On Oct 11, 2008, at 12:05 AM, Kontra wrote:
We don't live in a theocracy where *you* get to judge whether legally
accrued profits are to your liking or if a buyer of a company is
allowed to
see value in it that you can't.
*I* believe *I* do.
(And Eric's right. You probably meant meritocra
On 11/10/08 3:05 PM, "Kontra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We don't live in a theocracy where *you* get to judge whether legally
> accrued profits are to your liking or if a buyer of a company is allowed to
> see value in it that you can't.
that would be a meritocracy, not a theocracy, I'm sure.
> But if Facebook ends up being something less than that -- say, a big and
>> popular Website, but not a world-changing business that throws off billions
>> a dollars a year and disrupts multiple industries -- then Mark's backers may
>> end up wondering why they didn't push him to figure that soone
On 11/10/08 4:43 AM, "Andrei Herasimchuk"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Blizzard has around that for World of Warcraft paying $15 a month, and
> it's just a game. I think Facebook would be able to pull it off.
Firstly, about 6 million of that 10 million are in asia/china, where they
pay on an hour
William -
I hear ya. As a designer who cares deeply about experiences, I too
sought to effect the change you speak of (in fact, for the last 15
years)... but gave up this past Feb. Glad to hear you're still willing
to carry the torch because someone needs to carry it.
I can tell you this.
If you mean how to represent objects that cluster very closely, the
only advice I can give is to make sure your markers are large enough
to give the users enough area to tap. Circles work decently as they
tend to crescent around each other, where vertically or horizontally
arranged squares appear t
Jack,
You make a really fantastic point. It is perhaps rather like the tree
that breaks the rock. Once it gets its roots into a crack it slowly
breaks open the stone. What lasted a million years is shattered in
10.
I'm in a prime location to lead by example. My co-workers have been
receptive and
On the 2nd Tuesday of every month, Seattle-area information
architects, user-centered designers, librarians, technical writers,
and usability folk meet up at the Elysian pub in Capitol Hill to talk
shop and socialize. The format is informal - all you need to bring is
a topic of conversation, such a
On Oct 9, 2008, at 9:36 PM, Kontra wrote:
If you're counting, three years from now would be nearly 7 years
since Mark
(and others) started Facebook at Harvard, and four years since
Microsoft
plowed $240 million into the company.
So what?
Google made its first $100MM profit 5 years after
On Oct 10, 2008, at 2:42 PM, William Brall wrote:
Are there any other IxDs who work in government, as IxDs or
stubbornly supporting IxD while under other titles, and if there
are, what are your thoughts on how to help the government at large
to embrace IxD?
William,
My company does a
Yes Kontra, we all get that you are totally impressed that they
generated some funding. But in the real world we look for proof that
they can make money. We call this revenue and accountants (and share
holders) are interested in extrapolating from that revenue some
indication of profit. Fur
I managed to send my reply just to Andrei - sorry Andrei - not this
list. Newbie alert!
I agree that paying for content and services is one way out of this.
But how likely is it that Facebook will start charging when there's
countless other social networks that are willing to offer as much for
fre
Hello:
I am designing a map feature where there may be several objects that can
overlap. Anyone have any suggestions on how best to indicate overlapping
items? Some of the options are using the indicators similar to the ones used
in Google Maps, or pins.
TIA,
-Iram
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Hi all - great discussion. I've designed a one-column presentation -
in an application and am currently designing a two-column screen in
an application. The decision to go with one-column was based on the
mental model the users had of their paper form - where they simply
moved down the page to fill
I also agree with the general idea that two columns would work nicely,
if grouping them logically by fieldset for both visual and code
understanding.
I would like to bring into the discussion in which order the fields
should be ordered, when using a two column layout. Let me draw you an
example, a
some more stuff about touchscreen sensitivity
http://code.google.com/p/iphone-haptics/
Terry F
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I'm getting Irony Overload off Mac Smith of Microsoft Game Studios.
This sounds really interesting. It is too bad I can't make it. Will
there be a way to listen in on this remotely? Is there a place I can
watch to get notes, slides, or whatever from this?
I fell into IxD through Game Design mysel
Very slick. But I don't see how you can track the depth of your
stroke by drawing on a 2D surface. I mean if I draw a line, will that
line be in front, behind, or in the middle of all the other lines I
have drawn before? Will it make sense to me when I rotate it?
The person drawing in the video s
Howdy everyone,
I've spent my career working through various government agencies - NASA, DOD -
and one of the most nerve-racking aspects of software development in here is
how far they lag behind the curve. It is to the point where almost all of the
people I interact with haven't the slightest
Here is one of my heroes in visual display information
The most design oriented of Edward Tuffe's book. Envisioning information shows
maps,charts,scientific presentations, diagrams, computer interfaces, timetables
and many other wonderful displays of information. It's a must have book in your
s
> If you're counting, three years from now would be nearly 7 years since Mark
> (and others) started Facebook at Harvard, and four years since Microsoft
> plowed $240 million into the company.
So what?
Google made its first $100MM profit 5 years after and went public 6 years
after its incorporat
So less than one in four even want an iPhone? Sounds pretty unpopular among
teens to me!
*Any* company still residing on this planet would kill to get such numbers
given the margins, carrier subsidies and recurring post-sale revenues from
the iPhone. In business as in design, context is everythin
Hello all,
I'm having trouble finding some examples of an interesting UI I -know- I've
seen. I'm not sure what to call it, and have browsed some of my go-to
interaction design libraries
I'm thinking of a navigation that is anchored to the bottom of the browser.
The user may scroll down to bro
> If you're planning on such a project, you may want to check out Nicholas'
> web app for doing just that:
> http://daytum.com/
If you really want to get granular, go nuts:
Daily question: Too much or not enough?
http://counternotions.com/2008/10/02/details/
--
Kontra
http://counternotions.com
Anyone interested in doing a trip to Whistler after the IxDA
conference? They have a bus that will take you from Vancouver to
Whistler and back.
Cheers!
Todd Zaki Warfel
President, Design Researcher
Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully.
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Contact
I think of myself within the sphere of user experience. Interaction,
interface, information, service, decision-making, form components of the
work that I carry out, but the focus of the effort is on the experience.
Steve
2008/10/11 Jarod Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> As we found (interaction relat
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1201430
Join us for our next Puget Sound IXDA meeting - hosted by Microsoft's Office
Labs (www.officelabs.com) on October 23 at 7pm, on Microsoft's main campus -
Building 33.
"Game Onward: Lessons from game design"
This is a chance to learn where the fields of inte
See sig...
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hedonic designer
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On Oct 10, 2008, at 7:31 PM, "Jarod Tang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As we found (int
for the most part I am a designer.
if I meet someone in business, on a plane, or at a party... I am a
User Experience Designer. It makes the conversation simpler. People
seem to get it.
in my work I do interaction design, information architecture design,
visual design and product design.
As we found (interaction related) guys talk about the design in
different names ( interaction design, user experience design or user
interface design , etc). Myself also found shifting between the names
back and forth in different projects along the time.
What's your preferred name for your real w
Hey guys,
Do you know about any event taking place in NY on Nov 13?
I just noticed that there's none listed at
http://www.worldusabilityday.org/en/events/2008/country#us-anchor
Cheers.
Ricardo
Welcome to the Interaction Design As
Andrei
2008/10/11 Andrei Herasimchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Blizzard has around that for World of Warcraft paying $15 a month, and it's
> just a game. I think Facebook would be able to pull it off.
>
In the context of this discussion WoW is more that 'just a game'. There is a
very deep and exte
Oops. My link broke. Let me try that again.
http://gallery.me.com/jackmoffett#100025/JobForm
And Caroline, I apologize for somehow getting your last name wrong on
the quote.
Jack
Jack L. Moffett
Interaction Designer
inmedius
412.459.0310 x219
http://www.inmedius.com
If there's anything m
Caroline,
This is a simple example, but it is a screen that I was able to
easily scrub for public display.
http://gallery.me.com/jackmoffett#100025/JobForm
Best,
Jack
Caroline Jennet wrote:
"And now back to me learning more: It would be great to see some
examples of your two-column application
Jonathan Abbett wrote:
> The major draw of Facebook is ubquity -- everyone you know from high
> school, college, maybe even the office has a profile. Charging for
> Facebook would drive away large swaths of users...
Hmmm...
Napster. --> [iTunes+iPod] + bittorrent + [Napster+fee]
--
Oleh Kovalc
I have lost a reference to a very handy and short article on design
whcih I swear I found via IXDA. Anyone out there know about an article
that breaks down a design problem into five categories: Key Components,
Objects, Actions, User, System? Apologies to the author because I
believe it was your IX
Hey there,
Since canceling the initial class by SmartExperience.org I've gotten a
few late registrants interested in doing the 1-day workshop.
If those who registered the first time and these new people + a couple
more new ones jump in, I can teach the class.
We are looking to do this on a new dat
Hi Everyone,
Wanted to let everyone know about the 12 cool workshops we have planned for the
conference. Links will take you to the crowdvine site for the conference.
Well, we did all this research … now what? With Steve Portigal
http://interaction09.crowdvine.com/talks/show/2565
Design Studio
If you wanted to figure out the size of the actual market for facebook
(as it is today), I'd say find out what percentage of the population
keeps their high school yearbooks, and looks through them periodically.
The similar problem with facebook to yearbooks is that it encourages
people t
We will also have a great workshop on sketching at
interaction'09|vancouver.
http://interaction09.crowdvine.com/talks/show/2575
Highlights from the workshop:
* Be introduced to design sketching
* Explore what design sketching is and how it is different from fine
art drawing
* Learn quick and di
It might be interesting to see some innovation in the subscription
model for web sites, as (maybe it's just me) folks can only take so
many $10-$20 hits to their wallet every month. I have a tough enough
time shelling out $60 for a cell phone...
On the other hand, cloud computing is making a lot
The major draw of Facebook is ubquity -- everyone you know from high
school, college, maybe even the office has a profile. Charging for
Facebook would drive away large swaths of users, and I predict that
would have a negative snowballing effect: what's the use if only a
small (and decreasing) port
It's to late for the pay for service model. If that was the direction
they wanted to go in, it should have been implemented in mid growth
stage prior to maturity, when the delta was steep. Instead, they were
betting (I am assuming) on some magic pie-in-the-sky startup
evaluation that never material
to echo/amplify MTs point - in three years facebook could be friendster or
yahoo 360 - in which case it won't matter - a dead mule needs no business
plan.
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Michael Tuminello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 3 years is probably how long it will take for people to have e
3 years is probably how long it will take for people to have enough
personal data and other investment in the system to consider paying $9
a month for it. plus by then they'll be sure their competitors have
given up, assuming facebook still exists. :-)
personally, I think facebook is the
I don't disagree with you Andrei - I think some people would value it -
between $3 and $12/month. Its currently free - and I see 0 value in (hence
my page is so dead), but some - like DaveM, do value it, and might even be
willing to pay for the privilege of being super-poked.
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008
On Oct 9, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Jared Spool wrote:
What I've been praying for, to learn what Facebook's business plan
is, will be finally answered!
In 3 years, once Mark Zuckerberg figures it out.
http://is.gd/3MSY
So... I have to wonder out loud: Why not just charge $9/month for a
Facebook a
The most stringent standards of professional practice is probably
those of the American Psychological Association (APA). They have a
bound manual that is probably 75 pages. Some of the sections deal
with medical and therapy ethics for humans and animals and may not be
so relevant.
When I was wor
I helped draft the UPA Code of Conduct and would be interested in
comments. I could fill in some of the background that went into the
code of conduct.
Chauncey
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:08 AM, William Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> UPA has one too on their site
>
> will evans
> emotive arch
http://www.upassoc.org/about_upa/leadership/code_of_conduct.html
I was emailing from my phone earlier - there is the link.
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Chauncey Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I helped draft the UPA Code of Conduct and would be interested in
> comments. I could fill i
On Oct 9, 2008, at 10:44 PM, mark schraad wrote:
That would make for one hell of a single day workshop!
One of the highlights of my career was taking a one-day workshop from
Bill Verplank at CHI 89. (For all everyone likes to "dis" the CHI
conferences, there have been some seminal worksho
UPA has one too on their site
will evans
emotive architect &
hedonic designer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
617.281.1281
twitter: semanticwill
aim: semanticwill
gtalk: wkevans4
skype: semanticwill
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On Oct 10, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Kevin Silver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know of or use (abide by) Standards of Professional Practice other
than the one AIGA has outlined? I'm interested to see if there are any
alternatives.
Thanks,
Kevin
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (
>From eMarketer
"Asked about the effects of customer ratings on their Web sites,
over half of online retailers in the United Kingdom, the United
States and Europe said their overall conversion rates had gone up in
the past year, compared with only 9% who said they fell. Over
three-quarters said th
It sounds like a bad idea, for two reasons I could think of right now.
One, adding features doesn't guarantee a better user experience, in the same
way that gaming page views doesn't accurately measure how people are using
the site. You could have all of the features in the world and still no one
w
Here are a fewe articles that may help define "social" and metrics
for this particular site, audience and business goals.
blogs.forrester.com/marketing/2008/08/b2b-marketers-e.html
mashable.com/2008/07/31/measuring-social-media-roi-for-business/
www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/07/18/forrester-r
Thanks Patrick and Bryan. Your responses do help.
I would like to clarify a bit. This site sell products, so the social
layer would probably be opinion based to help increase sales. But I've
also heard rumors about user submitted content such as articles,
multimedia etc that would serve as
I don't think you could reliably answer that question without
specifically targeting a single web site, its purpose, audience,
current metrics and what kind of social features you plan to
implement.
You might as well ask "how many new users can we expect if we
allowed people to create an account o
Hello.
I would need some help to reply to a clients request. He's asking
veery generally how much turnover you could get on page views / time
spent on site if you would to implement social features. What does
social features would be is not clear. The site is very established.
He's asking
Yohan,
For starters, check out this Delicious list:
http://delicious.com/InfoDesignViz/Interactive
Filter it by the "Interactive" tag. This is a list of references that
I'm using as examples in the class I'm teaching.
Best,
Jack
On Oct 9, 2008, at 9:05 PM, Yohan Creemers wrote:
The best
Nice post Bruce,
I was just thinking -there are things that are useful for marketing ixd and
things that are useful to people within the field which further praxis and
allow ideation. Selling methodologies is great. Creating an organizing
umbrella which houses a set of methods and practices which
I like the visual style of Nicholas Feltron's annual report. But why
are infographics so extremely non-interactive?
I have seen very few examples of interactive infographics (and I'm
following Manuel Lima's weblog) while interaction could add so much
to help people understand the information.
The
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