[Sigia-l] Real World UI Design Failure
Jonathan Baker-Bates <[email protected]>
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I like to remind myself that the default mode of design is failure. Quite often though, failure that can be hard to isolate or pin reasons to. But if anyone's interested, I've written up some stuff about what I think is quite a clear cut failure of mine: http://webtorque.org/?p=1141 In summary: I thought we might be able to achieve a "polite" (ie noticeable, but not intrusive) prominence to part of a search results UI by using a pinned header. However, I've now found strong indications that I was wrong. The good news is that I *might* have found a clue in the form of some recent tired party research about out why I was wrong: http://visionlab.harvard.edu/silencing/ Incidentally, here at hotels.com, we log major assumptions about our website in a database (in this case the assumption is "Pinning items to the screen increases their visual prominence") and then attach research and other findings to them that may strengthen or weaken those assumptions over time. This allows designers to keep their heads above the raging tide of data that our analysts pump out, as well as our own qualitative research, and that of our Expedia big brothers and sisters. Jonathan PS: I'm recruiting for 2 permanent IA/UX positions. Do you have at least 5 years UX design experience, preferably with some ecommerce in there? Would like to join a UX team of 12 in London's Covent Garden working on what is probably one of the most well-resourced commercial websites in the world? Then send me your CV because I'm having a hell of a time finding the right people. ------------ 2011 IA Summit March 30 - April 3, 2011 Pre Conference Seminars: March 30-31 IA Summit: April 1-3 Hyatt Regency Convention Center Denver, CO ----- When replying, please *trim your post* as much as possible. *Plain text, please; NO Attachments Searchable Archive at http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/ ________________________________________ Sigia-l mailing list -- post to: [email protected] Changes to subscription: http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l