Re: [IxDA Discuss] Setting up a UX conference in Lisbon - need advice and ideas

2009-10-21 Thread Evan K . Stone
there as well, so that's really exciting too. But out of curiosity is this going to be next year's version of SHiFT, or a similar/derivative conference? Obrigado/Thanks! Evan K. Stone | interactivelogic.NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from

[IxDA Discuss] Simple iPhone Wireframe Templates for Sketching

2009-09-18 Thread evan k. stone
in case others would like them. Hope you find them helpful/useful! enjoy! evan k. stone | interactivelogic.net Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Simple iPhone Wireframe Templates for Sketching

2009-09-18 Thread Evan K . Stone
Ummm... yeah. I have seen that, and that's precisely why I did it myself. Add a three-ring punch and a binder into the mix and whammo! I have my own sketchbook with the following added benefits: 1. It's a fraction of the cost (except the time to create... but this was fun and worth it) 2. I can

[IxDA Discuss] Screen Reader for Outlook

2009-07-24 Thread evan k. stone
Hmmm... it seems as if Text-to-Speech is only natively available in Excel 2007 (not the more obvious choices, Outlook Word): http://tinyurl.com/n7wysa Does anyone know of a decent free-or-cheap Text-to-Speech add-in/plugin for Outlook? Thanks in advance! ///eks

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Slider orientation best practice

2009-05-14 Thread Evan K. Stone
on the side has preset date ranges (30/60/90 days, etc.) that expand the gap between the handles, which are also freely adjustable (with a pop-up calendar). Just throwing it out there to see if this (or something similar) would fit your needs. HTH. evan k. stone | ux | dragnet solutions, inc

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Slider orientation best practice

2009-05-14 Thread Evan K. Stone
whoops! guess I should have tinyURLed it. How about the date range slider in Quicken Online: http://tinyurl.com/quuyg9 hopefully that will be better for folks. [creates mental note for future...] ;) evan k. stone | ux | dragnet solutions, inc

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pagination best practices

2009-05-12 Thread Evan K. Stone
However, when I tried Google's 10, 20, 30, 50, 100 results preferences, it was much easier for me to scan through 10 results, didn't require as much scrolling (which is painful to people with repetitive stress injuries, fibromyalgia, arthritis, etc.), Speaking as someone with RSI problems,

[IxDA Discuss] Preview of SketchFlow prototyping in Expression Blend 3

2009-04-29 Thread Evan K. Stone
InfoQ has an article with an early preview of Expression Blend 3's SketchFlow functionality for doing prototypes in .NET: http://www.infoq.com/articles/guest-simon-sketchflow ...just in case anyone's interested. enjoy. ///eks

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Need to learn Graphic Design -- Do something aboutit!

2009-04-09 Thread Evan K. Stone
honestly, this couldn't have come at a better time for me. this is definitely one of my weaker areas, so this will help immensely! thanks dave! much appreciated! ///eks Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What music for interaction designers

2009-03-10 Thread Evan K. Stone
...I guess I'm little slow on the draw for this one. Since I dj on the side, I generally listen to my own mixes: http://www.recombinantstudios.com/dj/mixes.html The mixes are mostly minimal/tech-house, though I do have some retro-ish mixes with 80's tracks too in the archives (can't get

Re: [IxDA Discuss] iPhone Custom Application Standards andemulators for testing - reference

2009-02-04 Thread Evan K. Stone
about everything an iPhone could do (except call people), and I used it for over a year until I finally took the iPhone plunge. No regrets. Highly recommended. And no monthly fee! ;) Hope this helps! evan k. stone | ux | dragnet solutions, inc

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Musical Keyboard-Performer Interaction

2008-12-05 Thread Evan K. Stone
the other is the buttons for shaping or modifying the sound. My interest is on the second one. It has an important role on the interaction; interface gives the performer the ability of a wide range of modifications and alterations on the sound. ...at around $3000 US, it will be a long time

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Email to friend a valid feature?

2008-12-04 Thread Evan K. Stone
I use this feature A LOT, both to mail interesting articles, videos, etc. to others, and also to send things I'd like archived to myself at a gmail account. I use the feature fairly often, but almost exclusively for the latter case mentioned by Marilyn: that of emailing items of interest to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interesting interface design

2008-09-17 Thread Evan K. Stone
something that I really didn't want to do. It brings up some good questions, however. evan k. stone | ux | dragnet solutions, inc. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [Event] NYC: Streaming Video of Tap is the New Click by Dan Saffer

2008-09-17 Thread Evan K. Stone
when? now? We're going to try and stream this event live on Ustream.tv. Here's the link to watch: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/dan-saffer---%22tap-is-the-new-click%22-by -nyc-ixda Welcome to the Interaction Design Association

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Firefly

2008-09-05 Thread Evan K. Stone
darn. I thought this was going to be about the TV show... ...oh well. ;) ///eks we are looking at purchasing Firefly - wondering if anyone has any experience of this product. Feedback would be much appreciated. I'm currently waiting for the trial version.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Facial recognition authentication

2008-09-04 Thread Evan K. Stone
received by the people who tested it their functionality. That said, the fingerprint authentication seemed to work much better in their opinion. hope this helps. evan k. stone | ux | dragnet solutions, inc. .:. message.original .:. There's at least one laptop floating around there that replaces

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Mozilla Labs: Ubiquity

2008-08-27 Thread Evan K. Stone
definitely a derivative of his work on enso. interesting how close the functionality is: http://www.humanized.com/enso_demo.php makes sense, however... this would be the next logical step, being with mozilla now. ///eks -Original Message- Aza Raskin presents very intriguing

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Silverlight pattern library

2008-08-08 Thread Evan K. Stone
I remember years ago when I could simply go to the MSDN section for Common Controls and share those proto-design patterns. I'm looking for the WPF version of that. ...speaking as a developer (one of the hats I wear), I feel your pain. Unfortunately, Microsoft has seemed to have stepped aside

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Adaptive Path's Aurora ... Discuss

2008-08-06 Thread Evan K. Stone
(however yes, the repetitive strain injuries yet to be discovered are going to be fun to watch for) ...that was the first thing I thought of when I saw her using the arm device. yikes. ///eks Welcome to the Interaction Design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Adaptive Path's Aurora ... Discuss

2008-08-06 Thread Evan K. Stone
me a little aha! since I had to set it up myself (I guess it's something akin to the Haptic Pen project that was discussed a while back...). [/tangent] evan k. stone | ux | dragnet solutions, inc. Welcome

[IxDA Discuss] Success and Failure Symbolic Representations Patterns for Details

2008-08-06 Thread Evan K. Stone
across or was working on more interesting patterns for this problem. I guess I just don't want to do what's easiest for the developer (i.e. me, in this case), but rather I'd like to explore some new patterns if they exist. Thanks in advance! evan k. stone | ux | dragnet solutions, inc

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Adaptive Path's Aurora ... Discuss

2008-08-06 Thread Evan K. Stone
Go buy/borrow a modern game console and check out the various rumble and shock controllers. It really does make a significance difference in gameplay. yes, of course! I'm not a console gamer, but you're right - like the steering consoles that rumble/shake when you drive over rough terrain. I

[IxDA Discuss] Studies on aversion to ATMs for making deposits?

2008-06-26 Thread Evan K. Stone
Has anyone here heard of any studies or research that has been done to determine why many people have an aversion to making deposits at ATMs? Is it a fundamental distrust of handing money to a machine, or are there deeper issues involved? evan k. stone | sr. ux developer | dragnet solutions

Re: [IxDA Discuss] From Personal Computers to Personal InformationEnvironments: Apple's MobileMe?

2008-06-09 Thread Evan K. Stone
. It does bring up some interesting possibilities. evan k. stone | ux | dragnet solutions, inc. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Iron Man

2008-05-08 Thread Evan K. Stone
It's highly coincidental that this topic came up, since I too was greatly impressed by the user interface ideas presented in Iron Man. Immediately afterward, that's all I could think and talk about. I'm glad I'm not the only one who had that kind of reaction... [spoiler] I was intrigued with the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] iPhone 2.0 Game Over? I think not!

2008-04-30 Thread Evan K. Stone
* The 1-year anniversary of the v1 iPhone. But who really knows? It's all pretty much speculation at this point, but I sure hope it arrives soon... ;) evan k. stone | sr. ux developer | dragnet solutions, inc. Welcome

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Desktop application menus

2008-04-30 Thread Evan K. Stone
be another candidate for wrapping up a lot of functionality in a more compact package (with automatic collapsing and expanding). evan k. stone | sr. ux developer | dragnet solutions, inc. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Windows -- what would you change in interaction?

2008-04-09 Thread Evan K. Stone
in the commands and data than to try to point-and-click. Thanks for recommending these utilities, since it certainly gets me thinking in other directions with regard to projects I'm working on (or may have to work on in the future), not just Windows or OS user interaction. evan k. stone | ui