On Jan 14, 2008, at 11:38 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote:
On Jan 14, 2008, at 9:44 PM, Jim Drew wrote:
But if I had seen even one hint of that technology showing its face
into the mainstream in the past nearly two decades that I've dealt
with DTP apps, I would consider amending my habits now.
*Another Blog Posting on Design Thinking Management from Fast Company. *
Is the Design Revolution Here? Can Designers get to the top of a publicly
traded company?
In the past months I've read several articles and blogs about the
possibility that Jonathan Ive, SVP of Industrial Design at Apple,
Thank you Gloria for solving the mystery of red buttons on a water
cooler. I have never figured out how to get hot water from them :D
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Sorry for a bit of off-topic, but I have always been curious how such systems
handle the fact that different people have different patterns of eye
movement. Namely, it is known that eyes with imperfect sight (such as myopic
eyes) do not perform short and sharp-cut movements freely and easily like
Great examples there, Chauncey. My introduction to social psychology in the
context of information technology occurred a couple of decades ago through
the watershed article by Lee Sproull and Sara Kiesler, Reducing social
context cues: electronic mail in organizational communicationn. It was the
Just wanted to add the following as required (hilarious) education for
anyone developing social apps:
http://www.politicsforum.org/images/flame_warriors/
or
http://www.flamewarriors.com/
Mike Reed, the creator, is unquestionably a genius.
-- Murli
Hello Murli,
Your email brought back some interesting memories. In the 1980s, I
did some usability testing of the Coordinator at DEC and it was
viewed as too controlling. The group I worked with adapted the
concept to be more like a Supportinator where commitments were
tracked, but in a less
My first reaction when I first heard of this method, oh, maybe a week
ago was I didn't like it - in fact, I would go so far to say, I
hated it. Than I saw this post and checked out the link and again, I
was thinking how frustrating it was.
But than Meredith mentions Google Reader uses this
I think we would need to go beyond just a before/after bad to good example. I
think we would also need to introduce the concept of context and how it is used.
What I think would be an interesting exercise would be to find a bad design
and show what a good design would look like under different
I like your discussion and it is an important one -- context can
affect perceptions of usability. A simple example would be a wizard
user interface where a person is stepped through doing their national
taxes; you don't mind going through 65 steps since you can't know all
the changes and you don't
One of the things not mentioned in this discussion is whether such an
implementation (infinite scroll) is appropriate for all kinds of
information. There is tool/technology/feature, on the one hand, and there
is the content on the other. While there are probably people who read
entire novels
Patricia said: I think it's one of those situations that if you
bring it to someone's attention, they may decide not to like it, but
if you don't say anything, it probably won't interfere with user
experience much.
I'm not so sure about that. It's one of those features that
adds nothing
Chauncey, wow, I didn't realize there would be people on this list who might
even remember Coordinator, leave alone having tested it! I bow before
thee! Yes, I recall that the consensus was that it was 'Fascistware'. How
did Supportinator go, btw -- was it accepted, used? By making one's
Social apps are far more complex than single-user apps. I wonder to what
extent a lack of social psych research input into the design of these apps
-- the most popular ones having been designed by college undergrads -- is
causing their popularity to plateau? To me, this suggests a discontinuity
I agree with you to the extent that most (All?) social networking sites are
designed without the aid/help/input from social psychologists.. I only got
interested in the social psych/cog psych of SNAs after I started designing
an SNA.
But first a comment - I know of only one SNA that was designed
I really like this quote - people are, just, well, *bored* of social
networks. As if humanity will *ever* be bored of social networks,
considering that we have been happily using them for thousands of years.
It certainly wouldn't be surprising that there would be an upper bound on
how much
Hi Oleg and Peter,
Oleg, an eye tracker can only determine the physical orientation of the eye
which means that for someone with a condition where they use their peripheral
vision and don't move their eyes much, eye tracking would be fairly useless.
Peter, I am not familiar with any work that
Another good real-world example of this pattern is the Microsoft Live
image search.
http://search.live.com/images/results.aspx?q=ixda
...Dan
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I dunno. It appears to me that the biggest sector for manufactured outrage
over social media numbers going up or down comes from VC or others (tech
media) with such a vested interest in people slathering all over something
with mass media-scale obsession numbers that they appear to lose all
I wonder about the extent to which the major social network sites realize
they are in the entertainment business. As such, their stickiness is based
on novelty, and has an inherent ceiling effect since there is only so much
time to devote to entertainment. As the novelty wears off, and there is no
On 1/30/08, Andrei Herasimchuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I guess the question is: Pankaj, do you also agree that aesthetics
are a fundamental requirement of practicing IxD?
No I dont agree aesthetics is a fundamental requirement for IxD. But
to me Interaction design is all about interface
Another anecdote (note- I no longer have stock in Gather) - Gather takes
it's advertising revenue and revenue from allowing companies to set up
groups around their products - and turns around and pays people for their
contributions to the SN - you earn points by connecting, publishing, and
Another good real-world example of this pattern is the Microsoft Live
image search.
http://search.live.com/images/results.aspx?q=ixda
This is one of the pages used during the testing I witnessed. Aside from the
problems I mentioned in my previous reply, participants also had a very
difficult
Christine's comment is prescient given the blog posting by Seth Godin:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/01/tribal-manageme.html
Tribe Management
Brand management is so 1999.
Brand management was top down, internally focused, political and money
based. It involved an MBA managing
Merli -
Wouldn't you agree that from a pure social psychology perspective - at least
theoretically - pleasing or not - SNAs do allow for three key group/social
dynamic needs, Stalking, imitation, and gossip - a recent book actually has
come out talking about the huge importance of gossip in
We are working on a project that plans to start testing in Germany,
France, Spain, Austria and Belgium specifically and I was hoping to
get some good recommendations on usability recruiting firms in those
countries. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Lori
Hi Grady,
That's actually the point of Thermo J Currently, you have to drop to
code to build behavior in Flex. The idea of Thermo is to make it so you
can prototype and build interactions without having to write code (but
the code is there behind it, so a developer can take it and turn it into
Our UX RD team has been playing around with his Low-Cost Multi-point
Interactive Whiteboards Using the Wiimote solution for about a month
now. Very fun to play with.
We are trying to mash his technology with Denim Prototyping Tool
(http://dub.washington.edu/projects/denim/) and remote desktop
Since Andrei had asked about other communities for interface design I
thought I'd point to a new group over on Ning. Still very much in its
early stages but it looks like it's a synthesis of a few different
points of view: user interface design, HCI, usability and information
architecture.
Marlene,
I'm sorry I don't have any research to support these comments, but on
a gut instinct level, I don't think clicking in the top navigation to
activate the drop-down menus is good usability. Especially if
sometimes when you click, you get taken to another page.
I assume that on the
I'm doing some reviews of a site and I need to be able to test what
happens if someone doesn't have Flash Player, has an older version or
has it disabled (for whatever reason). I would love to be able to get
some SnagIt's of the screens I see, but I need to find a reliable way of
simulating the
Perfect Luís!
our community in Lisbon arrived into a consensus, we will maintain
the original English version name.
- this from professional to professional, I think that for each usage
the sensitivity of the speaker will determine if immediate translation
it's needed.
In fact the English words
Jeff Axup said (with what I perceived as a touch of irony, and I think
not too seriously): I really like this quote - 'people are, just,
well, bored of social networks.' As if humanity will ever be bored
of social networks, considering that we have been happily using them
for thousands of years.
Contact me off list if you are interested.
JUNIOR TO MID-LEVEL INTERACTION DESIGNER
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
* Work with clients to understand their business models and goals and help
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http://www.browsercam.com
I've not used it but it looks like it may do what you need it to do, and has
a free trial for at least some of the functionality.
On Jan 31, 2008 12:39 PM, Marty DeAngelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm doing some reviews of a site and I need to be able to test what
Dennis said: We are trying to mash his technology with Denim
Prototyping Tool ...
I'm glad to see someone interested in Denim. I've been keeping an
eye on its development for a while, and I'll look forward to seeing
what you come up with. *Good luck!*
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Here's another one:
http://www.flashswitch.com/
On Jan 31, 2008 2:47 PM, Mike Scarpiello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use this:
http://www.browsertools.net/Flash-and-Pics-Control/
On Jan 31, 2008 2:34 PM, Todd Zaki Warfel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you're on a Mac, which I'm assuming
Aaand I need to read more carefully since you stated you want a way
other than this.
On Jan 31, 2008 3:38 PM, Todd Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.browsercam.com
I've not used it but it looks like it may do what you need it to do, and
has a free trial for at least some of the
There's a nice exploration/rant on this topic over on Adam
Greenfield's blog:
Antisocial Networking
http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2007/12/09/antisocial-networking/
From the post - All social-networking systems, as currently
designed, demonstrably create social awkwardnesses that did not, and
Since you mention Firefox add-ons, you might try one of these:
Flashblock
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
Flash Switcher (for Windows only)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3649
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So in these two months, it never occured to me that the infinite
scroll was being implemented, it was invisible to me.
Part of some of the debate may be due to that the example
implementation provided (http://www.symfony-project.org/demo/
pager.html ) does not have that seamless feeling like
In Safari, you can simply go to Safari Preferences Security and uncheck
Enable plug-ins.
-r-
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Greenfield makes some great points, Jeff. Thanks for that link to his
Antisocial Networking rant.
Looking at this from the standpoint of anthropology, I think there's
something inevitable about how we're wrestling with some of these
details just a few years after we've functionally connected
To put it another way, The Map is Not The Territory.
http://tinyurl.com/z4qps
// jeff
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*Come
Jeff - going all Magritte on us now! To wit: This is not a pipe
Not all social networks mediated by technology are the same. Friends on
MySpace, Connections on LinkedIn, friends on Facebook -- may not be friends
- but they are not precluded from being friends by the nature of the
mediation. Some
On Jan 31, 2008, at 6:32 AM, Pankaj Chawla wrote:
No I dont agree aesthetics is a fundamental requirement for IxD.
For your consideration, another essay from Paul Rand, from his book
Thoughts on Design.
--
To interpret the modern approach to visual communication as mere
sensationalism is
Bestica Inc is looking for a Interaction Designer Superstar :
If you have:
* 7 years of Interaction Design
* 3 years of Visual Design
* Good understanding of SDLC
* Excellent communications
Then this position might be for you.
Wow - now your busting out with Baudrillard?
Welcome to the desert of the real! Actually - I suppose that social networks
will only exhibit the kind of crisis of identity when simulacra replace
simulation, and copies without originals rule the SNAs
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On Thu, 31 Jan
Will said: Jeff- going all Magritte on us now! To wit: 'This is not
a pipe'
Hah! Yeah, I was thinking something along the lines of the zen koan
in which the monk says not the wind, not the flag, but mind is
moving.
Seriously, you're right that MySpace friends can transition (in
either
I do agree with you on those points. I personally don't find this off topic
because it goes to the nascent concept of a code of ethics for us - since
many of us here are designing these new ecologies of simulated experience
and identity - and we need to think about the implications of our design
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It also may belie user dissatisfaction with the navigation systems of sites
they really want to use, in spite of getting lost or not finding what they
may even know is there.
I know for years, on many newspaper and major media source sites like
CNN.com or MSNBC, I'd try 3-4 times to find an
On Jan 31, 2008, at 7:44 PM, Pankaj Chawla wrote:
On 2/1/08, Andrei Herasimchuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know of no formalized design profession in existence in this modern
world where aesthetics, both material and immaterial, are not
integral in some fashion to the practice of the
Where should I start? I fear that this discussion will end in a fierce
debate concerning the meaning of the term 'design' -- one that has probably
occurred several times on this list (and elsewhere). There might even be a
secondary debate on the meaning of the term 'interaction'.
Nevertheless,
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Once a month, we get together to have drinks, chat, network, and geek
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i have another idea.. how about the Highlander approach.
There can be only One.
(sorry, late to the conversation, but that joke was just too good to
pass up :) )
On Jan 25, 2008 11:37 AM, Jared M. Spool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While we're exploring other models, I'd recommend a World of
Andrei, as far as I can tell, we're only hearing one side of a
conversation between you and Pankaj. Are you re-posting private
e-mail or is there just a lag with the list?
// jeff
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Hi
I recently became interested in Futures Research. Was wondering if there are
any universities/ courses I can apply to?
Thanks,
Soo
--
The details are not the details. They make the design' - Charles Eames
Sunandini
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