Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA Student Organization

2010-02-09 Thread Jonathan Grossman
To everyone- Thank you for all the ideas, I'm going to start writing our constitution and work on starting the group. And for IDSA and IxDA being combined, we were considering this. However, if we split the clubs up, we would have more funding, and thus be able to host more speakers/events. Janna

[IxDA Discuss] IxDA Student Organization

2010-02-07 Thread Jonathan Grossman
Hello, I am a student at the University of Cincinnati, and am planning to start an IxDA student organization- however, I am trying to figure out what we would actually do, outside of hosting speakers and creating an IxDesign elective+curriculum, as to apply for funding as a student group, we need t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] iPad.

2010-01-27 Thread Jonathan S. Knoll
To help this discussion out, the iPad specs: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ and features: http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/ . ~ yoni On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Steve Baty wrote: > Realising that the iPhone also has an iPod app for music/etc. So I recant > my > earlier complaint about

Re: [IxDA Discuss] iPad.

2010-01-27 Thread Jonathan S. Knoll
t; Lol. > > On Jan 27, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Jonathan S. Knoll wrote: > > You think *that* is what is wrong with the name?! > > Think "feminine hygiene" and repeat the product name to yourself. > > > ~ yoni > > Jonathan S. Knoll > email: jonat...@infi

Re: [IxDA Discuss] iPad.

2010-01-27 Thread Jonathan S. Knoll
You think *that* is what is wrong with the name?! Think "feminine hygiene" and repeat the product name to yourself. ~ yoni Jonathan S. Knoll email: jonat...@infinityplusone.com web: http://infinityplusone.com/ linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanknoll twitter: @yoni On W

[IxDA Discuss] bulk sticky notes by color

2010-01-13 Thread Jonathan Abbett
Anyone know somewhere (online, preferably) that sells sticky notes by color, i.e. 100 neon green sticky notes, 250 powder blue sticky notes, etc. Thanks! Jon Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Maria T. De Monte wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn

2010-01-11 Thread Jonathan S . Knoll
This seems to happen to Ravi a lot -- and only Ravi. Perhaps Ravi has, for some reason, an aliased email address (which forwards to the discussion list) attached to his LinkedIn account? ~ yoni Jonathan S. Knoll email: jonat...@infinityplusone.com web: http://infinityplusone.com/ linkedin: http

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Arriving late in the game

2010-01-10 Thread Jonathan Abbett
ived scope. As such, we're hesitant to get into the often distracting details of a prototype test. Thanks again. On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Alan Wexelblat wrote: > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Jonathan Abbett wrote: >> Say you're brought in to do user research

[IxDA Discuss] NYCUPA presents Jared Spool at Bloomberg: Revealing Design Treasures from The Amazon: 1/19 at 6PM

2010-01-09 Thread Jonathan Cohen
Register at http://nycupa.org 1/19, Tuesday 6:00-7:00: Networking and Refreshments 7:00-7:15: Announcements 7:15-8:30: Presentation and Q&A 8:30-9:30: More Networking and Refreshments Bloomberg L.P., 731 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022 http://maps.google.com/places/us/10022/new-york/lexingt

[IxDA Discuss] Arriving late in the game

2010-01-08 Thread Jonathan Abbett
I could use a bit of advice. Say you're brought in to do user research and feature definition for a software project that's already underway (i.e. development began on day one). You have your tried-and-true process where you interview users long before you write scenarios, nevermind write code, b

[IxDA Discuss] Good news for Visio users

2009-12-31 Thread Jonathan Abbett
It's nice to see some formal recognition of our community by the Microsoft Visio Team. http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2009/12/22/wireframe-shapes-in-visio-2010.aspx Wireframe Shapes in Visio 2010 Visio has long been regarded by interaction designers and information architects as an essent

[IxDA Discuss] REQ: Suggestions for best-practices or research on single-field address forms

2009-12-21 Thread jonathan berger
Hi All, I want to replace the typical 5-field address form (Street 1, Street 2, City, State, Zip) with a single field that takes a string and sends it to google for geocoding and error-checking. Technically its a big win, and it'll greatly simplify the amount of stuff in the address form, but I'm

Re: [IxDA Discuss] are we an early indicator of economic recovery?

2009-12-18 Thread jonathan berger
> Is there an increased demand for what we do in these recent months? I buy that. > Do you think that is an indicator of a better economy coming? Not necessarily. The web sector is growing and maturing and our skills are in demand, but web-based models may be popular because they're so much more

[IxDA Discuss] Build It With Me - pairing designers with developers

2009-12-08 Thread Jonathan Abbett
I'm very excited about this: http://builditwith.me/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/08/build-it-with-me/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29 -Jon Welcome to the Interaction Desig

[IxDA Discuss] Thoughts after IxDA Boston demo of Litl

2009-12-07 Thread Jonathan Abbett
I just posted some of my thoughts about the Litl, after seeing it at last week's IxDA Boston meeting. http://abbett.org/post/litl-it-thinks-it-can Long story short: I think we were all surprised to hear what sounded like their utter disregard for (or ignorance of) the user research process. Best

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability & users with mental health issues and disorders

2009-12-02 Thread jonathan
Charles, nomenclature used in hospitals is often unclear even to people without mental or cognitive disabilities. My colleagues at ID/Lab conducted research in an Australian hospital where they found that many terms used were extremely ambiguous to hospital visitors. See: http://blog.idlab.com.au/2

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Question on brainstorming personas

2009-11-24 Thread Jonathan Abbett
Paul is right on. In the middle of a big project this year, our client came to us with another piece of software they were working on, but were having a hard time get off the ground. They asked us to "do interaction design" to it, but there was no budget or time for research. What did we do? We

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Work in groups or as individuals in your IxD work

2009-11-17 Thread Jonathan Abbett
Dave-- I think it's great that you're asking this question. A lot depends on where you work. Especially in small entrepreneurial teams or in larger organizations that are new to interaction design, it's rare for group design work to occur since there's only one designer. As my team's only IxD --

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] National Design Week in NYC is October 18-24, Objectified Film screenings & The Biz of Design w/ Bill Moggridge (FREE), who\'s in?

2009-10-20 Thread Jonathan Abbett
It's upsetting that the National Design Week website has such a terrible event listing design: http://www.nationaldesignawards.org/2009/nationaldesignweek You have to click your city on a tiny US map... try distinguishing between the Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut cities. A simple l

Re: [IxDA Discuss] To spec or not to spec?

2009-10-16 Thread jonathan berger
> I can’t think of a good reason not to spec. Can you? Its important to plan ahead, but specs are artifacts which can easily diverge from reality as code gets written. Agile processes eschew specs, instead favoring the following: - Individuals and interactions over processes and tools - Working s

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Twitter mashups / aggregators

2009-10-13 Thread Jonathan Abbett
I appreciate the suggestions. Unfortunately, my challenge is not with finding a Twitter client to manage multiple users, it's with aggregating the information in a way that I can integrate with a blog. Last night, I busted out my PHP skills and came up with a couple concepts. The first is a page

[IxDA Discuss] Twitter mashups / aggregators

2009-10-12 Thread Jonathan Abbett
ow if there are any software packages or online services out there that already do this kind of integration/aggregation, or if anyone's seen good examples of custom integrations on the web that could be emulated or improved upon in a from-scratch implementatio

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Define a functional spec

2009-10-08 Thread Jonathan Abbett
It sounds like a useful analogy, but it's incomplete. I imagine that an architect knows both how inhabitants interact with a building and how the component parts of the building come together (steel, wood, nails, etc.). Also, an architect still will need an HVAC engineer, a landscape architect, a

[IxDA Discuss] 10/20, 6-8PM: Twitter\'s Mobile UX Designer - Leland Rechis - will talk UX at 45 Main St in BK. Near A, C, F, 2, 3. Register at http://nycupa.org

2009-10-07 Thread Jonathan Cohen
As mobile applications, or "apps", proliferate in App Stores everywhere, most people focus directly on the app itself. But let's take a step back and look at the environments in which these apps live. How do we effectively design a service that offers not just apps, but SMS, mobile web, HTML5, and

[IxDA Discuss] [JOB] User Experience Lead - New York City - Intent Media - Full-time or 6-12 months contract

2009-10-01 Thread Jonathan Taqqu
User Experience Lead Intent Media stands at the cross-roads of online advertising and e-commerce. We are solving long-standing problems facing online merchants and direct marketers by building a unique technology solution with many interesting challenges to overcome. Intent Media is expanding its

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UX'ers on Twitter?

2009-09-27 Thread Jonathan S. Knoll
An admirable list like this has already been created by Elizabeth Buie: http://www.luminanze.com/blog/2009/07/user-experience-tweeps.html ~ yoni Jonathan S. Knoll email: jonat...@infinityplusone.com web: http://infinityplusone.com/ linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanknoll twitter

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

2009-09-25 Thread jonathan berger
I'm a fan of SxSW. Heading back for my third year, and its always been stimulating, good networking, educational, and fun. Its also incredibly intense and I always feel like a zombie by the last day. A few tips: - Accept that you won't be able to do everything you want to do, and don't stress out

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Microsoft Courier ...

2009-09-23 Thread Jonathan Abbett
That reminds me -- I have to plug in my iPod. Thanks! ;) On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 6:42 AM, pauric wrote: > Jack: "Dang! I was going to slam you down with a reference to the > Panasonic Toughbook. ;-) > > Best, Jack " > > Just goes to show how out of touch I am, pun intended (o; > > As a general a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Google Fast Flip

2009-09-17 Thread Jonathan Cohen
Hey Bailey - Did you click on one of the thumbnails yet? You can cycle through full page thumbnails (oxymoron), one at a time. Here's wishing for a version -- larger thumbnails, fewer categories -- that merges the best of both. On Sep 17, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Bailey Steinfadt wrote: The firs

[IxDA Discuss] Google Fast Flip

2009-09-16 Thread Jonathan Cohen
"Fast Flip is a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles. Like a print magazine, Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top publishers." http://googleblog.blogsp

[IxDA Discuss] Site-mapping visualization tools (to be run locally)

2009-09-14 Thread jonathan berger
Hi Gang, I've got a big sprawling site that I'd like to crawl and render as a visual sitemap so I can get a better handle on some of the IA concerns. I'd been doing it by hand on earlier versions, but its just gotten too big. Can anyone recommend software that will do this automatically? Preferab

Re: [IxDA Discuss] "Way Out" vs "Exit" - Signage usability and passenger experience

2009-09-13 Thread jonathan
At times I think our passion clouds our judgement and impacts our professionalism. Through this thread there seem to be a number of incorrect assertions that I find a bit alarming. Are we an opinions-based community? Is "Exit" an international standard? Clearly not, from what people have said o

[IxDA Discuss] September 15: NYC UPA event at Razorfish - Bryan Hamilton presents The Razorfish Transformation of Billboard.com

2009-09-08 Thread Jonathan Cohen
Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM (presentation 6:45-8:00) Razorfish, 1440 Broadway, between 40th and 41st Streets, New York, NY 10018 http://is.gd/2JBlG (g’maps) NYC UPA invites you to meet Razorfish User Experience Lead Bryan Hamilton as he shares both the process and the results

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Aside from research, what do you do to relate better to users?

2009-09-04 Thread jonathan berger
Try learning dvorak (an alternative to the QWERTY keyboard layout.) If you want frustration, there ain't nothing better than messing with the connection from your brain to your keyboard. (Worth it in the end though.) On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Jerome Ryckborst wrote: > I'm a PC regular who

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Identity Design and Eye Tracking

2009-09-03 Thread jonathan
Doesn't have to be expensive. Is anyone using and finding serious downfalls with Silverback. http://prettyusable.net/2009/08/silverback-guerrilla-usabality-testing-review I haven't had a chance to try it out myself, but it seems appropriate for a range of projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UX Team Collaboration

2009-09-01 Thread Jonathan Abbett
Try Dropbox -- for small groups, their folder sharing works pretty well. Automatically syncs, accessible over the web, keeps historical versions. http://www.getdropbox.com/ -Jon On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Tom Daly wrote: > I've suddenly found my team grow from one to three and it's clear

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How do you make sure your design gets implemented right?

2009-08-25 Thread Jonathan Abbett
In addition to doing the design in my group, I'm also responsible for most of the HTML/CSS -- so I'll know immediately if something's not implemented to spec. But that fundamental designer-developer chasm remains. We've developed a technology called Clickframes that lets me spec out our web apps

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Visio and InDesign compatibility?

2009-08-13 Thread Jonathan Abbett
#x27;ve done some beta testing, and it's a welcome improvement. Get it as soon as you can. On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Jonathan Cohen wrote: > @druid %u2013 thanks, have you tried exporting your doc as a visio xml > drawing? > > @maurice, @david %u2013 no dice %u2013 visio doesn%

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Visio and InDesign compatibility?

2009-08-13 Thread Jonathan Cohen
@druid %u2013 thanks, have you tried exporting your doc as a visio xml drawing? @maurice, @david %u2013 no dice %u2013 visio doesn%u2019t like pdfs. Tried all the format options and nothing worked. Thanks though. @stevenitz %u2013 can%u2019t use a mac at work. =( wish I could though, apps like c

[IxDA Discuss] Visio and InDesign compatibility?

2009-08-11 Thread Jonathan Cohen
Hi all- I just started working at a firm that uses Visio as its standard wireframe tool. I also have InDesign on my machine and would prefer to use this instead. (personally, omnigraffle fan here, but I'm required to use Windows) Searches for related keywords, an IxDA discussion search, and anoth

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Greyed background for popups

2009-08-10 Thread jonathan berger
> Can anyone tell me where the convention of greying the background page > when showing a popup window came from? It's generally called "lightbox"ing, you might want to search on that term. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightbox_(JavaScript) On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:18 AM, William Hudson wrote:

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

2009-07-31 Thread jonathan berger
> > 3. How do people feel about these headers? Are they helpful or intrusive? Some people feel VERY strongly that this technique fundamentally rots the web by introducing new and bad URLs for content. There was a big row about this technique this spring. Gruber led the charge, but its worth pokin

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Blogger Conor Friedersdorf disses persona use in car design

2009-07-23 Thread Jonathan Abbett
Reading a post like this makes me especially annoyed that Sullivan's blog prohibits comments! (Can you really call it a blog if it doesn't allow commenting?) On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Jim Drew wrote: > >From the New York Times: > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/automobiles/19design.ht

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Who uses Icon View with a file browser?

2009-07-21 Thread jonathan berger
Personally, I use icon view as a quick & dirty image preview. In the Mac OS finder, command-1, -2, -3, and -4 map to icon, list, column and coverflow views—once your fingers learn the quick switch, there's no One Best View, you just use whatever's most suited to a given task. Icon view is useful fo

Re: [IxDA Discuss] City experience

2009-07-21 Thread jonathan
Hi Rob, Your first post sounded like you are pitching for work, but now you come across as a concerned citizen. Specifically to your last post, I'd check what standards they are referring to. Standards bodies aren't always well funded and therefore aren't able to update standards as regularly. T

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designer turned Entrepreneur

2009-07-19 Thread jonathan berger
My company (marketpublique.com) is founded by three designers. Advantages: we get the web, we get design, and we can handle some of the development & technical stuff ourselves. Disadvantages: all the business stuff is REALLY aggravating scutwork, and the three of us became designers to avoid that

Re: [IxDA Discuss] CONAN Design Review

2009-07-08 Thread Jonathan S. Knoll
It's not the the e-mail that's an issue, it's how it is displayed on the listserv web page: http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=43460 This said, I would agree that most could just say, "yes," as long as they are willing to have their listserv e-mail address used. ~ yoni

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Looking for data to refute crazy client

2009-07-02 Thread jonathan berger
This is a TERRIBLE idea. A mildly sophisticated user—say, someone who knows how to plug in a printer, or use the "print preview"—can wreck havoc. There's some great security stuff at Schneier's blog: http://www.schneier.com/blog/ On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:47 AM, Matthew Green wrote: > Hello, > >

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Radio buttons - null option

2009-06-21 Thread Jonathan Abbett
Personal crusade of mine, actually. You didn't explicitly say you're working on a web application, but assuming you are, the W3C provides these instructions... http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#radio Radio buttons are like checkboxes except that when several share the same control

Re: [IxDA Discuss] New release of GUI Design Studio

2009-06-06 Thread Jonathan Attias
ser interfaces for Windows desktop applications, which do still make up the vast majority of desktop business applications (obviously, Macs are used a lot for platform-independent graphics and Web designs). Jonathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] New release of GUI Design Studio

2009-06-06 Thread Jonathan Attias
No offense, but your app doesn't seem to do anything Powerpoint doesn't do? And the Olive XP style for screenshots? A bit Fugly. It's all arrows. What sets this app apart? What makes it remarkable? No offence taken! Although you can use PowerPoint to design UIs, and I've seen it done, it's an in

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] NYCUPA hosts Mary M. Michaels presenting \"The ROI of Usability\" on Tuesday 6/16

2009-06-06 Thread Jonathan Cohen
The ROI of Usability: How to Demonstrate the Value of User-Centered Design Within Your Organization http://nycupa.org A presentation by Mary M. Michaels of Human Factors International Tuesday, June 16, 2009 6:30–8:30 p.m. Doors open at 6:00. Please arrive early. JP Morgan Chase, 277 Park Ave. (b

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] NYCUPA hosts Mary M. Michaels presenting \"The ROI of Usability\" on Tuesday 6/16

2009-06-01 Thread Jonathan Cohen
The ROI of Usability: How to Demonstrate the Value of User-Centered Design Within Your Organization [http://nycupa.org] A presentation by Mary M. Michaels of Human Factors International Tuesday, June 16, 2009 6:30–8:30 p.m. Doors open at 6:00. Please arrive early. JP Morgan Chase, 277 Park Ave. (

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [Conan Team to IXDA members]: Paying job posts to fund IXDA activities&other issues

2009-05-19 Thread Jonathan
At this point, we need to do whatever we can to increase the number of practicing Interaction Designers. Providing free contact between employers and seekers helps this effort. Job posters, if they have that kind of budget, will likely be posting to sites like Coroflot anyway. . . . . . . . .

[IxDA Discuss] Pagination best practices

2009-05-11 Thread Jonathan Abbett
load, but there's no technical reason why we can't show the user 100+ items per page. Is it easier for the user to click "next" 10 times, rather than scroll down a long list? Thanks in advance, Jonathan Welcom

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How long should a beta be?

2009-05-05 Thread Jonathan S. Knoll
Judging by your webmail provider, five years. minimum. ~ yoni Jonathan S. Knoll email: jonat...@infinityplusone.com web: http://infinityplusone.com/ linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanknoll twitter: @yoni Welcome to the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What is a mobile phone called in your country?

2009-05-05 Thread Jonathan S. Knoll
egun to overtake "pelephone" in everyday conversation. This is particularly fascinating because Pelephone was actually the first/dominant mobile company in Israel, and it appears the "Kleenex-effect" is now wearing off. ~ yoni Jonathan S. Knoll email: jonat...@infinit

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Diagraming social networks

2009-04-29 Thread Jonathan S. Knoll
Have you looked at Erin Malone & Christian Crumlish's Social Patterns wiki? http://designingsocialinterfaces.com/patterns.wiki/index.php Perhaps a little in-the-guts for what you're thinking about, but a great resource. ~ yoni Jonathan S. Knoll email: jonat...@infinityplusone

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

2009-04-24 Thread Jonathan S. Knoll
ralist is often scoffed at by development team managers in other places I've lived (including New York, and particularly at agencies). (On the other hand, it usually ends up earning generalists the respect of both fellow team members, as well as leaders of other teams. Go figure.) ~ yoni Jonathan S

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

2009-04-24 Thread Jonathan S. Knoll
en then it's a total crap-shoot. ~ yoni Jonathan S. Knoll email: jonat...@infinityplusone.com web: http://infinityplusone.com/ linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanknoll twitter: @yoni On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Richard Dalton wrote: > Who codes your production quality

[IxDA Discuss] Certification for usable health software?

2009-04-21 Thread Jonathan Abbett
David Blumenthal (the new National Coordinator for Health IT) and Mark Leavitt (the chair of their certification commission) are suggesting in today's Wall Street Journal that user experience be included in the certification criteria for electronic health records (EHRs) that will be eligible for $1

[IxDA Discuss] Free copies of "Project Guide to UX Design"

2009-04-13 Thread Jonathan Abbett
Sign up for a 10-day trial of Safari Books Online, and get a free copy of A Project Guide to UX Design by Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler. http://www.peachpit.com/promotions/promotion.aspx?promo=136966 NB: credit card required -- you'll be charged if subscription not canceled before the trial end

Re: [IxDA Discuss] I'm designing in Visio for the last time

2009-04-06 Thread Jonathan Abbett
to costly Adobe products.) Given the ease of Visio's page model, the great set of wireframing stencils I use, and the nice set of macros from welie.com I've just adopted, I think I'll be sticking with Visio and keeping my fingers crossed that MS's next version will finally upgr

Re: [IxDA Discuss] roles within a start up

2009-03-30 Thread Jonathan Abbett
>   - Chef. Handles all other (random) tasks to keep team functioning. I actually do provide all our corporate catering (kosher, too). Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.or

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Portfolio review resources

2009-03-25 Thread Jonathan Warner
David: Jon Kolko can hook you up with the mentorship program initiative; he's a member of IxDA. It's in relatively early stages, but they likely need more help! Thanks, Elisabeth, for your comments and time.

[IxDA Discuss] IxD Portfolio review resources

2009-03-25 Thread Jonathan Warner
lash portfolios. I must say that I don't understand; it's a perfect platform for interactivity and to present a wide variety of previous work in differing formats. What do you all think? - Jonathan P.S. Though this post is a sincere quest for more formal portfolio review resources,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The Save Icon "rut"

2009-03-19 Thread Jonathan Abbett
In the version control universe, you would "tag" your file(s) to identify a particular snapshot of your work (e.g. "version 1.1") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control#Baselines.2C_labels.2C_and_tags On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Coryndon Luxmoore wrote: > Strictly speaking save as

[IxDA Discuss] Examples of Cooper-style "requirements"?

2009-03-10 Thread Jonathan Abbett
Our team has just developed an extensive set of context scenarios, describing how our personas will interact at a high level with the web application we intend to develop. About Face spends barely 1.5 pages talking about extracting requirements ("the personas' needs") from scenarios. I get the ba

[IxDA Discuss] Your First UX / ID Job -- Q from the HCI Class of \'09.

2009-03-08 Thread Jonathan Cohen
Hello world, HCI grad student here. As my fellow students and I near graduation and explore all the different kinds of opportunities out there, it would be extremely helpful to learn about your entry-level interaction design experience. What was your first ID job? Generally speaking, is there

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA Infrastructure Initiative: Survey results

2009-03-03 Thread Jonathan Abbett
is becomes a members-only resource, to serve as another great benefit of joining IxDA?) -Jonathan On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Elizabeth Bacon wrote: > Hi folks, > > I want also to publicly thank IxDA Conan team members Amanda and also > Maria de Monte who put a lot of effort into cr

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Sources for Touch Interaction Information

2009-03-02 Thread jonathan brill
I would second Mark's recommendations. Dan Saffer's Designing Gestural Interfaces is also a great resource. We have a large number of demos, lessons and reviews of touch interaction posted at www.pointanddo.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from

[IxDA Discuss] Embeddable fonts for PowerPoint

2009-02-19 Thread Jonathan Abbett
how.) Is anyone aware of online font search tools that filter based on the embeddability afforded by a font's license? Has anyone had positive experiences embedding respectable fonts in PowerPoint? Thanks, Jonathan Wel

Re: [IxDA Discuss] ADVICE: Is the UX Intensive right for me?

2009-02-11 Thread Jonathan Abbett
I come from a web design/software development background -- the design research and design strategy were the two most useful days for me. Really eye-opening, and full of practical examples and opportunities to try things out in a group setting. The IxD day was also fun... learned great ways to get

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Open source user experience

2009-02-11 Thread Jonathan Abbett
We should also think about open-source design apart from open-source development. Just as developers come up with neat ideas, build something, and put it out there for others to download and use, there's no reason why some thoughtful designers can't iterate over a great product idea and publish th

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Open source user experience

2009-02-10 Thread Jonathan Abbett
do we set up the infrastructure for OSS design collaboration? What's the SourceForge or Google Code for designers? I imagine IxDA Labs could take a hybrid approach... weave together a wiki, knowledge management tools, digital whiteboarding... Please count me in :) -Jonathan On Tue, Feb 1

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Research: Three user groups, five hours. What would you do?

2009-02-03 Thread Jonathan Abbett
> What you're describing is poor note taking practice. It takes no skills to > do a crappy job at anything you put your mind to. (Damn. I say this so often > that I've decided to call it Spool's First Law of Competency.) Can you recommend any resources on how to take notes well during an interview

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Research: Three user groups, five hours. What would you do?

2009-02-03 Thread Jonathan Abbett
I like the approach of double-teaming each interview. One person facilitates -- maintains eye contact, asks questions, nods, actually listens to the conversation. The other takes notes and keeps track of which research questions have been covered. We digitally record the interview as well, which

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Selenium (or similar) for Usability Testing?

2009-01-28 Thread Jonathan Abbett
Selenium really helps me in my work -- it eliminates a lot of the tedium that gets in the way of usability testing. For example, I can write a script that will register a new account, login, and navigate to a particular section. This is very helpful when our applications are being redeployed freq

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Microsoft Surface and Windows 7

2009-01-17 Thread Jonathan Brill
I worked with the Surface team and post an almost daily bit on designing for Surface and multi-touch at: http://www.pointanddo.com Also, buy Dan Saffer's book. It provides a nice overview of UX issues in multi-touch, physical computing and context aware computing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Voting system design

2008-12-09 Thread Jonathan Abbett
A colleague of mine, Ben Adida, wrote his PhD thesis at MIT about cryptographic voting systems. He has an online voting system that's freely available at http://www.heliosvoting.org/ He also writes on the topic extensively-- http://benlog.com/articles/category/voting/ and http://ben.adida.net/res

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Is Auto-Scrolling Good?

2008-12-01 Thread Jonathan Abbett
-- look at the whole sheet when doing major reorganization, then get in close to carefully position. Would work well in a Visio/Photoshop/Illustrator-type situation, with a well-defined canvas... less so with the Thunderbird folder organization example. -Jonathan On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:24

[IxDA Discuss] Retain "obvious" instructions?

2008-11-24 Thread Jonathan Abbett
I've been working on a redesign of the web-based user interface for a personal health record platform, and I began to wonder -- do I need to retain the one-line instruction that seems to be on the top of every major data listing (medications, lab tests, immunizations, etc.): "Click any item

Re: [IxDA Discuss] My new webpage

2008-11-20 Thread Jonathan Sutcliffe
Ricardo -- It's pretty, but you might want to work on accessibility. My screen reader outputs this: "Ricardo Paganelli Art Design. Table with six columns and forty-four rows. Table end" for the entire page. On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Nicole Couto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ricardo! > >

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Finally! My Prayers Will Be Answered. In 3 years.

2008-10-10 Thread Jonathan Abbett
asing) portion of the people I know use it? Compare with Classmates.com -- you have to pay for their useful features, and hardly anyone I know uses it beyond a curious/casual initial sign-up. -Jonathan On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:08 PM, mark schraad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's to l

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Online grocery shopping

2008-10-07 Thread Jonathan Abbett
I agree with the FreshDirect recommendation-- as someone with access only to Peapod online groceries, I'm very envious of their user experience (and product variety). -Jon On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lee > > Another site I'd recommend you take a look at

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Research on opening links in new windows?

2008-09-27 Thread Jonathan Abbett
CONTENT-TECHS/#tech-avoid-pop-ups I'm generally hesitant to let the lowest common denominator (i.e. text-based browsers) dictate how I implement a web site, but hewing to the standard might be wise. Looking forward to some hard evidence ;) -Jonathan On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Rober

Re: [IxDA Discuss] right hand vertical menus

2008-09-18 Thread Jonathan Abbett
You ought to have a great reason to violate a convention like top/left navigation. What's your motivation? -Jonathan On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:11 AM, Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > do people have any opinions on these? > > i know left hand is normal, and i unde

Re: [IxDA Discuss] "Confirm password" field - Superfluous?

2008-07-14 Thread Jonathan Abbett
I believe there's more to password masking than protecting against an onlooker. The HTML password field is handled uniquely by your browser: after you submit the form, any return visits to the page using the back button will clear out the password field. A regular text field, however, will have i

Re: [IxDA Discuss] When is a hyperlink NOT?

2008-07-13 Thread Jonathan Abbett
Sometimes I like to e-mail offending websites as an unassuming user-off-the-street and ask the dumb question -- why doesn't your website work the way I expect it to? If these sites get enough negative feedback, it's like free user research, right? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/admin/help/p

Re: [IxDA Discuss] "Confirm password" field - Superfluous?

2008-07-10 Thread Jonathan Abbett
I think the terminology you use is confusing two separate concepts out there. First is the "password hint." This is typically a phrase that will jog one's memory of one's actual password, like "my first dog's name with a hyphen in the middle." Second is a "secret question and answer." This is t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Redesigning the milk jug

2008-06-30 Thread Jonathan Abbett
> Yes, but this isn't the sort of change we should be managing. We should be > accommodating human behavior rather than changing it. People don't like to > change the basic, simple everyday things that they do. There must be a point at which we say that the experience isn't the problem, but the ve

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Anyone worked with XForms

2008-06-30 Thread jonathan d p ferguson
hi On Jun 20, 2008, at 2:53 PM, Adam Connor wrote: Anyone worked with XForms, or even better Lotus Forms for creating XForms? Anything to be aware of? Major obstacles in terms of UX? Funny you should ask. I just read up on XForms and Lotus Forms (formerly IBM Workplace Forms) formerly kno

[IxDA Discuss] [Off-topic] Alarm Clock Recommendations

2008-06-20 Thread Jonathan Abbett
There was a list discussion a couple years ago about alarm clocks... http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=5934 ...and it made me wonder-- what do usability-sensitive people use for alarm clocks? I'm at a point where I'm ready to buy the last alarm clock I'll ever need, so for argument's sake, le

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Importance of Masters Degree for IxD Professionals

2008-06-20 Thread Jonathan Abbett
I have a CS degree, a family, and roughly the same amount of experience, mostly in UI implementation (with ad hoc design) rather than hardcore IxD. I do a lot of reading, and I'm subjecting my coworkers to a design process as I flesh it out and test it. I took a look at the Cooper IxD Practicum, a

[IxDA Discuss] JOB: Sr. Information Architect/Interaction Designer: Philadelphia-Area: Empathy Lab: Full-time and Contract Available

2008-06-12 Thread Jonathan Lupo
, research plans, etc) to Natalia Framil, Director of Information Architecture, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jonathan Lupo VP / Information Architecture | Empathy Lab http://www.empathylab.com/> O: 484.382.1313 | M: 215.870.3317 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What do you call this?

2008-05-29 Thread Jonathan Abbett
pies along the way, I use enterprise wiki software to build my "clickframes" so all changes are tracked automatically. (Granted, they're page-by-page histories, so you can't easily revert the entire site to a particular point in time...) -Jonathan On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Kati

[IxDA Discuss] Open format between Visio and Omnigraffle?

2008-05-19 Thread Jonathan Abbett
ur efforts? Alternatively, are there simple converters between the two formats? -Jonathan Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubs

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IRC for IXDA?

2008-05-15 Thread Jonathan McGee
27;d love to help out the IxDA community however I can. Cheers, Jonathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=28908 Welcome to the Intera

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Iron Man

2008-05-12 Thread jonathan d p ferguson
hi. Cool discussion! Following the comments of Bruce Bethke's "The Secret Symbiosis: the HGG and its impact on real computer science," ideas in science fiction often motivate real scientists and vice-versa. Maybe Hollywood Movie UI's are a very expensive way of wire-framing. ;) I offer a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How to design a useful FAQs page?

2008-04-11 Thread Abbett, Jonathan
> The first 80 percent of customer calls can be eliminated if you know > what your customers want to know. The next 80 percent can be > eliminated with the FAQ. The next 80 percent can be reduced if you > repeat the most frequent answers just next to the phone number. You're bound to see results w

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