Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design help

2009-02-24 Thread Maria
hi Steven, I took a fast look at the site, not bad I'd say, although it's on the road. While looking around, I was just wondering what those lines stands for... I finally think it's only a decorative motif, but it sometimes seems like the loading-up phase of a soundtrack. I expected to hear

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design help

2009-02-24 Thread Evan Meagher
Ditto to Alan's comments. The graph and the green- and yellow- highlighted statistics draw the eye and overwhelm the navigation elements. Work on increasing the contrast of the nav text and otherwise making it more prominent. Cool site, regardless. Seems pretty clean and functional. . . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design help

2009-02-24 Thread Steven Ness
Thank you Maria and Alan, those are great suggestions. A bit more about our project, I see there being two main user gropus right now. One is members of the public that are interested in whales and want to hear some whale song. Another group are scientists from around the world who want to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design help

2009-02-24 Thread Pedro Marques
What kind of task users will perform? Sharing the sound files is a good idea if other researchers help out treat the data and share their findings. Is it possible to categorize the sound files in other parameters, for example geographic location? Could we group sound files, for example sessions

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design help

2009-02-24 Thread Angel Marquez
podcast shamu! http://www.macloo.com/examples/audio_player/ http://twocanoes.com/vodcaster/ have they compared willy's dna with his song? Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ...

[IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design help

2009-02-23 Thread sness
Hi, I'm a researcher at the University of Victoria working on a huge archive of Orca (Killer Whale) song, called the Orchive (http://orchive.cs.uvic.ca). I've come up with a website, but it desperately needs interaction design help. Any suggestions for how we could make this free archive more