Forms design / labels inside the fields
Hi, In the company I'm working with a discussion has just been started; TOPIC: Whether placing a labels inside the fields is a good idea or not. This pattern is spreading recently (i.e. facebook) a lot. Personally, I'm not supporting this idea for many reasons (accessibility, patterns in an eye fixation on form elements etc). Though, I'd like to avoid religious debate on this issue...

Register now for InfoCamp Berkeley 2010!
This could be interesting to a few of us: Mark your calendar — the first annual InfoCamp Berkeley is taking place Saturday, March 6 at UC Berkeley! InfoCamp (http://berkeley.infocamp.org) is an unconference for anyone interested in user experience, information architecture, interaction design, user- centered design, information design, librarianship, online search, information management, informatics, and related fields. InfoCamp features an egalitarian, community- driven format...

Will you be at SXSW Interactive?
Please keep me in the loop for a meet up. - - creating.concepts.com.au . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/ discuss? post=48359

iPhone Design Metrics
Hi Liam, You may want explore Flurry's offering. They capture analytics for iPhone apps: http://www.flurry.com/ Now that I've reread your message, I realize you are more interested in *what* to capture than *how* to capture the data. I think many metrics from other platforms still apply- - sign up rates, drop- off rates, time spent, etc.- - though there's certainly room for additional, iPhone...

iPhone Prototyping
I'm looking for tools and techniques to build medium- fidelity prototypes of iPhone applications, ones that support iPhone gestures like swipes but that can be created and modified more quickly than full- blown applications developed with the iPhone SDK. If any of you can tell us about tradeoffs between fidelity and time savings for any of the following - ...

JOB: San Francisco, Interaction and Visual design, Smart Design, Full Time
Smart Design is looking for designers with top- notch skills and experience creating user interfaces for a variety of consumer electronic products and services. Our teams include design researchers, industrial designers, graphic designers, and engineers working to produce the best possible user experiences. We work on a wide range of hardware- software projects including Automotive experiences, Medical, HDTV UIs, Robotics,...