[IxDA Discuss] Web 2 and enterprise strategy with regards to Usability/User Centered Design

2008-01-12 Thread Helen Killingbeck
I've been doing research in order to provide input as to Enterprise Strategy (from an IT infrastruturec perspective) on implementing Web 2 technologies. There is sufficient research on the impact of Web 2 technologies from the perpspective of a company's external facing audience (aka customers) ho

[IxDA Discuss] Extended Deadline: Final CfP: EuroiTV2008 - Full Papers

2008-01-12 Thread Obrist, Marianna
= Final Call for Full Papers - EuroITV2008 (sorry for cross-posting) Please note: -- Extended Deadline for Full Papers (January 19th, 2008) -- -- Accepted papers will be published by Springer (LNCS Series) -- ==

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Tata Nano vs. OLPC/XO

2008-01-12 Thread Jeff Howard
Murli wrote: > There are numerous instances of resourcefulness > one encounters as one wanders about in poor societies > where people survive, if not thrive, in the most > challenging circumstances... There are a couple blogs on this theme that might be worth checking out: Street Use http://kk

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Use of colors/shapes in tools for education

2008-01-12 Thread Jeff Howard
Hi Oliver, Take a look at George Miller's 1956 study "The Magic Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two." http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Miller/ Miller was studying the human ability to distinguish values along unidimensional and multi-dimensional scales. Things related to color, sound and taste for exa

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Use of colors/shapes in tools for education

2008-01-12 Thread Rafa López Callejón
Oliver It depends the colour. Red is remembered more easily. You can learn a lot of colour in 1. *Leatrice* Eiseman books 2. There´s a big research done in Germany. But I only have seen it in German or Spanish. The author is Eva Heller Hope it helps On 1/3/08, Paul Eisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Tata Nano vs. OLPC/XO

2008-01-12 Thread Murli Nagasundaram
Michael, while that story sadly turned out to be an urban myth ("if it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't") there are numerous instances of resourcefulness one encounters as one wanders about in poor societies where people survive, if not thrive, in the most challenging circumstances --

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Arial vs Vernada?

2008-01-12 Thread Jeff Seager
It probably is a reach to call typography an element of interaction design in the strictest sense, Jeff, but in the broad sense I think that interaction design has to consider any element that impacts understanding and confidence in a design interface. I agree with Maxim ... "typography deals wit

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best tool for word processing on a Mac?

2008-01-12 Thread Todd Zaki Warfel
On Jan 11, 2008, at 9:19 PM, Jack Moffett wrote: > As I come from Graphic Design, it's important to me to have fine > control of my document. My fear of moving to Pages is that it would > be limiting like Word is. Think of Pages as being more poweful in page layout than Word, but not quite

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best tool for word processing on a Mac?

2008-01-12 Thread Todd Zaki Warfel
On Jan 11, 2008, at 6:59 PM, Jack Moffett wrote: > Freehand allowed me free reign in my typography and page layout and > provided all the tools I needed for creating vector objects (lines, > arrows, rectangles, etc.). I've been thinking about checking out > Pages. When you say "complex doc