Just some random thoughts:
The idea of Define a designation dictionary for
designers is a really uphill task. The very nature of
designers to be different and not fall into a rules
bucket, is an issues itself. Our responsibilities
stretch across different domains and expertise. While
some of us ar
Hi Anthony,
Here's an IxDA thread from 2006 on Myers Briggs, though it doesn't
focus on hiring:
What's your Personality Type?
http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=11819
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Hi all,
I'm drafting the second part of an article on Hiring UX professionals
for Boxes and Arrows at the moment and researching people's thoughts
on the all important axis of personality when hiring UX folk.
Can you tell me whether you think that personality typing tests like
Myers Briggs
Hi Scott,
One aspect of your question could cause confusion. Are you asking
about the difference between disciplines or between roles? I think
the answers you receive may vary depending on which question people
choose to answer.
Here's how I see the difference:
Interaction designer is to interf
On Jan 24, 2008, at 5:04 PM, John Daynes wrote:
> I'm working on a medical device that provides critical therapy to a
> patient.
> We have a keypad that is used to control the device, and on the
> keypad is a
> power button. We are sensitive to accidental actuations of the power
> button,
>
User interface designer is what we used to call our web designers, the guys
that put together the HTML, mostly the ones who dare to have a little bit of
an opinion and hate to be called Web Developers because most recruiters
think you do ASP.NET.
The story says UI designer delivers the interface,
Hi, Folks -
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.
Cheers,
Scott DeMers
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Equallythere is a nice short little article on how the iPhone came to be
in the same issue of Wired. Though the article is only 4-5 pages long, it
does offer some interesting insights in what it took to bring the device to
market.
Good call Chauncey!
Enjoy.
-Original Message-
From:
Open Text is the world's largest independent provider of Enterprise
Content Management software. The company's solutions manage information
for all types of business, compliance and industry requirements in the
world's largest companies, government agencies and professional service
firms. Open Text
I'm working on a medical device that provides critical therapy to a patient.
We have a keypad that is used to control the device, and on the keypad is a
power button. We are sensitive to accidental actuations of the power button,
which would turn the device off, potentially terminating therapy. We
Why can't my bank (ATM) remember that I always want to conduct my
transaction in English? I am prompted every single time - English or
Spanish? Once I've logged in, my creditials could auto-trigger my
personal preferences. (Also, I always want a printed record of my
transaction. Always.)
. . . .
The February issue of Wired has an article called Why Things Suck that
mixes sarcasm and hyperbole with some sound observations about the
design of things from software like Evite to medical records to
gridlock on urban highways (a nice little exposition on queing theory
and the effect of braking o
I was there in december as well.. amazing exhibit. the whole design
section at the MoMA was fantastic, if a little small.
On Jan 24, 2008 8:00 PM, W Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was lucky enough to see the Helvetica exhibit at MOMA in NYC in December
> and it was very interesting and insp
It's also available as view-on-demand on Netflix. Convenient!
What's your favorite typeface?
http://www.linkedin.com/answers/marketing-sales/graphic-design/MAR_GRD/160585-93094
On Jan 24, 2008 2:43 PM, JenniferVignone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> http://www.helveticafilm.com/
>
> Helvetica is a
That is too funny you mention that. Co-workers and I stopped at a BoA ATM
just yesterday and were dumbfounded
"Is that..."
"It can't be..."
"It's the windows error sound..."
And it was really really annoying - because it made that sound after I
confirmed every aspect of the transaction - and just
I was lucky enough to see the Helvetica exhibit at MOMA in NYC in December
and it was very interesting and inspirational indeed! If you get a chance -
do check it out.
On Jan 24, 2008 5:43 PM, JenniferVignone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> http://www.helveticafilm.com/
>
> Helvetica is a feature-le
No doubt there are significant improvements to be made on the iPhone,
but I'm not sure I agree with all Tufte's criticisms.
"The weather pages are a bit thin. Why not show a dynamic weather map,
more detailed forecasts..."
"To clarify, add detail; and clutter and overload are not an attribute
of i
Greetings all, been buzzing around but finally decided to join this
wonderful list today.
There are so many posts in this thread that is hard to determine what
has already been said but here's my 2 cents:
The most important thing needed to answer this question is to move
out of a discussion about
http://www.helveticafilm.com/
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design
and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which
is celebrating its 50th birthday this year) as part of a larger conversation
about the way type affects o
Last time I was in Boston, I couldn't get over the Bank of America
ATMs. As a notification sound for the machine, they for some reason
selected the default Windows error sound!
What dummy would have picked the universal sound for an error, to be
the confirmation click sound for a banking transacti
Sidestepping the whole "user-definition" volcano...I agree that the word
"usability" is really just a big wet blanket in terms of its appeal.
I'm not a marketing expert, but I worked for a drug company, where the names
of things (esp drugs) HAD to have a very specific connotation in order to
sell
Has anyone else seen, watched this presentation - Tufte on the iPhone?
http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00036T&topic_id=1
::
Interface design and the iPhone
The iPhone platform elegantly solves the design problem of small screens by
greatly
intensifying the information re
Katie said: "Before we go haring off too far on the question of
whether the word "user" itself is misleading or derogatory or
whatever, I'd really like to pull your attention to the fact that my
issue with referring to "users" in this context is limited to ..."
All points well taken, Katie. My com
I am neck deep in a project that has two goals.
1. to re-design an existing web based reporting / management application so
that it is more intuitive and better adheres to the users¹ mental model
(it¹s currently as intuitive as a DOS prompt...)
2. take our existing windows application (responsible
Before we go haring off too far on the question of whether the word
"user" itself is misleading or derogatory or whatever, I'd really
like to pull your attention to the fact that my issue with referring
to "users" in this context is limited to this:
"Users" marks a group of people as "other" an
Yes - we've beat this poor horse dead before - looks like someone dug the
poor thing up for an addition round of beating.
Semantically - people who are interacting with machines to accomplish a task
are using the machine.
Drug addicts to not use the drugs, they take the drugs - but that horse is
o
The use of the term %u201Cuser%u201D (in a different context) was
raised and debated not long ago on this list:
http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=18748
Besides the negative connotations of gun %u201Cusers%u201D and drug
%u201Cusers%u201D don%u2019t forget to include library
%u201Cusers%u201D an
I am designing a tab structure right now that saves the data as you move
between tabs. The purpose is to build a complicated query of a database by
filling out various forms, so there is no "process" involved on each page.
One thing I did was I marked each tab where a field was changed for a little
Katie said: "In this context, I'd like to not see the word "user"
used since it apparently differentiates practitioners and the lay
public from one another."
I agree. "User" has some bad connotations too, at least in English
... drug user, so-called friends who are "users" ... etc. You
don't want
In this context, I'd like to not see the word "user" used since it
apparently differentiates practitioners and the lay public from one
another. We are all users of something (and far too often of
something poorly thought out and badly designed).
I have no idea how it would translate, either in
I completely agree! I have had nothing but "blank stares" from anyone
outside of our field, followed by "who cares?" Honestly, that is what
has kept me from getting more involved myself -- I've seen very little
come of it beyond a "birds of a feather rally".
I'm a huge evangelist of design and u
On Jan 24, 2008, at 3:32 AM, Stew Dean wrote:
> So get a good CMS, add on a new kind of sitemap / process flow tool,
> allow sketching, allow me to create libraries of items with
> inheritance (so I can set up a relationship between items, change all
> my drop downs from my black and white versio
Have you seen this article?
New Perspectives on Interaction by Karl Fast:
http://iasummit.org/2005/finalpapers/148_Presentation.pdf
It may suggest a different way to look at what you are doing.
Andy Switzky
Senior Information Architect
Austin Energy - Web/Portal Services
www.austinenergy.com
The term "usability" is not a term used much by the public and I think
that we should change the name of World Usability Day to something
more like "Making things easier for everyone" (OK, that can be much
improved). World Usability Day seems like a term for usability
practitioners and not the gen
Hey Dave,
> But that being said, one of my issues with the method below is that it
> assume that standard HTML controls are right for everything. This has been
> my problem with HTML from the beginning. There needs to be a much easier
> mechanism (I know there are custom controls for sale) to mana
This research from the Design Council in 2005 is interesting:
http://www.designfactfinder.co.uk/
"Businesses which use design perform better than their rivals. There's
unmistakeable proof of that in our Value of Design Factfinder, a unique
online information tool (previously published as Design i
I contacted the founder/organizer of World Usability Day to let her know
about this issue. Her response was:
"Thank you for sharing this. It is a timely comment, since UPA is
currently trying to figure out just how to be more of a Global
association and not just a US based one."
So, it looks like
If you want to see how this is done, I strongly suggest you read the
classic Built To Last. (http://tinyurl.com/2yjzoj) They've done a
good job of how you create stock indexes based on business practices.
You don't really want to compare it with the market overall, since
the market tends to
http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/?p=293
Tehann+Lax invested $50k in what they called a UX fund last year and
tracked it against the rest of the market. They focused on companies
they felt focused on UX. Those included: Apple, Electronic Arts,
Google, JetBlue, Netflix, Nike, Progressive Insuranc
This is a great idea... the caveat is the execution and metrics. Bringing the
into the boardroom will result in having your backside handed to you. There is
very little in the way of reliable or reproducible metrics here. The list of
investment is incredibly front loaded with prior and forecasta
Hi Jared - and thnx,
I remember reading this article. In fact it helped to crystalize some thought I
had regarding measuring product and feature utility and reconciling it against
effort (the hurdle) of change. I almost redirected my thesis in this direction
but that would have been a monumenta
On 23 Jan 2008, at 17:41, Stew Dean wrote:
> On 22/01/2008, Todd Zaki Warfel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>
>> 6. Buyer isn't the user. How many people here in large-mid sized
>> companies? Go ahead, raise your hands. Okay, how many of you get to
>> pick the platform and applications you use? Oh
Related; some reporting on stock prices and customer satisfaction
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/04/12/12pogues-posts/
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On Jan 23, 2008, at 10:46 PM, Jerome Ryckborst wrote:
> Is there any evidence that companies whose products are more usable
> see their stock price grow more than the stock market's average
> growth?
Short answer: No.
That said, Wall Street (and executive boardrooms) are paying very
close
I love this thread.
And I can't help but think that there is an opportunity here (for
those of us who have the time and desire) to collaborate and begin
down the path of designing such a tool. A tool for User Experience
designers by User Experience designers.
That'd be pretty sweet.
. . . . .
You may find this interesting...
http://lawsofsimplicity.com/stocks/
On Jan 24, 2008 3:46 AM, Jerome Ryckborst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Is there any evidence that companies whose products are more usable see
> their stock price grow more than the stock market's average growth? Which
> comp
and this...
http://lawsofsimplicity.com/smeter
On Jan 24, 2008 3:46 AM, Jerome Ryckborst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Is there any evidence that companies whose products are more usable see
> their stock price grow more than the stock market's average growth? Which
> companies?
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Hi Susie and Luis: I don't know if this helps but in Portugal we call
it Dia Mundial da Usabilidade. I think it helped a lot in letting the
word out to the general public. Usually the press is always very
interested and P-UPA (Portuguese UPA)representatives even gave some
interviews.
I know that
New Masters in Design Ethnography Launched
The Schools of Computing and Design at the University of Dundee (UK)
have joined forces to launch the first professional level masters
programme in Design Ethnography and User Research. Demand for user
researchers and design ethnographers is growing
Hi all,
I would like to make you aware of a workshop about faceted search and
related topics:
FIND ‘08: 2ND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DYNAMIC TAXONOMIES AND FACETED
SEARCH
Torino, Italy, September 1-5, 2008 (in conjunction with DEXA 2008)
Submission deadline for papers is 15 March 2008.
http
Is there any evidence that companies whose products are more usable see their
stock price grow more than the stock market's average growth? Which companies?
*Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah*
February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA,
On 24/01/2008, David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Thermo stuff is definitely interesting, but thinks like a graphic
> designer, not like an interactive designer. Expression in their tutorials
> anyway is thinking similarly.
>
> Basic assumption that is false that both are making is that
Hi Susie,
I tried to get in touch with the Brasilian chapters at the time without any
success. I wrote to UPA and got a reply from the Switzerland Office.
In 2006, I started publishing a few articles on linguistic accessibility and
content contextualisation,
http://www.webalorixa.net/artigos/ace
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