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for some reason i couldn’t post this to yer Facebook Wall, so here goes …

..:: *** :: original Facebook Wall message to Rick :: *** ::..

Rick … what up?

Hey, sorry we didn’t get to golf t’gether recently … maybe that Mike guy’ll set us up fer some fun again soon before the season is out … just remember, I snck supremely … but its fun to get ‘out there’, right? ;]

Quick Q fer ya … on the IA side a life … dialogs that come up all the time in an app include:

1. unfortunately, error messages come up a lot and its good to have a pattern + styles for them
2. warning, will robinson, warning … what’s the delta between an error and a warning though, right? that’s part of the challenge
3. messages … from the system … these could be informative and edutaining, or simply things you need to relay for whatever purposes ( i can’t dig up the theory right now from the recesses of my mind )
4. loading … when the system needs to think a bit between pockets of dataDisplay, its always courteous to let the user know everything is still okay and they’re headin’ in the right direction … keep ‘em in the know and they just might stick around
5. what else? just trying to get to anything else i haven’t thought about yet on the AI + IxD = ‘good, thoughtful design thought’ side a life ;]

a LOT about thought … i repeat the word too many times, but i’m keepin’ it just like that … this isn’t a fr!kken novel, right? not even a novelization … just a Q fer ya on this fine Wednesday morning …

[: peace out :]

lou