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
ived scope. 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 wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Jonathan Abbett wrote:
>> Say you're brought in to do user research
I could use a bit of advice.
Say you're brought in to do user research and feature definition for a
software project that's already underway (i.e. development began on
day one).
You have your tried-and-true process where you interview users long
before you write scenarios, nevermind write code, b
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 essent
I'm very excited about this:
http://builditwith.me/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/08/build-it-with-me/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
-Jon
Welcome to the Interaction Desig
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.
Best
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
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 --
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 l
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 page
I'm designing a Twitter visualization for a blog with multiple contributors.
Each blog contributor also publishes on Twitter, and we need an interface
that integrates:
* each blogger's tweets
* responses to those tweets
* tweets with hash-tag references to the blog
I'd like to know if there are a
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, a
That reminds me -- I have to plug in my iPod. Thanks! ;)
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 6:42 AM, pauric 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 a general a
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 wrote:
> I've suddenly found my team grow from one to three and it's clear
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
Jon--
You absolutely need to setup these macros:
http://www.welie.com/visio/index.php
There are copy/paste-in-place macros that make working in Visio so much nicer!
There's also lots of power in Visio's "background" pages -- since
backgrounds themselves can have backgrounds... sort of like layer
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 wrote:
> >From the New York Times:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/automobiles/19design.ht
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 control
Can anyone recommend resources (or offer advice) addressing how best to
paginate data on the web? Specifically looking for info on when to paginate
and how many items to show per page.
There may have been a time when retrieving more than 10 items from your
database at a time was too much of a loa
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 $1
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.
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I, too, have been struggling with Visio, mostly around printing (it
can't collate, for goodness sake!) and PDF generation (Visio and
PDFMaker don't play nice).
So, inspired by this thread, I've been reviewing alternatives. I tried
Balsamiq again at my boss's suggestion, but I'd be giving up too mu
> - 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 ... disc...@ixda.or
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
wrote:
> Strictly speaking save as
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 ba
What was the meaning of "resources" in the survey?
I'm currently working on a project to help young Harvard researchers with
the grant writing process, and our field research has found that they crave
real examples of successful grant applications to help them start writing
their own grants.
As a
In trying to avoid a fiat from management against non-Microsoft fonts
in my PowerPoint presentations, I've been learning more about how to
embed fonts within a PowerPoint 2007 presentation.
Microsoft's reference on the subject was my first destination:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/
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 get
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 th
I've been working in open-source for a bit over four years now...
getting designers to donate their time for collaborative projects at
the same level as developers do would be a tremendous boon.
Plus, an IxDA-facilitated open-source initiative would be an excellent
way to get more experience on a
> 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
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, which
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 freq
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
http://ben.adida.net/res
I like the auto-zoom-out idea.
Here's how to refine it: When you approach the view border, zoom out. When
the user slows down/stops his mouse movement (after a delay of, say, 200
msec), zoom back in to allow precision placement.
It hews to the user's mental (well, physical?) model -- look at the
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
The major draw of Facebook is ubquity -- everyone you know from high
school, college, maybe even the office has a profile. Charging for
Facebook would drive away large swaths of users, and I predict that
would have a negative snowballing effect: what's the use if only a
small (and decreasing) port
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
If it's any consolation, the technology itself offers some guidance--
* Strict XHTML does not support the "target" attribute in an anchor tag
* W3C accessibility guidelines instruct not to launch a new window
"without informing the user"
http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT-TECHS/#tech-avoid-p
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 ho
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 i
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?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/admin/help/p
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 t
> 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 ve
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, le
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,
a
riented but not functioning
> wireframe is supposed to be better.
>
> Katie
>
> At 10:27 AM -0400 5/27/08, Jonathan Abbett wrote:
>>
>> I do this--
>>
>> http://www.grokdotcom.com/wireframing.htm
>>
>> --and it's been very useful.
>>
&g
After observing the list for a while, it's clear that our community is split
between Visio users on PCs and Omnigraffle users on Macs. Is there a format
common to both Visio and Omnigraffle with which we can publish stencils,
templates, etc. so we don't have to duplicate our efforts? Alternativel
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