My name is Itamar Medeiros, from Brazil, currently living in Shanghai,
where I work as Product Design Manager of the Geospatial Business Unit
at Autodesk®, and help promote Interaction Design as a local
coordinator for the Interaction Design Association (IxDA).
As an Information Design specialist,
Holla, Guilhermo! Como estas? I'm not sure what kind of feedback you
wanted on that, but I believe you've listed most of the areas that
Usability Teams get involved in, and you've covered all areas quite
accurately.
There is one area that -- at least in my company, and pretty much in
most other c
Hi Ermel,
Hello to you. =)
I would like to start by saying the infamous " IT DEPENDS" quote.
A lot of it depends on where you are in the organization and the type
of organization you are in. Consultancy? Software development firm?
product company? research org? HR self service? etc...etc..etc..
You can also understand user activities by doing ethnography studies and
time motion tracking.
cheers,
Donny
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Guillermo Ermel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Hello IxDA members!
>
> I'm trying to define common activities of a usability team... So I've made
> a
> lis
On Aug 16, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Jenny Wallace wrote:
this actually reminds me of something i brought up to my manager
yesterday.
i remarked that i wonder if it will ever be the case that companies
will
trademark things such as their taxonomy. for instance - i could steal
shopping.com's catego
Another way to think about the activities is how well you can sell the
approach and results to your stakeholders. Sometimes a simple toolkit
can work just as well.
You can also look at combination of approaches to help find insights.
For example, interviews, usability reviews, sketching with
stak
1) carry my up to thw minute To Do list with me...did this before but
no where near as efficiently.
2) EFFICIENT addressing of email. I no longer need to spend each
evening going throu in excess of 150 emails (from about 8 email
accounts)...answering, archiving, etal thanks to Apple's fabu
Interesting!
There are two ways this could easily be much more interesting:
1) I've always done a zooming effect in spiral layouts. This negates
the effect of increasing whitespace in the outer regions. (see
http://www.surfmind.com/musings/2004/05/25/)
2) Some amazing research shows that the D
Circle Dock is a free open source dock-style applications launchers
for Windows that appear where your mouse is instead of you having to
move your mouse to the dock like with other programs. This is
accomplished by making the dock a circular or spiral shape so that it
can be placed anywhere
this actually reminds me of something i brought up to my manager yesterday.
i remarked that i wonder if it will ever be the case that companies will
trademark things such as their taxonomy. for instance - i could steal
shopping.com's categorization and mimic it - would that be wrong or IP
infringem
"Some people thought we were crazy to do this," says Michael Gough, a
vice president for design at Adobe. "But for others, the experience
has started to inform how they work," giving them a better
appreciation of how customers experience Adobe's programs.
My son has never dismantled a bicycle. Fo
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