I’m curious about what people consider best practices for informed consent for user studies. In particular, I’m wondering what practices you use when conducting remote testing or telephone interviews.

Do you consider verbal agreement to be enough? Do you send consent forms and ask for signatures? Does anyone have advice for obtaining ele…

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I have been using XHTML/CSS and Visio for rapid prototyping until Axure was recommended to me. What are some tools that are being used out there for rapid prototyping besides Dreamweaver, Visio, Illustrator, and Photoshop?

I’m pulling out my hair.

I was assigned a mercy-kill project, they brought me in literally *after* QA arrived to “tidy up the UI”. Anyway, the application is built in IceFaces, ie AJAX. So there are literally just 2 webpages in the entire application, the login …

I followed the RSS link to your article titled “Meet Your Peers” and my browser locked up tighter than a maximum-security prison at the hint of an escape plan.

Forty-five little Flash video windows? Give us a break! Are we assuming everyone has a T2 connection or better? Mine is fast, b…

Hello,

I’m a newbie in the Interaction Design field – stumbled upon it after getting hired as a sound engineer at a start-up that’s building an interactive voice application for listening to podcasts.

Soon after joining the company I started prototyping different versions of the Audio UI, then there came the flow-charts,…

Am I missing something, or is there somewhere where the forum capabilities are described.

Specifically I was looking for a way to subscribe to email notification or digests of the forum posts. Short of that, a forum RSS feed. Do they exist?

Thanks,

Andrew

Recent comments on extreme user testing suggest people would like shorter articles. Yet in these days of blog posts and twitters, where can you get deeper thoughtful commentary? What do you think? Should B&A shorten up? Or continue a william-shawn-esque long and deep look at UX?

I thought this might be of interest for those dealing with information design.
I’ve posted several issues of icographic magazine from the 1970s that include work by Oth Aicher and Otto Neurath.
You can see it here.

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I’m so glad I found this site; it seems like a great resource for information.

Does anyone have ideas about how to find a mentor? I’m extremely interested in IA, and am enthusiastically searching for information about how I can expand my knowledge in this area. I’m not necessarily looking for an academic path, as I have a degree pl…

Hello,

When I’m creating wireframes, I often have to include elements that in most cases won’t appear on the final site. But they have to be included because they may be needed in some cases.

Is there some standard way to mark an element in a wireframe as “optional”?

Thank you!
Ben

It seems not much going on here… I’m really suprised. I always thought boxesandarrows would be THE LOCATION where IAs meets. Maybe it would makes sense to add a counter to every post so one can see if someone is at least reading the questions…

Thomas

Hi there,

currently the state of the art posting seems still to be a posting form. For instance on eBay you have to fill out a form, then you can see the preview of your product posting and then you finally submit your product.

Still, on a few websites I’ve seen another model, where you don’t fill out a posting form, rather th…

Is anyone aware of any best practices for displaying and laying out user-generated content?

Hi there,

we’re working on a commercial product categorization for a business to business website where manufacturers can present their products. The scope of the categorization ranges from consumer products like t-shirts to business products like manufacturing equipment. From averything to zomething, so to speak ;-)

We analyzed a b…

Reaching out to the community for some research surrounding usability in digital advertising (banners, search, email marketing, etc). So far, I’ve been able to find some eyetracking by NNG but not much else. Many thanks.

We’ve long needed a place for people to ask each other questions, discuss event of moment, and yes, even occasionally define the dang thing, what ever that thing may be. This is your place, unedited and unrestrained. Post with joy!

There are certain conventions out there. Our users have complex schemata and we, as designers, understand how to approach these mental models. I catch myself thinking of the new technologies breaking the horizon, in particular, the multi touch interfaces (iPhone, Jeff Han, etc.). Controls work differently when using these interfaces. Everyday our brains are mo…