A few issues, but we're under way

Whew, what a journey! If you're reading this, howdy. Here again is the key step for previous members to take to stay connected & sync up your past profile:

Click "Request password" in the header; you can use either your IxDA Discussion email address or possibly your first name and last name separated by a space as the user name (search the Members > Directory page for your account if you have previously been a member).

If you find any bugs in the site, please go ahead and post them here if you can. Else, email them to "ixd(at)elizabethbacon.com" for now. Thanks!

Cheers,
Liz

Super stoked to see the new site up and running. It looks great and the local group support is killer. Thanks to everyone who made this redesign possible!

One tiny problem I'm having is that when I log in and try to edit my account info I get this error: "The e-mail address angel.j.anderson@gmail.com is already registered. Have you forgotten your password?"  I can edit other aspects of my profile (personal info, proffesional info, etc. but I can't make any changes to my account details because I keep getting that error. Tried it on Safari and Firefox, btw.

Looking good... One minor bug I noticed on the Member Directory page: the set of index links to people's last names is screwy. It looks like the system is automatically trying to figure out everyone's last names, but it's sometimes picking a special character or number, so the list is very confusing. Partly as a consequence of this, the list of filters is paginated, making the whole thing doubly confusing.

One thing I noticed is that I'd unsubscribed from the IxDA list a few years ago, and all of a sudden I was resubscribed, and awoke to find a wash of emails in my inbox. 

It's not that I mind, necessarily, but I think a simple invitation to check out the new site features might've been a better way to make people aware of the changes. 

Cheers, Cecily

There appear to be some useful additions such as greater support for local groups, etc, but I would be interested in seeing a description of all the new features/updates and rationale behind the redesign so that I may gain a better understanding of the choices made. 

I would like to preface all my remarks regarding the redesign of the IxDA site with a profound “nice job and high appreciation” to all the VOLUNTEERS that cranked it out.  However, I don’t think that the fact that the site was redesigned by volunteers excuses us – as an organization of interaction design professionals – from falling into many of the same pitfalls we may fall into “at our day jobs.”  Any community site that may be looked to as a leading source of IxD information, discussions, samples, etc needs to painstakingly ensure that their “face to the world” is free from many of the issues discussed in its blogs every day.

Again, I admire the work, but would like to mention a couple things that – after a brief walkthrough of the site – seem to miss the mark (for me):

•  Overall, I find the final design (colors) to be very bland, and I don’t see the “beauty and glory” mentioned by others.  It seems to me very pale and washed out.  The grey used for the text makes it harder to read than black would be.  Username and Password fields appear to be disabled when they are not.  Also a lot of extreme text size differences, such as in discussion topic title vs. topic content.
•  In the discussions area, topic author’s name and picture way over at the right is an interesting change.  Sometimes I like to breeze through a list of topics or replies and read those from certain folks that have consistently had useful information, remarks, etc.  Looking over at the right seems to take that author information out of the context of the discussion or topic.  It seems the “About > IxDA Leadership” page has retained the older flavor – why not the Discussion pages?
  Also, the listing of “Terms” for each discussion seems to take up unnecessary vertical space, in some cases.
• The “Local Groups” page is difficult to parse, visually.  Also, this seems to be a global list and not a local one, until you drill down.  If you select “United States” in the Country pull-down, why isn’t the State/Province field a pull-down of all US states, rather than force the user to enter the state abbrev – seems to be a pretty straightforward pattern out there?  In fact, my profile clearly lists me as being in the US, yet I have to select US in the Country list.  Not a friendly "local" list.
• Member Directory has results list pagination at top of list which is different from the pagination at the bottom of the list.  There are actually a few bugs on this page that are probably already being worked on
• And, as mentioned in earlier posts, the barrage of emails from IxDA was a nuisance that could have been avoided.

I realize that I fail to hit the mark with regards to personally volunteering in the site, however I do find it to be a very useful tool filled with great information on many IxDA-related topics that impact us daily.  I would just rather see IxDA as a clean, simplistic site with no goals for “beauty or glory.”  Perhaps that’s why I prefer the ux of the Google group page at:
http://groups.google.com/group/ixda/topics?gvc=2 

So please take note that I am not “lodging a complaint” of any kind, just passing on what I think is constructive criticism. 

Hey Jared,

Wow - Way to get right in there and attempt to minimize what was my sincere acknowledgement of the effort put in by the volunteers on the site's redesign.  Pretty undeserved, but par for the course I suppose.

Honestly, is there a location that we should post our thoughts on the redesign other than the discussion board which is asking for our feedback? 

Thanks.

Is there an appropriate place to post issues we observe? Apologies if there is and I've missed it. Point me in the right direction and I'll glady repost this there.

This is exceedingly minor, but it looks like threads with forward slash characters in them are getting prematurely truncated when they're featured in the "Latest posts" widget on the homepage.

Kudos again to all involved in the new site. It's everything a site for IxDA should be, plus some delightful surprises.

Congratulations on the lovely redesign, IxDA.

I agree, the sudden flood of emails has brought me back to the site. ... I will now, however, be off to modulate that!