This list is for people who want to discuss issues, theories, methods, etc. about interaction design practice. http://www.ixda.org Custom http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=49692 Patrick Patrick. Japadog. Guu. Salt Tasting Room. Rodneys. Granville Island. West Vancouver. -----Original Message----- From: ixdaor at host.ixda.org [mailto:ixdaor at host.ixda.org] On Behalf Of Chris McLay Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 12:24 AM To: pat at usabilitycounts.com Subject: [IxDA] Coming to... March 8, 2010 9:17am http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=49685 Matthew Nish-Lapidus Matthew Nish-Lapidus. Hi Everybody, The moment is finally here, IxDA.org is going down for the launch of our new platform. This means that the website AND mailing list will be offline for the afternoon while we get everything ready to... February 28, 2010 7:59am http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=49684#49684 Harry Harry. Counterpoint: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/02/27/lesson-from-madlibs-signup-fad-do-your-own-tests/ (found via hacker news) ... February 28, 2010 12:46am http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=49683#49683 Elizabeth Bacon Elizabeth Bacon. Also a reminder of important steps YOU need to take after the new site launches. We need all existing members to take a simple step to get access and continue your participation with your previous history connected to the... February 27, 2010 10:33pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=49682#49682 David Poteet David Poteet. we've got a lot of research data from interviews with students and mental models that have guided various designs of student life sections. Contact me at david at newcitymedia dot com and I can send it to you. ... February 27, 2010 7:42pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=49681 Will Evans Will Evans. She is no longer there - but when she was there - I believe she was not responsible for the Bac'n. ~ will On Sep 9, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Andrew Jaswa wrote: ... February 26, 2010 12:28pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=49680 Joe Sokohl Joe Sokohl. In other words, forewarned is forearmed. When the new ixda.org launches Sometime Sunday, a body of the Interaction '10 videos will be present in the Resources section. Needless to say, the complexity of getting all 60 or so... February 26, 2010 12:07pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=49676.0949#49676.0949 Sara Lin Sara Lin. This is the student life section of Cornell website: http://www.cornell.edu/studentlife/index.cfm Pretty simple layout. The purpose of the pages on this site is to redirect students to other portal or resources. February 26, 2010 9:49am http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=49679#49679 William Hudson William Hudson. Don - Here's an interesting article on how people's perception of being watched affected their behaviour. I admit that it's not a web-based study, but there may be more on this out there: http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/2/3/412.full Regards, William Hudson Syntagm Ltd... February 26, 2010 5:15am http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=49678#49678 Whitney Quesenbery Whitney Quesenbery. Have you looked at BJ Fogg's work on persuasion- - * http://captology.stanford.edu/resources.html *There is some good material on credibilty and how to use it to persuade. You might also look up Florian Eggers work. He did some work around... February 26, 2010 4:55am http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=49677#49677 Dave Weinberg Dave Weinberg. love it in that it bridges data (collection) with story and context (with a potential dash of surveyMonkey)- and YOU are the main character so naturally you get drawn in. Not sure it would work for all types of... February 26, 2010 3:08am http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=49674 Adrian Howard Adrian Howard. Hi folks, Today's the last day for submissions to the User Experience stage of Agile 2010 - and we'd love to have some more submissions. So if you've been vacillating on whether to submit or not now is your... February 26, 2010 12:30am http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=49673 Joe Sokohl Joe Sokohl. We’re almost there. Almost. The new ixda.org is about to launch. Check out Liz Bacon's blog entry about Conan: http://bit.ly/9kxQAn To make the change, we have to let ixda.org go dark for a bit. Starting at 11:00 a.m. Eastern... February 25, 2010 9:13pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=49672#49672 Laura Klein Laura Klein. I just want to second Hilary's mention of the use of bucket testing (aka. multivariate or a/b testing) for these sorts of small things. You can quickly get significant results, and once you start a/b testing things, you'll find... February 25, 2010 5:33pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=49671 elana elana. I'm working on a site for an electronic product launch (pretty much will be its own category). Think of the launch of Tivo, Blu-ray, GPS devices, iPhone… I'm looking for inspirational sites (or sections of a site) that did... February 25, 2010 4:49pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=49670#49670 Hilary Bienstock Hilary Bienstock. Josh, At Yahoo!, they treated these types of issues by running a Rolling Study every month -- a usability study where anyone could throw in a topic. Money for this study came out of a central budget rather... February 25, 2010 2:35pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=49669 Josh Evnin Josh Evnin. Hey everybody, I'm looking for suggestions for ways I can usability test some micro-interactions on the site I'm working on. We've worked out a bunch of the big questions - the flow and IA seem to be working, the... February 25, 2010 2:26pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=49666.1416#49666.1416 Abi Jones Abi Jones. What's funny is that this is a lot like 'Cloze' activities I used when I taught 3rd grade: http://www.learnnc.org/reference/cloze activity February 25, 2010 2:16pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=49668#49668 Susan Doran Susan Doran. I also appreciate it for its literal/actual implementation. And, as Stephen says, for its idea and feel--it's engaging, respectful, low-key, and evocative of play! It's also gently, radical, which I *love*. It is completely user-centric rather than "corporate data... February 25, 2010 12:57pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=49667 Joe Sokohl Joe Sokohl. When the new site launches next week, a key enhancement is the addition of a job board. This board allows you to post details of your job offering within a clear, directed form. You will be able to... February 25, 2010 12:19pm