Discussion Archive: July 2007

My desktop is invading the web

This morning i noticed that skype (which is running on my desktop)
is reformatting all of the listed telephone numbers i come across
online (for example under ixda members on gmail, bank contact pages etc) to
a link which automatically calls the number from skype, with a little
"call" icon.

I don't particularly mind this, but do the websites whos users experience is
(ever so slightly) changed? Will we see more of this, our desktop apps
interpreting our web pages, in the way browsers do?

JOB; UI Designer Chicago; Accenture; Contract

Accenture is looking for an experienced user interaction design
specialist to help redesign an existing internal web application. The
project is based in downtown Chicago, with key business stakeholders
located globally. The work is ready to start immediately. This
individual would be on a contract basis. The initial length of the
contract is through the end of August 2007, with the possibility to
extend through the end of December 2007.

ixd deliverables ...

I am curious to know the types of deliverables that other designers here
deliver as part of their process, etc, how they are used, and how helpful
they are to the people who get them. I currently deliver hard composites (a
png of a design), working prototypes (working html, css, javascript), what I
have been calling "user stories" (a walk through of the interaction that the
user goes through to complete a task), and UI documentation that describes
how things should work at the developers point of view so that they can have
a clear understanding of how to build things.

URLs without 'www' - having them work anyway

Morning,

Just noticed on one of our major web properties (1 of our 2 most important
in fact) the site gives an IIS "under construction" notice instead of
resolving to the site proper at the www space. I sent this in as a problem,
that the site should still work correctly (and should not be hard with a
.Net site, I don't think). While not common, people do tend to key urls in
sometimes that way (especially geeks).

I have a feeling I may get some pushback on this, I'm wondering if anyone
has any statistics or articles or whatever that might help me back up the
case.