Sunday, May 25, 2008

Katarzyna Emmerich Pieklo Obrazy

Conway's Law

"Any piece of software That Reflects the organizational structure produced it."


Wikipedia link

1080p Dvd Player Solid Player For The Money

Flow. That is the UI Design is not simply designed makeup

After years and years of hype, expectations, referrals, closed beta, has finally come to the much-vaunted Flow priori. FTP client, it was said, intended to give an alarm to the niche market.

The reactions of people were immediately divided between those who immediately fell in love, singing the praises of the GUI and its minute details, and those who, instead, have begun to show the direction of its numerous bugs and marketing hype around the application going to pose pseudo-geek empty glorification of mere functionality at the expense of the graphic details of the GUI.

We must say that it is not ipso facto lead to hype bad if this follows a product worthy of the hype. I do not agree, never agree with those who, in a spirit of elitism illusory, tend to denigrate without a foundation product, any product based only on evidence of marketing.

is not bad at all considering an application from the point of view of mere attention to visual detail. It 's a key element in the User Experience and should never be left out (as I often do, especially on Windows).

The problem here is that all this hype and attention to detail no doubt a product does not match up to it. This is well understood, not for the many bugs that plague the application (we are now accustomed to paying to be beta testers), but for a precise choice of Interface Design that, pretending to innovate, thrown in the trash usability.

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single-window approach Flow pursues that does not fit the task for which it is proposed that is not the simple exploration and manipulation of folders in the remote but interaction between the local copy and one of these files remotely.

Historically this approach has a parent who can see it in action in any software is designed for operation diff / merge on files.

FileMerge Apple, for example.

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Here the file is compared line by line with its antecedent or consequent seeking changes that will be appropriate to incorporate into the final version that we will consider.

task that is associated with an FTP client is just like the synchronized navigation, a first version control between local and remote upload and download files to and from remote locations. In other words, the interaction between local and remote. For this simple reason, Flow fails its task as it forces the user to have another application external open and active to carry out successfully what should be its primary purpose .
should in fact have a Finder window in support otherwise the user will be unable to do anything but operations on the remote folder from the folder in the remote, so closed and exclusive. The user is then
trapped in the application and to find a way out of the impasse must be used effectively to external lifeline.

Interface Design This is bad because it is one thing to look for support in specific applications for specific tasks beyond the primary task of the application (open a text file for editing from the same FTP client, for example), another is used to aid external to accomplish the primary task for which there is an ftp client.

I write this after taking over the entire test flow in the probationary period and that immediately jumps to the eye and confirmed in daily use.

nell'Interface Design Innovation is not 'famolo strange' or take, as in this case, a paradigm from an application (in this case, the Finder itself, the iApps, etc.) and carry no residue on a task different.
contamination, when can be filtered and take out only what can be useful in rejecting what, in terms of usability, creates dysfunction in effectiveness of the UI. Ben is

So the attention to detail of the UI but that comes after a careful study of the behavioral pattern user of your application and the tasks and sub-task that needs to be completed.

Much ado about less than nothing, so to speak.

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Discount Ink Jets Very Disappointing

The Metamorphosis by Peter Kuper

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Inspired, rather than going into the stretch, from the comic genius of Winsor McCay , arrives on bookshelves for the types of Italian Guanda transposition in Graphic Novel, a Edited by Peter Kuper , one of the masterpieces of literature.

The metamorphosis of Kafka , already has her visionary, it is not disfigured, as often happens in the transposition of the drawings of Kuper who manages to keep up with some plans, like the second image above, and worthy of note. Some solution, but there are not many, a little too risky in lettering undermines the full enjoyment.
The choice, of course, the Black & White only serves to emphasize the environment in many significant steps made to strip while a few tricks too easily could have been avoided.

Excellent purchase, costs very little for a great book. Not a masterpiece of its kind to have but without a doubt.

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Ergonomics anyone?

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not practical. Ergonomics zero. Industrial Design to its degree zero.

How you are supposed to interact with all of this together? Monitor
too far by the user with no possibility of deviation in the z axis to relieve the discomfort of this position.

Besides that, from the picture, we can deduce an absurd place the control over ports and CD Bay. The user is forced from the position of the monitor, at a certain distance from the sides of the desk that actually makes it inaccessible to the left side where the doors are located, the power button and the CD Bay unless you stick out, leaving the working position, to reach this side.

say nothing about other problems that obviously, there may be (expandability, heat dissipation, etc.).
Finally, as a detail, a slot loading instead of the usual drawer in a product that sells itself as 'futuristic'?

Friday, May 23, 2008

Solid Ink Copiers Verify If The Box Is Complete

Account forced. Usability of the BOL and checkout

is not necessary to force the user to open an account to buy an asset.

make it easy to do business with you . Keep in mind this simple rules.

Barnes & Noble , fresh redesign, it applies this principle perfectly.
The user can proceed to checkout without creating any accounts, but entering, one-off only the data needed for to complete the purchase process

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In contrast, the usual BOL

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even require the user to open an account in order to proceed with the transaction. The

web marketing starts well before you have a web site that already beautiful finished and directly involves the UI Designer at the earliest stages of study. The usability of these critical steps in an e-commerce is, in fact, at least essential and will have considerable impact, both positive as negative, concerning the perception of customer service that is offered and, consequently, the Brand.

The difference between a checkout usable and a kick in the shins the customer is everything in this picture.

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Flatbed Scanner Manufacturers Bewildered No More!

IBS. E-Commerce to be redone.

They say a picture is worth more than many words. There
propose three.

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Note differences?

After choosing a book and its addition to the basket on the one hand we Amazon with its recommendations for additional purchases based on what might be of interest, as well put in the basket. On the other hand
IBS and BOL with ... the truck just .

Now, E-Commerce stands for electronic commerce which means that there is always the magic parolina ' commercio '.
Chiunque vada in una libreria, girovaga, leggiucchia, sceglie qualche testo, ne ripone qualcuno ed infine decide quale o quali acquistare e si dirige alla cassa.

Per BOL e IBS, invece, il commercio non é così.
Secondo il loro modello comportamentale, il cliente gira per la libreria digitale, sceglie un primo testo e subito si trova catapultato, come per magia, in cassa!
Tutto ottimo. Tutto studiato sul comportamento reale del cliente tipo che, secondo BOL e IBS sa già cosa vuole, sceglie in prima battuta e passa direttamente in cassa.

Ma anche se così fosse, rimane sempre la cara e vecchia ' vendita Additional 'or that the librarian or the library itself, such as architecture, try to the last. Just think of the books that are on the route that leads from the shelf where the book was taken, to the body and contain possible and buy more gadgets developed, on display , groped for cash before the last purchase.

BOL and IBS does not even attempt this.
or are too honest and respectful of the Customer or who designed the UI never purchased a book in his life.

The second you said.

Stare Polskie Piosenki

Something's wrong. The usability of error messages

There are different ways to communicate with their users. Even when things go wrong as it should go. This is
the best way.



E 'inconsistent treat only the side of the normal operation and then get lost, as I often see happen in the details of error messages. As in programming where one of the most important is the try catch error handling that is that any dev rightly devotes his time, even in the construction of UI should take care of the moment, that always comes, in which something is goes.
And instead I see more and more convoluted in the UI that are a sad counterpoint error messages left to the laconic web application without custom duty or explanation, when necessary, of what happened.

leave you dazed in front of a page that tells him something in a jargon unknown to him, often accompanied by a completely different layout from what until a few seconds ago was watching, is not the best way to cure the usability of a web site.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Rca Dvd Changer Does Not Play Cd-r Music Discs.

The Web Standards that limit?!

Now, I do not know if that information does not by lack of understanding of the history of WSG
or by logical fallacy but I feel more and more often say that ' total adherence to standards beyond' creativity * of the web designers' .


Whether told in no uncertain terms. This is incredible nonsense. Resting against

the guilt of having to resort to fix a number to display. png with alpha channel to that bug called IE walking, thus making it invalid code, is to confuse cause with effect. not using standards is that the web site has display issues in IE ergo standards ' limit' our work but we are forced to use fix because Microsoft does not adhere to the standards.

If you're not able to implement a Web UI without overdoing it and not taking into account the limitations of the software that will render the UI, is certainly not the fault of the WSG, but of those who believe that web design is 'graphic' and not build a common framework based on the spread of certain technologies its limits where the content can be exploited and used. And also, of course, the software house that they do not care because they seek shared standards lock-in and then try to limit as much as possible to use the medium of their technologies.

can be built very well with a fork handle distorted. Will surely be 'original'. But then it will be usable in the proper context? This is what we were trying to say elsewhere about the mindset and planning. The usability is the foundation web design because it takes into account, right now, the medium in which this design will live.

The work, over the years (those of you who remember the first battles back in 1998. Gasp! I am just old), the WSG and we have all done setting up the various pressure groups, raising a cloud of dust, calling the software houses accountable for their failures is of paramount importance, not only for the swarm of small business operators.

E 'capital interest to the customer. Usability, accessibility, adherence to standards ensures that what you want to communicate, the product you want to sell , to reach as many potential customers as possible and the medium that allows this transmission is fully godibile . Un cliente che chiude la finestra del browser perché non é riuscito ad orientarsi nel web site é un cliente perso. Un cliente perso é un cliente in meno sul libro contabile di fine anno .

Il web é business non galleria d'arte. Il business si nutre di clienti. I clienti sono, con varie periferiche , alla ricerca di informazioni. Le informazioni devono essere trovate dai clienti e presentate, su tutte le periferiche usate dai potenziali clienti , nel modo più usabile in modo da passare alla vie di fatto dell'acquisto (on line o off line, non importa).

Fino a prova contraria questo As one who has commissioned a web site wants above all else. The paint is required to attract the larks.

This is one of the aims of the WSG. Rather than be limited by non-systemic lock-in, put pressure on those responsible because they eliminate the limits fake (those having systemic unavoidable). Spreading the culture medium and not the far west of the 'maverick'. Increase awareness of ecosystem complex and intended to profoundly affect our way of experiencing life.

As one attempts to assert its expertise in web design if you see only the side without questioning the paint medium itself, its purpose, its history, its limitations and its potential?

But what the customer cares? One might ask.

But then as you pretend to assert a professional other than a simple click buttons, as the freelancer's typical customer sees this figure, if you show that your work is in direct fundamental relationship with the customer's business and not simply accessory, I say.

If you do not tell them, how do you learn about them? How can you call yourself experts in communication (Web) if you do not know to communicate your professionalism?
like trying to sell your services if you do not communicate what they can do to the potential customer? In short, this is the ABC of marketing!

What amazes me most of all this is that often comes from those who recently entered the business, from freelancers 'top coat' (no offense or value judgments, but simply refer to 'years of service' and to market dynamics) and that, therefore, would have every incentive to assert the specificity of this craft, his deep knowledge of the dynamics of the web of communication in the medium in question. Those of us whose expertise does not need to be confirmed and working with target clients are well aware that these things would have no need to defend their grounds.

Yet here we are do so.



* let alone a definition of 'creativity' but I will be allowed to argue that, under development even before construction of the mockup, it does not take long to find alternative routes, which often are original. Moreover, as mathematicians know, solving a problem is often more creative than just going at full speed. Often. in trying to overcome an obstacle, there are unexplored paths .

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Antenna Construction Don't Waste Your Money

In-car Internet. It will be usable?

It felt discussing for quite a while. Still in prototype stage to give a show and never made a product intended for consumption.

Finally there came In-Car Internal t Internet Auto.

BMW, Chrysler and others are already in production line.

After convergence devices, PDAs and friends, new challenges for Web UI Designer looming. How to design, implement User Interfaces for all 'In-Car Internet?

begin by saying that the very term ' Internet Auto ' hides a 'deception' as a reason to believe that Internet , as we know and how we are accustomed to use it, which is the same, without any residue , we're going to use in Auto .

is not so.

The car navigation, of course, is an experience not at all similar to the one dedicated we're used to. When we face our attention to a computer has a very specific focus and attention is focused on this (except, of course, the 'normal' side activities of perception) .

car, however, we are left with a perceptual field mainly occupied by main task (driving) which should be combined with at least two additional sub-tasks (surfing the Internet and view the contents) as much as possible usable and usable in two distinct senses:


  • not usable because very different from what the user expects from its cognitive background.

  • usable because the dashboard is certainly not a computer and has its specificity in the Web UI will have to adapt.

So a UI as amended, as required by the specifications of the new medium, but not too much to crowd out expectations.

How to design this UI so that the layout, tools, features, screens are contained in the dashboard without sacrificing the 'usability that, in this case, it would be inconvenient as well as from the point of view of compliance User and suicidal in terms of trade also dangerous in terms of primary safety ?

And again, what standards will be adopted?

blending These questions also for the head of the producers themselves who, in fact, are pushing to draw up specifications, obtain insurance, in short, they worry that their container has then an actual content to display and show it as the user expects from their previous experience .

Issues usability and accessibility too often confined to the tiny space that institutions and established business dedicated to the disabled (never admit it!), They acquire greater importance as technologies text-to- speech are available as a vehicle for dissemination in the range-car Internet. The combination of usability, accessibility, therefore, looms again as the main road leading to the content available in Internet alla fruizione degli utenti in nuove condizioni ambientali.

In-car Internet sarà un successo? Secondo gli analisti, si. Ma solo quando la Generazione Y sarà ascesa al trono .

Monday, May 19, 2008

Dcrhc40 Minidv Digital Great Home Cam

Full accessibility to the problem of

Cosa volete farci? Come un bravo cane di Pavlov , non resisto e quando parlano di accessibilità-usabilità mi infervoro e comincio a salivare (divento anche un tantinello rosso in volto. Non proprio questa bellezza a vedersi).
Se poi ad aprire le danze è semplicemente il caro* Semplice Mente , allora come si fa a resistere ?

Prologo semiserio a parte, é necessario we compare with these issues, you need to know about these vehicles, which will bring these needs in their daily workflow, made not only of code, but paint and relational mapping of perceptions, signs, expectations, goals of same background semiotic-cognitive effectiveness of GUI.

For tutorialino Photoshop and dashed 1px border there will always be time.


* forgive me confidence

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Spondylosis And Tennis Elbow

Accessibility Accessibility. Between saying and doing there is half of the bureaucracy ...

How commented a few days ago, all this emphasis on Stanca Law, accessibility, usability seems to have settled in Italy, as usual, in a bureaucratic second level is so determined to confirm that a good friend of mine said of a psychoanalyst.
latter is used to repeat, referring to a fundamental concept of Lacanian psychoanalysis that ' between saying and doing there is still the middle and say nothing the sea', meaning by this statement that between the expression of intent and the passage when there is a threshold that is pleased with mere symbol, self-raising by the implementation of what is stated. Field of the reference to sign.

I still remember the most common question I was asked by students immediate cloud of dust raised by the law Stanca . ' Quali campi dobbiamo riempire e quali pulsanti cliccare in Dreamwever per rendere il sito usabile ed accessibile? ’.
La domanda, per niente banale, rivelava un modus operandi, un approccio al problema, di cui la legge Stanca era semplicemente un segno posteriore, diffuso. Gli ‘operatori del settore’ pare abbiano confuso, insomma, i temi della accessibilità e della usabilità con la mera tecnicalia di title tag, links blu e quant’altro. Qualcosa da curare a website già implementato oppure, al massimo, di cui preoccuparsi in modo generico limitandosi alla verifica tecnica finale.

In verità, progettare un sito accessibile (ed usabile) richiede sforzo ed impegno sin the early stages of the project. Start with the first interviews with the client. He continued in the early stages of draft and continues step by step, until the publication of the online site. It is a mindset , not false technical aptitude. A fact 'cultural', a 'vision' rather than rules of thumb from the inside out by checking the list. Blindly follow these 'rules' (or guidelines, if you prefer) does not ensure the success of the project as follows word for word does not make us a recipe cooks by heart, and knowledge of a language dictionary does not guarantee the then know how to speak.

The attention to detail, passion for the cultural object preso in esame (l’intero suo campo semantico), la identificazione con bisogni altri da quelli di cui siamo portatori (un esercizio in umiltà), un attento studio del comportamento degli utenti target del sito, queste sono le pratiche da apprendere, diligentemente, ma, su tutto, da cui farci permeare.
Un designer è una spugna. Inessenziale, è ricettacolo di minuti dettagli che ad altri (i non designers) sfuggono.

Come già accaduto con la ISO 9000 e tutta la retorica sul controllo qualità, anche per quanto riguarda la accessibilità ciò che è rimasto dai discorsi, seminari e paroloni è un nugolo di terziario avanzato e bollini ad attestare l'aderenza ad una legge.

Now, as any sociologist knows even the first coat, one thing is the imposition of a law on a social gathering, another and different is the cultural adhesion, permeability dell'assembramento sponte its content and the cultural frame the law in question.

what happened is that ' site accessible ' is synonymous with the blue sticker pasted on the page, some testing of the well and better and, over all, no deep understanding of cultural dynamics in the ' accessibility is only a sign and not at the end .

typical example of malpractice Italian than merely the letter and never understand and make their why is the site vesuviana.it .

For those, the many, were not aware of what this Vesuvius, we give two words of two background.
Simply the most popular method to get from Naples to the whole province on the axis leading to the Sorrento peninsula. Means, you can imagine, the most used and from the premises and, importantly, by the tourists.

In footer of the site by a fine show if a statement which reads literally sponsored
Powered by the platform for accessible websites Nebula 2 of CRISMA Srl
A quick check shows that both the accessibility and the slogan is not sponsored in any way to match facts.



Play as the user types in search of information (very real role in what I'm looking for info on timetables and routes) and I go along.

The homepage is already visible in the mindset with which you will fight along the vector that separates it from that end to be achieved.



For what that ' [C] Search '?
And why so little space available to the search field when the cylinder head is there to occupy space with nothing inside? The
charms, can be found, it would be best left to their own personal website, where you can safely play the "creative". In a corporate website, which is the provision of its raison d'etre, it is necessary that all that is presented to the user and functional the reasons which prompted the latter to visit the site. The excessive redundancy
for which there are a 'search this site ' and a 'go ' does nothing but increase the perceptual noise . The field is identified in that position, as a field of research. There is no need to add more information. Instead of a 'go ' (where, then?) Use the pulsante per sottolineare l’azione che l’utente andrà a compiere. In breve:

  • Campo di ricerca
  • Pulsante con dicitura ‘ cerca ’.

In questo modo si sarebbe ottenuta maggiore pulizia con conseguente miglioramento della leggibilità della informazione presentata.

La domanda che immediatamente viene alla mente, osservando il primo row della testata, è ‘perché tutto così compresso quando vi è tutto questo spazio a disposizione?’

Il campo di ricerca è di dimensioni minuscole a maggior ragione se si pensa che la ricerca tipo del sito sarà di indicazioni on schedules and anything else that requires the inclusion of at least two terms (departure - arrival).
Having all the space available, why not give it to the search box in more than 10 columns that would give the user the ability to see what you typed thus reducing instances of bad typos? We then

an 'icon' which represents a link to the site map . This practice, widespread in Italy, is justified by a presumed increased usability of the site because the user can check the map to navigate. In truth, the best design is one that goes unnoticed and does not interfere il task che l’utente sta svolgendo . Se un sito delle minuscole dimensioni di www.circumvesuviana.it abbisogna di una mappa vuol solo dire che il designer non ha lavorato abbastanza per rendere la struttura del website trasparente ed intuitiva (noi, infatti consultiamo una mappa quando ci vogliamo orientare in un luogo a noi ignoto di cui sappiamo solo il punto di partenza e quello di arrivo. Guarda caso non consultiamo la mappa dei luoghi abituali. Il punto in questione è proprio questo. Rendere un website talmente usabile e consistente con le aspettative e, dunque, le abitudini percettive dell’utente da eliminare del tutto il bisogno di una mappa con la quale orientarsi . Rendere il website familiare.)

Ora, dato la spazio a disposizione, perché usare una ‘icona’ (usiamo le virgolette per rispetto del lavoro degli icon designer che non apprezzerebbero l’accostamento del loro lavoro con questa ‘cosa’). Usare testo invece di una immagine avrebbe dato immediato feedback.
Abbiamo poi un ‘icona’ di ‘ info ’. Quest’ultima presenza è incomprensibile e segnala una gestione degli spazi confusa e non task oriented . Perché un link alla sezione ‘ info ’ nello spazio dedicato alla ricerca del sito? Dove è la consistenza della informazione? E' come se, sulla scatola dei biscotti, sotto la voce ingredienti trovaste information of the corporate brand.

surprising then the management of space and landing pages that are not filled with anything except to reiterate what is already visible in the menu.



fly over on technical details such as the non-alignment of some page elements that do not report the full test of the site on other browsers from IE6. Why then in the usual camping footer iconetta XHTML validation is a mystery.

Trying to do a search, we found the usual layout change that is to be charged to the laziness of the developers and the fact that, in all likelihood, the webdesigner had gone on vacation.




Note the link ' new search ' position abstruse.
But you have filled in the page of 'loading results'.



all wrong here. Everything. From note the irony of that icon of validation.
And it does not work the loader, the permanence after loading data is sad to see the confusion and increase the collection.



Other notes would still be moved to the site in question is not really useful to anyone maramaldeggiare.

Accessibility. Another term to be put on the list of certifications to be obtained or the labels to stick.
Accessibility. Another term to spend so bombastic PCB customers. Accessibility
as distinguished from usability.
But it is possible to an accessible site that is not first usable?