On 5/9/08, paige saez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Is there a channel for IxDa'ers? If not, could we make one? I would love
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> be able to ask questions and chat in an informal way if possible.
> This could be localI am in PDX so I am shoutin' out to PDX IXDA peeps
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> Thoughts?
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I al
On May 12, 2008, at 6:00 PM, Eric Scheid wrote:
A few years back I did a simple survey on the things we do and make
as IAs.
Why are you asking interaction designers about IA work? No taxonomies
here! Take yer classification schemes elsewhere! ;)
Dan
On a related note, the term "user experience" appeared in the Wall
Street Journal today in an interview with Sal Iannuzzi, chief
executive Monster Worldwide Inc.
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WSJ: The knock on your company is that you are not attracting the
best job candidates. And some critics say you need to improve t
A few years back I did a simple survey on the things we do and make as IAs.
Might be time to repeat that survey and see what's changed.
Very simply, take a minute or three and jot down the names of any IA thing -
regardless of whether it be an activity, a method, or a deliverable. Just
start typin
Alrightthird time's the charm:
http://tinyurl.com/5gz89g
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Correction - the URL should be
http://humanfactors.typepad.com/idsa/2007/12/lightscribe---p.html
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I've been following this product for months since pre-launch. and
wrote about its promising application to a number of user research
methods:
http://www.designingforhumans.com/idsa/2007/12/lightscribe---p.html
Unfortunately the customer service behind the product has not been
altogether impressi
The pen can record both drawings/notes and sound simultaneously (and links
them to each other). It is also hand-held computer, "paper" calculator,
translator, paper piano player (whoo-hoo! -- at last), and other yet to be
designed "paper" utilities/games:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2JGOSF9G8c
Does anybody have any quick data, or a reference for user
understanding regarding the difference between web search and
vertical (within the current site) search?
hanks,
Mark
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)
hi.
Cool discussion!
Following the comments of Bruce Bethke's "The Secret Symbiosis: the
HGG and its impact on real computer science," ideas in science
fiction often motivate real scientists and vice-versa. Maybe
Hollywood Movie UI's are a very expensive way of wire-framing. ;)
I offer a
The Montague Institute 2008 summer calendar features learning events on the
following topics:
a.. Google vs. Autonomy vs. Sharepoint -- Rethinking strategies for
enterprise search and related applications
b.. Taxonomies, Search & Sharepoint How-to -- Three-part teleconference
series on h
To respond further to this:
>Of course, standing all day can be exhausting, but it's something to
>think about...I guess an user interface that allows a stand-up
>position, and that allows us to make wide movements would be better.
I just saw Iron Man, again, and noticed that he's actually using a
Tim,
Sounds like quite the project. I'm working on a class project that is
challenging me in a similar way. Though it isn't a social networking site, I'm
working on a site in which I want to add features that make the site more
interactive (interaction between the reader and the site, and int
OK First...
@ Jared M. Spool It's not exactly like
http://www.iminlikewithyou.com in that its primary purpose is a
support group for specifically women. The idea is to give them
incentives for interacting with each other, but it is not a site that
they will be logging onto to primarily do this
Hi Mike,
A few additional comments to the very good suggestions by others.
Visual/semantic design:
It's a good idea to limit font treatments (weight, face, size, color) to
3-4 per page/site. I have counted 11 on this page:
https://www.sonlight.com/new-to-sonlight.html. Use the treatment as a
cons
IxDA Colorado
This Wednesday (that's the day after tomorrow) SpireMedia's Simon Hill will
discuss how assumptions and metaphors from the world of marketing design
don't always work when designing web applications. Simon's thoughts may
seem like "motherhood" to some, and heres
http://www.oblong.net is the former MIT kids who worked on the
Minority report and also science advised the Iron Man movie.
http://elianealhadeff.blogspot.com/2008/04/gesturetek-and-oblong-serious-gaming.html
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Dan Saffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I hate to mak
Hello, Michael. It sounds like what you're describing is a background
image, which can be applied using CSS to tables and other elements.
There are many CSS references in books and online that explain how
it's done (like this one:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_background.asp ). Applying a
backgr
[excuse the crossposting]
We're celebrating the release of SUBJECT TO CHANGE: CREATING GREAT
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD, and you're all invited!
All four authors will be present (one lives in Austin, now), so it's a
special chance to meet, greet, and get books signed by all
Timothy,
Have you read Clay Shirky's "Here Comes Everybody"? He has loads of
both theoretically interesting and practically useful insights about
social tools, but the last chapter in particular talks about the
success of social tools as a function of three criteria: the Promise,
the Tool
Can you link us to an example?
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Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
To post t
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Marcus Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just wanted to follow up on the comments by Gretchen and Sanket on 2D
> bar codes - in particular the QR Code from Denso.
>
This is the other side of the coin: using the phone to collect data
from the environment; it's a
Hi Josh,
welcome to the list & many thanks for putting together this collection
of links - I was always wondering who does all the screen graphics
for movies!
Cheers,
Alex
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Josh Santangelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi -- new guy here. I was referred to this th
Hi Mike,
I think what you are looking for has been implemented on current apple.com
site. The moment you do enter a 'keyword(s)', a search result panel appears
below with a list of possible matches categorized by products/support/etc.
cheers
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Hi Timothy,
Take a look at http://www.experts-exchange.com/ . This is not exactly a
social network, rather a professional one, but I think it only makes
increasing user engagement more difficult. I find their reward system to be
excellent.
Best,
Konrad
Hi -- new guy here. I was referred to this thread as someone who also
was interested in the topic of software in films, Iron Man
specifically. I did look into who worked on Iron Man a bit, but this
is as far as I got: http://www.thefront.com/film.php?view=75
As part of researching that, I collecte
Speaking of interactive peripherals, is there anybody who knows how to
stitch multiple Ubiq windows on one system? is it possible?
Kinda new here and glad to be in the loop!
thanks!,
Joel
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http://ww
The biggest issue so far that Gather.com faced/es is an economics/human
behavior issue. Incentives do strange things to user behavior. Gather uses a
point system to incent people to public articles. You get more points if the
article you published is popular - rated high, highly trafficed, highly
c
Tim,
We did the same thing when I was designing Gather.com - a social networking
site. Users earned gather points to publish, comment, connect with users,
etc - and then were able to turn the points in for certificates.
- Will
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Jared M. Spool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Just wanted to follow up on the comments by Gretchen and Sanket on 2D
bar codes - in particular the QR Code from Denso.
For the last couple of years I spent in Japan, this little baby was
popping up all over the place - subway posters, business cards, bar
coasters, websites, the back of supermarke
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