IxDA Topics

Axure Site Down?

Joe Sokohl — May 31, 2008 8:45pm

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)

Thoughts on Tourfilter

Will Evans — May 31, 2008 4:15pm

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

qualitative and quantitative research

Christine Boese — May 30, 2008 11:30am

Christine Boese. Generally (and forgive me if you are already familiar with these methods) the way to go is with methods of content analysis such as sociolinguists use. I always used to think part of the beauty of Q-sort methods is that they have wonderful open-ended approaches, yet the data can be crunched. But this is an area where invention and inventiveness could really push on boundaries of what is possible. The problem is, most researchers tend to have either a quantitative or qualitative bias. Multi-modal stuff is interesting, tho! Triangulate! My own issues with sociolinguistic-style content analysis

NYC Thanks Andrew Green, Avenue A | Razorfish, and Event Attendees

MJ Broadbent — May 30, 2008 10:41am

MJ Broadbent. NYC IxDA would like to thank everyone who came out last night to hear the ever-humorous-but-always-polite Andrew Green give a great talk about sculpture, convenience, creativity, context, cats, why the napkin sketch isn't enough, and What's in Yr Gut -- complete with dual- screen projection! Kudos to Mary-Lynne Williams and Avenue A | Razorfish for being a superb host. The AA-RF on-site team made the evening truly effortless for local IxDA organizers Nasir Barday, Faith Bollinger, Eduardo Ortiz, and Peter March (our RSVP guru). ~ ~ UPCOMING EVENTS ~ ~ JUNE 16 (Monday) David Arm

Loan Calculator

John Gibbard — May 30, 2008 10:29am

John Gibbard. Scenario: A loan calculator (for amounts under $50,000 / £25,000) Option A: Two sliders (with associated input fields) one for total amount, second for duration. Moving the sliders affects a results panel which shows amount repayable per month & total cost of loan. Option B: Three sliders, as option A but this time also including a 'monthly amount' slider. Moving 'amount' and 'duration' moves the 'monthly amount' automatically. User can also move the 'monthly amount' slider to affect the total amount slider. I don't agree with option B, I think it is over complicating the calculati

[JOB] Content Strategist - NYC - Recruiter - Freelance (3mo)

Rochelle Rubin — May 30, 2008 9:38am

Rochelle Rubin. Hi all- Global Interactive Marketing Agency is in need of a freelance Internet Content Strategist. Familiarity with Financial Services is a plus. Role Description: Begin thinking about tagging strategies that will support customization and personalization Understand the lay of the land in terms existing content on the site of a large financial institution and other public properties under consideration and make recommendations regarding integration and content gaps. Messaging strategy (i.e. for range of prioritized audiences) Start Date 6/23/08 End

Why haven't video calls taken off

Alexander Baxevanis — May 30, 2008 6:23am

Alexander Baxevanis. Because it's a greedy mobile interface: http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/05/21/greedy-mobile-interfaces/ On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Sachendra Yadav wrote: > It was supposed to be the next big thing but it fizzled out like MMS > > An important thing to note is you would have to use the speakerphone > to do video calls (unless you're always on BT headset or handsfree, > which is not true for an overwhelming majority of people) and this > compromises privacy in a big way…no one wants people nearby snooping > in on their conve

Last Dates – Weekend Workshop on Usability Testing for GUI, Web and Mobile

rohit k — May 30, 2008 3:31am

rohit k. Dear Friends, Design Incubator's Weekend Workshop (for Professionals) on *Module UCD 04 - Usability Testing and Design Inspection Methods *has important dates coming up- URL: www.designincubator.com/training_current.htm Workshop dates are 28th Jun '08 (Sat), 29th Jun '08 (Sun), 5th July '08 (Sat), 6th July '08 (Sun) Full Fees for this module are 14,000 INR * (inclusive of taxes). Last Date for registration is 25th June '08. Early Bird Fees for this Module are 12,000 INR * (inclusive of taxes). Last date to avail this offer is 11th June '08 -- regards, Rohit Keluskar Desi

CREATE 2008 in London

Tiago Marques — May 30, 2008 1:59am

Tiago Marques. Hello fellow Designers, I received this notification about a conference taking place in London and thought of sharing the info with you. CREATE 200824-25 June 2008, British Computer Society, Covent Garden, Londonhttp://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/idc/create2008/ A parallel question: I know that the life cost in London is really high, but don't you think the price of attendance is a bit over the charts? Member (ES and BCS): £235.00 (£200 plus vat) Non-Member: £264.38 (£225 plus vat) <-- that's how much I'm going to pay if I attend the 2-day event.Student Member: £70.50

Managing Complexity of Wireframes

Oleg Krupnov — May 29, 2008 9:46pm

Oleg Krupnov. I'm looking for the current best practices of managing complexity of wireframes. What do you do in the following situations? 1. A page includes multiple panels, each of them is quite complex, with many details and notes. How to show all child panels and their notes without cluttering the parent page's wireframe? 2. A page includes an interactive panel, i.e. one that has multiple states. The size of the interactive panel can be small (i.e. a creeping line) or large (i.e. a tab page). How to show all panel states best? 3. A page includes a panel that is reused on different pages (i.e. as c

JOB: Community experience designer/leader, New York, NY, USA, LIMEBITS, full time

LimeBits — May 29, 2008 4:35pm

LimeBits. LimeBits is developing an innovative software platform intended to empower people to share their own creations and to collaborate on group creations. You'll join the LimeBits team and help overturn the ancient traditions of software development. Your community interaction design, leadership, and management skills will guide LimeBits's outsource developers and motivate and excite our open-source volunteers. As a key member of the team, you have a blue-sky opportunity to lead us in * Designing and establishing community/team interaction processes to apply and demonstrate LimeBits's share-and-

Expense and income tracking apps?

Robert Hoekman Jr — May 29, 2008 2:05pm

Robert Hoekman Jr. Dear fellow consultants . Anyone seen a good web app lately for tracking expenses and income? Something wickedly simple, preferably with a mobile / iPhone UI as well? Cheers! -r-

Need suggestions for long online reading experiences

Good, Adam — May 29, 2008 2:01pm

Good, Adam. Hi All, My team is currently designing a report navigation structure that will allow users to fluidly and meaningfully navigate through a long (think 60-100 pages) report. Each report will have multiple sections and sub-sections. Each sub-section will contain both text and information graphics. We know from our research that some users will simply download the full report as a PDF; however, a high number of users will need to easily find, consume, re-use, and refer to only specific sections of the report. Hence the need to guide them to those sections in a quick, intuitive way.

Bounces from the IxDA Discussion List

Nasir Barday — May 29, 2008 1:45pm

Nasir Barday. Hi Everyone, You may have been getting bounces when sending messages to our list. Our service provider goofed and marked our mailing list as active, which caused the bounces. Why were we marked as inactive? Apparently a script they wrote had a bug that mistakenly marked not only ours, bot other lists on their system as inactive. If you're seeing this message, our host has fixed the problem. Please carry on posting away . Thanks, Nasir Barday Technology Lead Interaction Design Association

Portal Best Practices

Tim Ostler — May 28, 2008 3:43pm

Tim Ostler. Joe Lamantia contributed a very interesting paper on the subject at the IA Summit this year. You can see his slideshow here: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Catriona Lohan-Conway wrote: > Does anyone have any good insights to share on Portal Development and Best > Practices? > > Tim Ostler London

Jobs, Events and Plug

Andrei Herasimchuk — May 28, 2008 3:16pm

Andrei Herasimchuk. Seems like it's high time to get the Jobs, Events and Plugs postings their own email list and make sure people know how to set their subjects lines so they got filtered properly. Having these things constantly pop into one's a mail client is getting really tedious. Just my two cents. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Principal, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. andrei at involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

[Event] Berlin/Germany local group meeting

Thomas Kueber — May 28, 2008 2:36pm

Thomas Kueber. Hi, we gonna have our first meeting! On Wed. 4.6.08 20.00 pm is the night. We meet at the Schwarzwaldstuben, Tucholskystraße 48, Berlin Mitte. As it's really the very first and initial meeting I guess the agenda is fairly clear: let'get to know each other!and have one or five beers. Looking forward to see you there. Spread the word! cheers thomas

Job-Job# 9732-User Experience Architect-Contract-6+ Month Contract Duration-Alpharetta, GA-Recruiter

Hester, Greg — May 28, 2008 1:33pm

Hester, Greg. Comsys, a leading IT consulting services organization, has an immediately available 6+ month contract opening in Alpharetta, GA, for a User Experience Architect. Qualifications: Bachelors Degree in Human Computer Interaction, Information Design, Industrial Design, or related degree. Masters Degree in related field is a plus. 2+ years work experience in Information Architecture or related field A design portfolio including problem statements, design rationale, concepts, wireframes, and end product is required. Excellent user experience design utilizing an iterative design approach Excellent

Job-Usability Experience (UX) Architect-Downtown Atlanta-Contract-to-Permanent (3 months contract-to-perm)-Recruiter

Hester, Greg — May 28, 2008 1:32pm

Hester, Greg. Comsys, one of the nation's leading IT Consulting Services companies, has an immediate opening for a Usability Experience (UX) Architect. This is a 3 month contract to perm opportunity for our customer in downtown Atlanta. The UX Architect's primary responsibility will be to strategize, create and design the user experience for our customers clients web sites and interactive applications. This will include, but isnt limited to, interactive features, functionalities, information presentations, navigational structures, and data. You will work with clients to understand their business models an

Job-Job# 4879-User Experience/User Interface Professional-Alpharetta, GA- Contract-6+ months Duration-Recruiter

Hester, Greg — May 28, 2008 1:29pm

Hester, Greg. Comsys, a leading IT consulting services organization, has an immediately available 6+ month contract opening in Alpharetta, GA, for a User Experience/User Interface Professional. Candidate must be able to travel up to 25%. Candidate will be required to travel 25% to domestic sites including but not limited to Seattle, California, Chicago, etc. Candidate will be gone for 1 week at a time. Qualifications: User Experience Research Skills Experience developing research plans, research protocols, and participant screeners Experience moderating usability sessions Effective data collection and

Job-Job Number 7508-User Experience/User Interface Professional-6 months contract-Alpharetta, GA-Recruiter

Hester, Greg — May 28, 2008 1:27pm

Hester, Greg. Comsys, a leading IT consulting services organization, has an immediately available 6+ month contract opening in Alpharetta, GA, for a User Experience/User Interface professional. 25% domestic travel is required for this position. There will be travel required for 1 week at a time to Seattle, Washington, California, Chicago, etc. Must be able to travel up to 25%. Education and Experience o A proven track record providing a significant contribution to multiple projects, demonstrated through a portfolio of deliverables showing: Excellent information architecture through wireframes and proce