Boxes and Arrows: Comments by Tim Sheiner

Tim Sheiner — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 05:47:49 GMT

Really interesting article. Thanks for giving me the concept of understanding the user value of ratings as a risk management tool! That is a simple and powerful insight.

However, to follow on to David Shen’s comment, I wish you’d included a bit more discussion on how the risk management perspective can instruct the design of the ratings display. Some sites are using histograms to provide a bit more richness for interpreting the rating. But to David’s point, even if I can see the distribution, how do I know if I am more like the group who gave 4 stars, or the group who gave 5? And how do I relate the difference between 4 and 5 to my purchase risk?

Tim Sheiner — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:20:31 GMT

Anders;

Excellent, complete and even handed description of a work process.

When I first stumbled into XHTML prototyping I found myself second guessing my plan to embrace it. The approach seemed so much more efficient to me than static wire framing that I couldn’t understand why it wasn’t a more common practice. I wasted a fair amount of time wondering if I was missing something and even had a disappointing experience trying to evangelize the idea when I worked briefly at Apple. There I had zero success suggesting that XHTML prototyping might have as much or more value than ‘pixel-perfect’ PS or AI files.

Nice to read someone else confidently putting forward this approach as valid.

Thanks!!

Tim

Tim Sheiner — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 04:44:40 GMT

Nathan;

Excellent article! My colleagues and I at Jaspersoft are just wrapping up a project to develop our own UI Framework. While your chapter is written from the perspective of planning such an endeavor, looked at in retrospect I can attest that it accurately describes exactly the players, steps and decisions we went through.

We found that this project took considerably longer than we expected. You might be interested to read my conclusions regarding why we could not estimate the work accurately:

http://timsheiner.com/blog/?p=185

Tim