Discussion Archive: February 2007

(event) Puget Sound SIGCHI Social, Wednesday, March 21, Seattle

Please join us for User-Centered socializing, food and drink on Wednesday,
March 21 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Sakson & Taylor offices in the Fremont
district of Seattle.

This is the first in a series of social gatherings of the UX Community
organized by Puget Sound SIGCHI to supplement our monthly presentation
meetings.

Thanks to Sakson & Taylor for providing meeting space plus hors d'œuvres and
drink. Sakson & Taylor recruiters will be on hand to do portfolio or resume
reviews and answer questions about their services.

Bringing typography to design – High-ASCII

I recently got interested in typography and read a bunch of books on it. In
the process, I discovered that, in the standard fonts, there are a lot of
unused glyphs that simply don't get used because there is no easy way to
access them. Well, that plus I don't suppose very many designers are aware
of them as options.

There's a great Windows utility out there called AutoHotKey that – among
it's manay capabilities – let's you create auto-correct shortcuts where one
string of text is automatically replaced by another (much like the way
Office works).

Flash Usability Metrics

Hello all,
My colleague posed this question to me the other day.

Do you know where I might be able to get stats on Flash Usability (ex:
advantages or disadvantages of have a website totally in flash)?

I thought the best answers would come from this group. Any suggestions,
resources, etc. are greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

FW: Bumptop

110% wow factor but there are practical issues in that some of the
interactions depend heavily on pressure sensitive pen input. Another issue
being pens are not a very good method of interacting with interfaces. Great
for creativity but fall over (literally) when you need to put them to one
side to use the keyboard. Slick demo but I see this coming in to its own
with multitouch interfaces.

Exciting times ahead for our options with input devices.