M.A.X

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I work as a UX and Information Visualization designer at Visier Analytics, a Business Intelligence software company in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Sep 26	awarded	Yearling
Sep 25	revised	What is a good visual cue for drag and drop? (for reordering a list of items) added 218 characters in body
Sep 25	asked	What is a good visual cue for drag and drop? (for reordering a list of items)
May 9	answered	Identifying multiple sort criteria
Apr 30	comment	Chart drill-down affordance? For classic bar charts and charts with basic labels I agree that hyperlinks are a great idea. We run into problems when the labels are shown on a 45 degree angle (as is the case when many bars appears and the labels are long). Also, some of our visualizations (such as bubble scatter plots) don't have labels.
Apr 30	asked	Chart drill-down affordance?
Feb 9	revised	How to best label age group boundaries? deleted 6 characters in body
Feb 9	comment	How to best label age group boundaries? Just the clarify the purpose of this UI - it's part of a workforce analytics application (Business Intelligence) - the user would be an executive, line manager, or HR business partner studying their workforce demographics. We take in customer employee records and provide analytics such as demographics, staffing, etc. In this case, the user might be looking at employee Turnover broken up across company tenure or employee age buckets. Such a view would allow someone to see if most of the people leaving the organization are of low tenure or of a specific age group.
Feb 9	comment	How to best label age group boundaries? Sorry, the filtered bucket will be showing 2-2.999. Nonetheless, my comment still stands - the count for the 2-3yr bucket will be different with the filter applied (showing 2-2.999 with filter vs. the 2-3.999 sans-filter)
Feb 9	comment	How to best label age group boundaries? I also agree that option A is best. However, another big point of confusing is when setting a filter of 'less than'. For example, saying filter on 'less than 3yrs' means you will only see the age buckets for <1yr, 1yr, 2-3yrs. However, the 2-3yrs bucket value will be different than the one you see without the filter because sans-filter the 2-3yrs bucket shows 2-3.999yrs while with the filter it will be reduced to only showing 2-3.0yrs
Feb 9	revised	How to best label age group boundaries? added 514 characters in body
Feb 9	asked	How to best label age group boundaries?
Dec 16	answered	Do users understand the browser back button?
Nov 18	awarded	Teacher
Nov 17	accepted	Best way to give user two controls (expand and select) on a single object
Nov 1	comment	Best way to give user two controls (expand and select) on a single object What do you mean by 'got it'? With option B users quickly figured out that clicking on the bubble was selection and expansion was via the '+' control, however because the bubbles were bigger and were the primary attention object, users still moved their mouse over to the bubble they wished to expand and only then moved the cursor right to the '+' icon and clicked to expand - on average it took almost twice as long for users to navigate the tree because of this and the interaction came across as frustrating, hence my hesitation with going with option B
Nov 1	revised	Best way to give user two controls (expand and select) on a single object added 224 characters in body
Nov 1	awarded	Editor
Nov 1	revised	Best way to give user two controls (expand and select) on a single object added 224 characters in body
Nov 1	comment	Best way to give user two controls (expand and select) on a single object It's hard to communicate this from just a static mockup, but when we tested option B with users we found that people always moved the cursor to the bubble first, and only then moved it over to the expand icon. Because expansion (tree navigation) was the primary workflow this turned out to be fairly frustrating and slowed down the navigation speed (this occurred even with bigger 'expand' icons)