http://ixd.playgroundz.com Private blog by Meikel Steiding · Collecting ixd ideas Sat, 04 Feb 2006 23:53:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Content: What is it all about? Add item Overview list Issues What else? Money, Money, Money The web turned from a network for scientist into a quite important commercial platform. Users encounter more shopping possibilities per minute than in tv or real life and the wide range and link structure makes it hard to remember and find ... http://ixd.playgroundz.com/?p=20 Content: Introduction Mechanism Private vs Public A common question in the daily business life is the duration of tasks. The supervisor needs to know a good approximation on the estimated time needed for the following job. By assuming that the worker is a computer user it is a surprise that the computer can not ... http://ixd.playgroundz.com/?p=4 Content: Annotations Layer Input Model Final words Options:   Download complete thesis (2,3MB) Current computer systems are still based on the WIMP paradigm from the beginning of the graphical user interface. The design requirements from that time changed a lot in relation to todays use of computers. In the beginning of the GUI the computer was standing besides ... http://ixd.playgroundz.com/?p=2 Content: Introduction Requirements Inspiration Boxes The idiom of files and folders is part of the daily computer experience. It proofed to be a very efficient and successful solution ... http://ixd.playgroundz.com/?p=8 Content: Introduction Playlists Smart Tracks Listening to music is always a linear experience. There are only two events on how to change this linearity a) while a track gets played or b) after a track got played. This interrupting interaction is always a distraction of the current setting the user sets himself in. This ... http://ixd.playgroundz.com/?p=11 Content: Introduction Situation Solution Web browsers are a platform for displaying and interacting with remote media(Text/Audio/Visual). There is no intuitive way of retrieving information about the media items/clips. The visitor depends on the information the author provides on his/her web page. This article would like to suggest on how to display meta data for ... http://ixd.playgroundz.com/?p=14 Content: Goals-Tasks-Actions Tasks in software Problem Solution Today people are interacting with the computer quite an amount of time a day. Thus more and more tasks of their given goals are realized inside the computer and this means that the interaction between these different tasks becomes more and more important. If the efficiency of switching ... http://ixd.playgroundz.com/?p=18 Content: Introduction Distraction Feedback Suggestion One of the main activities in the daily computer interaction is scrolling. This scrolling is as old as the Graphical User Interface and the popularity of the scroll-wheel shows how much attention this idiom has today. This article would like to address an issue with the feedback of the scrolling ... http://ixd.playgroundz.com/?p=17 Content: Introduction Goals, goals and goals Categories Suggestion Example Computers are popular. Computers are used by a variety of different people. Different people make different errors. Errors are something nobody likes. What do current computer systems with errors? They alert/inform ... http://ixd.playgroundz.com/?p=15 Content: Introduction Model of human thought Concept Behavior Categorization Final Words The File and Folder paradigm is part of the daily computer experience. The resulting structures are created and maintained by the user. The basic idiom of saving and opening files has not changed through the time and probably ... http://ixd.playgroundz.com/?p=16