In a situation like this, make it up.
I don't mean lie -- I mean create a few projects that are very much "like"
the ones you've worked on in the past with your IP locked down, and present
your solutions for the non-existent but very possible ACME Widget Inc.
Like Uday said, it's going to be very t
On Aug 4, 2008, at 3:58 PM, Mark Ahlenius wrote:
Here's a question for you all along those lines. What's a good way
to create a new portfolio, when all your past work was company
confidential? (i.e. I cannot use any of it)
Build something. Anything. Go out onto the web, find a poorly desig
Here's a question for you all along those lines. What's a good way
to create a new portfolio, when all your past work was company
confidential? (i.e. I cannot use any of it)
Here's what I'd suggest: Look around the web or your computer or where
ever and identify poor interfaces. (American
Advertising blindness predates the Web. Its roots are more conplex
than response to stimuli.
In the 1950's, David Ogilvy made several successful campaigns
"disguising" his ads, that ran on magazines, to match the context.
He found that "the less an advertisement looks like an
advertisement, and t
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Hi,
Here's a question for you all along those lines. What's a good way to
create a new portfolio, when all your past work was company
confidential? (i.e. I cannot use any of it)
Can you suggest some projects to do on the side perhaps, which are
meaningful (i.e. useful), but can then be show
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Hi Bob,
I'll echo Fred's advice: How is your portfolio? Most design firms and
internal IxD departments put a lot of weight on this, not only as a way of
seeing your work product, but also as a means of ascertaining whether you
can competently tell a story (visually *and* narratively in the case of
On 8/4/08, Bob Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> What am I doing wrong? In IxD, is being seen as "too academic" a kiss
> of death for an applicant? If so, the only experience I can get are
> projects like these so what's the best way to break out and get
> something substantial to prove that I
Company: AKQA
Title: Interaction Designer / Information Architect
Location: Washington DC
AKQA is a global digital communications agency. We've been at it for
almost 15 years, but the ideas are as fresh as ever. Exactly what we
do varies a lot from client to client. If we have to sum up what we do
Bryan,
I find it quite contrite that someone would assume that "we" have
all trained our brains to see beyond advertisements and put them in
"our peripheral vision". I think that the reaction to
advertisements is totally dependent on the user as well as how they
identify one.
That being said I do
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Hi all,
A couple of questions to put to the readers here.
I have a degree in psych and a PhD in HCI both from good universities
and want to get a steady position in this field. I've done industrial
work (human factors multi-company collaboration into commercial
aircraft cockpit design - assessmen
Come work in my group! View more info and apply at:
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Ziba is looking for a Senior Interaction Designer who will join our
Portland, Oregon based Interaction Design (IxD) team. The right
designer will have experience across a broad spectrum
Attention capture by sudden change in contrast and sudden movement is
described in 'Mind Hacks' by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb -- good book. It is
attributed to Superior colliculus (part of the "old brain", as opposed to
the "new brain", also known as "neocortex").
--
Oleh Kovalchuke
Interaction D
"Top-down" (ask a lot of questions upfront) search does not fare very well
with users, since it often demands pre-science of expected results. Hence
the popularity of the faceted search: single search field (or simple set of
the fields) --> large set of results --> controls to filter the results to
>
> You can see it in action here: http://twurl.nl/nmkn1m
>
I'm not sure this is the same thing Robert was suggesting—he mentioned
having people select a list item and dragging it up or down.
Also, what you've lined to here is an example of "infinite scrolling", which
has not proven itself intuit
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@ Azmir:
The Pump Audio Soundtrack tool was exactly the kind of inspiration I was
looking for. A designer and I started sketching out concepts together last
week, and it's similar to that tool. It has a good mix of browse-filtering,
and I was in the search-then-filter mental set.
@ Santiago:
Great
For what it's worth, in my experience lawyers are much better than average
users at forming boolean searches - they do it often in eDiscovery and
literature searches. (I've done a couple of eDiscovery applications and in
testing, the level of sophistication around searching was very high.)
The way
Joel Spolsky gave a great description of how to use this idea
systematically, calling it Evidence Based Scheduling:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html
No reason it wouldn't work as well for design as for development, though you
might need to adjust the method to account for differ
A lot of thoughts above are valid, however, I have seen forms mimic
the exact same style as the original paper form. Where I've seen
this done well was through government websites where they took the
original paper form and created a PDF version that was dynamic. You
can just fill in the entries
Apologies to all, but about 2-3 months ago there was a discussion
about job specs for UE folks from Jr. to Manager. One of the nice
people talking posted their jobs specs. I downloaded them against
future need, but now, having swapped computers have lost them.
Can anyone share theirs?
thanks in
Try to find your correction factor. Review some projects you did in
the past. Would you have been able to complete them in time if you
had had twice the time you estimated? Or 1.5x, or 3x? Or even higher?
Next time, estimate your resources in the usual way (breaking down
into chunks, etc), then ap
Who releases a search product that hasn't gotten at least 12 months of
indexing in?
Work. Business Decision. Ever.
I feel so sorry for their Marketing dept. having to deal with that...
On Aug 2, 2008, at 6:27 AM, Sebi Tauciuc wrote:
Maybe you weren't indexed yet ;)
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Thanks for remembering fhios
Hi Rob,
Aza Raskin did something like that in Humanized Reader.
As you scroll the page, content list loads. There is no
link or button to trigger this behavior, just the ol´plain
scrolling page action with some javascript trickery.
You can see it in action here: http://twurl.nl/nmkn1m
IMHO, i
In my own studies, people are surprisinly competent using search
engines like Google. I think 50% of participants found an answer in
the first 10 results they got for queries they formatted themselves.
However, I can't think of anything specific to your question, so
sorry about that.
Another impo
Just an idea - make your normal estimate and add 50%. If you still
under-estimate, keep on adding (say to 75%). If you feel you have
over-estimated, reduce it.
Alternatively, work out what you should have got for your recent
projects and compare them with what you estimated. This should give
you a
I must admit that I don't remember ever coming across the term "old
brain" in my studies. Perhaps it was active when I was being
lectured about it and I was too busy watching for tigers ;-)
In terms of stimuli that make us nervous, I don't think animated
banner ads count, otherwise net heads woul
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