Discussion Archive: July 2008

3 Jul 2008 - 12:44pm
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Naveena
2008

Job: Senior Visual Designer : San Jose, CA : Cisco Systems : Full-time

COMPANY: Cisco Systems Inc.,
URL: www.cisco.com
JOB LOCATION: San Jose, CA
JOB TITLE: Senior Visual Designer
JOB DURATION: Permanent
JOB DESCRIPTION:

Job Description:
Cisco is looking for Senior Visual Designer to join the User Experience
Team within the Voice Technology Group (VTG).

3 Jul 2008 - 12:38pm
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gretchen anderson
2005

Need an Image: Copier Internal with Troubleshooting Guides

Random question:

I'm looking for a good photo of the internals of a copier with the 1,2,3
and color coded handles for clearing a paper jam. It's proving harder
than you'd think to get a good one.

Anyone got a good source?

3 Jul 2008 - 10:43am
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Boston IxDA
2008

[Event] report: Boston IxDA NanoConference

IxDA Boston is pleased to announce our most successful event to date. We
were honored to have over 75 local designers, developers and thinkers come
to see 9 talks on methodologies, techniques, findings and new technologies.
For those who could not attend we will be releasing the audio & slide decks
as we produce them, the first link is at the bottom of this post.

We would like to thank our event sponsors http://madpow.net/ and
http://www.brightcove.com/ .

3 Jul 2008 - 10:23am
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4 years ago
14 replies
Dan Saffer
2003

Error Messages (Was: Hiding and Disabling Menu Items)

In fact, based on this conversation, I'm going to toss out one other
possible best practice:

The system should never present an error message to a user unless the
user has done everything right but the system itself cannot respond
correctly. Users should otherwise never be allowed to make "errors."

(Flickr, for instance, does this very well.)

Dan

3 Jul 2008 - 10:23am
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4 years ago
4 replies
jalton
2008

Remote card sort

Can anyone present any convincing arguments for *not* using a remote
card sorting technology - like websort.net? And instead insisting that
card sorting must be performed in person?

Tangent: what is your opinion on performing card sorting one-to-one
individually vs in a group? ...

Aaaaaaaand begin!

(and thanks)

John

3 Jul 2008 - 6:16am
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MJ Broadbent
2010

[Event] NYC IxDA: Thursday, July 24 – Luke Williams of frog design presents “The Naked Interface—Liberating Brain, Body, and Digital Interactions”

- – - – - – - – -
RSVP to: nyc-rsvp (at) ixda (dot) org
- – - – - – - – -

Please join the NYC IxDA community for our July event:

“The Naked Interface—Liberating Brain, Body, and Digital Interactions”

Throughout the electronic age, people have become accustomed to
interacting with digital media indirectly, mediated through screens
and peripheral devices.

3 Jul 2008 - 5:20am
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Petteri Hiisilä
2004

What will thousands of CPU cores unlock?

We have signals that Intel isn't going to settle with 8 or 16
processor cores and then revert back to let's-add-more-MHz contest.
They are going to add 32, 64, 128, 512, 1024 and 2048 cores per CPU.
(Reference: http://tinyurl.com/4pkslx) ... expect to see 8-core 500
Mhz Intel Atom processors for ten dollars each.

We have signals that at least Apple is trying to make it easier for
developers to use those cores.

3 Jul 2008 - 2:43am
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4 years ago
1 reply
Rune Thaarup Høegh
2008

Usability evaluation in a day

Regarding:
http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=30937

In my company we have very good experiences using this method:

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1028050

The Instant Data Analysis (IDA) allows us to conduct a usability evaluation
with 5 users per day and have feedback to the developers ready the next day.
The IDA method strengths is that the most important usability issues will be
found and communicated to the developers in a very fast manner.

2 Jul 2008 - 5:02pm
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Neil Goldberg
2008

JOB: Snr. UX/Product Designer; Burlingame, CA; Piclinq/Full Time

This is a chance to affect what the product IS, not just how it works.
Especially looking for people with some experience with social
networking apps.

User Experience/Product Designer

Join an innovation team to build an exciting platform at the
intersection of digital photography, social networking and digital
life management. This is your opportunity to make a strong impact on a
project at a very early stage of definition.

Piclinq is a leader in the field of connected photography.

2 Jul 2008 - 1:24pm
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4 years ago
1 reply
Suzanne Walsh
2008

Weighting Search Results

Hi,

I have a new job with a client working on a business application. Right now they
have their simple search configured so that if a user searches on the letter "a"
the results contain all objects with the letter "a" anywhere in the name. I
realize and they realize that this is not ideal and they asked me how they should
prioritize there search results.