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| bio | website | alexfeinman.net |
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| location | Boston, MA | |
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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 6 |
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How to differentiate between vertical and horizontal splitting of a view edited tags |
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Jul 6 |
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Why do modern smartphones featuring a touchscreen have several forward-facing buttons? Everyone's still copying the Palm Pilot four-button (or 6 or 7, depending on how you count) design. |
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Jul 5 |
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Task-based navigation: Find a document vs Search for a document "Find a document" saves a few characters...less screen noise! |
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Jul 1 |
answered | Including unique content under multiple navigation trees |
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Jul 1 |
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Allow users to choose visualisation type? +1. Give some good defaults and suggestions for users that don't want to learn the 'rules', but allow engaged users the flexibility to do wonderful, unexpected things. |
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Jul 1 |
answered | Are there PhD topics for user experience? |
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Jun 29 |
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What to ask when hiring UI Experts? Downvoter -- please tell me how to improve this answer. |
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Jun 28 |
answered | How do I present massive amounts of data on the iPhone? |
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Jun 23 |
answered | What to ask when hiring UI Experts? |
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Jun 23 |
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What to ask when hiring UI Experts? Neither of those questions really has much in the way of meaty answers... |
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Jun 17 |
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For large hierarchies - checkbox tree or 'guided tree construction' Definitely. You might be able to use a more map-like layout, with tags and tag synonyms. Also, a single piece of music may fit into many genres, since they are generally not orthogonal. |
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Jun 16 |
answered | What tools are sitting in front of a creative user experience designer during most of their workday? |
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Jun 16 |
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What are the negative and positive aspects of dark color scheme? Well, when you're doing paper prototyping, all-black backgrounds take a lot more ink... |
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Jun 16 |
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For large hierarchies - checkbox tree or 'guided tree construction' Your difficulty in presenting the information may point to the fact that you cannot actually ignore the conflict between the user's mental model and your represented model. If the data simply doesn't fit in a tree, no clever presentation is going to make it fit... |
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Jun 16 |
awarded | Critic |
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Jun 16 |
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Which is more important, less mouse distance to travel or visual consistency? Especially point #2! This is a great case of "premature optimization" or over-application of a rule. So they have to move their mouse, ONCE, a few extra pixels. That's a really small burden... |
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Jun 10 |
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Who knows the size of preview window for mac? And, you can resize the QuickLook window. |
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Jun 9 |
answered | Optimal interface for specifying a mapping between known field set and fields discovered in CSV file? |
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Jun 7 |
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Why is the common practice of sign in error message always mix the wrong username/password cases together? Security trumps apparent user-friendliness. The ultimate in user un-friendliness is having your account hacked... |
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Jun 7 |
answered | Bridging the gap between color palettes and CSS |
