Hi Alistair, ... I often use a form that I call The Value Question: "If you had that, what would that do for you?" Sometimes I use a longer form: "If you had...
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Mike Kuniavsky
mkabroad
Jul 27, 2004 7:54 pm
One way I've done this kind of breakdown is by audience: do the features for the most important audience first, then focus on the secondary audiences in...
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Jeff Patton
jeff621
Jul 27, 2004 8:55 pm
... features ... was ... We broke ... focused ... before ... prototype ... was ... scheduling ... That's exactly what I was looking for - that's a good...
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Mike Kuniavsky
mkabroad
Jul 27, 2004 9:44 pm
... Watching target audience users behave in ways completely unexpected by the products' managers, designers and developers is one of the most powerful ways of...
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Bankston, Arlen
banksar
Jul 28, 2004 12:56 am
Mike, I wondered why you didn't spend much time discussing specific agile processes in your book; much of the text seemed germane to them. It was my latest...
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Brian O'Byrne
bobyrne_stat...
Jul 28, 2004 9:59 am
... The interaction design was mapped very directly and deliberatly on the factory-floor activities. Since the manufacturing had nice discrete steps it was...
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Paul Hodgetts
agilelogic
Jul 29, 2004 6:59 pm
David J. Anderson wrote: [...] ... [...] ... What types of activities and artifacts get produced in the HLD/initial part vs. the LLD/detailed part? Although...
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Jeff Patton
jeff621
Jul 30, 2004 3:24 pm
... how ... all ... by the ... powerful ... that ... Mike, after attending a usability conference recently, I found a lot of people questioning the kinds of...
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Ron Vutpakdi
vutpakdi
Jul 30, 2004 3:34 pm
... We do quite a bit with (relatively) inexpensive homegrown portable usability labs. We sort of have an expensive fixed usability lab which still sees very ...
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David J. Anderson
netherby_uk
Jul 30, 2004 5:52 pm
Paul, Thanks for the questions. First off I really don't like the HLD, LLD nomenclarure so I won't be using it here. It sufficed at the time for want of...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Jul 30, 2004 6:30 pm
... When you see a user with two edit fields, typing into one of them, does your life suck when you see them take their hand off the keyboard, grab the mouse, ...
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Jeff Patton
jeff621
Jul 30, 2004 7:13 pm
... That's a pretty common thing to see. Your post makes me think of they quesion I always ask when I see it: "does it matter?" As a pragmattic interaction...
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Randy MacDonald
rando0227
Jul 30, 2004 7:29 pm
Worse is when the Enter key completes the input process for the whole form. This is a problem I had in spades when our users migrated from DOS to Windows. ... ...
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acockburn@...
aacockburn
Jul 30, 2004 7:39 pm
In a message dated 7/30/2004 11:03:20 AM Mountain Daylight Time, agile-usability@yahoogroups.com writes: I'm wondering if there are some principles for UI...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Jul 30, 2004 7:42 pm
... Then if I were their customer, I could politely mention the <Tab> key. Then they'd get so flustered between their helplessness and their orders to remain ...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Jul 30, 2004 7:53 pm
... Should <Enter> refuse to commit but move the focus to the next empty field? Naw - that would prohibit fields from containing default options... ===== Phlip...
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Randy MacDonald
rando0227
Jul 30, 2004 7:58 pm
Agreed. It was a design mistake that disappeared quickly. Most forms got an "Ok" button, but hooking Enter to that button was asking for trouble. ... From:...
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Mike Kuniavsky
mkabroad
Jul 30, 2004 9:11 pm
... I think it's absolutely true, and also a red herring. Yes, people behave differently in a lab setting than they do in "real life" (this is related to...
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Mike Kuniavsky
mkabroad
Jul 30, 2004 9:34 pm
... Are you asking whether there are "best practices" for toplevel UI (and, presumably Information Architecture) development? If so, that's a holy grail that...
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Gary
gmacomber2002
Jul 30, 2004 9:51 pm
Jeff, Hopefully the back end system had a very different UI or you've now set up an inconsistent user experience... Probably the most frequent errors I've seen...
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Jeff Patton
jeff621
Jul 30, 2004 10:24 pm
... set ... Yup - after I posted, I thought I shoulda mentioned that. One app behaved like a website - the other like a keyboard driven POS system. The user...
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Charlie Trainor
charlietrainor
Jul 30, 2004 10:26 pm
... The reason I argue for going to the user rather than inviting them in, is that in "real life", people have interruptions, noisy surroundings, colleagues...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Jul 30, 2004 10:45 pm
... http://cortext.co.il/ ... I'm going with this verbiage: The Development Lifecycle with GUIs Naive programmers often confuse the beginning of a project with...
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acockburn@...
aacockburn
Jul 30, 2004 10:51 pm
Alistair, would you mind telling a story I've heard you tell before about an application written using use cases. It was built, things seem to be fine until...
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Ann Dillon
ae_dillon
Jul 30, 2004 11:09 pm
I agree with Mike's 'holy grail' comment, and would be very interested in anyones' thoughts on the matter. ... (and, presumably Information Architecture)...
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Jeff Patton
jeff621
Jul 30, 2004 11:52 pm
... Here's what makes high level design more resilient for me: I'm using C&L's Usage-Centered Design. They describe an interaction context. An interaction...
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Adam Carter
typidemon
Jul 31, 2004 1:21 am
... Most applications don't tell uses that tab moves to the next window, so people only find out by experimentation. I don't think there is anything intuitive...
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Randy MacDonald
rando0227
Jul 31, 2004 4:19 am
I thought the Windows GUI standards meant one didn't have to tell users what Tab means. ... From: Adam Carter To: agile-usability@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday,...
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Adam Carter
typidemon
Jul 31, 2004 5:43 am
... How many users read GUI standards? Adam...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Jul 31, 2004 6:09 am
... The GUI Standards also say, "All users manuals shall say such-and-so." I know I know - how many users read users manuals..? ===== Phlip ...
