Discussion Archive: February 2010

18 Feb 2010 - 2:13am
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1 year ago
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Melvin Jay Kumar
2007

How do you move from software to hardware UX? Care to share your insights? experience?

Hi,

Good day to you'll.

I was wondering if anyone has transitioned from developing user experience
for software to hardware products?

I've been in the software/web environment for the past 8 - 10 years.
Experience ranges from packaged software to web applications , portals ,
Intranets, Search, mobile, etc...etc...

I would like to learn and explore experience design for the hardware
environment. ( E.g. Hand phones , MP3 players , Interactive TV,
etc...etc...)

Anyone care to share your insights on how you transitioned?

17 Feb 2010 - 7:42pm
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3 years ago
1 reply
pabini
2004

Reminder: Silicon Valley IxDA Event :: Input: Moving Beyond Web Forms :: Tonight, Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at Yahoo!

Come join us at our next Silicon Valley IxDA event! Luke Wroblewski,
author of Web Form Design, will give a talk on the topic Input: Moving
Beyond
Web Forms.

When: Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Socializing: 7:00-7:30 pm

Program: 7:30-9:30 pm

Where: Yahoo!

17 Feb 2010 - 3:49pm
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3 years ago
4 replies
Yvonnia Martin
2009

Creating User Interfaces to Work Within a CMS

I hear ya, Jennifer. I work with a coldfusion-based content management
system and I don't think the community is as big and those of PHP and
.Net. We have 1 developer on staff who for some reason or another,
does not know the CMS at all (go figure). Anyway, we are totally
locked into basically 4 template styles. Each of the template styles
have "elements" of the page that you can edit in either the wysiwyg
mode or the html mode. I basically resorted to exploiting the html
editing portion of the thing!

17 Feb 2010 - 3:12pm
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Jared M. Spool
2003

[Plug] Tamara Adlin's Ad-Hoc Personas Webinar - 2/18 - IXDA Offer

Hi everyone,

A while back, Melanie posted a great discussion about what she could
do with a 3-hour workshop of 20 stakeholders, to kick off a project.
(See the thread here: http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=48067 )

Turns out, that's the topic of tomorrow's UIE Virtual Seminar with
Tamara Adlin.

17 Feb 2010 - 3:09pm
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Theresa Singh
2008

[JOB] Marketing Manager for Ux & Remote Testing focused startup based in SF & Madrid [recruiter]

My client is a user experience & remote testing focused startup based in San
Francisco & Madrid.

17 Feb 2010 - 9:17am
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3 years ago
22 replies
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suewah
2008

Personas: how many is too many?

There is this project I'm working on that is for pet owners, breeders
and vets. They have identified 15 consumer types between the three
main segments I've mentioned. The client is requesting we create
personas for all 15. In my experience I've rarely have had to create
more than 4 on any given project. For this project I believe I can get
away with 3.

Does anyone have any thoughts as too what is too many or too few
personas? Have you come across a similar client request? And how did
you deal with it?

Thanks,
Charles Sue-Wah-Sing
www.suewahsing.com

16 Feb 2010 - 9:12pm
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3 years ago
8 replies
Stephen Holmes
2009

/- impacts of 'address verification systems' on online forms

>From a user point of view, yes, complexity will always increase
abandonment rates, however one of your stakeholders is the business
and if it keeps the data "clean" and data maintenance costs down
then that benefit has to come into the pro and con equation.

Validation and verification CAN help a user fix simple typos and
assure the User that the address has been entered correctly.

16 Feb 2010 - 8:54pm
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3 years ago
1 reply
Marcus Coghlan
2007

+/- impacts of 'address verification systems' on online forms

Hi all,

Has anyone had any experience with implementing an 'address
verification system' in online (application) forms?

These systems validate a user provided address against a database of
known addresses, usually provided by Postal services.

16 Feb 2010 - 4:15pm
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samin
2008

[Event] IxDA Helsinki + IxDA Book Club, this thursday!!

Welcome to the February meetup for IxDA Helsinki this Thursday!

The event will be hosted (and beers&snacks provided) by Hammerkit at their offices in Technopolis at Ruoholahti, Hiilikatu 3.

16 Feb 2010 - 3:14pm
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3 years ago
1 reply
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danieljaeger
2009

[Event] IxDA Seattle Happy Hour, Today, Feb 16

Time for the next 3rd Tuesday IxDA Happy Hour. I just got back from
the Interaction 10 conference in Savannah and all I can say is, if
you weren't there you missed out. But you can still come out to our
happy hour next week, catch up with some of the people who were
there, and discuss the future of interaction design.