Here are some of the more common requests to the editor at uidesign.net...

Q. Can you explain Modal vs. A-Modal?

There is continued demand for this topic. However, it is one which has been covered many times before by other people. I may get around to a full article on this topic but it never seems to happen as there is always interesting new stuff to write about.

As they say at Prime Ministers questions, "I would refer the honourable gentleman to my answer from earlier". See Letters...

However, a far better explanation of it all is given in Jef Raskin's book, The Humane Interface. See Review...

Q. Do you make any money from uidesign.net?

No. I just do it for the hell of it. Any revenues from the Amazon affiliate connection go to likk.net to cover overheads.

Q. Why is the Site Design the way it is?

There is no simple answer to this. The reason d'etre for the site design is given in a series of White Papers starting with Requirements. See the side bar for brief details of who was involved in the design.

Q. Is the source code for any of your examples available?

Generally not. Often my published work is based on experience gained writing commercial products which cannot be distributed. This may change in the future.

Q. We have a vacancy for a Human Factors Engineer, can you help us find someone?

Probably not. There is a limited number of people I know who do this kind of stuff and they are all busy.

Q. Can you advertise our vacancy on your site or on your mailing list?

We have been experimenting with job advertising. The problem is finding a suitable working model for the business. Maintaining job advertising is a time consuming business.

There will be no misuse of the mailing list. The uinews list is for site update notification and won't be used for job advertising. However, job advertising on the site is a valuable service for the highly targeted audience.

If you would like to discuss this further write to the editor@uidesign.net

Q. Can you review my book?

Probably! However, time available to review books is now very limited. It had better be something leading edge and exciting, not just another book about GUI Guidelines.

Q. Are you available for consultancy?

uidesign.net does not operate a consultancy business. It is purely a webzine provided free for the Interaction Design community.