This list is for people who want to discuss issues, theories, methods, etc. about interaction design practice. http://www.howardesign.com/exp/ixd/ Custom http://www.howardesign.com/exp/ixd/index.php?post=29680 Joe Sokohl Joe Sokohl. Hi all, I'm trying to get some pricing info and other stuff for a presentation.and www.axure.com seems to have disappeared. What the f??? Anyone know anything more than "it's not there"? Best, joe Joe Sokohl joe at sokohl.com www.sokohl.com/ IM: joe at sokohl.com (MSM) +1-804-873-6964 (mobile) May 31, 2008 8:45pm http://www.howardesign.com/exp/ixd/index.php?post=29679#29679 Petra Liverani Petra Liverani. Yes, I think I point out the obvious, too. Sometimes something seems so staggeringly obvious you can't understand why no one else has thought of it. (And I kvetch.) An example of the obvious: a couple of days ago I was shown a form for traffic operators to enter messages such as "INCIDENT AHEA... May 31, 2008 7:38pm http://www.howardesign.com/exp/ixd/index.php?post=29678#29678 Jessica Enders Jessica Enders. Gosh I'm loving the way IxDA is getting input from all sorts of other fields. This forum rocks! I'm have a market research background and what you describe sounds to me like qualitative coding. If you do a search for this term, you will find heaps of references for: - software to assist the process... May 31, 2008 7:04pm http://www.howardesign.com/exp/ixd/index.php?post=29677 Christian Crumlish Christian Crumlish. Graffletopia is great. For those interested, the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library has just released a set of wireframe stencils in OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), PDF, PNG, and SVG formats (thanks to Graffle wizard Lucas Pettinati): http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/wireframes/ -xian- On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Jeff Gimzek <listserv at jdgimzek.com> wrote: > i think > > http://www.graffletopia.com > > is the only one you need. > > OG rules. you'll wonder why it tool you so long. > > jd > > > > On May 16, 2008, at 8:48 AM, Will Evans wrote: > May 31, 2008 6:30pm http://www.howardesign.com/exp/ixd/index.php?post=29676#29676 Dmitry Nekrasovski Dmitry Nekrasovski. Actually, to me it looks like it's taking a page from craigslist (with the pros and cons implicit in that comparison). It seems a bit odd that, when I search and get no results, it still flashes the "free X concert email alerts" call to action at me. Whether intentional or not, this makes... May 31, 2008 6:07pm http://www.howardesign.com/exp/ixd/index.php?post=29674 Will Evans Will Evans. A very good friend of mine designed Tourfilter - we worked together at Gather.com, and I wanted to know people's thoughts on the stripped down design - definitely taking a page from my kayak design: http://www.tourfilter.com/ -- ~ will "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" Will Evans | User Experience Architect tel +1.617.281.1281 | will at semanticfoundry.com twitter: https://twitter.com/semanticwill May 31, 2008 4:15pm http://www.howardesign.com/exp/ixd/index.php?post=29673#29673 mark schraad mark schraad. As Jeff eludes, It is a mistake to put ethnography solely in the qualitative box. Agar, Maanen and many of the other early ethnographers took meticulous counts and quantified their findings. On May 31, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Jeff Howard wrote: > They're both engaged in some pretty serious ethn... May 31, 2008 2:56pm http://www.howardesign.com/exp/ixd/index.php?post=29672#29672 Jeff Howard Jeff Howard. christine wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with "making" qualitative > research as quantitative as possible? It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. --Thoreau That being said, a couple books come to mind with examples of this type o... May 31, 2008 10:09am http://www.howardesign.com/exp/ixd/index.php?post=29668#29668 Dmitry Nekrasovski Dmitry Nekrasovski. John, In general, I would tend to agree with your argument. But, the answer you are looking for may depend on whether the scenario of the user working back from a monthly payment figure, rather than from a desired loan amount, is important. This may in turn depend on the kind of loans your client ... May 30, 2008 7:42pm http://www.howardesign.com/exp/ixd/index.php?post=29671#29671 Ken Mohnkern Ken Mohnkern. Simplify. ... May 30, 2008 7:37pm http://www.howardesign.com/exp/ixd/index.php?post=29670#29670 Paul Eisen Paul Eisen. Christine asked: > Does anyone have any experience with "making" qualitative research as quantitative as possible? I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for: Fuzzy logic is a mathematics that has been used to model imprecise values. It allows you to apply values from 0 to 1 to c... May 30, 2008 7:32pm http://www.howardesign.com/exp/ixd/index.php?post=29669#29669 christine chastain christine chastain. I'm going to give it a go.;) I mean, how much worse can it be than a time-motion study of knee replacements including all players using various surgical methods for the purpose of creating new instrumentation? I'm a glutton for punishment. Your suggestions are great! On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:02 P... May 30, 2008 7:25pm http://www.howardesign.com/exp/ixd/index.php?post=29667#29667 Christine Boese Christine Boese. Hi Christine, Yup, that sort of tagging is just like more formal methods of content analysis, such as like socio-linguists use. You might pick up one of those small paperback Sage publications that run through an overview of content analysis methods, just so you are rigorous in your tags and how yo... May 30, 2008 7:02pm http://www.howardesign.com/exp/ixd/index.php?post=29666#29666 Itamar Medeiros Itamar Medeiros. If you're talking about how to turn qualitative data into something "measureable", there are several etnography methods now that are moving in that direction. You should check out -- for example -- the "Insight Matrix", developed by Vijay Kumar and Brandon Schauer at the IIT Ins... May 30, 2008 6:45pm http://www.howardesign.com/exp/ixd/index.php?post=29664#29664 Gretchen Anderson Gretchen Anderson. Tables. Percentages. Pie Charts. I'm serious. Sometimes I refer to this as being "scientistic". I always approach research problems with a somewhat scientific framework (coding activities, keeping tallies). It's just important to be clear with yourself that the samples sizes you are deal... May 30, 2008 4:10pm http://www.howardesign.com/exp/ixd/index.php?post=29665#29665 Erica Erica. Burak Delice wrote: > is there any WEB based forum version of this mail list messages data? > because I cant't follow messages effectively via mail list system > althought i use a mail program. Hi Burak, You can indeed follow on a web version hosted by Nabble at http://www.nabble.com/ix... May 30, 2008 3:49pm http://www.howardesign.com/exp/ixd/index.php?post=29663#29663 Eugene Chen Eugene Chen. >> Seems to me that frustration and delight are measures of "enjoyability", not "usability". I think there's a difference, and that the difference is important. I agree. I would not push "usability" too far to become an umbrella term. Frankly, it's kind of a dry... May 30, 2008 3:47pm http://www.howardesign.com/exp/ixd/index.php?post=29662#29662 Jared Spool Jared Spool. On May 30, 2008, at 12:35 PM, christine chastain wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with "making" qualitative research as > quantitative as possible? This is a rather nebulous idea in my mind > for the > moment but I was thinking about something like using images from... May 30, 2008 3:30pm http://www.howardesign.com/exp/ixd/index.php?post=29661#29661 Robert Hoekman Jr Robert Hoekman Jr. > > ClearCheckbook.com is free as well. > Thanks, everyone. I think I'm looking for something that doesn't exist. Some of these apps require link-ups to my bank, which none of them have listed and can't promise support for. And so far, none of them lets me plug in current balances, pendin... May 30, 2008 3:01pm http://www.howardesign.com/exp/ixd/index.php?post=29660#29660 Gretchen Anderson Gretchen Anderson. I'll second Nancy's point. Research we've done points to a desire for more of an "Eye of Fatima" type experience. I'd also add that the etiquette of video calls is still awkward. I can tell if you are tuning out, (or more likely, am nervous that you might pick up on the fact their I'm mul... May 30, 2008 2:59pm