UX Chat

dhmholley

09:10

Coming back to the blog thing, are you willing to switch to monthly rather than weekly?

dhmholley

10:00

It seems like that would be less pressure.

dhmholley

10:11

(actually, never mind, I see it's one of those "post them when they're ready" style things rather than a periodical)

Adnan

10:27

I'm trying to find the name of a UI component, but I just can't get the right keyword

Here's an image of it

it's the thing on the right

the best name I could come up with is "scrolling gauge"

anybody seen something like that before?

JonW

@Adnan iPhones have a specific control for that, hang on I'll see if I can find out what they call it.

They just call it a UIPicker, but it's primarily for text

Adnan

that would be great, thanks :)

The thing is, I'm trying to create an element like that with Javascript and CSS

I just want to see if someone did something like that before

it's basically to visualize Ajax-fed values

I'm having extremely bad luck finding its name

JonW

Yeah, I guess it'll have to be a custom control - I can't find any specific details for this used outside of iOS

Adnan

10:43

I'm sure there's something like that in the physical world

Jay

@Adnan I've just seen it as a UIPicker or Picker. However your control has the added color element to the right. Added line detail in the values etc.

Adnan

like on a gas tank or something

no need for the color stuff

just like a ruler the scrolls up and down

and there's a needle that points to something

dhmholley

I'm fairly sure it's called a spinner.

I think we even have a tag for it as a control.

Adnan

I feel so helpless :D , this is the first time I just can't find something on Google because i don't know what to search for

dhmholley

Of course there may be no popular name for it. :S

Jay

10:46

@Adnan That might be a Linear Gauge

Adnan

@Jay yaaaaaaaaaay :D

dhmholley

Oh, my mistake, a spinner would be a control that allows you to pick a value rather than displaying one.

Jay

I also found this: dreamstime.com/stock-photography-analogue-display-image13863992

however 'retro' doesn't quite cut it as a description ;)

Adnan

that's the EXACT physical world application I was looking for

Jay

@Adnan Yeah, I remembered an old tuner / amp my father had that used those gauges. Also older medical equipment.

Adnan

10:56

Thank you all for your help!

By the way, this is what I have so far

jsfiddle.net/TrdaX

if someone is interested

maybe it will be useful to someone

JonW

@dhmholley A spinner could be confused with a 'page loading' type spinner though.

dhmholley

@JonW You're absolutely right. I think we may need a better name.

JonW

I'm thinking of a slot-machine spinner, maybe searching for stuff around that will locate a term?

Something like a spinning reel?

Adnan

@JonW, oh my lord!

of course slot-machine spinner

ah! we have them everywhere in Finland

hehehe

Anyway, I've already found it using the magic keyword.. Linear Gauge

JonW

@Adnan That's probably fine for a flat one, but probably not if you want it more 3D, but yes, it's not bad.

Adnan

11:09

@JonW, you're right, but in my case the targeted users are in the industrial biz

so maybe a ship captain who's looking for any kind of indication

actually the main problem I currently have is that I'm generating the ticks on page load

which caused a huge problem with big ranges (ended up with 10000 new dom elements)

anyway, I'll keep working on it. Thank you all big time.. awesome guys!

Sam Hasler

12:18

@Adnan Do they have to be dom elements? Couldn't they be a repeating background image?

Adnan

12:58

@SamHasler, they don't have to, but it's preferable for scaling

actually the first "version" had repeating images

I'm currently working on generating only the displayable ticks

Ben Brocka

13:12

@dhmholley yeah, but we do want to have a reasonably stable release window. Monthly + when ready would be just fine

@dhmholley oddly iOS calls their spinning UI a picker, and Android calls their picking UI a spinner

dhmholley

Odd.

Ben Brocka

Though I think spinner came first; I just think it's funny the most common spinner implementation that actually spins isn't called a spinner

dhmholley

I think we should just start calling it a spicker.

Actually no

Adnan

:D

dhmholley

That is a terrible idea

Adnan

13:16

it is

I'll stick to calling them Scrolling Gagues

dhmholley

so TIL that a decal is not the same thing as a sticker

which I sort of already knew, but I didn't think about the fact that the two are different when I wrote my answer

However I suspect no-one actually cares outside of the printing industry

Geeks On Hugs

lol? :-(

dhmholley

13:35

burn >:D

Ben Brocka

13:51

> Should I include my farmville achievements on my CV?

Someone asked that on workplace

guess I should have posted it before I deleted it

dhmholley

...wow

Sure hope that was trolling.

Ben Brocka

> They keep asking me what I have been doing in the past 8 months.

At least they're being honest

managed to be our lowest voted question in just 12 hours, RIP

> I have played a lot of FarmVille while between job searches. I am thinking it would be good to explain the 8 month gap in my current unemployment. Should I put this in my portfolio or my work experience section? Thanks. Also add me on facebook for neighbors!

dhmholley

Top voted answer: "You don't deserve to get a job. DIAF"

(in my head)

Ben Brocka

There are some comments to that effect

I didn't feel the need to trim them due to the content of the question

Ben Brocka

14:53

nice touch; in the new review layout the action buttons are disabled for a moment as the content loads, so you can't just spam clicking delete/looks good

I wonder if it yells at you if you click it while it's disabled like that

kuler.adobe.com

neat

dhmholley

Yeah, kuler is pretty cool. Hard to find a good real life application unless you're a graphic designer, though.

Ben Brocka

15:09

I might use it to pick a color scheme for my parent's site...no existing color associations for the brand

Sam Hasler

@BenBrocka colorschemedesigner.com

Ben Brocka

@SamHasler yeah, had that one bookmarked for a while

Jay

15:37

Some start-ups really do need marketing and UI help: humandemand.com

It wouldn't take too much there to rid it of the amateur feel.

a quote at the end of the page: "which company name and which design are you going to remember? Exactly."

Ben Brocka

But it's a slick design!

Jay

Being a 'Rockstar' is one thing 'Elvis cover band' is another.

Ben Brocka

it doesn't matter that none of it fits together

Matt Rockwell

@BenBrocka What are your profile pics from?

dhmholley

O_O

Matt Rockwell

15:41

do you draw them?

dhmholley

ooh, new prinny

Ben Brocka

It's like they paid 5 designers to make 5 different designs and taped them together

Jay

@BenBrocka And then said "It needs more POP".

Ben Brocka

@MattRockwell Nah, they're official art from Nippon Ichi Software. They're Prinnies. I wish I could draw that well

Prinny

:For "Prinny" as a historical nickname, see George IV of the United Kingdom. are a fictional race of creatures in Nippon Ichi's video games. First appearing in ', they have appeared in all later titles by the company, as well as on various merchandise such as hats and plush toys. With a few notable exceptions, they are voiced by Junji Majima in Japanese releases and Grant George in the English releases from Disgaea: Hour of Darkness to Disgaea Infinite, and by Dave Wittenberg in Trinity Universe, but it is unknown if either Grant George or Dave Wittenberg will reprise the role in the upco...

@Jay they're an Elvis cover band, a corporate marketing department, a web 2.0 social media site and something I can't quite identify, all rolled into one

dhmholley

Demonic penguins which love sardines and housework, and explode when you throw them.

Ben Brocka

15:45

Touch in cars is still too complicated

For some things I'd love a touch screen on my car's display, but for anything I need to do while driving I damn well better have a physical control

dhmholley

You'd be better off having the car drive for you most of the time to be honest.

Roll on the self-driving cars, I say.

then you can sit back and play Angry Birds or whatever and everything will be fine

Jay

16:09

I'm looking for a place to see well designed, advanced user interfaces. The ones beyond what you would typically see on the web. E.g. F1 telematics, military applications, market trading apps etc. These seem hard to come by. Many of the places I go for inspiration are great for common UI elements.

Any tips?

Ben Brocka

@dhmholley Well hell yes, but that's not an option quite yet. Though I do enjoy driving the Mercedes

@Jay Hmmm, not sure about that. IT's true that most places tend to be made to show off either individual UI elements or boring landing pages that look pretty but don't show the meat of the interaction

Jay

@BenBrocka True. They often have the luxury of simplicity. I want to see someone dealing with complexity and winning :)

Ben Brocka

A problem is the more complex a UI is, the less reusable it's "patterns" become; the whole design works because of everything and all interactions, not just because your radio button is the best damn radio button in the world

Jay

@BenBrocka And I suspect the more protected by confidentiality.

Ben Brocka

yeah, many aren't public/consumer facing apps

Ben Brocka

16:36

speaking of car UIs, is it common now to have controls on the steering wheels? Mine has next track/switch app/volume buttons on the wheel you can hit with your thumb. Awesome feature, I don't recall seeing another car with that though

dhmholley

Yeah, that's fairly common in new cars apparently

right, off home I think

Ben Brocka

@dhmholley Makes sense. Haven't been in all too many new cars, and mercedes tends to be a few years ahead in the fancy stuff (mine's 2006)

Ben Brocka

18:11

0

Q: why we need multi-column page layout? Why we do need sidebars?

Some websites only have one column. Some websites have multi-columns. So why we need sidebar, or why we need multi-column page layout in web /print media ? Is there any UX principles?

Not a real Question?

dnbrv

19:07

Anyone here good with Jira and Confluence?

Geeks On Hugs

19:19

Ben Brocka

@dnbrv not familiar with either

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