resources

2009-03-25 Thread Jonathan Warner
David: Jon Kolko can hook you up with the mentorship program initiative; he's a member of IxDA. It's in relatively early stages, but they likely need more help! Thanks, Elisabeth, for your comments and time. Jonathan

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The Save Icon rut

2009-03-19 Thread Jonathan Abbett
In the version control universe, you would tag your file(s) to identify a particular snapshot of your work (e.g. version 1.1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control#Baselines.2C_labels.2C_and_tags On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Coryndon Luxmoore coryn...@luxmoore.com wrote: Strictly

[IxDA Discuss] Examples of Cooper-style requirements?

2009-03-10 Thread Jonathan Abbett
Our team has just developed an extensive set of context scenarios, describing how our personas will interact at a high level with the web application we intend to develop. About Face spends barely 1.5 pages talking about extracting requirements (the personas' needs) from scenarios. I get the

[IxDA Discuss] Your First UX / ID Job -- Q from the HCI Class of \'09.

2009-03-08 Thread Jonathan Cohen
Hello world, HCI grad student here. As my fellow students and I near graduation and explore all the different kinds of opportunities out there, it would be extremely helpful to learn about your entry-level interaction design experience. What was your first ID job? Generally speaking, is

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA Infrastructure Initiative: Survey results

2009-03-03 Thread Jonathan Abbett
, to serve as another great benefit of joining IxDA?) -Jonathan On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Elizabeth Bacon li...@elizabethbacon.comwrote: Hi folks, I want also to publicly thank IxDA Conan team members Amanda and also Maria de Monte who put a lot of effort into creating a presentable

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Sources for Touch Interaction Information

2009-03-02 Thread jonathan brill
I would second Mark's recommendations. Dan Saffer's Designing Gestural Interfaces is also a great resource. We have a large number of demos, lessons and reviews of touch interaction posted at www.pointanddo.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from

[IxDA Discuss] Embeddable fonts for PowerPoint

2009-02-19 Thread Jonathan Abbett
of online font search tools that filter based on the embeddability afforded by a font's license? Has anyone had positive experiences embedding respectable fonts in PowerPoint? Thanks, Jonathan Welcome to the Interaction Design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Open source user experience

2009-02-11 Thread Jonathan Abbett
We should also think about open-source design apart from open-source development. Just as developers come up with neat ideas, build something, and put it out there for others to download and use, there's no reason why some thoughtful designers can't iterate over a great product idea and publish

Re: [IxDA Discuss] ADVICE: Is the UX Intensive right for me?

2009-02-11 Thread Jonathan Abbett
I come from a web design/software development background -- the design research and design strategy were the two most useful days for me. Really eye-opening, and full of practical examples and opportunities to try things out in a group setting. The IxD day was also fun... learned great ways to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Open source user experience

2009-02-10 Thread Jonathan Abbett
set up the infrastructure for OSS design collaboration? What's the SourceForge or Google Code for designers? I imagine IxDA Labs could take a hybrid approach... weave together a wiki, knowledge management tools, digital whiteboarding... Please count me in :) -Jonathan On Tue, Feb 10, 2009

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Research: Three user groups, five hours. What would you do?

2009-02-03 Thread Jonathan Abbett
I like the approach of double-teaming each interview. One person facilitates -- maintains eye contact, asks questions, nods, actually listens to the conversation. The other takes notes and keeps track of which research questions have been covered. We digitally record the interview as well,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Research: Three user groups, five hours. What would you do?

2009-02-03 Thread Jonathan Abbett
What you're describing is poor note taking practice. It takes no skills to do a crappy job at anything you put your mind to. (Damn. I say this so often that I've decided to call it Spool's First Law of Competency.) Can you recommend any resources on how to take notes well during an interview?

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Selenium (or similar) for Usability Testing?

2009-01-28 Thread Jonathan Abbett
Selenium really helps me in my work -- it eliminates a lot of the tedium that gets in the way of usability testing. For example, I can write a script that will register a new account, login, and navigate to a particular section. This is very helpful when our applications are being redeployed

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Microsoft Surface and Windows 7

2009-01-17 Thread Jonathan Brill
I worked with the Surface team and post an almost daily bit on designing for Surface and multi-touch at: http://www.pointanddo.com Also, buy Dan Saffer's book. It provides a nice overview of UX issues in multi-touch, physical computing and context aware computing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Voting system design

2008-12-09 Thread Jonathan Abbett
A colleague of mine, Ben Adida, wrote his PhD thesis at MIT about cryptographic voting systems. He has an online voting system that's freely available at http://www.heliosvoting.org/ He also writes on the topic extensively-- http://benlog.com/articles/category/voting/ and

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Is Auto-Scrolling Good?

2008-12-01 Thread Jonathan Abbett
at the whole sheet when doing major reorganization, then get in close to carefully position. Would work well in a Visio/Photoshop/Illustrator-type situation, with a well-defined canvas... less so with the Thunderbird folder organization example. -Jonathan On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Jakub

[IxDA Discuss] Retain obvious instructions?

2008-11-24 Thread Jonathan Abbett
I've been working on a redesign of the web-based user interface for a personal health record platform, and I began to wonder -- do I need to retain the one-line instruction that seems to be on the top of every major data listing (medications, lab tests, immunizations, etc.): Click any item

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Finally! My Prayers Will Be Answered. In 3 years.

2008-10-10 Thread Jonathan Abbett
) portion of the people I know use it? Compare with Classmates.com -- you have to pay for their useful features, and hardly anyone I know uses it beyond a curious/casual initial sign-up. -Jonathan On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:08 PM, mark schraad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's to late for the pay

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Online grocery shopping

2008-10-07 Thread Jonathan Abbett
I agree with the FreshDirect recommendation-- as someone with access only to Peapod online groceries, I'm very envious of their user experience (and product variety). -Jon On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Brooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Another site I'd recommend you take a look at is

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Research on opening links in new windows?

2008-09-27 Thread Jonathan Abbett
-ups I'm generally hesitant to let the lowest common denominator (i.e. text-based browsers) dictate how I implement a web site, but hewing to the standard might be wise. Looking forward to some hard evidence ;) -Jonathan On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [IxDA Discuss] right hand vertical menus

2008-09-18 Thread Jonathan Abbett
You ought to have a great reason to violate a convention like top/left navigation. What's your motivation? -Jonathan On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:11 AM, Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do people have any opinions on these? i know left hand is normal, and i understand its todo with how

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Confirm password field - Superfluous?

2008-07-14 Thread Jonathan Abbett
I believe there's more to password masking than protecting against an onlooker. The HTML password field is handled uniquely by your browser: after you submit the form, any return visits to the page using the back button will clear out the password field. A regular text field, however, will have

Re: [IxDA Discuss] When is a hyperlink NOT?

2008-07-13 Thread Jonathan Abbett
Sometimes I like to e-mail offending websites as an unassuming user-off-the-street and ask the dumb question -- why doesn't your website work the way I expect it to? If these sites get enough negative feedback, it's like free user research, right?

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Confirm password field - Superfluous?

2008-07-10 Thread Jonathan Abbett
I think the terminology you use is confusing two separate concepts out there. First is the password hint. This is typically a phrase that will jog one's memory of one's actual password, like my first dog's name with a hyphen in the middle. Second is a secret question and answer. This is

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Redesigning the milk jug

2008-06-30 Thread Jonathan Abbett
Yes, but this isn't the sort of change we should be managing. We should be accommodating human behavior rather than changing it. People don't like to change the basic, simple everyday things that they do. There must be a point at which we say that the experience isn't the problem, but the very

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Importance of Masters Degree for IxD Professionals

2008-06-20 Thread Jonathan Abbett
I have a CS degree, a family, and roughly the same amount of experience, mostly in UI implementation (with ad hoc design) rather than hardcore IxD. I do a lot of reading, and I'm subjecting my coworkers to a design process as I flesh it out and test it. I took a look at the Cooper IxD Practicum,

[IxDA Discuss] [Off-topic] Alarm Clock Recommendations

2008-06-20 Thread Jonathan Abbett
There was a list discussion a couple years ago about alarm clocks... http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=5934 ...and it made me wonder-- what do usability-sensitive people use for alarm clocks? I'm at a point where I'm ready to buy the last alarm clock I'll ever need, so for argument's sake,

[IxDA Discuss] JOB: Sr. Information Architect/Interaction Designer: Philadelphia-Area: Empathy Lab: Full-time and Contract Available

2008-06-12 Thread Jonathan Lupo
, research plans, etc) to Natalia Framil, Director of Information Architecture, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jonathan Lupo VP / Information Architecture | Empathy Lab blocked::http://www.empathylab.com/ O: 484.382.1313 | M: 215.870.3317 [EMAIL PROTECTED] blocked::mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What do you call this?

2008-05-29 Thread Jonathan Abbett
wiki software to build my clickframes so all changes are tracked automatically. (Granted, they're page-by-page histories, so you can't easily revert the entire site to a particular point in time...) -Jonathan On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Katie Albers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I don't

[IxDA Discuss] Open format between Visio and Omnigraffle?

2008-05-19 Thread Jonathan Abbett
? Alternatively, are there simple converters between the two formats? -Jonathan Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IRC for IXDA?

2008-05-15 Thread Jonathan McGee
however I can. Cheers, Jonathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=28908 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Iron Man

2008-05-12 Thread jonathan d p ferguson
hi. Cool discussion! Following the comments of Bruce Bethke's The Secret Symbiosis: the HGG and its impact on real computer science, ideas in science fiction often motivate real scientists and vice-versa. Maybe Hollywood Movie UI's are a very expensive way of wire-framing. ;) I offer a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Committing changes to a database

2008-04-11 Thread Abbett, Jonathan
need to think about saving or committing or being careful about his actions -- the data is always safe, and there's always a way out. From an implementation perspective, it's the hardest, but from a usability perspective, it's ideal. -Jonathan

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How to design a useful FAQs page?

2008-04-11 Thread Abbett, Jonathan
The first 80 percent of customer calls can be eliminated if you know what your customers want to know. The next 80 percent can be eliminated with the FAQ. The next 80 percent can be reduced if you repeat the most frequent answers just next to the phone number. You're bound to see results with

[IxDA Discuss] UX Design Process

2008-04-04 Thread Abbett, Jonathan
environments, so I'm curious if anyone out there, particularly those in small/medium-sized groups or teams using Agile methodology, can share their design lifecycles. Thanks, Jonathan __ Jonathan Abbett [EMAIL

[IxDA Discuss] Offtopic: What music do you listen to while you design

2008-02-26 Thread Jonathan Follett
--particularly drum and bass--to be great for getting in the zone. -- Jonathan Follett HOT KNIFE DESIGN, INC. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.hotknifedesign.com Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list

[IxDA Discuss] JOB User Experience Designer, New York, NY, Lime Bits (full time)

2008-02-22 Thread Jonathan A. Marshall
USER EXPERIENCE DESIGNER at Lime Bits LIME BITS is developing an innovative software system intended to empower people to share their own creations and to collaborate on group creations. You'll join the Lime Bits team and help overturn the ancient traditions of software development.  Your

Re: [IxDA Discuss] 'Select Country' dropdown

2007-12-17 Thread Jonathan Koren
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Your favorite rating interface

2007-12-16 Thread Jonathan Koren
On Dec 15, 2007, at 11:56 PM, Murli Nagasundaram wrote: The other problem is the implicit criteria used in a star rating as both Jonathan and Jim point out. What's an alternative though, that is simple and quick, as well as reliable? :-C:-(:-|:-):-D ;-) -- Jonathan

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Forward/reverse in a mobile phone's music player

2007-12-12 Thread Jonathan Koren
with using the product that is bad. -- Jonathan Koren [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~jonathan/ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org

[IxDA Discuss] JOB-User Interface Developer-Denver, CO-Recruiter-Full-time

2007-11-28 Thread Jonathan Ballard
Hi- My name is Jonathan Ballard, please find the job description for the permanent UI Developer position I am looking to fill in the Denver metro area with a strong corporation in the Financial industry. If interested, or know of someone who might be, please contact me by phone at 720-221-5445