mes to designing efficient and/or
>> usable interfaces and working around physical restrictions that various
>> technologies impose.
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; it will all be the same animal.
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>And I hope you're right, but that's not the case at the moment, and I
>think that if we're going to get there, we need to be able to deal
>with the constraints we have with both platforms right now in order to
>unite them.
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site for a resume writing service
that's so poorly organized and poorly designed and seriously ugly
that it was a while before I realized that there's no way to purchase
their services from the site...And what if they wrote me a resume
that was that poorly designed?
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>cycle. Great for jet engines, but not so much for software.
I've come to the conclusion that six sigma is so popular because it's
name is a number AND a greek letter...so it's obviously objective and
True.
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>> corporation as an Internet Marketing Specialist (what?), and have 7
>> years of web work experience... I am pretty much no where in their
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fact that my values conflicted with the established corporate values.
In a larger sense, you could say that my values coincided with
whoever actually hired me...but it was often in opposition to the
company as a whole.
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>> > actively follow trends in their profession online or off.
>>
>> Perhaps this is a difference between innies and outies? Or do those
>> of you who work for consulting firms also fin
s seems to be very old news, and not really relevant in todays market, or
>do I just work for ultra bleeding edge organizations when it comes to
>process? I like Alan's premise of promoting our discipline, but he seems to
>be looking from the past, (very far past in SW terms - 10 yrs back o
's amazing how often a collective, obviously correct decision winds
up being discussed a month later by the same group, who have just
determined collectively that it is obviously wrong.
So, I guess the answer is: All of the above. or It Depends.
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hem to write down their comments, and
>fill in a likert scale survey to rate how good it is. There is no moderator,
>no actual test, no asking of users to find out their motivations etc..
>
>As for UT being offered for 49.99, which company is actually doing that?
>It'll be inte
was wondering if any of you has had experience using a tool to
>quantify the frustration of the user while using an interface (in our
>case a web application or website). This tool is to be used during
>usability testing, of course.
>
>Do you have any links to research, products and sa
surprises me...why are you telling the users
who you are at all? It helps to have your first name, to increase
their comfort, but beyond that, you're just someone doing research to
figure out whether the application being developed is any good -- and
I phrase it just
heir way out and saying "Well, I think X could have been
better, but they did it this way instead" (Obviously, paraphrased)
And that's why the point comes up.
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expert in its use...and in every case
I've seen the design or prototyping it's being used for would be
better served by any number of other tools.
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lts.
I'm not sure how much of this thread is due simply to differing
definitions of the word "prototype" and how much is due to different
processes and how much is due to having worked in different
situations which imposed different requirements...but I'd be very
interes
ot a lawyer, but this is how it was explained to me by one.
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st keeping track of
expenditures.
So, labelling may change for each user. Task categorization,
likewise. And so on...
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Numbers dont lie. People lie.
>People also ask the wrong questions and then interpret the answers
>the wrong way bases on assumptions, bias, ignorance or stupidity but
>properly done real quant done by qualified people is eminently
>useful. (IMHO)
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a of "Good design is transparent" taught by their consultants.
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>But given the opportunity to do it right, my own life experience
>with everything from fixing cars to fixing websites tells me that
>it's very hard to go back in and retrofit usability when it was not
>considered important at the outset or at other points in the design
>proc
qualified to critique. I know *enough* about the issues involved in
coding. I know *enough* about the issues of product management...and
so on. I expect that the team I will work with will be similarly
broad with a deep and complementary specialty and able to usefully
participate in the give an
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>> What do you mean by "Core basics" do you mean that I know what they
>> are or that I can combine them in the optimal -- or approximately
>> optimal --
know how to design the
interactions and if they couldn't design the building the business is
housed in then how will they understand how those physical
surroundings work together to affect the form of the business which
in turn influences the concept of the business and so fort
ark out. See de-, sign]
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So, the question is: What do you mean by "design"?
Katie
P.S. Apologies to all those of you who are now
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issues, questions of
usability, and standardizing navigational requirements, as well as
many other aspects.
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No wonder they
couldn't communicate with me; they weren't actually communicating
with each other, although they were certain that they were.
I suspect that something similar is happening here and that we aren't
having the conversation we thin
wiring closet boxes that does
>nothing. Changes in the UI are applied instantaneously in most cases
>and admins can choose to click a Save Config button, or not.
>Usability Theater.
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>I hope this doesnt mean I come back as a user in the next life for my
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is particularly pertinent
in connection with the question of What UCD Is and therefore Who We
Are.
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negotiate the social
>ramifications of answering an SMS while in conversation. In the
>"real world" people understand the context I'm in to a degree -
>e.g., somebody at work can see if I'm in a disc
>> file to a online address book service, you're "uploading a file",
>> but the best term (for me, at least) is "importing a contact".
>>
> > But, I think a user study to confirm this. It's simple and fast. :)
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them test Section B
>with no background knowledge (not realistic, but hey, maybe the others
>are too ambitious)
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>recommendations on what has and hasn't worked well? Am I approaching it
>all wrong?
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most like "ha! I'll show you and refuse to learn anything!"
>:)
It is worth keeping in mind that it is *never* possible to force
users to go through a tutorial (or pretty much anything for that
matter). They *always* have the choic
inions are sought.
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language and willfully attributing meaning literally when you were
thinking more figuratively and vice versa. Any question that does not
survive that process I rewrite until it passes. Yes, I user test my
user testing. sigh.
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approach in a business context?
I would be glad to get some tips about best practices and case studies
regarding this topic, thanks.
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s and users don't have to wonder if it is a link before they click
it, it is a good design. Does anyone has been in the similar situation
and how did you solve the problem? Using color contrast an option?
Thank y'all ^_^
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future. If it is, no lawyer worth his salt will fail to
dig into your past discussions ...and in that case it's too late for
all of us. But I'd recommend not going further.
IANAL, but I've been prepped by them for relevant cases.
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'd originally
set the alarm to go off at.
The question now is: How long would the ideal ramp be?
I think it should start about 10 or 15 minutes before the
you-must-get-up-now time.
Would the user like to be able to adjust the length of ram
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ly sloppy,
messy and wasteful - I'd seek out other creative groups, PR, Marketing,
Advertising, etc. and see how they're handling fitting their creative work
into metrics. I suspect you'll get better ideas from them than from the
engineering and Q&A orgs.
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Hi,
Color me confused. What exactly do you mean by native? Do you mean
you've designed a different interface for each platform (which is
what I usually understand native to mean in this context) or do you
mean that you're designing a single interface for all 3 that is
native to some unspoken
cases, so that more thought has
to go into which button to press.
All of which I think takes the original question out of the context
in which it was posed, but I think we need to consider the idea that
the Good is not always the same in every context.
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to click on one of to continue.
Just to be a bit compulsive here...You actually have to hit "Accept"
to continue. "Don't Accept" will shut down the installer.
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At 1:23 PM -0400 10/27/08, Chauncey Wilson wrote:
The underlying issue here is how legal forms are evaluated. We can evaluate
whether people understand the terms, but that is not the same as the
evaluation that goes on in court. So, apart from all the opinion about
reading comprehension, is ther
homepage. Usually, in the header or footer
depending on the overall site design. I feel hiding this information behind
a click just leads to frustration.
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" I make sure the computer works to make *your* life easier, instead
of requiring you to make your work match the way the computer wants
things"
Also incomplete by a mile, but I find most people understand it
relatively well.
kt
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Right! The Flying Spaghetti Monster isn't purple! <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_spaghetti_monster
>! Blasphemer!
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On Dec 2
mary-margaret.com (games and interactive media recruiters)
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On Jan 9, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Angel Marquez wrote:
vfxpro <http://www.2-popforums
No kidding...I'm with Jared on this one.
What evidence are they citing? For that matter, what evidence are
*you* citing? What on earth format were you using to evaluate these
prototypes?
This has all the earmarks of something that was a total cockup from
the planning stages.
kt
y think, and saying
"I'd have to do some serious work over in this area because of..." is
okay, as long as they know they're skipping something to follow their
main narrative.
kt
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Actually, the stickiest NDA I ever had to sign was for a product that
shipped...it also ran only on a particular form of *nix (that no
longer exists) so I couldn't even carry a laptop that ran the product.
And that doesn't even include the government stuff...
Katie Albe
User
Experience is not principally about pictures.
When I'm interviewing, I tend to treat requests for a portfolio as an
Employer Intelligence TestA remarkable number fail.
Katie
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, that when the numbers come in,
everyone in the "class" starts working really hard to make C's. It
certainly isn't something to cite as proof of the advanced nature of
your own development efforts.
Perhaps your colleague was seeking sympathy?
Katie
Katie Alber
There's a generally recognized certification process for IxD? Really?
Not sure I like that idea...No, actually I'm sure I don't like that
idea. Not at this phase in the field's development.
But where is this geographic region of which you speak?
kt
Katie Albers
27;d like to have -- they know what they're
lacking in a way we can't begin to.
Oh, there's a radical thought, ask the users.
kt
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hen you can jot down your notes and aides de memoir.
I realize that contemporary note-taking is in some cases simply
unavoidable, but make sure that you really need to do it in this case
before automatically incorporating it.
kt
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on: yes, it depends...but that means you
have to consider alternatives. I admit I find it somewhat entertaining
that anyone would consider either Jared or me as neophytes -- and I'm
very flattered by the grouping: I have less experience than Jared and
I've been at it 15 years.
emory,
with all its limitations.
kt
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On Feb 6, 2009, at 5:31 AM, Adrian Howard wrote:
On 5 Feb 2009, at 18:07, suze ingram wrote:
Oliver, t
those keyword lists up-to-date.
I would hope that the video has better metadata; I'd hate to think of
someone watching hours of video just to sort it.
I hope there's a better way to do this, but that's all I can think of.
Katie Albers
Founder & Principal Consultant
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, the info design and interaction
design that goes into creating a universal, accessible electronic
library encompassing all information and all media has to be worth
*something* :-)
kt
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page if it looks at all ad-
like, so what are your "meaty messages" doing up there in the first
place?
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On Feb 24, 2009, at 12:56 PM,
ental
sources
4) And of course, the one child, one laptop program benefits children
(and teachers) who aren't computer users.
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On Feb 26, 2009,
it possible for you to go merrily on your way
spending time, money and effort developing things that your
marketing division can market to people who don't want them. Building
in business objectives pre-supposes acceptance and compliance.
I think I've said that enough ways, n
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