before us. Where will this trend of 'breeding
designers since youth' take the field as opposed to our educators who found
design after years of practicing in other disciplines?
David Farkas
Interactions Design
www.dfarkasdesign.com
@Christian, interesting that you mentioned the Target designer lines.
That was actually subject of the conversation Saturday and how,
regardless of success they helped bring design to the mainstream a
little bit more.
@Colleen, I agree wholeheartedly that a background in fields other
than design
Another basic web tool to check contrast ratios and some high level
guidelines (I use this one at work)
http://www.webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
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Posted from the new ixda.org
http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43159
I agree with all of the anti-persona comments out there. Still, I
think there are two key types of personas.
Functional Personas are what we are all discussing here, as personas
based off of research and meant to synthesize the users for driving
design decisions.
Influential Personas are what
As far as tools go, if you are looking to just put together some
screencaps of potential interfaces, Teehan lax has a nice psd
template: http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/?p=447
I adapted it to illustrator here:
http://dfarkasdesign.com/downloadfiles/iphoneelements.ai
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I personally try to avoid the term affordance due to the
misrepresentation of affordance and perceived afforadance. Mentioning
the two even though they can fill books of their own would be
benefitial. Also concepts on friction.
Actual affordance
perceived affordance
cognitive friction
fitt's law
Look into the google short code (466453). Its a free service that uses
the Google search engine for weather, movie times, addresses, etc. It
offers a simple error text when no results could be found and
reiterates the provided search criteria.
There is also 1800-555-8355, tellme, a voice
Teehan Lax has a nice exploration in the iPhone paging and
incorporates zooming in their method. It probably doesnt have much
application elsewhere but its an interesting approach:
http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/?p=818
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Posted
i'm a fan of moleskins and have been carrying around some form of
physical notebook since i was 14. numbered and catalogged, therye
great to flip through years later for reference but prove auful as
far as being any cohesive form of organization. i recently started
posted somewhat religously to a
more' link should be implemented within these two different
applications.
When is a list too long for scrolling?
When should it be broken into multiple pages?
When is it appropriate to have the category row persistent regardless of
where in the list you are?
thanks in advance,
- david
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David
The new design is on the whole too repetitive and detailed.
As to the orignal post about tabs. They complicate the what was a
once very simple interaction to view an individuals information at a
glance.
Additionally, the repetition of links in the top is too cry about.
Two Home links exist
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