[IxDA Discuss] Facebook Redesign

2010-02-09 Thread Vlad Margulis
The new Facebook design looks like one of the busiest interfaces I've seen in a while. It immediately reminded me of the Yahoo! homepage back when... well, when it was too busy. Yet somehow, the Facebook homepage makes sense, doesn't feel too overwhelming and is easily navigable and parse-able. I

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Survey design

2009-11-19 Thread vlad
Hello, To add to what Caroline said, if you have room, add a couple of control questions. These should be inserted pseudo-randomly, and should be copies of the most important questions in the survey, but with different wording. This will give you a tool to double-check the answers and make sure

[IxDA Discuss] html forms and autosaving

2009-02-18 Thread vlad
Good evening everyone! I've been asked to write a letter of recommendation on topapply.com Usually, they have very lenghty forms, as you might imagine. Mine had 5-6 textboxes, as well as other elements. I hit Save for Later and the form resets.Only the first textbox remained filled. I hit Back,

[IxDA Discuss] rss reader interaction

2008-06-15 Thread vlad
A warm hello to all! I need to design a rss aggregator for a news website. The users can search by different types of content, and we'll provide them with a set of feeds to choose from. Once they choose, we were thinking of displaying the feeds in boxes, like Netvibes.com. I wanted some opinions

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [ixda] horizontal log in fields on web apps

2008-06-03 Thread vlad
This is a very good question, and a very good point from Chauncey, thanks! I actually am working on a redesign right now... The old site featured a horizontal login form. One of my latest modifications was to switch to vertical, because ... well, horizontal forms look weird. But Chauncey, your

[IxDA Discuss] User know-how about drop-down boxes

2008-06-02 Thread vlad
Hello list :) A client of mine suggested an auto-complete field for a certain feature. He also said the following: if a user is too lazy to type (which might be true, as power users are the ones who use the keyboard - or is it?) we should also provide a classic drop-down box with all the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User know-how about drop-down boxes

2008-06-02 Thread vlad
Thank you for all the answers. Caroline said if you client thinks that 'too lazy to type' is a description of your users then maybe a bit of audience research would be a good idea. Well, when is that a bad idea? :) Katie said normally I tab through forms, and invariably the drop down menu is

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Sign-up experience

2008-03-21 Thread vlad
Jeff: right. Thanks for pointing this out. I agree. They probably do a good job blocking spam behind the doors... Your question still remains, though (how to convince skeptics), and I can't think of a better solution than some sort of disclaimer or something. Michael: so very interesting. People

[IxDA Discuss] KABK Netherlands and other IxD schools

2008-03-19 Thread vlad
Hey! I'm (still) looking for formal training in interaction/type design. I noticed the KABK in Hague has a new course titled Interaction - Media - Design. Anyone here studied/is studying at KABK or in the Netherlands? I'm interested in how things go around there in the field. Also, what other

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Deliverables and Developers

2008-03-11 Thread vlad
Hi everyone. Angel said: # 3: Be concise! Nobody wants to read a 500 page spec no matter how pretty it is. ;-) Now I have to reply to this. To be as specific as possible means to give as much detail as one would need to perfectly and thouroughly understand the problem at hand. Isn't this rule

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should web apps maintain state when moving between tabs

2008-01-25 Thread Vlad Fratila
Hello to all! Adam said: So, getting back to my question, if after drilling down within Comics I click on Artwork so I can see something there and then go back to Comics should I still see my drilled down results. I find this thing very interesting, though it is not explained that clearly.

[IxDA Discuss] Re: Need advice: the login form that did signups

2008-01-07 Thread Vlad Fratila
Hi Jared, thanks for the answer. I read your article a few days ago. I'm proud that I was aware of the keypoints from before :) Very good article. Although I chose not to do it my way, there are some things that make this case a bit interesting. you'll need a lot of explanation to (1) get the

[IxDA Discuss] Need advice: the login form that did signups

2008-01-05 Thread Vlad Fratila
that require additional data (to be presented in the 2nd step, with the captcha). Vlad Fratila *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org

Re: [IxDA Discuss] When/Where/How did you decide to be a designer?

2007-12-21 Thread Vlad Fratila
that. Vlad F On Dec 20, 2007 11:27 PM, Jeff Seager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been a little reluctant to detail my experience because I feel I'm a bit of a thorn among the roses, but it certainly fits the winding path analogy! Here ya go: [...] Didn't mean to write a manifesto, but felt some