December 2009
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The Top Ten Essential Interaction Design Books—Dan... →
Dan Saffer shares his list of the top ten must-have books for interaction designers.
November 2009
10 posts
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Allocating Storage Resources to an Organizational...
Brief
To enable administrator users to assign storage resources (physical disks) to organizational units.
First Steps
This is not a complex problem that has never been solved by anyone else before (though there are a few wrinkles that need to be taken care of). So I looked to the available design patterns to see what would work best.
The interface was already in place for selecting an...
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Mozilla Design Challenge Entry
Brief
The brief of this design challenge was to find a creative solution to this question: “How can we create, navigate and manage multiple web sites within the same browser instance?”.
Entries were to consist of a video (around three minutes) and images of the mockup.
First Steps
After reading Aza Raskin’s blog post about browser tabs, I quickly saw the advantages of...
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Replication—Provide a Way for Users to Set up...
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Interaction designer masquerading as a technical writer. Dad. Husband. Etc. Brit in Israel. Johnny TV dude.
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Adding Filtering Functionality to a Data Grid
Brief
To enable users to filter the items that are displayed in a data grid by any criteria they choose.
First Steps
The first thing I did was to sit down and talk with the project’s lead developer. He said he wanted something like the search feature in the bug-tracking system that we use (which allows you to create and save complex boolean searches on multiple criteria). My initial...