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Search as Navigation

Does anyone have good examples of sites that use search as the primary mode of navigation? Also, any examples where search is more prominent but a traditional IA still exists?

How many participants would you need to test to determine whether an interface component changed a users behavior? Have you seen this happen?

Hi everyone,

I'm curious to get other's thougths on a project I am working on.  

I need to test whether users would change their response based on whether the information was presented in one way vs another way.  For example, a value would be presented as 5 buttons where they could see all of them and click one OR the values could be presented in a slider with tick marks where they user could select one.

Why would you do email verification for people who sign up?

We're having a debate about this.

You could do email verification so that there's something of an audit trail back to a person, but since anyone can set up a new hotmail or gmail at the drop of a hat, does that count for much?

You can do it so that you know it's a working email address, for data quality, although you could just delete non-verified accounts after a period of time.

Email to IXDA

Are you serious? Are you completely mental?

> One of the main sticking points for maintaining the IxDA.org platform has > been posting to the discussions via email. Email posting has caused > discussion threading issues, moderation issues, performance problems, and > often breaks and overloads the system. For all these reasons we've decided > to discontinue the ability to post to the forum via email and move to web > based posting only.

So rather than fix email, we'll just break it further so hey, come to our zippity do dah new Web site where you can post!