Re: [IxDA Discuss] Volunteer! IxDA Local Groups needs you!
Never fear, London hasn't fizzled out! Work commitments on all fronts have put things on hold slightly (difficult when the group is getting on its feet). I alone have been out of the country for five and a half of every seven days over the last three months. There'll be an event announcement soon. Regards, Alex. On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Tamlyn Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What happened to IxDA London? I went to one of the meets back in May > but it seems to have fizzled out since then. I'd be keen to help get > it going again. > > Tamlyn. > > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] [ixda] horizontal log in fields on web apps
Sunandini, It has a usability of 3.7 Megasnafus. :p How do you find it compared to other login experiences? Do you think it better or worse than these? Do yo think that having the password field beside or underneath the username field makes a significant difference? Will one option negatively affect the composition of the rest of your design? Alex. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Need Suggestions for 2-D Display of 3-D Quantitive Data
> I'm trying to design a grid display (table of numerical data) that really > has a dataset more appropriate for a three-dimensional display. But I'm > constrained to two axis. Depending on your values you could have a sort of times-table table (if you will) where two of the values make the row / column headers and the third axis (value) is the intersection of the first two. Something like this is what I *think* you mean from your explanation: http://snipurl.com/29zyo Independent variables would be quite simple (ex. 1) but I think ex. 2 maps more to your partially linked sub-headings. Here you could have a table that updated with selection or mouse position. This way your 'sort of related' sub-headings can show the relation (light grey), or otherwise (dark grey) and you can update the sub headings as appropriate (row-heading colour matches column heading). You'd need some pretty CSS for that, though ;) HTH. Alex. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] [Local] London Leadership!
Calling all London IxDA subscribers: There has been a lot of attendance and interest in the London group, so to knock it up a notch we are forming a organising committee/board that will plan and put on events in and around London, organise speakers, organise workshops and what have you. If you fancy getting involved, please get in touch. We're looking for about 5-8 people - that way if you happen to be busy or away during a month, there are others to fill the void. Interested? Please send a note to Mikhail Goldgaber (CCd here) and me and we'll reply to let you know the deal. We will be having an organisational meeting on Monday the 2nd of June, so please try to keep that free. We look forward to hearing from you! All the best - Alexander. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] getting into a master's program when youhavepoorundergraduate grades?
> Don't know if this would fly in the US, but here's a suggestion: try the Open > University. Interest or otherwise, what Caroline says is true! The OU is an excellent option. There's definitely some relevant stuff there - ethnography springs to mind (http://snipurl.com/29w3t - I'm going to sign up for this myself at some point). Have a poke around their site - there's plenty around Psychology and the social sciences. Alex. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Visual indication of a partially selected group
> Are there any good conventions for displaying a "partially selected > checkbox"? I have a tree of checkboxes and I'm trying to think of the > clearest way to show the user an indication that a parent checkbox is in one > of the following three states... An idea that springs to mind for me is a partial fill approach - "I give this movie three and a half stars" - although circles might be more appropriate. If you have the ability in what you're developing, you could indicate the proportion selected by turning it into a mini pie-chart with colour differentiators for completely selected or completely unselected (a traffic light esque thing, perhaps) That might be overkill for what you're doing, though Alex. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] [Event] Reminder: London IxDA meeting tonight!
For those that have RSVPed: don't forget about tonight! Map: http://snipurl.com/daredigital Unfortunately it's too late to RSVP now, however you haven't missed out entirely - we will be going to the Yorkshire Grey pub after the meeting from about 8:30. Map: http://snipurl.com/yorkshiregrey If anyone needs some help getting there, my mobile is: O7879 655 3OO Regards, Alex. On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Alexander Livingstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> IxDA's very own Dave Malouf is coming to town! > > John Gibbard has very kindly offered his (relaxed, pleasant) workplace > as a venue for the next meeting. This is fortunate as there's a > distinct possibility I'm going to be shunted of to Asia for three > weeks or so during the time when the next meeting is meant to be > taking place / Dave is over. > > They have very kindly offered to sponsor the event and provide food > and drink - remember that attendance won't cost you a penny! > > You can arrive from about 6:30 and there will be a structured > discussion from 7:00. > 7:30 to 8:30 will be general networking and remember to bring business cards! > At 8:30 we'll be retiring to the Yorkshire Grey pub for those who wish to. > > So - the venue has changed to the offices of: > > dare digital > (corner of Margaret St. and Great Gitchfield St.) > 13-14 Margaret Street > London W1W 8RN > > Map: http://tinyurl.com/3ql96f > Nearest tube: Oxford Circus Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing for Specific Audiences- in this case Finance
Paige, Recommended many times before, Tufte's "Visual Display of Quantitative Information" would probably be a good read if you haven't got it already. http://snipurl.com/tufte_on_amazon_us It is well worth the $28 and very relevant to your audience. Regards, Alex. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] [Event] Venue change - RSVP - London IxDA meeting, guest starring Dave Malouf
> IxDA's very own Dave Malouf is coming to town! All, Slight change of plan: we are going to hold the next meeting at dare digital. John Gibbard has very kindly offered his (relaxed, pleasant) workplace as a venue for the next meeting. This is fortunate as there's a distinct possibility I'm going to be shunted of to Asia for three weeks or so during the time when the next meeting is meant to be taking place / Dave is over. They have very kindly offered to sponsor the event and provide food and drink - remember that attendance won't cost you a penny! The only thing I would ask is that you please RSVP to John: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (cc-ing me) so that we can get an idea of numbers. We're limited to 40 and these will be given on a first-come first-served basis (ten are already taken, so there are 30 left - be quick!). You can arrive from about 6:30 and there will be a structured discussion from 7:00. 7:30 to 8:30 will be general networking and remember to bring business cards! At 8:30 we'll be retiring to the Yorkshire Grey pub for those who wish to. So - the venue has changed to the offices of: dare digital (corner of Margaret St. and Great Gitchfield St.) 13-14 Margaret Street London W1W 8RN Map: http://tinyurl.com/3ql96f Nearest tube: Oxford Circus See you soon! Alex. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA Digest Translation
What about using a tool akin to ephox' editlive application to track changes in translations? Again, maybe the google docs API can help us as that has track changes, doesn't it? Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA Digest Translation
OK, so how can we make the google translations better? The standard web page translations allow for correction of translations (c.f. this english to french traduxion: http://tinyurl.com/5gqz3c). This is good, as you can hover over sentences and correct the translation quickly and in-place. Can we make use of this? We have an involved community who care enough to put the effort in to correct ranslations that, I'm guessing, improves the google algorithm - even if it is only in IxD-related vocabulary (although we have enough debates about definitions and terminology as it is!). Are we able to tap into the translations via an API and present a two-column (web) version in english / non-english language of choice? Dare I ask if we can put that into an *ahem* HTML email? Ideas, people, ideas! ;) Alex. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in Europe
Dave, I've been thinking (albeit only in passing) about this: What are the possibilities of plugging into Google's (or anyone else's) translation engines? Language-specific lists sound good for non-english speakers, but you don't necessarily want to lose the contribution to the field as there won't really be much cross-pollination between the lists. If the list [IxDA Mandarin-Discuss] was created, could we plug the text through a translator into [IxDA Mandarin-to-English]? In the first instance it sounds like hellish language matrix that could give rise to all sorts of communication problems... But then people would take this into account, I'm sure. If the alternate language-translation lists were an optional subscription... Actually no, that probably wouldn't work, would it. Hmm. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] [Event] London IxDA meeting, guest starring Dave Malouf
Within-commuting-distance-of-London-ers, IxDA's very own Dave Malouf is coming to town! He's going to be at our meeting in May, so this is your chance to come along and say 'hi' - without the need to buy a `plane ticket to Noo Yawk. The details so far: Date: Thu 8th May, 2008 Time: 6:30 pm, onwards Venue: TBC - your vote counts! The dog and duck is out. We were double-booked. The ICA was nice, but wasn't as condusive to conversation as the other places have been. As I see it, we have three choices (below). RSVP with the venue you like the sound of and we'll go with the majority. (BCCd previous attendees, this means you!) -- Rocket Bar: 4 Lancashire Court, Mayfair, W1S 1EY Map: http://tinyurl.com/6psnlp A great bar tucked-away near Bond Street. The times I've been it has always been buzzing & has tables to book. Quite pricey, though. -- Low-life bar34a Paddington Street, Marylebone, W1U 4HG Map: http://tinyurl.com/4hjop7 It's been a good while since I've been, but Low Life on Paddington street had great drinks, etc. I'm a little worried as they've added the word 'Chillax' to their website. That, as far as I can tell, is a euphamism for STAY AWAY AT ALL COSTS. Thus, I'm torn as I don't know if it's changed. -- Yorkshire grey: 46 Langham Street, Fitzrovia, W1W 7AX Map: http://tinyurl.com/4pzbmg The venue for one of the previous meetings, the atmosphere lent itself to conversation - however it's a Sam Smith's pub, which some people are averse to. -- I'll see you all in three weeks! Alexander. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] [Event] London local group meeting
Hi all, A quick reminder about the London meeting tomorrow evening... We've got RSVPs for people who are joining us for the first time, as well as from the regulars (if you can call them that with two meetings under our belt!) How will you spot us? Well, I've gone all-out and have a *laminated sign* (impressed?). Again, we've the free food & drink card to play so make sure you get your share! We may not be upstairs (http://ixda.org/discuss.php?post=27741) as the pub has double booked - I'm going to go early and have a round of fisticuffs with our rivals - but I'm assured there will be space downstairs. See you all tomorrow, Alex. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Windows -- what would you change in interaction?
1) Oh, for tab completion in file-path fields! 2) Spotlight-esque search (does vista do that?) 3) The ability to keep programs open but loose the windows (a la os x) thereby removing the load time. 4) Expose 5) A way to ensure that docking and undocking a laptop and using a second screen doesn't swap the identities of the screens at random. It might be a driver issue, but there should be an upstream method of fixing it. Well, those are my biggest quibbles. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] [Event] London local group meeting
Last night's meeting in London went very well! Again we had a wide range of backgrounds, experience and work. Interestingly we had almost a completely different cross-section of people from last time (although I suspect some of this was down to late planning on my part - sorry for the last minute notice, all!). The 'mixer' style event was good and the conversation was curtailed only by train times and the need to get up in the morning. The enthusiasm shown by everyone at both events is really great - good things to come and lots of perspectives to learn from. The general consensus for timing of events seemed to be once a month, so I think we'll be continuing down this path for the moment. It was thought a good idea to have topics or themes to talk arounnd an spark conversation, so for the 17th, pick a topic you're interested in for chat - languages, telephones, something you like, something you hate. We'll see what crops up and take it from there. The next event is going to continue down the 'third Thursday' theme so the details are: Thursday the 17th of April at 6:30 pm Upstairs at the Dog and Duck pub 18 Bateman Street, Soho, London W1D 3AJ. Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/2376b2 Google Search: http://tinyurl.com/2qafzo My number: O7879 655 3OO See you all soon, Alex. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] At what point does a mailing list become counter-productive?
> That being said, this list has become unmanageable. Zack, In the process of getting involved in the list, I've subscribed twice. The first one was at work. Here, I completely agree with you. I cannot manage the list on my work account at all. It is simply too much - too many emails flying in, no easy way of organising them: no easy way in Outlook, that is. On gmail however, the list is a joy. The way it deals with threading is a godsend and it is so much easier to ignore what I'm not interested in, as it is only listed once. If something you've ignored is popular, it is easy to dip in and see if the thread has taken an unexpected turn that I want to read. The only reason I keep my work account subscribed is to guage the volume of posts during the day. Give gmail a go! > I mean there were 15 replies to the Nannybot > etiquette post ... we get that you're all clever and witty. Alright, I apologise. The cake-over-IP post was indefensibly peurile! Alex. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] What project management tool do you use?
Ari said: > back in the day, i used M$ Project then at another organization we used M$ > Project Server. As an aside (and I forget where I heard this): APPARENTLY the MS Project developers have special dispensation to not use MS Project when planning their projects. Vishal said: > IMO, this can be avoided by having a good tool Hopefully! The fellow I was talking to implied that things like this were quite cumbersome and it was often eaiser to go and chat to someone & negotiate, rather than resolve crazy dependencies and try to free up resource that you know could be free but the computer tells you isn't! Anyway, good luck with the final choice! Alex. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Any resources or testing data on quick entry grids vs. form fields?
> I was wondering if anyone can direct me to resources or testing data on > comparative testing between quick entry grids and form fields? Ben, This seems like quite a generic question for what is probably a very specific problem. Can you give any more information? What sort of data are you talking about? To what depth? Is the user's domain knowledge relevant? Alex. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fighting trolls
> For #3... How do we force new users to search for answers before > creating a duplicate thread on issues that has been addressed already? Making things hard seems a little mean! ;) What springs to mind for me is a (erk) tag cloud. In general I find them an annoying waste of space, however I could see it being useful for this 'initial search' purpose. I'd envisage a pane that can be sorted alphabetically, by date, frequency, etc. and hidden by regulars if not required. That way its two or three clicks to the information that you'd want, rather than going to the hassle of writing a post. It'll give you an excuse to buy Jeffrey Friedl's 'Mastering Regular Expressions' if nothing else! (The only programming-y book I've touched that is actually quite fun to read as well as being good at conveying its subject matter). Alex. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] [Reminder] IxDA London meeting: 27th March
On 3/25/08, Joe Lanman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi - is the meeting on the 27th still on? Any further details? Hi Joe, It is indeed! I haven't had a response regarding preferences for the venue, so I unanimously decide that it will be held from 6:30 at the Yorkshire Grey! This is off portland place, near broadcasting house: Map: http://tinyurl.com/yuf2wf Picture: http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/91/916/Yorkshire_Grey/Fitzrovia Nearest tube: Oxford Circus. See you all tomorrow for the free grub! Alex ( O7879 655 3OO ) Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] [Reminder] IxDA London meeting: 27th March
Hi all, If you're in or around London on the 27th, there will be an IxDA meetup and mixer event. We'll be starting around 6:30. The location is yet to be finalised (sorry, I've been working weekends and haven't had time to organise things yet!). Choice is probably between the Dog and Duck in Soho or the Yorkshire Greyhound near Regent Street. Don't forget that we have sponsorship, and that food and a drink or two will be paid for, so there's no excuse! Vote now for your Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Proper Etiquette
On 3/17/08, W Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... The behaviors are reinforced (e.g. feeding)... > You'll change your tune once they've got the cake-over-IP working, you mark my words! Alex Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Design at Apple
I wonder if there are any (bootleg?) videos of rands in action: http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2008/03/apples_design_p.html An interesting insight, although it doesn't really expose too much of the methodology. Alex Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] IxDA London meet-up, more meetings - and money!
Hi all, Last night was a very interesting meeting! It was fantastic to meet such a wide variety of people and work - education, entertainment, consultancy, information, engineering (that's me and my boats!) - and I'm really looking forward to the forum that will be opened inside the group. As for decisions about future groups: We have some sponsorship! My company has kindly agreed to pay for food / drink for meetings - I need to sort out the details a bit more, but you should all be regularly getting a good feed, at the very least. IxDA London will be meeting on the first Monday and third Thursday of each month (with the exception of the first meeting - which will be on the 27th of March). The first one or two meetings will be mixers - a relax after work, chatting & getting to know each other, our work and what our challenges are, etc. It will also be a chance to get to know a bit more about what everyone is after and what people would enjoy from the group. We also spoke about notification of IxD related events such as this evening's 'This happened...'. Everyone is going to take responsibility for tagging these events with 'ixdalondon' on sites such as upcoming.org. I'm going to organise a venue for the next meeting and will keep everyone in the loop. All the best! Alex. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Shared virtual whiteboard: Suggestions?
> WebEx > http://www.webex.com/ > Freehand drawing, image annotation, Mac/PC, but no collaborative > editing (only broadcast). Well - there is the meetmenow thing: http://webex.com/individual/online-meeting.html I'm going to be trying this out - we've a new corporate WebEx account. It does have desktop sharing - and controll.. "Pass control of your computer to any attendee and let them steer the meeting." Now, I've just got myself a Wacom tablet (for my poor crippled fingers) which will also be GREAT for drawing and I can see WebEx being scribbled on with this like a whiteboard. I think the one-at-a-time control will be quite good too (can you imagine several cursors on screen drawing different things? Ugh!) although still slightly artificial. Jonas, I feel your pain - I have to work with guys in Asia/Australasia AND the States / Canada. There is no easy solution. One of the products I'd like to play with for collaboration is ephox's editlive. I think (as it's installable on your own servers) the best document collaboration tool that I've seen-without-using. I'd certainly love to not have to piece together 14 word documents with changes tracked - even WITH the merge feature... Alex. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Power icon
> > How about the Save icon? It's often still a 3.25" floppy disk, which > > probably befuddles the heck out of anyone born after, say 1985. :) > > Yes!! Can we make it a 2008 goal of IxDA to create a standard save > icon that replaces the floppy before it becomes THE STANDARD by > default? Or is it too late? Hmm, don't we need to get rid of 'save' altogether? If you write on a bit of paper, the writing stays, you don't need to hit save. I want to lose the instinctive CTRL-S twitch that I have! Alex. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] London IxDA meetup 03/03/2008
Many of you will have seen the discussion about the organisation of a London meeting for IxDA discussion list members. Well, the first (pre-)meeting will be taking place this Monday the 3rd of March at 6:00pm. The venue will be the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts). For details on how to get there, see http://www.ica.org.uk/visit (and don't rely on their google map link - type in the postcode: SW1Y 5AH). We will be getting to know each other, discussing the logistics of regular meetings, structure, content, etc. There has been significant interest in the meeting so far, which can only mean that we have the foundation of a strong and propserous local community. I've been blown away by the calibre of people that I've been in contact with (work on the BBC iPlayer, for example) so I can definitely promise an interesting experience! While we will doubtless be chatting about Interaction Design, the focus of this meeting will be on how we are going to run the meetings in future. If anyone has trouble finding the venue, my mobile number is: O7879.655.3OO If you can't make it, please write down any views you might have about the group and send them to me - I'll make sure they are aired. I look forward to meeting everyone! Regards, Alexander. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Power icon
There seem to be two things here: 1) When should we set/accept/challenge standards? 2) How much how people have to learn to interact with these abstract ideas that are so new in our evolution, and how much should be metaphor? Personally, I would want to go with the broken-circle-with-vertical-bar representation. It is a standard whose 'etymology' is based upon the engineering notation that have allowed these things to exist in the first place. It is becoming more and more widely used. It is visually distinct: OK, I can only speak for the roman alphabet and the symbolism that I have encountered over my lifetime, so there would be more investigation needed here. It is simple and elegant (a little subjective, but _I_ think it's elegant). Do we need to re-visit the symbol? The representation is consistent with the on/off 1/0 yes/no that is intrinsic to computers and is fairly unique to the man-made realm. You can't switch a goat off and on again. And what else could you use? What represents power or something functioning? Lightning? I would associate that with danger. The army? Inappropriate. An engine? Well, perhaps, but the association is a bit ropey. What does everyone think? Alex. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD(a) meetings in London
Priya, That sounds fantastic! It makes co-ordination a lot easier too. I've sent you and a few other people invites on Dave's recommendation. The ica will be a good place (and easy to get to from work, too) I look forward to meeting you. Alex. On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:45:25, Priya Prakash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Alex & Alexander - > > I was the local London IXDA rep a while back. We (Matt J, Bruno F) > are hoping to meetup around 3-5th March to work out how we can get > London IXDA going again. > Alexander- Setting up Crowdvine is great. > I hope you are free for a tentative date of 3rd March 6pm at ICA? > See http://www.ica.org.uk/visit on how to get there > I am trying to co-ordinate with Matt J & Bruno to make it as well. > Cheers > Priya > > > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=26145 > > > > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD(a) meetings in London
OK, I've set up a crowdvine network for discussions around when and where the first meeting will happen. I'll also test the water with a few pubs that I know have an upstairs around W1. See: http://ixdalondon.crowdvine.com/ We will come back to the list with a date and time when it is set! One thing I would be interested in knowing from groups that meet already is: what format do your meetings take? I could see meetings being anything from informal discussion, to individuals presenting on topics and having a discussion around that, to group redesigns of open-source packages (common ones - so that any interviews can be conducted on each other / work colleagues), etc. etc. It is probably a good thing to talk about at the first meeting, however others' ideas and experiences are most welcome! Cheers! Alex. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=26145 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Help with navigation levels on website
> Thanks for the quick answer. Here is the explanation why we ended up > with four levels: > > First level: type of customers > Second level: type of products > Third level: products > Fourth level: details of products Johan, You should be able to remove the 'customers' from the navigation straight away. Presumably that information is a once-only choice...? If you have a customer at a particular computer (a work computer, say) you can set their type in a cookie / site DB once, and then you've removed the need to have the first level entirely. Someone ordering business products is probably always going to be ordering business parts (unless you're working on a site like amazon), in which case the user will WANT to put the effort in to change accounts - I don't want to order personal things on my corporate card & vice versa... Is that sort of situation applicable to you? Cheers, Alex. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] IxD(a) meetings in London
Hi, I was wondering if there were any IxD(a) groups / meetings in London? I've searched the list, and there seems to be sporadic meetings, but nothing regular. If nothing does exist, would anyone be interested in helping to organise a regular meet-up? Even if it is every two months or so, it would be great! We need to give these yanks a run for their money ;) Regards, Alexander Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Differnce between user interface and interaction design?
On 1/25/08, Demers, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just curious how some of you would differentiate an interaction designer > from a user interface designer? Apologies if it's been discussed to > death before. Looked quickly on the discussion archive and didn't see > anything. If you're talking in terms of selling the concept to people (which I am having to do right now!) I'm finding that picking out and using their buzzwords 'against them' is very persuasive. I'm selling IxD with two main points: 1) They align the products with processes(!) - and then you qualify this with high-level business strategy(!), all the way down to the work minutiae of the people on the coal-face (my worklplace is where clichés come to die). I then use the example of: 2) During work I staple, and remove staples from, things. I keep my stapler on my desk and my remover in my drawer as I staple far more often than I unstaple, and I want my desk to be clear. Obviously I flesh these out slightly and change the emphasis depending upon my audience, but it seems to work pretty well and seem to I get a lot of 'this guy knows what he's talking about' looks. Either that or I'm fooling myself ;) -- Alex. *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] FAQ? Elevator Pitch?
Although new to the list, I've seen a lot of discussion around the definition of what an Interaction Design(ers) is (do). Is there an FAQ that exists around interaction design? Does the list have one already? Have I just inadvertently volunteered to start compiling one? If there isn't an existing one already, what sort of questions should we have in it? Regards, Alex. *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] The applicability of NLP to interaction design.
Hah, I think I need to remember that the world is running out of space for three letter acronyms! Natural Language Processing certainly sounds very interesting and in an engineering world that's abstracted and represented in algebraic variables, I can certainly see an instant benefit for what I'm doing in understanding the material (if *nothing* else). Lisa I've taken your recommendation of Herb Clark's book and will grab it from Amazon forthwith. I suppose my take on Neuro Linguistic Programming (given the limited time I've spent looking at it) is that its techniques are based upon an model of the patterns that our minds follow - how we learn, retain information, behave, etc. which, assuming it is accurate, would be good for our overall understanding of humans. So in this respect, it might be able to help to remove a part of the uncertainty in any design that I undertake. My 'pretend its magic' (can you tell I've been reading?) aim for what I'm going to be doing is that I can use behavioural patterns so that out applications can be to our field what Derren Brown is to 'mind reading' (If you haven't heard of him, I suggest you go to Amazon and grab a DVD / unbox video - it is absolutely fascinating - and great entertainment to boot!). I gather his methods are partially rooted in the same sort of theory that Neuro Linguistic Programming is. It could be that it is a red herring - and human psychology as a whole is something I just need to look at more. After all, I have virtually no understanding of any sort of social science - I trained in Physics and Naval Architecture, so I've a very steep learning curve ahead of me in IxD. Re-reading this, perhaps I need to temper my enthusiasm and start slowly ( http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C01D844) =] Thanks, all, for the input! Alex. *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] The applicability of NLP to interaction design.
Hi, I have been thrust into the role of 'ownership' for several engineering packages from a venerable engineering firm. They have developed, ahh, organically (I think that's the politest way of saying it). Suffice it to say they need a thorough looking at. I discovered interaction design about three months ago and have been devouring books on the subject ever since - I am convinced that it is necessary. Coincidentally I also recently read about neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) which has a wonderfully airy-fairy name, but seems to apply a lot of clever psychological methods to looking at and altering people's behaviour and understanding. It struck me that some of this would be highly applicable to Interaction Design - has anyone tried applying NLP methods - or something similar - in there designs, or am I barking up the wrong tree? Thanks, Alex. *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
