Discussion Archive: September 2004

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)

I just discovered a wonderful resource on the Web: MIT OpenCourseWare. In
their own words:

"MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) makes the course materials that are used in
the teaching of almost all MIT's undergraduate and graduate subjects
available on the Web, free of charge, to any user anywhere in the world.
This initiative continues the tradition at MIT, and in American higher
education, of open dissemination of educational materials, philosophy, and
modes of thought.

Paging

I realise that there are numerous ways to skin this particular cat,
but assume that there exists a paging legend along these lines:

Showing from 261 to 270 out of 356 items 10 items per page
Pages: 1 .. 10 .. 20 .. 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 .. 30 .. 35 Next | Previous

Is there any evidence that giving several pages that flank the
current page or that fall at regularly spaced intervals between the
first and large page are beneficial to the user?

Would users be disserved by only having buttons to take them to the
next, previous, first and last pages?

Communicating permission-based roles in the interface

(sorry for cross-post)

Please take a moment to vote for one of two “camps” within my design team:

Background:

My team is working on a web-based application that will be used by several different people, in permission-based “roles”, to manage a financial services account. There will be the “owner” that can do everything, the “proxy” that can do nearly everything, and a “read-only” role.

Re: Designer mobility to management (was ixd curriculum)

Hi Prady,

Interesting post. I wonder whether a correlation between variables is being mistaken for a causal relationship between them?

For the sake of discussion, let's take as true your perception about the negative correlation between design education and movement into management. A design education background is not likely a cause for comparatively low rates of migration into management (not likely to "handicap" one).