>From my experience in the defense industry:
The relative newness of IxD really works against the recruiting
efforts in defense. There's rarely a top-down focus on usability
from government and corporate leadership, so positions rarely target
those skill sets specifically.
I've found that the be
I normally find sign-up forms incredibly irritating-- but Yahoo's is light
years beyond any others I've seen:
https://edit.yahoo.com/registration?.intl=us&new=1
My concern about javascript-driven validation (either entirely on the client
side, or AJAXified) is that it will lead to laziness in dev
My observations...
1) I was curious how they do audio playback, so I dug through the source.
While the UI is all HTML (and so elegantly simple), the audio playback is,
in fact, flash. Volume control would be a nice touch, perhaps in the page
header?
2) A non-scrolling page header might be nice t
The other contributors' critiques hit on great points... So rather than
reiterate, I thought I'd share this:
http://www.dipdive.com/dip-politics/ywc/
I randomly came across this last night. Of all the flash video players I've
seen, this has one of the most responsive UIs (example: dragging the t
Is it generally accepted that affordance can work in a negative way as
well? I occasionally come across a web site that mixes in some sort of
salient text (usually colored and underlined) that fools me into thinking
they're links, when in fact, they aren't.
I agree with David's definition, but gi
Have you taken a look at Visual Complexity? --
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
I realize the scope of your question was intentionally broad, but perhaps a
hint about the specifics of your particular domain may help.
Regards,
Matt
On 10/23/07, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hi
