This would be fantastic, as so many people woud've liked to go, but
couldn't, (me being one), and really want to keep up on the findings.
Thanks Dave
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Look and feel is shallow. In the context of software, look and feel refers
to what skin widgets have. Programmers use it when they talk about Java vs
native widgets. You can have one app and skin it different ways, changing
its look and feel. To some extent, you could say the various themes of
There is some good book refs on that site.
Thanks
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I actually like JL's comment that you quote... I'm not entirely sure
where the disagreement is. The author isn't saying that look and feel is
equivalent to brand; rather, these are elements that can help
communicate the brand message or story (I put the emphasis on help).
I would suggest that
I'm doing IA and interaction design for a facebook application.
http://developers.facebook.com/ is very developer-focused; I'm
wondering if anyone knows of resources that are more about designing
the user experience than the technical development angle?
A good sample flow / map of some
Thanks, Dan.
I should be clear: didn't intend my note as a criticism of the conference
program. It could hardly have been better. I appreciated the way it took a
huge set of possible topics and brought focus to things we all care about.
'Twas yummy.
I was reacting more to the flow of
On Feb 10, 2008, at 5:44 AM, Marc Rettig wrote:
THE MISSING TOPIC
It's this: we are a community supposedly driven by understanding of
the
people who are affected by our work (that's PC for our users), but
we
aren't talking about them very much. Now, this isn't some kind of
attempt
but I don't find it as easy to show good interaction design in a
portfolio context.
Storytelling is a fantastic solution to this. Present the deliverables from
a project in the context of a story, explaining how and why you arrive at
each one, and what effect they had on the project.
-r-
Ditto here, too! Just walked back into my office, and I'm having to
force myself to get back into the swing of things. :)
Great weekend, great to see old friends and make several new
connections! Now have lots (more) to think about, process, adapt, and
adopt. Thanks to everyone for an amazing
Hi Everyone,
Had a great time over the weekend. It was excellent getting to meet so many of
you in person and the event itself was simply inspiring. Kudos to everyone who
made it special. I’ve done a brief write-up on my blog summarizing how I felt
about it. Looking forward to next year
This was my first professional conference and it blew away any
expectations I had for the event.
Thank you to everyone. I found myself simultaneously thrilled and overwhelmed -
I hate to admit my introvert tendencies won out in the midst of the
crowds and a flood of information and excitement.
Note there's a nice responsibility break between designers and PM's which
aides both parties, known as What and How:
PM - get the What' should be done down - basis for general requirements
Designer - get the How things should work done - UI/UX
Note when requirements are specifically Usability
On Feb 10, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Alan Cooper wrote:
[...] ROI measures efficiency and, as Peter Drucker points out,
efficiency is no longer a very effective measurement of the success
of a business.
If the traditional view on ROI is a measure of efficiency, then we
need to change that. I
Once you've settled in on a wireframe or layout, where do you go/ what
do you do to seek inspiration when defining/designing the color space,
palette, aesthetic, icons, (look feel :-P ) etc.?
B
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This is all very interesting. I have always been a part of the
waterfall development methodology, where there is (ANALYSIS, DESIGN,
development, QA, then production). In the analysis design phase,
that was where interaction visual designs were created
communicated. Overall consistency of the
Crowdvine turned out to be an incredible tool for Interaction08. It
served as a great pre-mingling before the conference to get the ball
rolling, especially the want-to-meet feature.
But it could be greatly improved with post-conference features.
- Like others have stated, a Met (or Meeted)
All,
I'm glad to hear the IxDA conference went well. Hopefully I can attend
next year and meet a few of you.
For those of you involved with website creation and assuming you are
part of a larger team that includes graphics artists, developers, etc.,
what overall process does your team or
At the postmortem dinner for the conference on sunday night. Myself
Greg Petroff when off on a debate about Agile being good or bad. I
find it interesting that BOTH of our pre-eminent keynotes are both
talking down agile, YET we as a UX community believe it is still
valuable. Yikes! It screams to
There is an interesting editorial and follow up discussion regarding the
term 'look and feel' - at the design observer (mostly a graph design blog).
I have used the term many times when speaking to clients. To me it is
everything about the site that is visual, except for the interactions.
On Feb 11, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Brandon E.B.Ward wrote:
Once you've settled in on a wireframe or layout, where do you go/ what
do you do to seek inspiration when defining/designing the color space,
palette, aesthetic, icons, (look feel :-P ) etc.?
netdiver.net
there-in lie a million links to
I agree with you completely Robert. But I know, as somebody who has
slowly moved into IxD from interface dev, that it's not always clear
what is meant by a portfolio in the IxD context. As a graphic
designer it's really easy to print and show your impact on that work,
but I don't find it as easy
I think there is actually a gentle path from Technical Writer » Information
Architect » IxD because I see it as a journey from structured content to
structuring content (organization, flow), to flow and behavior (creating the
dialogue between people and system, people and people, people and
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The most effective way is not to do it. We tested this in an Oil and
Gas thick desktop app and concluded after many years that users may
say they understand AND vs OR but they clearly do not. In one case we
even parroted back a scenario asked for by geologists and engineeers
in a usability test
Hi Martin,
I made this tranistion, and feel it is a very natural one to make. I
don't know how much advice I can offer, but I can describe the path
I took and you can see if there's anything worthwhile in that.
I started with a transition to business analyst from tech. pubs
manager, which
I am currently working on the IA for a Facebook application. It will be
launching at the beginning of March.
It is definitely a challenge to make it spread virally between users and
whilst not
invading their privacy or being perceived as spam. The FB platform itself
has
many default
Well suffice it to say that I'm not designing something that will be
asking users to become a zombie OR a pirate.
All FB applications allow you to control messaging. I turn off all
emails.
On 11-Feb-08, at 3:06 PM, Jeffrey D. Gimzek wrote:
On Feb 11, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Anthony Hempell
How about my presentation New Sources of Inspiration for Interaction
Designers? :)
http://www.slideshare.net/dansaffer/new-sources-of-inspiration-for-interaction-designers/
Dan
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For the benefit of those who couldn't attend Interaction08, and to continue the
discussion for those who could, I'm curious to hear what big ideas, themes, or
recurring topics you observed and that remain in your thoughts.
Here's one from me.
*Drama, theatre, and film.* These disciplines are
I just wanted to thank everyone for coming to the IxDA conference. I
wanted to thank all the extremely talented speakers, those who
tirelessly organized and put on this conference, and all the attendees
who showed up and made this one of the best conferences I've ever been
to. It
Great topic, Martin. From the early 1980s on, I've known a few
really great Interaction Designers that had been, and still were,
Technical Writers. I think Robert brings up one of the reasons
writers can make great Interaction Designers - their storytelling and
narrative skills. I've also met
On 10/02/2008, Marc Rettig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[On Interaction08]
THE MISSING TOPIC
It's this: we are a community supposedly driven by understanding of the
people who are affected by our work (that's PC for our users), but we
aren't talking about them very much.
Hi Marc,
I'm not there
Hi Everyone!
What a show Dan, Dave and team put on for us last week. Cheers to them. If
you missed the conference and your friends are telling you how awesome it
was to rub it in your face, don't be too sad. Just because the conference
is over, it doesn't mean that we stop working for you! Come
Mark, I must disagree with your comment regarding ... only Java
people.
I learned of the term well before I became a Java person. In
fact it wasn't even an OOP language, but TCL, HTML, CSS. In fact,
the development team didn't make it up at all. We learned it from
the Business Analyst who
Hey Scott--
That sounds like a great conference session. Seriously. Maybe next
year we can organize a meeting of Moody Loners!
But what if no-one shows up :-)
JS
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I highly recommend this presentation by Stephen P Anderson.
http://www.slideshare.net/stephenpa/eye-candy-is-a-critical-business-requirement
On Feb 11, 2008, at 8:25 PM, mark schraad wrote:
There is an interesting editorial and follow up discussion regarding
the
term 'look and feel' - at
From the post:
Brands are about ideas not just logos, 'look and feel' refers to the
brand's supporting graphic elements, typography, colour palette, material
palette, photographic style etc, these are elements that can help
communicate the brand message or story.
Yeah - I disagree. I don't think
On Feb 11, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Anthony Hempell wrote:
I'm doing IA and interaction design for a facebook application.
http://developers.facebook.com/ is very developer-focused; I'm
wondering if anyone knows of resources that are more about designing
the user experience than the technical
I just posted an interesting email interview with Gong Szeto of OptionsHouse.
He talks about designing a retail options trading site, and the importance of
good design as a differentiator.
If you're interested you can read it here: http://www.usablemarkets.com/?p=223
~alex kirtland
I'll give a second to that. Jon's whole book is just outstanding. It's also
so well-written, it's the kind of book you'd enjoy curling up with on a
blustery night!
Chris
On Feb 11, 2008 9:39 AM, W Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Karen -
I would recommend reading the article in Jon Kolko's
I agree with your statements, (and now will proceed to go on a wild tangent
- sorry) but I think that Crowdvine whether they intended for this to happen
or not generates a new type of community post-conference, and that is the
one where we interact without the need for an interface (or middle man
Hi Lukeisha,
I'd suggest (as a software architect on an agile team that incorporates UX
process) that you don't need waterfall to build good UX. In fact, one of
the core aspects of UX--delivering what the users need--can be better
assured through agile process (IMO).
You need to plug the UX
Out of curiosity, have you or Greg ever practiced agile? Not trying to
be a pain, but really would like to hear what your experience was if
so.
Also, one of the sponsors of Interaction08, Autodesk, has been
designing award winning user experiences in a very complex product
space with agile for
Ditto!
I arrived back in Boston last night (quite a few IxDers on the leg from
Savannah to Charlotte) - 15 degrees, windy, really cold- *NOT *as nice as
the amazing weather, camaraderie, passion, excitement and energy I got from
meeting so many great people.
Special thanks to Dave and all the
I'm not sure if other people do this, but other than the web galleries like
http://bestwebgallery.com/, I tend to look at www.templatemonster.com
They have a ton of samples in all different types of categories.
-Matthew Stephens
Co-Founder, deviantART.com
www.codebymatt.com
hi everybody,
this has been an amazing weekend. i'd just like to thank all the
organizers, the speakers, and the other attendees that i met while in
savannah, i don't think i've ever learned so much in two days.
one thing i've been thinking about since the end of the conference
yesterday is
Am I the only one who's finding this Monday particularly painful? Not
to mention it was 16 degrees this morning. B!
I feel like I need to spend a week on a mountaintop meditating on all
the things I learned over the weekend. And following up with all the
great people I met. And reading
Karen -
I would recommend reading the article in Jon Kolko's book Thoughts On
Interaction Design, by an interaction designer named Ellen Beldner called
Getting Design Done, in which she deals with just that issue of how to
work effectively with PMs - especially when they want to own everything in
I am a technical writer, and I want to be an interaction designer. How do
I
get there from here?
At my last in-house position, the Documentation team and the UX team shared
a suite. And there was one guy who would have made an excellent IxD. Making
him part of my team would have been as
same here.. just stepped in my front door.
the weather here is cold and snowy.. and after spending a weekend
listening to and talking about really exciting things with great
people i have to now go back to reality. makes me wish i was a
student again... :)
On Feb 11, 2008 9:46 AM, W Evans
Interesting interview, Alex! Thank you for posting it.
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