This list is for people who want to discuss issues, theories, methods, etc. about interaction design practice. http://www.ixda.org/ Custom http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=28107 Joe Leech Joe Leech. Hi all, Am looking for some good examples of 3D interactions online, ideally with relation to navigating around a building. Anybody seen anything good recently? Thanks in advance. joe -- ***************************************************** joeleech.net ... April 16, 2008 12:26am http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=28087 Mark Pawson Mark Pawson. We have a thick desktop app that uses a checkbox treeview to show data layers that are available to display in a separate window. However, although Checkboxes look nice and consistent in this display... April 15, 2008 12:17pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=28049 Jeff lippiatt Jeff lippiatt. I am currently doing some research before I make a suggestion for how this information should be displayed. Of the known formats I know that using parenthesis () around the number or using the... April 14, 2008 6:55am http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=27927 stephanie . stephanie .. Hi all, Today I'm struggling with an issue I'm hoping you can help with. We are trying to rename the section of a very large, multi-language, retail site that contains user-generated content (blogs, wikis,... April 8, 2008 1:17pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=26943 Juan Ruiz Juan Ruiz. My client, an IT company, is very strong on the position that their new website design should be bigger than 1024px wide (1280px wide). They know that the majority of their customers are from... March 10, 2008 10:46pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=26596 Shaun Bergmann Shaun Bergmann. A discussion came up at the office today that got me wondering. Do any of you know the history of the 'Power' Icon? You know the one: The circle with the vertical bar... February 27, 2008 2:37pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=25934 Vicky Teinaki Vicky Teinaki. Hi all, I'm working on a web project where the client is sold on using voice on the site i.e. having narration for explanations. An example I've been given is Oil of Olay: http://olayforyou.com/index.jsp... February 13, 2008 9:12pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=25587 W Evans W Evans. Some input and thoughts would be appreciated. For modal (and modeless) windows, pop-ups, and "lightbox" ajaxed pop-ups, after a person has performed certain tasks, there are two options - commit those changes or cancel... February 6, 2008 4:42am http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=25551 Peter Morville Peter Morville. I'm working on a new book about the future of search and have created a seed collection of patterns and examples to support my research: http://flickr.com/photos/morville/collections/72157603785835882/ Over time, I hope to add patterns that... February 5, 2008 5:54am http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=25499 Micah Freedman Micah Freedman. Does anyone have any research and/or rules-of-thumb about the usefulness of putting "home" in the permanent navigation? I tend to want to leave it off because A) on most sites, I... February 3, 2008 7:03am http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=25409 Kim Bieler Kim Bieler. Marlene, I'm sorry I don't have any research to support these comments, but on a gut instinct level, I don't think clicking in the top navigation to activate the drop-down menus is... January 31, 2008 9:40am http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=25393 Navid Sadikali Navid Sadikali. We are thinking of using a hover open dialog to layer and nest suboptions under rapid access buttons. This strategy brings to light a second layer without requiring user interaction/exploration. I don't mind the... January 31, 2008 5:40am http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=25347 Alvin Woon Alvin Woon. As with any social networking applications, the quality of a given social graph heavily depends on whether your users are using their real name in their profile. Certain features such as 'people search' won't... January 30, 2008 12:20pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=25239 David Cortright David Cortright. Just passing this along for reference. I'm not affiliated with the site, but I like what I've seen so far–especially the clean, simple design of the site itself. http://ui-patterns.com/ FWIW, I saw this referenced... January 28, 2008 12:35pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=23155 Meredith Noble Meredith Noble. Hi all, I'm looking for some ideas on how to design progress bars for some nested flows. In the application I'm designing right now, we have two flows for two... November 30, 2007 8:02am http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=22928 Julie Stanford Julie Stanford. Hello, I was wondering if people had thoughts on the best practices for a progress bar for file upload. I'm having a discussion with a client and don't have a strong position on this... November 26, 2007 12:34pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=22044 Tim Tim. Hello, I wonder, does anyone know of / carried out / read any research into users' familiarity and ability with slider controls? This sort of thing for example: http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/SliderDemo (although I don't particularly... November 1, 2007 8:37am http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=21672 David Malouf David Malouf. I'm in SF this week at the IDSA/ICSID world design congress called "Connecting 07". It's the premiere conference that happens every 2 years for the industrial design community. It's big and its lavish with... October 18, 2007 11:57pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=21539 Janna Hicks DeVylder Janna Hicks DeVylder. I think all who attended would agree that the first Chicago IxDA event last Wednesday night was a great success! Many thanks to Manifest Digital for graciously hosting the event and opening up their... October 15, 2007 10:22pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=20960 Jeff Stevenson Jeff Stevenson. I thought I'd bring this to the attention of the group, in case you haven't already seen it. Apple has published an iPhone Human Interface Guidelines document. You can see it here: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/iPhone/Conceptual/iPhoneHIG/ I... October 1, 2007 7:07am