I've been checking out Flairbuilder recently. It's very quick and easy to use
and comes with a lot of controls. Controls are all edited via text. It feels
a little like wiki meets GUI. :-)
http://www.flairbuilder.com
Michael
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In case anyone is interested - a clip of the Maemo UI, Nokia's new
Linux-based UI.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/08/27/nokia.n900.official/
Nothing really much new, although there is a nice circular gesture for
zooming in and out. I am very fond of the typeface (apparently their
The international menubar control in mac os:
http://www.scl.utah.edu/computers/mac/help/languages.html
rookie mistake: require someone to know what their language is called
in English (or whatever the primary display language is) to select it.
MT
On Jul 15, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Erin Lynn Y
Observing the User Experience and Designing for the Digital Age are 2
comprehensive and pragmatic books (more how to than conceptual). I
don't actually think they overlap that much.
My advice - don't be intimidated by IxD'ers who want to put you in a
"visual design" box. Graphic design is
Hey Chris -
As someone working in the field and as a Virginia graduate, I would
say I think you can relax for two reasons.
1. Virginia is an excellent school
2. Very few people are assured jobs based on their undergraduate
course of study
There was no undergrad program available for mos
From what I remember they required some time on-campus for the
degree. that was a dealbreaker for me.
MT
On Feb 25, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Becky Reed wrote:
I wonder how much of it goes back to findability and information
architecture (but I can be a little biased thinking most problems
come
the text, although there is a scroll bar. Thought you'd want to know.
bests,
Alex O'Neal
UX manager
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Michael Tuminello
wrote:
Hi -
I'm posting this here becau
Hi -
I'm posting this here because
1. I consider documentation to be an inseparable part of any product
that people have to learn, and I would argue as such it's part of user
experience
2. I have hopes that once the main documentation has been brought up
to speed, this position will invol
I think James Madison or George Mason have a good program in Human
Factors. As I recall that kind of program was more popular down there
I suspect because of the military applications, but if you can't find
anything else I would imagine a lot of it would be applicable.
University of Maryla
First off, I think it's great, and thanks for doing this.
On the feedback side, I agree with Andrei on the pixel-perfect mockups
needing to be in there.
As a compliment to this I would like to see how these deliverables
interact with the deliverables of other departments. I think our
fie
Hey Ray -
As far as I know, here are your choices.
Interaction design program at SVA (new, fulltime (meaning no parttime
enrollment allowed))
NYU ITP (fulltime)
Parsons Design and Technology program (fulltime)
NJIT offers some kind of HCI program - this was too far off the beaten
path for
One less than the one that starts to hold up the development process.
MT
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A common mistake in listing languages for selection is to list them
all in the form designer's native tongue (eg english, french, spanish;
rather than english, francais, espanol). Seeing this post made me
curious about how/if this problem should be addressed in country
listings. It seems
Well in the sense that knowledge of a tool at our disposal is good, I
suppose it makes us better - like knowledge of how a planer works
might make someone a better carpenter, particularly on a job that
required one.
I think an broad examination of CMS's might also be useful in that
it's a
Yeah, I would disagree with this. It wasn't just pushing items
around. if that were the case it would be really uninteresting to
watch. It was that plus automatic contextual information suiting the
conversation that was taking place, unfolding and collapsing in a way
that was perfectly l
it's thermo.
I'm guessing that they either did mac intel first to annoy MS (less
likely), or because something about the underlying foundation
(eclipse) was easier to tweak on os x than it was on windows.
you might have MS to blame for undermining Java on their OS...
regardless a Windows
BTW, the new James Bond movie also has a nifty little UI interlude on
a touchscreen table. I think it might be longer than some of these
other sequences people have mentioned.
MT
On Nov 17, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Angel Anderson wrote:
Can we please play with this at Interaction '09 in Vancou
you should check the archives too. this topic comes up a lot. this
page is also a good resource:
http://hcibib.org/education/
MT
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You might try a static info panel area instead. A very simple example
would be the way the browser status bar used to show links before you
clicked on them. If you want to see the same thing in use in
something that's probably more complicated than your dialog, check out
the integrated he
y. :-)
MT
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I don't think this is possible.
If this is for a presentation, you could fake it by setting up key
commands for going to the next state. Details on doing that are at
the end of this article I wrote.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/top_features_fwcs4.html
I think it's a good
If you wanted to figure out the size of the actual market for facebook
(as it is today), I'd say find out what percentage of the population
keeps their high school yearbooks, and looks through them periodically.
The similar problem with facebook to yearbooks is that it encourages
people t
3 years is probably how long it will take for people to have enough
personal data and other investment in the system to consider paying $9
a month for it. plus by then they'll be sure their competitors have
given up, assuming facebook still exists. :-)
personally, I think facebook is the
So I was just going through yet another useless registration form
(cisco's, just so I can download their VPN client) and something
occurred to me, looking at their random password rules (Your password
must contain both upper and lowercase alphanumeric characters (a-z, A-
Z,1,2,3...), and mus
what's more interactive than a checkbox? ;-)
thanks
On Sep 8, 2008, at 10:37 PM, Eric Scheid wrote:
On 9/9/08 11:48 AM, "Michael Tuminello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anyway, if anyone has any OTHER suggestions, let me know...
How about something a little more int
wow - thanks everyone for your responses. I didn't expect so many so
fast. all the responses were interesting.
I guess my explanation was not very clear. I'll try again.
I have a long list of items (list A) each of which can use a short
list of items (list B), either singularly or more th
Hi -
I'm looking for a way to assign a small number of multiple items (say
1-5) to a large number of multiple items (say 150).
So I might want to assign small list items 1 to big list items 1-50,
small list items 2 and 3 to big items 51-100 and small list items 1
and 2 to big list items
Hi -
I am looking for someone for the following job. I think it will be
pretty fun (I’m a jealous that I don’t have time to do all the work
myself, but will be working with the designer). We will be gathering
the requirements, so I'm mostly looking for someone to work in a
graphic desig
I think it's run by Allison Druin and is at the University of Maryland.
I also know someone who has worked on a big sesame street project -
panwapa. if you're interested drop me a line and i can see if she
would be willing to talk about her experience.
HTH
Michael
On Jul 16, 2008, at 6:
Because I'm sure I won't be the only one wondering this:
That's right.
Best,
Michael
Michael Tuminello wrote:
Hi -
One question - is it fulltime only?
thanks -
Michael
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take a look at fireworks CS4 and the interactive pdf export. if you
are doing clickthrough mocks that might be good enough. this is
going to save me a lot of time building walkthroughs
if not: http://www.flashloaded.com/flashcomponents/bitcomponentset/
HTH
MT
On Jun 7, 2008, at 1:45 AM
no doubt. I have always wondered about that site. I tried to move
all my domains there once and had to give up because the site got in
my way so many times. robert hoekman (on the list) may be able to
shed some light on why it is the way it is. I think he did some work
on it.
MT
On M
in response to those who have posted the "i am a still recovering flex
user" threads, one comment worth making is that the initial version of
Flex (1.5 and earlier) was really (IMO) released too soon. The code
editor was built on dreamweaver rather than eclipse, and compared to
2.0, it was
Fireworks is for creating graphics (whether final or wireframe).
Thermo turns graphics into a working prototype, beyond just
clickthroughs - allowing you to create working scrollbars, menus that
are populated by data, and so on.
MT
On Mar 22, 2008, at 12:58 PM, frank d wrote:
>> So, I've
There is, at last with CS3, a good ability to exchange files between
FW and PS and AI. You will hit a wall with complex files, but I was
pleasantly surprised by my ability to exchange files with PS users
without any ill effect - I never had an issue, and never even
discussed it with anyone
buying a cross-platform development framework does not automatically
make you know how to build good software, unfortunately for Nokia.
They were not particularly good at it using Symbian. I don't see how
this acquisition changes that. My Nokia N76 (which I like) has a
HORRIBLE music int
I think
1. there is no doubt that getting feedback on working software is
better than a sketch (putting aside the cost of creating working
software, just saying if you could magically create it with no effort)
2. in the not too distant future tools will exist that allow us to
"sketch" work
No doubt. My only regret is that I did not get to meet the
interaction squirrel of hope (http://interaction08.crowdvine.com/
profiles/9347) (I didn't post this.)
Dan, Dave and the ixda board did an amazing job. Hard to believe it
was the first conference. It was easily one of the best conf
> You should check out this recent NY times article - "An Interface
> of One’s Own"
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/magazine/06wwln-medium-t.html?
> _r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin
>
> all about word alternatives (with a slant towards fiction writing)
>
> MT
>
> On Jan 10, 2008, at 12:45
t 9:46 AM, Todd Zaki Warfel wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Michael Tuminello wrote:
>
>> For me, I can't say that it does very much. That's part of the
>> reason I'm headed down to interaction 08 - for the agile/uxd
>> workshop.
>
> So, how
For me, I can't say that it does very much. That's part of the
reason I'm headed down to interaction 08 - for the agile/uxd workshop.
Currently the extent to which it is part of the scrum process is that
for a more complicated feature, I will take the sprint prior to the
development sprint
Fireworks CS3 has "rich symbols" and comes with a library of UI
widgets for various platforms. its in "common library", accessible
from the window menu.
there are some articles on prototyping with FW on the site (including
one I wrote).
MT
On Jan 9, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Fred Beecher wrote:
what we do as part of scrum, which is simple, but seems effective, is
that everyone writes down all the good things and the bad things they
can think of on sticky notes. you stick all the good things on one
side and the bad things on another as you get the notes. then at the
end you review
ss bar tells me that my
> computer has not locked up. That's really all I ask for.
>
> ~
> Tracy Boyington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Oklahoma Department of Career & Technology Education
> Stillwater, OK http://www.okcareertech.org/cimc
>
>
>>>> Michael
Although I'll certainly admit it is somewhat OT, I was thinking of it
more generally as designing something that appears to be a solution
rather than something that actually is. Or at least that's how I
rationalized posting it. :-)
A good general example of this in software design would be
Hi -
I thought this was an interesting (and infuriating) article that
deserved to be seen more widely, and it also bizarrely reminded me of
several software decisions that I have seen in the past - changes
that appear to address a concern, implemented because it is easier
(and ironically m
Oh - regarding having something to share, although I probably can't
share any docs, I don't see any harm in sharing the table of contents
from the top of the wiki page (this is automatically generated by
mediawiki, and they are anchor links).
It looks like in the end even breaking out menus
tion to this issue.
>
> Another drawback to the use of wikis for documentation is that
> their information architecture must be actively managed and pruned
> to avoid duplicate and outdated content. Again, any thoughts on
> addressing this would be appreciated.
>
> Dmitry
to use? Do you have any online examples of
> documenting Interaction design using wiki?
>
> Jorge Marquez
> Usability consultant at everis
>
>
> Enviado desde mi BlackBerry® de Vodafone
>
> -Original Message-
> From: "Nick Iozzo" <[EMAIL PROTECT
I like wiki. Wiki and mostly Fireworks, because it does both vector
and bitmap, and exports to a number of formats (and the frames and
pages are very handy for working with graphic screens that change
only partially - think states of an app, or webpages). For diagrams
I sometimes use Ke
mirror #2 seems to have a vmware virtual machine available:
http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-to-get-one-laptop-per-
child-image.html
if it works I'll have one there
On Dec 21, 2007, at 1:59 PM, Craig Peters wrote:
> I'm not going to be there, either, but I love the reaction I get
ssible
* possible requirement: privacy - need to protect/hide contact info
Michael
On Dec 11, 2007, at 2:00 PM, Fred Beecher wrote:
> On 12/11/07, Michael Tuminello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> We could add something to the ixda site that let non-pr
team up to work on them. I
> wouldn't likely have the resources to take on a project on my own,
> but I would be interested in contributing to a project as you have
> been discussing here. The "thing" could also provide a place to
> report progress, and finally, the results of t
needed for the Wikipolitics? Is it
> a bigger project than what Michael was thinking? If yes, would we
> benefit from a small victory on a smaller project before tackling a
> bigger project?
>
> On Dec 10, 2007 10:03 PM, Oleh Kovalchuke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wr
wow. how about that. this is pretty much exactly what I was
thinking about. good news. thanks!
Ok, so maybe we just tip heavily in savannah... :-)
MT
On Dec 9, 2007, at 6:56 PM, Andrea Kulkarni wrote:
> Just this week, someone from another list sent me a link to this
> website that all
r cost of some of these
> options. Maybe it's not necessarily creating new services but
> instead improving the exposure and benefits of some of the ideas
> that are already out there.
>
> Brianna Roberts
>
> On Dec 8, 2007 1:25 PM, Michael Tuminello <[EMAIL PROTEC
es. Maybe there is
someone on the list with a ready-made opportunity for us...
Michael
On Dec 8, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Jeff White wrote:
> Sounds like a great idea to me, and I'd love to be involved. Do you
> have any ideas for potential projects?
>
> Jeff
>
> On Dec 8,
Hi all -
I was thinking that the IxDA community has a lot of potential to
contribute something positive to the world at large, either by
improving some system that people use for some positive social
impact, or maybe just making a social issue more visible via better
information design.
I
this is all the other info i know of that is publicly available.
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Thermo
http://aralbalkan.com/1050
If you find out any other sources that provide more info, please drop
me a line.
thanks -
MT
On Dec 4, 2007, at 8:47 AM, Ferran Alvarez - BRYTE wrote:
>
dude. total mindf*k. I'm reeling. :-)
On Nov 19, 2007, at 11:44 AM, Jared M. Spool wrote:
> On Nov 19, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Mike Scarpiello wrote:
>
>> Agreed - always is a strong word.
>
> Is it always a strong word?
>
> (Sorry. Couldn't resist.)
>
> Jared
>
; saying is you don't walk into the factory and start making dishwashers
> on day 1. You flesh out low-fi ideas first. His example was
> integrating the counter top into all the appliances. which was easily
> sketched out on paper first to get feedback from the Whirlpool execs.
>
I agree that this is silly, although it may be for different reasons.
Personally, I have found that people don't always make the leap from
paper sketches to the real experience of using the UI. Not to say
that you should always present a final design, but sometimes I think
it is better to p
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