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Phlip
phlipcpp
Jun 13, 2006 4:17 pm
AU: To attend a wedding in Berkeley (CA), my wife Iris insists on a hotel right on The Strip, meaning Shattuck across the street from the University of...
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Ben Brown
benbrown@...
Jun 14, 2006 2:47 pm
That's one of the strangest emails I've ever received....
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Jun 14, 2006 3:05 pm
... Thanks! Let's make a question out of it. Is UCB user friendly? -- Phlip http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand <-- NOT a blog!!...
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PaulOldfield1@...
pauloldfield1
Jun 14, 2006 3:25 pm
... It illustrates a pertinent point. While one should never make assumptions over what a user of a system considers to be important, this is so much more the...
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Ben Brown
benbrown@...
Jun 14, 2006 4:03 pm
I went to school at UNM in Albuquerque, located in one of the worst parts of Albuquerque. I was fine, it was fine, never saw any crime. _____ From:...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Jun 14, 2006 6:50 pm
... It does? ... Oh! Yeah, that was my point! ... Just for the record, I trust Ashley to get educated. I would do my fatherly duty to object to any rationale...
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namital
Jun 22, 2006 2:15 pm
Can you write and illustrate complete feature & design specifications for user-centered design? We at Orios are offering just the right opportunity for you to...
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Jeff Patton
jeff621
Jun 23, 2006 9:46 pm
A problem with people who do interactiond design and user interface design work on projects - agile or otherwise - is that they often work alone. OK, I often...
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Myhill, Carl S (GE In...
carlmyhill
Jun 24, 2006 12:18 am
This is interesting. We pair up to design. We started doing it because we had a lot of technical writers on hand who were keen to get involved earlier in...
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Larry Constantine
lconstantine@...
Jun 24, 2006 1:36 pm
Do I do pair designing? As I have been saying for years, the best practice in interaction design is multi-disciplinary teamwork. Just as in pair programming,...
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Andrea L Spray
cybernetic_c...
Jun 24, 2006 5:36 pm
I was recently tasked with the job of creating a *team* around 4 designers (myself included) who had each been working independently at my company anywhere ...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Jun 25, 2006 5:34 pm
On 23 Jun 2006, at 22:46, Jeff Patton wrote: [snip] ... [snip] Not quite sure what the definition of "design" is here :-) but I regularly pair with graphic...
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Miinalainen, Petteri
pmiinalainen
Jun 26, 2006 8:36 am
This is really interesting thread. About five years ago, me and couple of my ex-collagues tried to convince that working on multi-disciplinary teams is a way...
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hilary coolidge
cool_hil
Jun 27, 2006 3:10 pm
I've used pairs while doing rapid paper prototype testing. We get two people in to do the test and ask them to talk aloud and note the conversation - the ...
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Jeff Patton
jeff621
Jul 10, 2006 10:15 pm
Just now a coworker asked me a question on inputing numbers into a text box... the form is asking for a number that can be up to 8 digits long. He asked what...
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Jon Meads
jonmeads
Jul 11, 2006 12:20 am
Jeff, Regardless of what the developers would like, the correct answer remains, "it depends". Anyone seeking who wants to use "rules of thumb" instead of ...
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Tobias Mayer
tobiasgmayer
Jul 11, 2006 12:30 am
Jeff, John, I am not in favour of "rules of thumb" either, but in this particular case would one of you provide a concrete example of when it would NOT be a...
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Jon Meads
jonmeads
Jul 11, 2006 1:00 am
Tobias, If the user has the number in a different format than that expected by the implementers (e.g., has leading zeroes or a non-significant set of lead ...
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Jeff Patton
jeff621
Jul 11, 2006 2:15 am
Hi Tobias, Hmm. let's see if I can come up with a couple of reasons where it might be a bad idea: The application as a whole has lots of places where numbers...
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Tobias Mayer
tobiasgmayer
Jul 11, 2006 2:20 am
Thanks Jon... ... This implied that there were no leading non-significant characters, but only up to eight digits, so I'm not sure your first example is valid...
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Jon Meads
jonmeads
Jul 11, 2006 4:01 am
See notes below -- jon _____ From: agile-usability@yahoogroups.com [mailto:agile-usability@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tobias Mayer Sent: Monday, July 10,...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Jul 11, 2006 1:37 pm
I can't speak to the rules of thumbs thing, but I think "it depends" IS the right answer. For example, if the N-digit number happens to be a credit card...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Jul 11, 2006 2:05 pm
... From: agile-usability@yahoogroups.com [mailto:agile-usability@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tobias Mayer Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 8:31 PM To:...
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Pascal Roy
pascal_roy_1967
Jul 11, 2006 5:01 pm
I think you can have it both ways: 1- if you just enter the numbers without the spaces, the software could put the spaces for you when it reaches the...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Jul 11, 2006 5:21 pm
IMHO, Web interaction as it is implemented now by a large majority of sites really sucks big time. I hope that rich client side technologies will improve...
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Tobias Mayer
tobiasgmayer
Jul 11, 2006 6:21 pm
Thanks everyone for the examples. A few remarks on user studies... ... Clearly not, I would agree. ... This being an Agile Usablity list, that seems a fair...
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Pascal Roy
pascal_roy_1967
Jul 11, 2006 6:53 pm
Alain, I agree with you completely. More interactivity does not necessarily mean a more usable site. Highly interactivite technologies could and are used to ...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Jul 11, 2006 7:11 pm
It seems to me that much of what is discussed on this list falls more in the category of Design than Field work. I think Design is a good thing, as long as you...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Jul 11, 2006 7:13 pm
Here's another one in the vein of X vs Y. Back in May, I faciliated a short Agile-UCD exercise à la Jeff Patton, at the Ottawa XP chapter. The exercise used...