Though you need to understand CSS/etc. You could use dhtml image
swapping to get the same graphical effect as flash.
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Interesting article.
I'll play contrarian. We as designers see a world as it could be,
often a more user friendly one. But if end users can't see it, they
won't every get there and we'd be stuck with torches and caves.
Progress is change, people don't like change, so we have to lure them
into the
Curious, I tried playing around with it in Flash.
Trickyness is introduced if it's to behave like another textfield
supporting selecting, backspace, cutting and pasting. Having to modify
the original word via array operations.
Also you need a fixed size font to keep the word from jumping aroudn
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Neat, hadn't seen that before. Thanks for sharing.
Sadly I found the results irrelevant to the stuff I was searching on.
Funny I just created a semantic network visualizer this weekend. I was
wondering how/when it could apply to normal search and wiki's.
Troy.
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I haven't seen the E3 video is there a link? The videos on youtube
are concept advertisements, and having played with some of the people
doing this, it seems demo-ware. Big in dreams, but often brittle
once you get it into the real world.
I have no doubt that eventually gestural interfaces (an
RE: kittens and cables
Wait.. you're saying your angels chewed through your wireless keyboard
cables? ;) Really you need a blender defender.
http://www.plasma2002.com/blenderdefender/
I have a touch screen on the cymbal mount, so it can do cymbals with
the correct music software, but I beatbox
> If car companies can provide list prices for their products online, why
> can't a furniture manufacturer?
Sometimes they do, but it's always suggested retail price (usually
highest price), and often times there are advertise price minimums to
keep the competition from cannibalizing all the prof
> Wow, I could never work like that! I have way to many books on my desk for
> that to work. I need a good expanse of flat space.
That's what floors are for :) of course I work at home so can get away
that. But I used to work in an office I wasn't afraid to take over a
floor area when the conferen
>The HM hurts my rear,
Yeah me too.
Desks are so overrated, I've gone to just using wireframes...to hold
drinks primarily.
http://intrio.com/blog/2008/01/21/a-great-deal-1920x1600-24-monitor-for-370by-westinghouse/
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Part of this is simple business dynamics.
Most of the businesses mentioned in this primary distrubution channels
are offline, they simply aren't interested in 1 to 1 relationships and
sales, they are much more interested in that new office building, shoe
store etc.
Aeron chair is largely sold via
Hey Chris,
Not sure if this will help but it's a flow I designed a few years ago
that uses a slide approach.
http://troyworks.com/blog/case-study-rich-user-forms-the-slide-user-registration/
for your eyes only. use I x D with no spaces to get in.
The client liked it. But opted to go with anot
> One of many things it has me thinking about is how (if?) I can create
> emotional responses using only physical objects that carry emotional weight.
In this case she had to get them integrated into the story, so they
were an active participant.
If the pawns were cattle instead of people, or gla
I did this a few years ago.
http://www.intrio.com/products/LJViewlet/LJViewlet.htm
It supports directionality of the links.
The goal was to do time analysis of friends as they joined and left
the network, but never got to the point of capturing the information.
Troy.
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5
I agree face to face is the highest 'bandwidth' as far as emotions,
empathy and resonancelargely based by the immediate interactivity
and feedback. Video is next best. Text though in the hands of an
accomplished writer can convey depth, due to the time in
contemplation. The problem with mos
I have all the approaches
* Motion Computing slate tablet PC. which has a wacom.
* a wacom tablet for a powerful but cheap Dell laptop as a primary workstation.
* a 8.5x11 hardbound art pad.
They are all different tools and I think it depends on what the goal
is, they are by no means incompatib
I don't see the mouse going away, I tend to view gestures like Wii Devices,
operating in a bigger space. I don't see many playing wii tennis in a chair,
and I don't see many mouse+keyboard while standing up.
Having played with mulittouch (owned a TouchStream keyboard/mouse), played
with FIR, webca
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:08 PM, William Brall wrote:
> So you are saying that having a remote that is cheaper and will last
> longer than my LCD TV is likely to last, is more important than ease
> of use and speed?
To you obviously not. And yes to a manufacturer useability and hyper
longevity
But, doesn't really make my point moot. If they are just NOW coming
> out with it. Why didn't it become the standard 10 or 20 years ago?
Membrane Switches are much cheaper to manufacture than the various items
that rotary encoders use, and likely last longer, less prone to breaking
from crumbs,
Great article, and some great quotes:
'prototyping is a way of life'. - totally! I even demarcate goals for
myself as incarnations, iterating areas I don't know will work.
"you cannot schedule creativity"
regarding meetings to improve rather than brainstorm: "Everyone is a better
critic than a
Trained Behavior? Habit? Behavioral momentum? One trick ponism?
Every trick learned as a cost/benefit to using it, but there are also costs
to carrying and selecting the tool, ideally if there's only one tool, the
cost for selecting it goes to zero.So ones with the most utility end up
in the
I love radial / orbital menus which are related to pie. Especially when
dealing with deeply nested hierarchies as on windows/web, it's SOOO easy to
accidently mouse off a deeply nested menu, and then have to retraverse it,
to miss it again!
Even back in 2005 I had one on my site (still up). It's
I say this half jokingly about the Graphic, Broadcast and Motion Designers:
Obsession - bordering on OCD, rare that I see good design that isn't an a
reflection of burning
Perfectionism -
Isolation - generally a happy bubble where they can be a piece with their
alternate realities.
Lack of Accou
I don't think it's meaningful at the short of a sampling.
I suspect that there will be a upto quarter lag before some sectors will be
show hit. Many companies have already allocated budgets for new hires,
which can be a lengthy process, and the ball is in motion regardless of the
financial meltdo
we use the guimagnets at times, but have gone to something similar, magnetic
whiteboards with cuttable magnetic film, we've created all sorts of shapes
with scissors. But we use 4x3 papersheet sized ones for screens so we can
insert new ones, move them around, these can be stacked.
http://www.magne
I love the craigslist poke. Just as there is colorblindness, there is also
design blindness, interactive blindness, typography blindness. So many of
the things we fixate on users are completely oblivious to, or don't
particularly care about having a high threshold for stuff that would drive
http://www.oblong.net is the former MIT kids who worked on the
Minority report and also science advised the Iron Man movie.
http://elianealhadeff.blogspot.com/2008/04/gesturetek-and-oblong-serious-gaming.html
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> I hate to mak
> WHO is the movie Interface and Interaction designer that comes up with this
> stuff ?
I know that for Minority Report it wasn't one, part was Dale Herigstad
at www.Schematic.com, and a company based out of MIT grads that
actually has working glove/gestural tech...primarily for military
because i
Indeed the home fab, was fab. The judicious use of knob to turn on
otherwise soft and gestural interfaces...everywhere. The home
automation having a sense of humor. The use of robotics helping us
out, semi-automously like pets even when we don't explicitly tell
them what to do (e.g. giving the
> In a way, we've seen this "erosion of value" happen before. The first
> Mac brought desktop publishing to the consumer - and to this day, we
> are inundated with poorly designed flyers and newsletters.
Any creative area is largely 70% stuff that ends up in the trash, 3%
brilliant. Same thing f
- Office style Collapse and hide entries that aren't being used, and
especially those that can't be used at the time.
- OSX style sliding scrollbanes
- Vista style autocomplete commands
- Use the frame around your app to create palettes, like nouns, actions, etc.
- separate into panels that can b
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> On Apr 24, 2008, at 9:28 PM, Troy Gardner wrote:
>
> > I have 4 x 24" monitors (~4x4' of monitors), when an application is
> > spanned across multipleputting things at the borders makes for
> > tons of unecessary m
I have 4 x 24" monitors (~4x4' of monitors), when an application is
spanned across multipleputting things at the borders makes for
tons of unecessary mouse movement. So I've really come to like
contextual hovers or right clicks.
http://intrio.com/blog/2008/01/21/a-great-deal-1920x1600-24-monit
My take
Information and Content are the nouns,
IA is the grammar,
IxD are the verbs,
Graphic Design are the adjectives,
Your application is the poem
Experience Architects are the poets
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Can you use grayscale, alpha or motion, or volume to convey the
information better?
> I'm looking for a color gradient to visually denote a variable but without
> the overloading of a 'good/bad' measure to it.
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You are correct, anything that isn't building the final release meets
the definition of a prototype. Thus I find it's more practical to
have more specific terms (like mockup) to describe what I expect of a
deliverable, what it does and what it won't do. However in the case
for questions like 'can
I develop RIA and games, where I find that webpage methodologies break
down, and use several terms/tools:
Wireframe - a single screen as output by IA's, typically representing
one state at a time, a skeleton to serve as a container for available
copy and for graphic design to flush out as 'Comps'
It's all about managing expectations, by default I consider 2-3
seconds of perceived waiting max, anything longer should be choose
your own adventure (e.g. low res, high fi) and or using bandwidth
detection to autoroute.
high experience is engaging the user in a seamless narrative and or
flow stat
>But the point is that people will not try to
>automatically decode a symbolic metaphor with no motivation because they
>don't assume the same principles as they do for language metaphors.
One of my hobbies is collecting metaphors. Beats stamps ;)
Your quote relates to my biggest gripe of experim
I say skip it all, provide paths for everything, collect heatmaps,
normalize UI ruthlessly.
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suggestions to improve can be done through a similar process.
2) system parsing incoming emails to look for keywords and related to FAQ/Wiki.
3) an opt out, or 'elite' club that is only notified of novel interests
Hope that helps.
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I concur that the impact will be far larger, we are still at the
beginning and it's hard to tell what's going to happen, as the FED
keeps attempting damage control, and this isn't like anything
previous, other than the similarities in everything being
interconnected. Like in 2001...many of the com
> development takes longer, there are more issues.. and you inevitably
> end up rebuilding most of the browser functionality that you get with
> HTML for free.
No argument if you are comparing, but they are different beasts. One
of the reasons I love the Flash Platform is the ability for peopl
I am a flash expert and have played with Flex as well. I've seen
Thermo demo'd at MAX, and I look forward to seeing it help bridge the
gaps in real world workflows between Photoshoppers, Illustrators and
Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flexers.
The declaritive aspect of Flex can be faster than F
I'm putting together a free class on rapid prototyping in Flash in the
LA area. Flash can be a powerful ally, it's easily integrated with
graphics, video, images, and animation, yet I run into a large number
of IA's who don't even use it.
Here's what I'm contemplating.
- flash basics, if you use
I think we are discussing two different things.
Easing is the acceleration/deceleration applied to a transition of
fixed duration/position. When applied to scrollbars this means that is
may slowly accelerate and then slowly decelerate to the fixed scrolled
to position, giving the illusion that it
I work in a small startup and have worked in agencies in the past.
It strikes me how expensive and luxurious the process at Apple is.
Typically the design teams I'm around are tasked with coordinating a
dozen deliverables being yanked like a chewtoy from one to another, on
short timelines, and sta
Had the same issue at my client. What we settled on was a 1280
design, but all the core message/buttons had to be mostly visible
inside the ~1000x730 that's left after browser and XP chrome and
scrollbars.
We use liquid layout for the verticle when text is long to avoid
keyhole/scrolling, but k
I use interactive wireframes with varying fidelity, scaled to
prototypes. but always find that having a full sitemap/storyboard/flow
is indepensible as often getting buy in on changes is connecting the
dots between two different parts, requires the static pages serve as
the dots and the user's act
Several cool projects.
A hub for Advertiser, Content Provider, Content Consumer hooked up to
massive printers, that allowed targetted advertising and content in an
offline format. like customized TV Guides, with rich media contextual
ads. back in 1999
The predecessor to Adobe Breeze. in 2000
A
Curious if anybody has any good examples of
I've been pushing for text color to be consistent to denote 1) body
text, 2) information 3) errors. As we aren't using modals for number 2
and 3, and have opted to keep the same font.
An example application is email submission. So body text might be
1)
>But being first to the marketplace, means you designed your product
without the benefit of
> examining, critiquing and learning from existing products and the
> reactions of users to them
Not completely, Even in the most bleeding edge, there are very few
designs that aren't built out of simpler e
I'm porting some of the logic to use by flash using the wiiflash
libary if anybody is interested. Ping me
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We agree about the dangers of self-assessment, but having others
measure is just as prone to making other mistakes, in particular the
context of testing may/or may not translate into other contexts (work,
love, play, family).
Having developed personalty tests, I don't think that any 4 letter
metri
> That's not UI design - that's visual or graphic design.
It's a venn space, where these terms and people's skills are probably
pliable enough to make them general guidelines at best.
In the agencies I work with they are significant enough. When I say
the product is in "UI design" in these agenc
To be contrarian, I routinely work with UI designers who take
wireframes (from an IA/IxD) and convert them to high fidelity comps
(primarily in photoshop but sometimes in illustrator).
They are thinking I need:
1) the whole page layout to be properly blocked and centered
2) whole ui to be consist
RE: Extraverted and Introverted.
I feel these are badly defined terms, social
introversion/extroversion, introverted/extroverted thinking and
problem solving, and introspection and empathy of others are very
different, and very context dependent.
RE: MBTI
Trying to capture the vast world of human
Qualifications are IMO optional, it depends on where you get mentored
1) teachers/bosses 2) books 3) hacking. Passion combined with aptitude
will allow greatness grow, especially those diamonds that form in the
pressure of deliverables... be it self-imposed or externally.
> Since when do designers
Keep state.
Tabs, accordians should only begin again if. Explicitly cleared. Think
of the metaphor of a file cabinet that tabs are based on. IF you move
something around, does it change?
If you need to return to the beginning of a workflow there should be
something like a home button and a confirm
1) simplicity sells, a ui that is crappier functionally, but looks
'easy' is likely to sell better than a more powerful complicated ui.
2) and most people are essentially color blind when it comes to design.
3) users have no preconceived notion/expectation like you. If it works
it's good enough..
I recommend Flash or Fireworks for most mockup and prototypes. They
can be converted from paper scans, whiteboard sessions or 'high
fidelity' comps from a designer than iterated out as necessary to
mockups.
I use a statemachine library and collection of state patterns to help
'assemble' rather tha
> In mountain climbing there's the term used to describe the style of
> climbing that Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler used (climbing
> without oxygen or fixed ropes) - "Alpine Style."
And nobody outside of climbing knows what that means. So is the
benefit of the term to differentiate to experts
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