Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing a long list of items that people mustchoose from.

2009-09-04 Thread Sascha Brossmann | brsma : designificance
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 16:17, Juan Lanusjuan.la...@gmail.com wrote: What I did was to make my autocompleter search not only the displayed item descriptions but also related keywords associated with the official names, that were not displayed. That's what I meant by ‘search within semantic

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Preferred Font for a logo and index page

2009-09-01 Thread Sascha Brossmann | brsma : designificance
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 14:36, Kristenkrist...@pmgintelligence.com wrote: What is your favourite font and why? Kristen, choosing a font should *not* be a matter of whatever one personally prefers, but of what one wants to *communicate*. And to whom. Do you think small changes in a font will

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Preferred Font for a logo and index page

2009-09-01 Thread Sascha Brossmann | brsma : designificance
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 14:58, pauricpau...@pauric.net wrote: Do you think small changes in a font will affect perception of a brand in one way or another? Depends on your target audience.  The only people who notice such things are the people who notice such things I heavily disagree. People

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing a long list of items that people mustchoose from.

2009-09-01 Thread Sascha Brossmann | brsma : designificance
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 23:32, Paul Trumblepaultrum...@gmail.com wrote: Actually we did an a/b test with an auto-complete feature, with disastrous results. Personally I think the lack of an agreed upon vocabulary killed it. While you know what your high school is called, there might be 25 ways

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing a long list of items that people mustchoose from.

2009-09-01 Thread Sascha Brossmann | brsma : designificance
sensible/ business issues here.) Oops, false friend… s/sensible/sensitive/ I hope, they're sensible, nonetheless ;-) Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] We don\'t make consumer products, hence no need for a User Centered Design development process.

2009-08-31 Thread Sascha Brossmann | brsma : designificance
Friends, designers, list members, the heated nit-picking discussion developing after the quite innocent original post comes slightly as a surprise to me. And a rather annoying one, that is. For crying out loud: We're here to solve problems with/add value to products, services, etc. In other,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Global navigation: persistent or not across all pages?

2009-08-27 Thread Sascha Brossmann | brsma : designificance
BTW: why the two different search boxes? Sascha -- : create https://www.xing.com/profile/Sascha_Brossmann http://www.linkedin.com/in/brsma http://twitter.com/brsma Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] We don\'t make consumer products, hence no need for a User Centered Design development process.

2009-08-26 Thread Sascha Brossmann | brsma : designificance
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:59, Ali Naqvia...@amroha.dk wrote: Time and time again I am being told that a user centered design development process isn't needed in our company since we do not make consumer products. This is an obvious strawman’s argument (one may call it even simply bullshit).

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Current Design Topics

2009-08-13 Thread Sascha Brossmann | brsma : designificance
Hi Jack, I'd like to throw in (rather rough and unordered): * Designing for sustainability (one could argue that good design has always considered done this) * Design as an agent for economic, political, and social change (see Marc's reply, as well) * Design Thinking (also already hinted at

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability of Buttons versus Links for Navigation

2009-08-01 Thread Sascha Brossmann | brsma : designificance
that. On a side note, as this came up in one of the other posts: I would never rely on the browser's back button for navigation. Believe it or not, but I've seen far too many people practically never use them. Sascha Brossmann -- :create Welcome

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Q: Persistent header bar from FB and LinkedIn

2009-08-01 Thread Sascha Brossmann | brsma : designificance
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 16:54, Kim Bielerkimbie...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed that if you click on an external link in Facebook or LinkedIn (and other sites) it sometimes loads the new site in a frame below a header bar that's branded for the originating site. What I'm wondering is: 1.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Password Masking and Chroma-Hash

2009-08-01 Thread Sascha Brossmann | brsma : designificance
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 18:39, Jordan, Courtneycjor...@bbandt.com wrote: Does anyone else have ideas on how to make that accessible for color-blind users? Maybe well distinguishable patterns instead of or combined with colours. - S.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What is your design workflow?

2009-07-08 Thread Sascha Brossmann | brsma : designificance
Brian, you might have already hinted yourself at an IMHO highly possible source of your troubles by labeling your process as 'supposedly agile' etc. Apart from the regular potential pitfalls of agile processes[1]: an 'agile' process that isn't will consequently in most cases inherit the type of

Re: [IxDA Discuss] RFP: IxDA.org Redesign

2009-05-27 Thread Sascha Brossmann | brsma : designificance
Maybe a little bit off-topic: May I ask what are your main reasons to settle exclusively on Drupal? I recently talked with a friend of mine who had his main business site (a large German music platform community) recently relaunched based on Drupal. Which turned out to be significantly harder and

Re: [IxDA Discuss] deactivating or remove not available context menu commands

2009-05-26 Thread Sascha Brossmann | brsma : designificance
are kept in their normal place, and the user may build up some motoric memory. Which eases navigation. HTH. Sascha Brossmann : create Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org

Re: [IxDA Discuss] \Download Adobe Acrobat\ for PDFs

2009-03-17 Thread Sascha Brossmann | brsma : designificance
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:16, Francis Norton francis.nor...@gmail.com wrote: We often have to provide the Terms and Conditions of financial products as a PDF for compliance. Anybody know a better way of them to the user with controlled content and format? What degree of control do you need

Re: [IxDA Discuss] \Download Adobe Acrobat\ for PDFs

2009-03-17 Thread Sascha Brossmann | brsma : designificance
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:20, James Page jamesp...@gmail.com wrote: of those 9,199 visitors, and only 2,572 had Acrobat, 9,856 had Javascript, 8,135 had Flash  Sorry slip of finger. It was 8,856 had Javascript. But it would be interesting to see if others have similar low numbers for

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Surface-like interface: without using flash

2009-03-16 Thread Sascha Brossmann
This is not new, if anyone here remembers DYNAPI. It was possible to do these things way back in 2000 (or earlier maybe). Indeed. Bi-directionally scrolling the browser viewport with JS has been possible (and used) for quite a lng time now. I strongly disagree on 'no value added', though.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] \Download Adobe Acrobat\ for PDFs

2009-03-16 Thread Sascha Brossmann | brsma : designificance
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:10, Jamie Bresner jbres...@gmail.com wrote: What should I take into account when considering adding Get Adobe Acrobat next to a PDF link on a web page. Is this necessary? First question that comes to my mind: is the PDF download itself really THIS necessary, actually?

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Multi-select on the web

2008-11-29 Thread Sascha Brossmann
Why not turn this into a two-stage process by differentiating between *marking* (or flagging) a picture and *selecting* a picture for further action? (See e. g. most types of asset management software for implementations.) While this is actually a more or less simple enhancement of the checkbox

Re: [IxDA Discuss] question for tablet pros -- where do you use it?

2008-11-07 Thread Sascha Brossmann
Due to heavy RSI I dumped the mouse some time ago and switched completely to a trackball and a tablet. Which alternatingly are placed where the mouse pad used to be (I use one of them predominantly, depending on the task at hand). I prefer to use a compact keyboard (w/out number block) with this