I'm working on a directory site that has company listings (that have
to be searched), discussions, and white papers. We have the issue of
the double search box i.e. search the company listings in the top
right corner, and discussion search in the middle. Are there any best
practices out there aroun
(Grabbing popcorn, enjoying this from afar.)
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Humans? Maybe you. Not me.
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Here's a different way of looking at "it depends"...
>From LA Craigslist Ad:
We are looking for a talented web designer...We offer a flexible
schedule, $14 per hour...
...
I never, ever see that $14 per hour number next to the word
Architect. Or, show this to your ID's, and ask them if $14 per
I hate the word designer, because when people use it, they think web
designer i.e. colors, icons, shapes, and not necessarily interactions
or social engineering. I think interior designer, website designer,
graphic designer, which quite honestly, I think we sit above that.
I like Experience Archit
I can't spend my own money for so many conferences...
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Absolutely the latter.
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As a followup, I hate icons. So hard to get right...
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At a company that developed CRM software (this was years ago), they
found through testing of users across several enterprise level
customers to get through more calls, functions by having key
functions as icons. They dealt with huge call centers. I don't have
the numbers with me (that was several h
It really depends on expert vs. novice users. Novice users aren't
going to pick up on icons right away. Expert users who use the
application 8 hours a day will.
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And the content migration...
That's going to hurt, and cannot be done by that team.
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well, it's not 100k per worker -- it's 250k per worker at consulting
rates (or splits depending on offshoring)...
when considering that's literally three people for a year...
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Or, the fun of committee decisions...
What are people's studies/feelings about quantity box versus a link
that reads edit quantity, and then they can change the quantity?
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I don't have the RFP response, but I >do< have the
deliverables/wireframes/content matrix, and the size of the site.
One of the complexities of a site like this is that isn't not just
flat HTML -- there are a lot of dynamic forms. Think about it, 83k
pages. That's a lot of pages that have to be ed
Well, that will play well in Austin, er, Peoria. :)
I've quoted that exact project, and the price actually seems low.
They must be outsourcing a good portion of that project.
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I've been involved with one of these city projects (ironically, one
for a city about the same size, reach). You wouldn't believe what
you run into.
- City government runs slow. Real slow. One project I worked on, I
did the IA in March of last year, and they are hoping to launch next
month.
- You h
I give it 5-10 years and I predict a major shift in interaction design
practice & education away from majors and masters and into support
tracks and electives for already existing degrees in interactive,
industrial, and architecture.
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Agreed. At least to educate those that need enough to get by
Patrick, I think what Chris, Andrei and I are saying is that hiring
tomorrow will not be like hiring from today.
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I disagree. While some of the new grads may have all of the skills
listed, that list is fairly daunting for the majority of the IX/UX
community.
This is an issue that I've seen in
I'm not saying broading the skills is a bad idea (still a good idea).
And I get frustrated when dealing with a UX type that says, well, they
do only user researching. Most companies demand more jack of all
trades.
However...
Going for this and hiring a UX team are completely different issues.
The
I'm working on a shopping cart, and at a couple of points we either
have to:
- Force someone to sign in for credit card security purposes, or...
- Want to present options attached to a particular shopping cart
item.
The question is what do you think about using the lightbox dialog
boxes for this?
SNIP
I don't see it being that much better, visually, than Bugzilla,
Mantis, or Trac.
Better:
Axosoft http://www.axosoft.com/
Trac http://trac.edgewall.org/
TrackIt http://www.numarasoftware.com/ctash.asp?src=google
&trm=trackit
Cheers!
Todd Zaki Warfel
SNIP
...have you used it in a project
Andrei's requirements:
I can perform most of those tasks to about a 90 percent level (don't
even ask me to do high level actionscript though). But, as a person
who has hired for UX positions, the requirements described there are
impossible to hit in any one person, except for the lucky few (a few
- Regarding the look and feel of FogBugz (or say what you want to say
about it...)
- It's profitable
- It's a great product ... I've used it
- It hits its target audience very well
I don't know about you, but that's successful UX to me.
- Regarding programmers as gatekeepers
He's exactly right.
Already wrote him.
Wrote a post:
http://www.usabilitycounts.com/2009/03/09/the-program-manager-and-how-getting-ux-into-software-way-we-can-is-good/
Look, not all software organizations can support an IA, a UX
designer, whatever. That takes a larger software project, and for the
vast majority of
Since you asked, this is how I see it as an opportunity (pretty much
the best once since the invention of sliced bread):
While we're all trying to figure out what our titles are (and
that's our damn fault, politics and posturing in our community be
damned), Joel defined an ADDITIONAL position for
"Well, if you've seen the UI for FogBugz, then I guess that shows
you what kind of a UI a Program Manager can design. "
You mean a profitable product?
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I've been a program manager.
Why do you see this as a threat? I see this as another opportunity.
And UX people should know a bit about programming, so they know what
they're designing into.
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>From Dan's article...
"The best personas are really conceptual models, which help you to
digest the user research in a coherent way. They put a name and face
to an observed pattern of behavior."
I'm working with a few startups, and the hardest question for them
to answer other than how they are
It depends on the user base. If they are repeating the form over and
over again, then it should be one page.
If it's the first time user who uses it once every four months, a
wizard?
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Somewhere, somehow, you have to highlight the efficiencies of
Omnigraffle over Visio, and show that it costs the company money. If
you're working for a consultancy, that's going to make it even
harder because usually they bill that back to the client.
I recently worked for a company that was tota
Or someone needs to die...ha...
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I posted an example of what I sent to him at
http://www.usabilitycounts.com
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I had a conversation through email about this. He was asking
specifically what's the the UX process within product definition,
and how it fits into the general SDLC. I sent him a PDF that outlines
some of the steps you can take through it (when you do personas,
wireframes, use cases), and when usab
I've done that before. You end up training the developers to design in patterns.
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For pricing, we've been going with 25 percent requirements gathering, 50
percent development, and 25 percent quality assurance as a starting point for
projects. The ratios may change, but I once worked on a team where Product
Management was 1, dev was 3, UI design was 1, and QA was 1, and that t
ot weeks on some projects.
Patrick
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Practice Manager, User Experience
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perspective, it's a guessing game very time.
On Jan 17, 2008, at 9:42 PM, Patrick Neeman wrote:
Have any of you actually implemented it more than once?
Cheers!
Todd Zaki Warfel
President, Design Researcher
Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully.
ou want? Yep. I can point to several sites that we've
done that you wouldn't even recognize it as SharePoint -- and not small sites,
but public facing sites.
(Don't even get me started on some of the other open source CMS systems out
there...)
Patrick
Patrick Neeman -- speakTE
Have any of you actually implemented it more than once?
We have a lot of clients that are very happy with it. It's not for everyone,
and it does have some limitations, but we've been able to work around some of
them, and push it pretty far.
Patrick Neeman -- speakTECH: Strategi
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