I'm about to give my presentation on patterns in about 18 hours or
so. Having just finished my slides 18 hours ago you can say I'm knee
deep in thinking about patterns. A few musings coming out of the muck:
1. The person who brought up context intention nailed it on the
head. Alexander is clear
Dave,
Is there anything you can share from the IxDA event? For those of us
who are contract, and can't afford to get away to great events like
these, we'd love something to gleam on to to be inspired too. :-)
David
On 10/18/07, David Malouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm in SF this week at the
As a designer or any other employee, you're a mercenary. Your job is to
adopt the values of your audience and create for them.
--- Alan Wexelblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As to underlying values this is where I see (potential) contention
in that the designer's and user's values may not even
On Friday, October 19, 2007, at 12:50PM, Christopher Fahey [EMAIL
PROTECTED] wrote:
There are two kinds of web
design professionals in the world: People who read ALA at least
occasionally, and people who I would never want to work with. I would
guess that the vast majority of web
Have you rebooted your phone?
Actually, I set up Gmail to forward everything to a dummy acct and
then set up the dummy acct on the iPhone. Then my original acct
(Google Apps with POP) magically started working correctly. So I
deleted the dummy acct and stopped the forwarding in Gmail, and
At one point I deleted my account and recreated it and that did the
trick. Finally, I just went to my yahoomail mirror, since it works
much better with the jesus phone.
-x-
On 10/19/07, Robert Hoekman, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have you rebooted your phone?
Actually, I set up Gmail to
I think I come down closer to Christopher Fahey's side of this
spectrum. I think it's necessary to *understand* the values and
intents of my employer but that doesn't require me to wholeheartedly
adopt them. Nor does it make me less professional, I think, if I do
that.
Being a paid professional
Have you rebooted your phone?
On 10/18/07, Robert Hoekman, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My grips at the moment is that the iPhone, for some reason, isn't
grabbing the most recent messages from Gmail. The latest mail I have
right now is from yesterday. This has been going on for a couple of
What I pointed out was that when you are paid to do a task, you are
paid to adopt the values and intents of your employers.
I did not say you did not have the choice of employers.
I am merely stating one facet of business reality. If this reality is
offensive, I suggest you take it up with those
The login screen that was presented, lifted the weight off my grey
cells. I
found it extremely intuitive to login to the site using the userid/
email.
I have the opposite view: I have no idea how to log in to the IxDA
site, and think it's one of the most awkward login screens I've ever
Assuming you start from business needs through research, functional
requirements, testing, and UI design, then I see functional design as
the entire process with interaction design mainly being the last step.
With functional design, you are trying to figure out which functions
you will be
It's an interesting aspect of the development of one's creative faculties
that there is a period of rote imitation and then some point of
transcendence, when the underlying principles suddenly - apparently -
coalesce. I think the junior person needs a lot of practice and observation
of other
I'm in a small shop in which designers wear three hats. We design
functionality when we specify what operations and information to expose to
the user. We design interaction when we specify how to expose them, and how
the user will interact with the application to use them. We wear our
application
Okay, so then how would you distinguish between an
interaction designer and a functional designer? Are they the same?
I think functional designer should mean the same thing as interaction
designer. It's a good way to explain what you do to business systems
analysts, project managers and
I've never before heard of functional design or functional
designer. On the other hand I have for many years, and in multiple
companies, used the terms functional specification and user
interface specification (among others) for important design process
documents, on both hardware and
A lot of interesting points along this thread. Wesley's comments are
very interesting. One thing about Yahoo's library worth noting is that
we are far from a centralized organization. We have a central UED team
but it's small and the vast majority of our designers work in business
units. It's
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