Re: [IxDA Discuss] iPhone prototypes in Flash?

2010-02-23 Thread John Popadiuk
Hi..Suzanne Yes we do a lot of proto work in Flash for the iPhone and now iPad. The great thing is that we can asset share (create the art) once and send along to Xcode with no changes to the .png. Also use Keynote a ton for this...as you can save out files to play on the devices easily. John

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [EVENT REMINDER] IxDA CHICAGO FEB 17th - INTERACTION10 REDUX

2010-02-14 Thread John Alton
Looks like the date for the Feb 17 INTERACTION10 Redux might be from an old post/mailing? Does the location also need a refresh? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=49308 _

Re: [IxDA Discuss] HCI Masters in the UK - City University vs. University of York

2010-02-14 Thread John Gibbard
I got both my undergrad and postgrad from York. It's an incredible University, a beautiful city and the Dept. of Psychology and the Dept. of Computer Science are both world class. I would recommend them without hesitation. In fact, I'm delighted to see they're running a pure HCI masters as mine wa

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Facebook on Google Buzz: How Well Does That Friendship Model Work?

2010-02-11 Thread John Romano
As a long time Facebook and (intermittent) Twitter user, I was completely frustrated by the lack of clear privacy settings and explicit friendships. Their algorithm to determine my friendships was far from accurate. And I have no idea what they will "recommend." On the other hand, it's like having

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Visualizing User Experience

2010-02-09 Thread John Labriola
Luke W put a few good links together: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?156 Some others I've seen floating around: http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalweb/4197767981/ http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/images/ux.jpg http://www.namahn.com/resources/poster.htm http://www.flickr.com/photos/udanium/sets

[IxDA Discuss] Interfaces Issue 81 - Design beyond boundaries - FREE to download

2010-02-02 Thread Knight, John, VF-Group
The latest issue of Interfaces is now available for FREE as pdf from the Interaction Website. Download "Design beyond boundaries" and visit the Interfaces archive at: http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/about/interfaces Interfaces Issue 81 - Design beyond boundaries includes: * 10 tips for

Re: [IxDA Discuss] History of the undo command FYI

2010-01-31 Thread John Charles Thoms
I'm amazed that someone was willing and able to track down a reference from pre-web days. :) I think the reporter said the TITLE was drab, not the ARTICLE. However, language changes so what seems "drab" today was necessarily (?) academic at the time. If only I could retitle it now . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] iPad.

2010-01-27 Thread John Yuda
Oh, and about the pornography point: there *are* porn sites using HTML5 video capabilities to serve porn to iPhones right now. I think we can assume that porn suppliers will support this device as well. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.o

Re: [IxDA Discuss] iPad.

2010-01-27 Thread John Yuda
First, a few things that I'm very excited about with this device: * The potential for apps like the demoed N.Y. Times app. BUT -- if every publisher has to develop their own version of this, I view it as a failure. I'm hoping Apple steps up here with a wrapper that independent publishers can take

Re: [IxDA Discuss] (Retaurant!) Menu Design

2010-01-25 Thread John Gibbard
thanks for promoting this URL William. John [1] http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=47809 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48604 Welc

Re: [IxDA Discuss] 1 Year Masters Course in Interaction Design

2010-01-24 Thread Bonnie John
As the former head of the Masters in HCI at Carnegie Mellon, I can attest to the intensity, but I can remind folks that you don't HAVE to do the program in one year! The classes are sequenced so you CAN do it in a year, so it fits with some industry programs that sponsor their employees to go a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Will you be at SXSW Interactive?

2010-01-15 Thread John Yuda
I mostly lurk on the list, but I'll be in town for SXSW and would definitely come to a meetup if one happens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48359 _

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Will you be at SXSW Interactive?

2010-01-15 Thread John Romano
Someone name a bar and a time! I'm in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48359 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! T

[IxDA Discuss] Extra time for London UX Workshop - Deadline Jan 15th

2010-01-07 Thread Knight, John, VF-Group
We have streamlined our reviewing process to give you more time and greater flexibility for submissions to the UX Competency Framework Workshop at BCS in February. This means that position papers as well as presentations will now be accepted and the new deadline is January 15th. Submissions shoul

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Great product blogs?

2009-12-28 Thread John Alton
Balsamiq - http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/ Excellent example of a company that provides %u2022 feature announcements via blog %u2022 complete transparency (and accountability) around the product development process (see the blog post about the premature deployment around Xmas - http://www.balsamiq.

[IxDA Discuss] Interfaces Magazine - Issue 80: HCI Remix and Redux - Download for FREE

2009-12-21 Thread John Knight
Interfaces Magazine The latest issue of Interfaces is now available for FREE as pdf from the Interaction Website Download "HCI Remix and Redux" and visit the Interfaces archive at: http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/about/interfaces Interfaces Issue 80: HCI Remix and Redux · The Interfaces Interview with D

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Marriott.com breaks the mold...

2009-12-15 Thread John Gibbard
Great spot, this is genuinely innovative for the sector and scale of their brand. Would love to hear the stories behind the design and the success/otherwise of the implementation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/

[IxDA Discuss] UX Workshop - skills, professional development and competency

2009-12-11 Thread Knight, John, VF-Group
itted to Tom McEwan, t.mce...@napier.ac.uk by 8th January 2010. Organisers Nigel Bevan Jonathan Earthy David England Tom McEwan John Knight Leslie Fountain Claire Mitchell Tony Russell-Rose Welcome to the Interaction D

[IxDA Discuss] What's your pen top?

2009-12-07 Thread John Gibbard
#x27;s get chatting, John. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://ww

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Looking for clever localization ideas

2009-11-24 Thread Daynes, John
es usability, learnability and memorability we may just bite the bullet and localize as we have in the past. Thanks for your help! John -Original Message- From: Sascha Brossmann [mailto:sascha.brossm...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 12:04 PM To: G

[IxDA Discuss] Looking for clever localization ideas

2009-11-23 Thread Daynes, John
nt where it could be dropped or bumped into hard objects * Figure a weight somewhere between 10 and 15 lbs Since it's an emergency device, we try to design out use errors as best we can. It has to be easy to use. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks, John Daynes [CONFIDENT

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Need for Portal Design Guidelines?

2009-11-19 Thread John Labriola
http://delicious.com/tag/ia_building_blocks I for one would be very interested in this subject if you need to bounce further ideas. Good luck! John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Storyboards in Balsamiq?

2009-11-13 Thread Bonnie John
Thanks, but I am not looking for the feature itself -- I know about and have used the linking feature. I am wondering if people actually USE it in practice and am looking for examples. Balsamiq makes it really easy to make static screen sketches, but I find the linking clunky and very inconsiste

[IxDA Discuss] Storyboards in Balsamiq?

2009-11-12 Thread Bonnie John
Does anybody actually use the links in Balsamiq Mockups to make storyboards that can be walked through to show the interaction of a system? I looked at all the examples in the Balsamiq Mockup gallery and they all seem to be single screens (except for one which shows a Google-like interface with

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The Perpetual Scrolling Web Pages

2009-10-22 Thread John Romano
I like the sites that give you a button at the bottom to add content on click (like Facebook). Automatic perpetual scrolling introduces several glitchy usability issues in some browsers. While using a scroll wheel works well, using the scroll bar becomes dicey. Dragging a scroll bar down on a page

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Anthropomorphic representation of service/system

2009-10-14 Thread John Gilman
It's easy to do this sort of thing badly. Even done well its value is generally transient. That said, I think some good ideas can be gleaned from Joshua Porter's slidedeck http://bokardo.com/archives/designing-for-social-traction-slide-deck/ starting at slide 78. Note, that Joshua is discussing

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Leaving Las Vegas...I mean the website site.

2009-10-02 Thread John Yuda
Personally, I tend to get really irritated when a site tries to force behavior on me like that. If I want to keep their page open and follow the link in a new window or tab, I'll do that. Otherwise, stop cluttering up my desktop. I generally try to avoid impressing my personal preference onto user

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Using behavioral targeting to customize content

2009-09-30 Thread john
ut-of-segment promotions and retention of the majority of the global navigation architecture. Best wishes, John Gibbard Senior Information Architect, Dare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from ixda.org (via i

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Unusable things

2009-09-28 Thread John Gibbard
I used to use pictures of 'real life interaction design' in my presentations to clients and colleagues to explain what it is I do. I've always used analogies to explain things and showing something broken/unusable is great. But, in order to put a positive spin on things when problems have been solv

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Are you a SXSW Interactive veteran? Heading to 2010?

2009-09-24 Thread John Yuda
I'd definitely go. You'll find some interesting panels/presentations/etc, but the big thing is meeting people and networking. Get your hotel reservations early if you want to be close to the convention center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the ne

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Non-disclosure agreements

2009-09-02 Thread John Vaughan
midate you, you might ask them if they really want to be the Goliath/BigCorporateBully figure in a "restraint of trade" suit. In my experience small entrepreneurs far likelier to be actively neurotic about their genius killer app. But that's another story... And - obviously - I&

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

2009-08-31 Thread John Yuda
The iPhone has a 99% customer satisfaction rate: http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/08/14/iphone-vs-pre-satisfaction-bakeoff/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=45220 ___

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Nintendo Wii and \"Side Effects\"

2009-08-26 Thread John Yuda
>From your own link: "Research is finding a place for stretching in improving range of motion, but has not been proven to prevent injuries or to decrease muscle soreness when done before or after exercise." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new i

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Nintendo Wii and \"Side Effects\"

2009-08-26 Thread John Yuda
You're right, Ali, it doesn't tell you to stretch -- and it shouldn't. Stretching is, at best, non-beneficial and many experts believe it is actually harmful. (one reference: http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2009/07/06/does_stretching_before_or_after_exercise_prevent_injuries_and_soreness

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Nintendo Wii and \"Side Effects\"

2009-08-25 Thread John Yuda
It sounds like not many here have a Wii, so it seems like it might be a good time for me to come in and clear a few things up: First, let's not confuse Wii Fit with Wii Sports. The tennis game you speak of is part of Wii Sports, which is more game than exercise regimen -- that said, it does remind

[IxDA Discuss] Learn how to develop more Usable Products at HCI 2009

2009-08-22 Thread John Knight
The annual British Human Computer Interaction conference (HCI 2009) is being held in Cambridge this summer for the first time in more than a decade. As part of the programme, leading user experience practitioners, consultants and educators are offering introductory and advanced tutorials on usabili

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of pre-login \"soft personalization\"?

2009-08-14 Thread John Yuda
I'm not sure if I'd call it personalization, but I've been to sites that check the browser language preferences via the HTTP header and serve different things based on that (usually just serving in the correct language, but between language preferences and IP, you can make a guess as to where the u

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Types of Faceted Search

2009-07-27 Thread John Lucas
IMO, The choice largely depends on your implementation options. From an IxD perspective I think an Ajax based implementation is definitely superior as far as speed of refresh. But it might limit your browser choices. Speaking for the static example, the same widgets in the Kayak example can be impl

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Is it time to grit my teeth and bear it?

2009-07-15 Thread Bonnie John
Alan Wexelblat wrote: (How much longer is difficult to quantify just from the paper prototypes, but my guess is that it's a few seconds more on each operation.) You could do more than guess - use predictive human performance modeling. That is, you could use your paper prototypes to do Keyst

Re: [IxDA Discuss] CONAN Design Review

2009-07-10 Thread John Labriola
Hey Amyris, Great initiative! Count me me if you still need more people. johnlabriola at gmail dot com - john . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43460

Re: [IxDA Discuss] CONAN Design Review

2009-07-09 Thread John Yuda
I'd be happy to help out with this. jpyuda at pobox dot com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43460 Welcome to the Interaction Design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Teaching IxD through design challenges: Which challenges?

2009-06-30 Thread John Wood
aring John On 29 Jun 2009, at 22:00, JD Vogt wrote: Hi John, I designed and instructed a class last Spring at Virginia Tech, "Designing UX for the Web," and it was meant to be a very hands-on sort of class. One of the assignments (mid-term) was for the students to assume that the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Teaching IxD through design challenges: Which challenges?

2009-06-29 Thread John Wood
;ll have a think about it and post again. kind regards John Hi John, Call it what you will, case-based, scenario-based or project based learning, they're great for teaching analytical and critical thinking skills using real world challenges. The key to doing this well is to carefully cons

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Teaching IxD through design challenges: Which challenges?

2009-06-29 Thread John Wood
ld you have any questions or comments. Sure, I'd be happy to talk to you off list on this. regards John Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe

[IxDA Discuss] Teaching IxD through design challenges: Which challenges?

2009-06-29 Thread John Wood
then meeting to discuss their solutions and approach and try to draw out the underlying lessons. John Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ..

[IxDA Discuss] Interfaces Issue 79: The Education Issue - FREE to download

2009-06-27 Thread John Knight
The latest issue of Interfaces is now available for FREE as pdf from the Interaction Website. Download ³The Education Issue² and visit the Interfaces archive at: http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/about/interfaces Interfaces Issue 79: The Education Issue · HCI 2009 by Alan Blackwell · Play up

[IxDA Discuss] JOB; Mobile Graphic Design; San Francisco; iSkoot; Contract 4-6 weeks

2009-06-25 Thread John Beckmann
an application. Ideally this is a visual designer with some user interaction skills as well (but not a must) Cheers, JB John Beckmann iSkoot Inc. +1 415-816-7722 (m) skypeid: johnbeckmann 539 Bryant Street, Suite 400 San Francisco, CA 94107

[IxDA Discuss] On tactile feedback, I just can't place the analogy here...

2009-06-23 Thread john
Saw this [1] and thought of all of the IxD people on here who deal with the haptic & tactile. Now, there's something analogous to nature in this particular concept but I'll leave that to you to resolve. [1] http://bit.l

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Aren't we just a little important to democracy?

2009-06-22 Thread John Chin
... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- John Chin User Experience Professional jc...@acm.org http://www.johnpchin.com ___

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction flow as subterfuge.

2009-06-21 Thread john
hical but these very real architectural paeadigms have had scant discussion on these forums. Discuss. John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from ixda.org (via iPhone) http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [Event] IxDA NYC June 18 - Design Strategy: Building Concentric Circles of Connection

2009-06-18 Thread John Labriola
Here's the stream for tonight's event Thanks to @theuxworkshop peeps! http://tr.im/oeR6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42502 Welco

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Difference between Heuristic Evaluation and Expert Review

2009-06-18 Thread Bonnie John
Heuristic evaluation has been shown to work with evaluators who _are_not_experts_. (See Nielsen's old papers.) That's a big difference between the two. However, you have to have many more non-expert evaluators to find the same number of usability problems when the evaluators are not experts in

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Recommendations for icon-designers?

2009-06-16 Thread John K .
Here's an icon designer whom I've followed on Twitter and who seems to have a good sense of design, while keen to the design issues. Louis Harboe http://www.graphicpeel.com/ http://twitter.com/spiralstairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixd

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Training

2009-06-14 Thread John Labriola
only graphic design, then they got into simple brochure-ware web design, then into Facebook applications, and now they are looking to do more. I am a ux designer, focusing mostly on IxD and I could probably help them. But I feel a company/person who does this on regular basis would be better. -

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Training

2009-06-13 Thread John Labriola
Thanks Dave. I knew you did workshops at conferences and such, but didn't know you did this too. This is actually for a friend, I'll pass the info on. Thanks! John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/di

[IxDA Discuss] Design Training

2009-06-13 Thread John Labriola
Can anyone recommend a design company that provides training or consultation for a company looking to improve their design team and process? Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ix

[IxDA Discuss] Websites that remember you

2009-06-03 Thread john
to sort out all the examples that are tier 3 examples where the cookie has simply logged you back in. Much obliged, John. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Uns

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Icon Navigation

2009-06-01 Thread John Gibbard
Correction, Ikea USED to use icons [1] but evidently have shifted away from this as the pressures on their second-tier navigation grew with an increasing amount of content. [1] http://konigi.com/interface/ikea-navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Icon Navigation

2009-06-01 Thread John Gibbard
Ikea uses them in their second-tier navigation (left nav.) I would look through the examples on PatternTap [1] and Konigi [2]. [1] http://patterntap.com/tap/collection/icons [2] http://konigi.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org ht

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Google Wave

2009-05-29 Thread John Gibbard
A guy just sent it around the office here, I'd not seen it before. A 1hr 20 min video might be a bit much but hey, I've signed-up and will watch it later. What's the basic premise/elevator pitch? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Facility for usability test in NYC?

2009-05-28 Thread John Labriola
These guys are more aligned with Market research but I have heard people who have used the more for usability type testing. The Focus Room, http://www.focusroom.com/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=4

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Undergraduate Curriculum in HCI

2009-05-19 Thread Bonnie John
To echo Dave's point, and Bill's via Dave, an undergraduate degree in HCI _only_ is probably not a good idea. To clarify CMU's program. It is not a first major -- you can't just major in HCI. It is a *second* major. A student has to have a first major in something else (Design, CS, Psychology,

[IxDA Discuss] Interfaces Magazine: Issue 80 - Celebrating People and Technology

2009-05-14 Thread John Knight
copy to John Knight by 4th July latest. Download Issue 78 of Interfaces magazine and visit the Interfaces archive at: http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/about/interfaces

Re: [IxDA Discuss] No UX Challenge 2009 at Svalbard

2009-05-11 Thread John Vaughan
Fi- faan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=41910 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... d

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Who codes your production HTML/CSS/JS?

2009-04-25 Thread John Vaughan
tp://www.jcvtcs.com/-docs/demo-site.html John Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Who codes your production HTML/CSS/JS?

2009-04-24 Thread John Labriola
I am more in line with Dave. It always depended where I was and what role I played. Sometimes there was a front-end developers for the role, sometimes a developer who did fron and back-end, and sometimes my stuff was used. But as I moved away from working on web sites to more working on applicatio

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Need for and Contents of Left Navigation

2009-04-23 Thread John Vaughan
Agree with observations re: Nix on the redundancy between top & sidebar nav links Plus on the consistency of global/topbar menu Plus on Brian's suggestion of MegaMenus. Don't know what you mean by your response - but you might want to take the technique a little further in solving your larger

[IxDA Discuss] Interfaces Issue 78

2009-04-22 Thread John Knight
Dianne Murray * Completing the Circle by Stephen Boyd Davis * Becoming simpler and smarter by Azlan Raj * Timely interfaces to the real world by Daniel Harris * Visioning workshops by John Knight * A sprinkling of usability and a dash of HCI by Janet C Read, Brendan Cassidy, Lorna McKnight

[IxDA Discuss] [JOB] Interaction Designers - Redwood City, CA and Mississauga (Toronto), Waterloo, & Ottawa, Ontario - RIM (Research In Motion) - Full Time

2009-04-19 Thread John Childs
need to send a copy of their Resume and their Portfolio of design work (as a link or as a PDF file, 2MB maximum size) to John Childs at jchi...@rim.com Sincerely, John John Childs Recruitment Sourcing Specialist Research In Motion, Ltd. jchi...@rim.com SIX OPENINGS AS FOLLOWS: >&g

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Required advice on public voting system

2009-04-14 Thread John Yuda
Shah, I think you're likely going to have a problem with people gaming the system regardless of what you do -- almost any solution can be gamed. There are a number of tactics available, each with pros and cons: 1. CAPTCHA -- you mention this. While it will help to ensure a human is voting, it wo

[IxDA Discuss] Augmented Reality: Follow-Up

2009-04-07 Thread john
has a relevance to the brand activity. It does rely on an awkward standalone app. download which we all really tried to avoid. Please do take a look if you're at all interested in the use of AR. If you don't have a webcam and just want to see a quick overview video, our demo is on YouTube [3]

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Edge Case Scenarios (was: the alignment of the practices and outcomes of IA and IxD)

2009-04-01 Thread John Yuda
I'd argue that the truly great designers are the ones who not only design for the majority, but accomodate the edge cases as well without a large impact on that majority. As to why people are arguing about IA vs. IxD vs. whatever -- well, I can't speak for anybody else but sometimes it's nice to b

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Recover username service

2009-04-01 Thread John Yuda
If you're collecting data like real name as well, you can have a user fill in some percentage of that account information on a username retrieval form, and also answer a security question or two. It's not ideal, but it's probably better than nothing. If you're *not* collecting that data, you can't

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Expandable windows

2009-03-30 Thread John Yuda
I would call it "by hitting me with a flash-only site, Sony just lost a visitor", but maybe that's just me. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40767 ___

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Command line vs. menu driven interface

2009-03-23 Thread John Vaughan
This is a bit of Ye Olde Schoole, but in '95 we were migrating a "green screen" commandline-driven online equity trading system (one of the first: Instinet) from keyboard-only entry to this newfangled, glitzy, graphical Windows interface. One of the major challenges - and a design mandate - was

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Survey Tools (pop-up type)

2009-03-23 Thread John Yuda
Be aware that you're going to see a level of selection bias in who does and doesn't complete the survey. Without knowing much about your userbase, I can't really give any specific advice to that end, but it might be helpful if you could collect a little bit of demographic information in this survey

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

2009-03-12 Thread John Gibbard
Not sure I agree that pannable interfaces like this are "not useful for retail". Retail isn't always about the purchase or acquisition task - it can be about 'immersive', exploratory interfaces too. Some more inspiration can be found at the universally useful K

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

2009-03-10 Thread John Gibbard
Ok, ok, so I was thinking more about the *concept* of 360 degree movement rather than the specific executions which - although interesting - are not particularly great. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?pos

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

2009-03-10 Thread john
, the second [2] site is a little less simplistic and I consequently doesn't work quite as nicely. More stuff like this please people.... John. [1] <http://melissahie.com/> http://melissahie.com/ [2] http://www.annekejanneke.be

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What music for interaction designers

2009-02-28 Thread John Gibbard
designers' lives it's quite useful. There are some previous threads about this in the Ixda archives which, if ibwasn't typing this on my phone, I!d include. Best wishes John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.i

Re: [IxDA Discuss] interaction via webcam

2009-02-24 Thread John Gibbard
Released today, this Toyota AR application is Mac compatible: http://snipurl.com/ck4tx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39131 Welcome

Re: [IxDA Discuss] interaction via webcam

2009-02-24 Thread John Gibbard
lst this rather sinister example [3] from Japan achieves interactivity, there is little purpose other than proof of concept ... yet. John. [1] http://ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid/#/augmented_reality [2] http://www.inition.co.uk/inition/wowlab_magicsymbol.php [3]http://www.youtube.com/watc

Re: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac

2009-02-19 Thread John M. Morse
>> Currently our UX team are PC-based and use Visio. I would like to move >> back to Mac and start using Omnigraffle again. Simple question, Why? John Morse Information Architect Professional Services Group UPA,Prince 2, ISEB IT Architect, AIIM, MBCS Eduserv innovative technol

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Blackberry Storm

2009-02-19 Thread John M. Morse
ht when it comes to the touch phone experience. John Morse Information Architect Professional Services Group UPA,Prince 2, ISEB IT Architect, AIIM, MBCS Eduserv innovative technology services john.mo...@eduserv.org.uk tel: +44 (0)1225 474395 mob: +44 (0)7500 069524 fax: +44 (0)122

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread John M. Morse
If you take the view that the simplest form of interaction is reading the written word..(tenuous?) then I'd submit Nevil Brody Personal hero of mine....;) John Morse Information Architect Professional Services Group UPA,Prince 2, ISEB IT Architect, AIIM, MBCS Eduserv innovative techn

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Terms Every IxD Should Know

2009-02-15 Thread John Vaughan
Some of my favorites: Buzzwords in Good Currency Techno-Blather Nonversation New-ance The Emperor's New Team Player Cyber-silliness Frottage It's All Geek to Me Swave Kulchah The Stench of Information - Original Message - From: "Dan Saffer" To: "IxDA Discuss" Sent: Sunday, February

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Blackberry Storm

2009-02-06 Thread John Chin
did find out about another touch screen smart phone by Samsung Omnia that improved upon the other designs by having an explicit hide button for the keyboard was well. The keyboard "buzzes" after each key press as a feedback mechanism. I have no association with sales, servicing, developme

[IxDA Discuss] FW: Separate Navigation labels and page titles

2009-01-30 Thread John Romano
wants page titles to be witty, the search engine guy wants them to help SEO, and the UX wants them to match to avoid confusion. What do you think and how important is it to you? Thanks. Regards, John Romano | Web Developer | capstrat jrom...@capstrat.com

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Site Map Design - Best Practices

2009-01-19 Thread John Gibbard
All, c.f some interesting discussion about Sitemaps as/in footers in this discussion [1] from October 2008. J. [1] http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33722&search=footer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discu

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Reverse colour text and attention blindness

2009-01-19 Thread John McCarthy
Thanks for the Apple example Den. I hadn't seen this yet. This type of slider mechanism could work well as an alternative to tabs - especially if there tabs represent some sort of continuous journey. I'd probably keep it persistent though. It disappears once you click through on the Apple site.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Reverse colour text and attention blindness

2009-01-17 Thread John McCarthy
The problem is that some users seem to completely ignore the other tabs in an in-page tab panel - even when the tab headings are clearly relevent to their task. Obviously any tab panel should have some element of foreground and background in the design but if the background is never even used th

[IxDA Discuss] Reverse colour text and attention blindness

2009-01-16 Thread John McCarthy
ctly the reason why the classic graphic design trick works. For the user this results in a kind of "tab blindness" - an effect I've seen in a number of testing sessions. Has anyone come across this observation or any design guidelines that advise against colour reversals in navig

[IxDA Discuss] Interfaces Magazine - Issue 77

2009-01-15 Thread John Knight
Interfaces Issue 77 ­ HCI and Social Networks The latest issue of Interfaces is now available as pdf from the Interaction Website and features: * Challenging HCI practice by Yvonne Rogers, Abi Sellen, Tom Rodden & Richard Harper * Exploring the Facebook experience by Jennefer Hart * ŒAll my peo

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Ux Trends to watch out for in 2009

2009-01-14 Thread john
Barbara et al. Very interesting, I'd love to take a look at USAA's Financial Strength tool ... Damn the need to a) be a customer b) be registered to see it ! (ref: https://www.usaa.com/inet/ent_utils/McStaticPages?key=advice_planning_main&w a_ref=pub_global_advice_and_planning) J. -Origina

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Default UI standards for phone keypads: Audiotex

2009-01-13 Thread John Vaughan
heir credibility on adherence to existing, cuddly - or at least familiar - forms - Original Message - From: "Phillip Hunter" To: Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 5:01 AM Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Default UI standards for phone keypads: Audiotex John, I think that mo

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Ux Trends to watch out for in 2009

2009-01-13 Thread John Gibbard
> Online Banking that doesn't frustrate! I have it on good authority that that one's going to be ticked-off this year :) J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=37096 __

[IxDA Discuss] Ux Trends to watch out for in 2009

2009-01-13 Thread john
Anyone got any ideas? I tried looking amongst the mailing lists and boards but all I really discovered was noise (Again) about the mobile interaction tipping-point, semantic will/web and gestural interfaces. Has anyone seen a good article or blog post prophesising about the year ahead? John

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Video conferencing for distributed design???

2009-01-10 Thread Bonnie John
it difficult for the far audience to get a word in edgewise unless you design in ways to pull them into the conversation. It's a learned skill, just like presenting in front of a physical crowd. You might do the math and find it's easier just to fly everyone to Portugal. :-) //

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Video conferencing for distributed design???

2009-01-09 Thread Bonnie John
I have used Skype only for (1) discussing things with a handful of people, not 50-ish people and (2) only for items that are on a computer, not hand drawn sketches up on a tack-wall. I looked at Adobe Connect Now and it also seems to b\e about sharing the computer, not large interactions among

[IxDA Discuss] Video conferencing for distributed design???

2009-01-09 Thread Bonnie John
The masters program in HCI at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA, has a joint program with the University of Madeira, Portugal and we offer a joint project class where the students are dong an extended, 8- to 12-month project. They need to present their preliminary designs simultaneo

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