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Today's Topics:

  1. Susan's monthly BayCHI carpool appeal---Feb 8th:
      SF--->MountainView--->Palo Alto--->SF [win a cupcake or bevvy] (Susan Doran)
  2. Re: Too much data (Greg Austin)

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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 17:07:43 -0800
From: Susan Doran <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [BayCHI Discussions] Susan's monthly BayCHI carpool appeal---Feb 8th:
SF--->MountainView--->Palo Alto--->SF [win a cupcake or bevvy]

hello there -

Going to next week's BayChi dinner and event?  me too!

Public transportation's cool...still, I'd rather carpool than leave SF at
3:25pm to take a succession of buses subways, trains, and cabs.

Aiming for 5:30 dinner at Viva Sol <http://www.vivesol.biz>----yum! "Tipicos
de Chihuahua y Sonora"----but if you can only make what sounds to be an
awesome talk on holistic UX in Palo Alto, that's okey doke.

pls let me know - thanks! (ps - you will earn a cupcake or beverage of your
choice + fuel)
Susan

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DiNNER <http://www.baychi.org/program/dinner/>  5:30 sharp

Vive Sol Restaurant
2020 W. El Camino Real
Mountain View, California 94040
(650) 938-2020
http://www.vivesol.biz


PROGRAM <http://www.baychi.org/program/>
PARC's George E. Pake Auditorium
3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto 94304


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ABSTRACT OF Holistic User Experience:

World-class user experiences require coordination and shared priorities
through the whole organization.  Justin will discuss user experience
design strategies and approaches at Apple, then at a start-up company,
then at Mint.com, and, finally, at Smule.

JUSTIN MAXWELL is the director of User Experience and Game Design at
Smule.  He was Mint.com's user experience and design guru 2008-10.
Prior to joining Mint, Justin brought rapid prototyping to Apple's Pro
App Design team.  Justin holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology from
Pomona College.

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Complete abstract and bio: http://www.baychi.org/program/

Directions: http://www.baychi.org/program/directions/

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Message: 2
Cc: Mitchell Gass <[email protected]>,
 [email protected]
From: Greg Austin <[email protected]>
To: Ryan Hanau <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [BayCHI Discussions] Too much data
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 11:51:34 -0800

Sorry, Ryan. Wrong line of questioning.

Like asking, "What's the answer to the math problem?"

The answer is, "five."

I would recommend identifying audience, then serving the audience that  
has been identified.

"Doctors" doesn't cut it.

Greg


On Feb 3, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Ryan Hanau wrote:

Hi Mitchell,

It's for the healthcare industry and used by doctors who typically  
don't
have a lot of time to spend with the display. The common practice is  
to
squeeze lots of data onto a single screen. It's my belief that at  
some point
that is a bad idea. More screens with less data would probably be more
effective.

Ryan

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Mitchell Gass <
[email protected]> wrote:

At 01:35 PM 2/3/2011, Ryan Hanau wrote:

Can anyone refer me to any research on how much data a display can  
hold
before it overwhelms its users and comprehension/retention rates  
go down?

I imagine data density and comprehension/retention rates is bell- 
curved
shaped: too little, just right, and too much. Has this been  
quantified--X
number of data points on a display is just right/too much.


Hi Ryan,

Can you tell us anything about the data, the audience for the data,  
how and
where they'll use the data, and any ideas about how the data will be
presented? All of these can influence what's optimal.

There may be artful approaches to presenting your data that can  
help people
take in more of it:


http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-approaches/

Jennifer Tidwell talks about some of the issues in a pattern:


http://www.mit.edu/~jtidwell/language/high-density_information_display.html

And Tufte may have some useful advice:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi

Best,

Mitchell Gass
uLab | PDA: Learning from Users | Designing with Users
Berkeley, CA 94707 USA
+1 510 525-6864 office
+1 415 637-6552 mobile
+1 510 525-4246 fax
http://www.participatorydesign.com/
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