Re: [IxDA Discuss] “The Most Frequently Used Featur es in Microsoft Office”

On Feb 20, 2008 6:16 AM, Murli Nagasundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander mentioned the problem of organizing 500+ commands. The answer is, > you don't organize it. Not in the conventional way, anyway. Well, that was mostly a rhetoric question :) I agree that search is a good idea in ma

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design and Theatre

There are many articles on applying concepts from theatre to the design of products. There are several approaches. The Brenda Laurel approach was to consider the metaphor of "theater" as a guiding metaphor for the design of software products. That is quite a good metaphor (stage, backstage, audi

[IxDA Discuss] IxD(a) meetings in London

Hi, I was wondering if there were any IxD(a) groups / meetings in London? I've searched the list, and there seems to be sporadic meetings, but nothing regular. If nothing does exist, would anyone be interested in helping to organise a regular meet-up? Even if it is every two months or so, it woul

Re: [IxDA Discuss] "The Most Frequently Used Features in Microsoft Office"

In my experience you can choose to describe your idea/concept/business case to the VP of Marketing using the jargon that gets you props on the IxDA list, or you can use the marketese vocabulary they are used to and makes them feel warm and fuzzy. Whatever gets the ball into the end zone, so

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

my personal favorite instrument / sequencer of all time: http://www.genoqs.com/index.php?option=com_rsgallery2&Itemid=104&catid=1 this thing has completely changed the way i compose its interface is truly unique, and lends itself to exploring sequences and loops in new and different ways. co

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

I agree with Loren. The freedom of creating in interacting with these kind of instruments can actually open the way to new form of expression, not written in rules. This could open to a new sense of "art" in what comes from the Human-Machine interaction. - Messaggio originale - Da: Lore

[IxDA Discuss] Mind controller?

A company called Emotiv has a mind controller device. Think something and that something becomes correlated to an action. it isn't as easy as say the movie "Firefox" ("think in Russian!"), but it is a start of calibrating brain waves to then say whenever this pattern occurs do "this" action. I dou

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD(a) meetings in London

Hi there, I live and work close to London as well, I'd be happy to participate in organising any meetups. I think I'm in this list for a year or so now, and I haven't seen any meetup in London. With respect to other groups, UK Usability Professionals' Association seem to have some regular events,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] "The Most Frequently Used Features in Microsoft Office"

My biggest - one of them at least, "axes to grind" - is the use of "in-language," "jargon," bad metaphors and cliches. The most annoying one, however, is the use of sports metaphors in diction. I have seen politicians speeches and marketing websites where a reader is subjected to paragraphs of noth

Re: [IxDA Discuss] "The Most Frequently Used Features in Microsoft Office"

Doesn't it just make you want to shout out 'buzzword bingo'? On Feb 20, 2008 8:44 AM, W Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My biggest - one of them at least, "axes to grind" - is the use of > "in-language," "jargon," bad metaphors and cliches. The most annoying one, > however, is the use of sport

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Technology Review puts Offline Web Apps in their top 10 emerging technologies

And another reason to thank you for the link was there special report on advances in Search: *Special Reports Next-Generation Search* http://www.technologyreview.com/specialreports/specialreport.aspx?id=2 -- ~ will Welcome to the Int

[IxDA Discuss] Technology Review puts Offline Web Apps in their top 10 emerging technologies

I realize we aren't all webbies, or even software designers, but I found the inclusion of "Offline Web Applications" in Technology Reviews list of 10 emerging technologies intriguing. While I agree in the importance of this step for "web" technologies, I didn't quite see it as the "sliced-bread" qu

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Technology Review puts Offline Web Apps in their top 10 emerging technologies

Thanks for the link Dave - and some very interesting things in the list - but one thing I was thinking is that we have been, as software/web/interface/interaction designers - stuck in the exact same (for the most part), paradigm for GUIs since 1968. Wow. It was exactly 40 years ago that Engelbart (

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Studies on Icon Effectiveness

Hi Chris, There is substantial research on the HFES database on icons and labels. Check out the online search of articles on www.hfes.org (human factors and ergnomic society). Deborah Mayhew's book on Software user interface guidelines from the early 1990s cites research on icons (and specifical

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD(a) meetings in London

Hi Alex's, I like this Interaction Design Alex's in London. ;) (IxDA ... ha ha) There are no private discussion lists that are part of the IxDA community. There might be non IxDA related discussion lists about interaction design, but not owned/operated by IxDA. As to the question of starting an

[IxDA Discuss] Studies on Icon Effectiveness

I found myself in a bit of a debate over the use of icons, and would like to be able to cite empirical data. Unfortunately I haven't located much literature. Can anyone refer me to research that compares icons with text buttons? ___

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Using voice narration on sites

From: "James Leslie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : I was shocked to find that only about 10% of blind people in the UK use : screen readers, mainly due to inhibitive costs and the (generally) : complicated set-up involved and learning process. I think the idea put : forward about automatically having so

[IxDA Discuss] NYC-UPA 2/26 - Wayfinding: Real World Signage & Online Design

*Reminder: *NYC Usability Professionals Association presents: *Wayfinding: a real world signage system & its implications for online design*** Think it's important to know how to get around a website? How about a hospital? Find out how Sylvia Harris, a leading Information Design Strategist, was

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Mind controller?

These ideas I always find interesting, but will humans ever be ready for something like this? After all, we have the capacity to "not hit that button"... we do not have the capacity to "Not think that action". Nick Iozzo Principal User Experience Architect tandemseven 847.452.7442 mobile [

Re: [IxDA Discuss] “The Most Frequently Used Featu res in Microsoft Office”

> Claude Knaus wrote: > > > > 2. Save (5.5% of the usage) > > > > This is the one which worries me. I find myself hitting Ctrl-S every > > few sentences or seconds. > > > > How can software restore the trust of the user? > > In this case by providing auto-save, presumably, long overdue [1] anyway.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Mind controller?

Indeed. It takes a lot of mind control/discipline to control a device like that. The device would have to learn your neurological patterns pretty quickly to be effective. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss

[IxDA Discuss] [IxDA] No local IxDA meets in Delhi-NCR?

Hi Does anyone want to do a local IxDA meet in Delhi-NCR? Mumbai, Bangalore and Pune already do. Do get in touch if anyone's interested. Cheers Soo PS (i also help organize the local Mobile Monday meet ups here) -- "The details are not the details. They make the design' - Charles Eames

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

On 2/19/08, Loren Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I find interesting about all of these interfaces is that they aren't > immediately self-explanatory. The user needs to play around with them > before discovering how it can be used. At first, I thought this was I think that's one of t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Mind controller?

Similar yet a more primitive version is experienced by me, Etkin Ciftci and Nilay Yapici from IMP-Wien last week as a part of the Ars Electronica e-Motion exhibition in Vienna's Museumsquartier. Brainball is a table game of two. The players try to pull the ball to their sides by relaxing. Yes relax

[IxDA Discuss] [JOB] Software Interaction Designer, Boston MA, LiTL LLC (full time)

Title: Software Interaction Designer Company: LiTL LLC Location: Boston, MA (Back Bay) Title: Permanent, full time LiTL is a brand new, well funded company developing a consumer product that involves hardware, software, and online services. We're looking for a talented interaction designer to help

Re: [IxDA Discuss] "Product Experience" (book)

[old thread... I was thinking about it for a couple of days...] I've been lurking for a while and seeing threads (on this list and others) where people have been narrowly defining interaction design as something that only takes place in a web browser. In particular I feel that the experience

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:11:11, mosquito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you sure that owning four lemur's borders on "fiscal > irresponsibility?" i'm thinking its more jealousy that someone has > four of them. ;) Guilty. But still. That's over $10k worth of gear in controllers alone! : ) personall

[IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

Just a quick question: Where are all the interface and software designers in Silicon Valley? Has everyone just packed up and left or what? I see more job listings, postings and calls for resumes and yet there seem to be even fewer people to fill the jobs than ever before. I used to have tro

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

Andrei, I think you are looking at a number of different factors that are causing this. From my point of view, I would love to move not only to the Bay area, but NY or Boston where there are tons of openings. However, the cost of living there is so outrageously expensive, it doesn't pay for me to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

And I would love to blame the quality of the job posting sites. There search engines are terrible. Just now, I search in Washington DC Information Architect (86 results - only 3 were for IA) Interaction Designer (41 results, only 1 for IxD) Interface Designer (10 results, only one for ID)

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

It's not so much a matter of designers disappearing as much as demand ballooning. As our work gains momentum and more companies see the value of bringing good design to their products, it follows that the demand for designers grows as well. I think we've been noticing an upswing in demand for IxDs

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

Hi Andrei, 1) This is not just a problem in SV. At the IA Summit there were 19 sponsors all there to recruit heavily and well from my basic survey, they weren't all that successful. I know we weren't. 2) Like what David Shaw said. You've gotta be nutz, coocoo, and just insane to leave anyplace in

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

It's been my experience that in these cases, HR is often to blame. There are very few recruiters who understand what you're actually in need of so they work from a skills and background checklist and if a resume doesn't use the same set of magic words that their list does, you lose someone who

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

"so they work from a skills and background checklist and if a > resume doesn't use the same set of magic words that their list does, > you lose someone who might actually be a perfect candidate" Then it seems they are no better than a machine. --

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

Agreed with Dave and David, and here are some additional points to consider: 1) The demographics of more experienced candidates (i.e. more likely to have a family and other personal obligations) make them less interested in moving to areas with a high cost of living like SF/NYC. Conversely, less e

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

I have always thought we as a community need to do a better job educating recruiters/HR people to what we actually do to enable them to understand the space, write proper job descriptions and tags, know how to interview and hire the right people. __ Catríona Lohan-Conw

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

Supply and demand... there is A LOT of work out there right now. Many large companies are transforming to Web 2.0 or just evolving to become more targeted and efficient which requires more seasoned talent. (Versus Dot Coms chasing VC money and just filling seats...) Most companies today that wer

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

I whole hearted agree - the results that are produced are sometimes nothing close to what you are searching on? As a human factors / cognitive engineer with experience in Interface Design/ Interaction Design jobs seem slim for the picking - however I'm told there is more work in our industr

[IxDA Discuss] JOB: Lead Designer, Boston University/Contact Lisa Ryan

Lead Designer Boston Boston University - Charles River Campus Job Description Lead the design and management of web and other interactive new media projects with a comprehensive approach that emphasizes branding, technology, quality of written and visual content and information architecture. O

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

From: dave malouf Sent: Wed 2/20/2008 12:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers? ... 3) The value of SV as a nexus is being lost due to well what SV does ... create technolo

Re: [IxDA Discuss] "The Most Frequently Used Features in Microsoft Office"

Ha! This is why we need to forge ahead and start creating completely new ways of communicating, a new vocabulary! Such as, "strategolutions". Which is a combination of strategy and solutions. I stole that from an american commercial that ran frequently few years back. Funny stuff. This site has

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design, Ethnography and User Experience Conferences/Workshops: Recommendations?

Hi Tim, We will be hosting our deep dive cultural immersion workshop, Rethinking China! this summer and India in January 2009. To learn more, please visit http://movingtargetresearch.com/immersions.html Let me know if you would like to be added to our mailing list when registration opens March 10

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

I know that we're talking about digital products, but I can't resist a shout-out to Harry Partch and the wonderful instruments he invented. Check out these interfaces: http://musicmavericks.publicradio.org/features/feature_partch.html# . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[IxDA Discuss] JOB: Senior User Interface and Interaction Designer, San Jose, Recruiter, Full Time

Title: Senior User Interface and Interaction Designer Job Type: Full-Time Location: San Jose, CA A rapidly growing, social networking site for teens is seeking a Senior UI and Interaction Designer to create user-centered design processes to make a more intuitive, frictionless and cohesive virtua

[IxDA Discuss] JOB: Interaction Designer, SF Bay Area - 30 minutes from SF, Recruiter, Full Time

Title: Interaction Designer Location: SF Bay Area - 30 minutes from SF Compensation: 80's to low 100's DOE A progressive mobile-technology company is searching for an Interaction Designer to join its creative team and focus on user interface design and usability. This fast-paced start-up needs a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

On Feb 20, 2008, at 12:05 PM, dave malouf wrote: > 2) Like what David Shaw said. You've gotta be nutz, coocoo, and just > insane to leave anyplace including NYC and move to SF unless you were > guaranteed something between $150k-$200k, and HUGE relocation package > upwards of $20-$30k. Having don

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design and Theatre

Here's another example that connects Interaction Design and Theatre. The London premiere of Peter Pan in 1904. Captian Hook has poisoned Tinkerbell and she's near death. Peter Pan turns to the audience and implores them to clap if they believe in fairies in order to save her life. Today that sort

[IxDA Discuss] Re: SEO and Usability

Sorry for joining in on this late but I'm wondering what you folks think of eliminating browsable navigation on Web sites all together and just forcing users to use a search interface to locate what they are looking for. Songza (http://www.songza.com) is an example of this that does not allow users

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Signup screen as the first screen?

Pankaj wrote: > Unless Dave wont have recommended it I would have > given this website a pass... But he _did_ recommend it. That's why you were there. It's clear they expect you to be sold on the value proposition before you visit buzzword.com. They're optimizing for existing users. A bit of con

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

On Feb 20, 2008, at 12:05 PM, dave malouf wrote: > 2) Like what David Shaw said. You've gotta be nutz, coocoo, and just > insane to leave anyplace including NYC and move to SF unless you were > guaranteed something between $150k-$200k, and HUGE relocation package > upwards of $20-$30k. Having don

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Signup screen as the first screen?

Jeff, I'd generally treat as 'epic failure' any Web app that didn't at least provide some basic overview in support of asking me to register. In this example, even a simple "Don't know about Buzzword? Read the overviewand find out why it's the best darn-tootin' Web app t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Signup screen as the first screen?...tangent

Falling off my chair laughing. I worked all week to get 'catiwompus' into a client meeting. Today was the day. No real idea how to spell it. On Feb 20, 2008, at 7:14 PM, Steve Baty wrote: > [Also: props on getting 'discombobulated' into a sentence. Not > something I > see every day :) ] ___

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Using voice narration on sites

Hi all, I've had further talks with the client and they want sound for strategic purposes (future sites). So though I'm not sure if it's entirely appropriate, I have to make sure it's used in a way that isn't annoying and is hopefully useful. On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Marty DeAngelo <[EMAI

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Signup screen as the first screen?...tangent

>From your specialist in obscure regional dialect: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=catawampus Also "kittywampus" in Appalachia, akin to "kittycorner" (on a diagonal, or opposite, corner)) ... Can't tell you about the derivation, but people around here use these words all the time.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

> Not to take away from the very real issue of what the cost of living > here is and how it puts a strain on people, but it certainly doesn't > require earning $150K to $200K a year. Depends on your lifestyle. For example, $100k can do significantly more for you in Arizona than $150k can in Silic

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

The same goes for us in NYC! Rents in manhattan for a 250 sq ft studio are easily $1900 or more. A two bedroom apt in a good neighborhood (with good schools) easily costs $850K or more. My younger brother lives in Scottsdale, AZ. He owns a nice, two level house for what our 1 bdr apt costs! Food,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

and to add some (more recent) big work in this field, check out The Studio for Electroacoustic Instrumental Music http://steim.org There's a pretty good history here http://www.steim.org/steim/piepen.html . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixd

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

Lots of reasons to relocate for work. How many designers do we know that started with Apple or Adobe on their resume and leveraged that into bigger better roles. Sometimes you need exposure to a great company or to great projects to kick start a carrier. While great projects are available ou

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

Getting older, having babies, networking and finding jobs through informal channels and friends rather than formal channels, and staying employed as a consultant as a job that I like with people I like that affords me the flexibility that I need to avoid a long commute and spend more time with

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Zooming in for more detail

not so much a design solution as a technical one - but it may also help out http://www.netzgesta.de/loupe/ cheers jy >> Ideas I've had so far: >> >> Magnifying glass on roll-over (ala iPhone text magnifying) >> Welcome to the Int

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Signup screen as the first screen?

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:47:54, Jeff Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pankaj wrote: > > Unless Dave wont have recommended it I would have > > given this website a pass... > > But he _did_ recommend it. That's why you were there. It's clear > they expect you to be sold on the value proposition befo

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

Arent we a global village anymore? It makes me happy to know that UX is almost at the same level around the globe. Considering that most of the top business houses have their offices in China and India, does it make sense to consider shifting to these parts of the world as well? Consider this: In

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Signup screen as the first screen?

Pankaj wrote: > My question really was "whether I should be blamed > or the website"? As a user, you're pretty safe from criticism on this list. No one is ever going to admit that a user should be blamed for anything. But even though the tryout/signup process for buzzword could be better than

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Using voice narration on sites

Vicky- The simple answer is for the same reason any product uses a professional to endorse it. The same reason Kobe Bryant endorses sneakers...on a conscious level we know that he probably doesn't wear the same ones we can buy in the store, but sub-consciously we fall for it, whether it's idola

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

This seems to apply for many people - in weighing our options in the near future as she finishes her doctorate, my fiancee and I have considered moving. The Bay Area is one of the few places we've given serious thought away from our current hometown. We are aware that this would mean shifting (eve

Re: [IxDA Discuss] health websites/web apps that show rather then tell about disease and what you can do about it

The Illustrated Family Health Guide from A.D.A.M. may have the type of thing you're looking for. Although it is a book, they do have a few examples you can look at online. http://www.adam.com/familyhealth/toc.htm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from th