Discussion Archive: November 2003

Best/Common Practice Sites

Challis wrote:
> Has anyone heard of similar sites for other areas of design?

My fomer colleague Martijn van Welie manages a collection of interface
design patterns at:

http://www.welie.com/patterns/index.html
(it seems to be down at the moment, but please try again)

Peter
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Peter Boersma, Senior Information Architect, EzGov
"De Schinkel", Rijnsburgstraat 11, Amsterdam, 1059 AT, The Netherlands
Phone: +31(0)20 7133881 / Fax: +31(0)20 7133799 / Mobile: +31(0)6 15072747
mailto:

Cost Savings Hurts

I think that this is the crux of the issue. We know intuitively that more
usable products are better products. At least, we want to build products
that are more usable and we certainly prefer to use them. But the question
that has to be answered in any product development environment becomes: What
is the marginal value of an inrease in usabilty? If I increase the usability
of my product by some quanta, how does that translate into measurable
results -- higher revenues or lower costs.

Survey Reminder: New or Existing?

Time is running out folks. This is a one minute survey. Your opinion is
important!! Take a minute to complete the survey at:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=54174309345

-challis

> -----Original Message-----
> Hi Folks:
>
> Since we haven't really received much positive feedback or
> interest in the concept of exploring existing organizations
> as possible homes for this group, I've created a survey to
> gauge the group's position on the matter.

Videotaping (was Cost Savings Hurt)

On Nov 5, 2003, at 3:27 PM, Ron Vutpakdi wrote:

> We have run some tests where we're using a screen recorder (Camtasia,
> among others) to grab
> the screen action (on the laptop) while the camcorder records the
> participant's face.

Most lab setups I've seen involve a 'face cam' to capture user
reactions. Having run many sessions and captured them to video tape, I
can't say I've ever reviewed the face cam footage.