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| bio | website | alexfeinman.net |
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| location | Boston, MA | |
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| visits | member for | 2 years, 9 months |
| seen | 18 hours ago | |
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I'm a usability specialist investigating analysis and design of multi-user interaction. My doctoral work centered around using discourse analysis techniques to understand design requirements for groupware. I am currently employed helping to design a complex versioning/building/testing system.
In my spare time, I write science fiction; my novel Duplicate is available as an eBook, paperback, or hardcover. Yes, there's a fair amount of User Experience in it. ;)
My statements on these websites are not official statements from any employer of mine.
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Jul 25 |
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How many items in a carousel should be shown to the user at a glance? How "big" is the carousel? The more complex the items, the fewer you should show. The more complex the investigation of each item, likewise. |
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Jul 25 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Jul 25 |
accepted | When is double-clicking appropriate for the web? |
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Jul 21 |
answered | Icon meaning 'requested/allocated'? |
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Jul 20 |
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Alternates to the “play/pause” button Oh, man, SoundJam MP--that brings back memories. But it does use a lot of screen real estate. I failed to mention that this is (a) for a phone app and (b) may have a list of items all of which require play/pause capabilities, which precludes using hotkey alternates (but opens the space for gestural interaction). |
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Jul 20 |
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Why can't you update options in shopping carts? That could work, and a popup is a smaller distance 'away' than a page change. |
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Jul 20 |
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Why can't you update options in shopping carts? It doesn't have to show all options. It could show the most useful, most-commonly-changed options, and have a button for "Edit other options" that goes back to the product page. |
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Jul 20 |
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Why can't you update options in shopping carts? Task complexity is nothing to be scared of. This is complexity in the user's language. Scanning a list of options (Size, color, material) will help reassure the user they are selecting the right item, and each of those options could be a control for changing it. With the removal of two page switches, this would be a vast simplification overall. |
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Jul 20 |
asked | Alternates to the “play/pause” button |
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Jul 20 |
answered | Why can't you update options in shopping carts? |
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Jul 19 |
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When is double-clicking appropriate for the web? While I agree with all your points, none of them actually answer the question... |
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Jul 19 |
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Better term for “user” This. Figure out what their day job is--perhaps it's their job title, perhaps it's some abstraction of that--and use that to refer to them. |
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Jul 19 |
asked | When is double-clicking appropriate for the web? |
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Jul 18 |
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How should I interview UI and IA job applicants? What do you learn about UI skills from this? You might learn about their ability to solve logic puzzles--or maybe they heard that one before--but anything beyond that is suspect. |
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Jul 15 |
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When is it a good idea to perform actions on mouse-down *as opposed to click/mouse-up*? So your answer would be 'never', then? |
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Jul 14 |
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When is it a good idea to perform actions on mouse-down *as opposed to click/mouse-up*? I think what you're calling 'action on mouse down' I'm calling 'highlight on mouse down'. What I mean by action is something that affects more than just the interface--for example, having a window vanish on mouse-down. |
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Jul 14 |
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Isn't all user testing essentially a way of gathering how people think things should work? @Splog, hadn't thought about it that way but--yeah, kinda. With the addition of some scientific rigor regarding handling of data. |
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Jul 14 |
asked | When is it a good idea to perform actions on mouse-down *as opposed to click/mouse-up*? |
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Jul 13 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Jul 12 |
answered | Isn't all user testing essentially a way of gathering how people think things should work? |
