RT @KathySierra
@Armano the 1 thing that has surprised me most about Twitter? The sum
really IS greater than the parts. (impossible to perceive w/o trying)
--
Martin Polley
Technical writer, interaction designer
+972 52 3864280
Twitter: martinpolley
http://capcloud.com/
I notice that the formatting above kind of buried the manifesto
itself, so here it is pulled out:
We believe that the human condition is increasingly challenged by
poor experiences. IxDA intends to improve the human condition by
advancing the discipline of Interaction Design.
To do this, we
Isn't Twitter (currently) very much about following fellow _English
speaking_ tweeters?
In Sweden, and to my knowledge Europe (correct me if I'm wrong),
twitter hasn't taken of(on?) at all. For various reasons, but a big
one I guess being language. Having my 'local' friends following my
English
Wonderful discussion here!
I want to follow all of you guys on... mine is @jorgemarquez I use to write
in spanish and english depending on the comment.
I became fan of Twitter since I discovered the great networking potential
behind this tool.
Here a list for what I'm using Twitter:
1.-
There certainly is a lot of crossover between this thread and the one
on 'What to teach interaction design students' - and the heart of both
topics seems to center around language and understanding. First,
needing to have a clearly articulated definition of the discipline and
it's
I think twitter leverages many of the killer aspects of blogging
tweets have a ubiquitous rather than a localized feel as I follow the
micro-blog updates of career heroes as well as my coworkers and
friends. maybe u have to be a birder to appreciate it!
peep,
lo
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:38
I have also had a lot of fun on Twitter, as well as sharing relevant
UX / IA / IxD and Web Strategy Info, and learning from all the
incredibly talented folks that share on Twitter. You have to learn
how to be more selective in what you are looking for, or you will
have to slog through mundane
Ruth Kikin-Gil
Experience designer and Researcher
Website: http://www.ruthkikin.com
eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Telephone: +1-650-450-3832
LinkedIn:
Hey David
I'm glad you've pointed out this article. Oh, the good old days...
Three years ago Erez and I, both IDII Alumni, wrote about the Ivrea
experience for UI garden:
http://www.uigarden.net/english/idii-a-life-changing-experience
Enjoy.
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I am in the Travel industry and we have found that people completing
an online form has problems understanding when a field means their
country of origin or the country they want to travel too.
We have the country field under the personal details section, but
some people still tend to complete it
Hi all,
I'm breaking my head on the following for some time now and I hope you have
a fresh look or good experience to share.
*Scenario*
- A user needs to create password (for a new account)
- The password has to comply to two out of three certain rules (certain
length, upper- and/or lowercase
Hi Cecilia,
And thanks for your reply. I've been a Mac user at home for a year now and I
couldn't agree more: I actually thought all installations on a Mac occurred in
the DMG drag-and-drop procedure, and only when I installed MS Office for Mac
did I first saw that *lovely* step-by-step
there's a wall around us
we are heady, we are groundless
we burn our friends kill their names
build insecure petty fames
tattoo things that we believe
skulls bones hearts in half-sleeves
That stanza came to mind, especially the line about insecure and petty fames
- which was more an
From: AJKock
I am in the Travel industry and we have found that people completing
an online form has problems understanding when a field means their
country of origin or the country they want to travel too.
We have the country field under the personal details section, but
some people
A strategy that is more likely to work is to ask for country in a more
natural way, which is as a component of their address (if it is appropriate
to ask for their address as part of their personal details).
We are using the Jakob N loves us Wufoo form and unfortunately they
only have an
Check for each condition on every keystroke. As each new condition is
met, provide immediate feedback visually right next to the input form.
For example, start with 4 empty boxes, and with each met condition,
add a checkmark to one of the boxes.
If this is a web form, JavaScript is well-suited
In what country do you live?
In what country is your permanent residence?
Where is your home base?
What country do you call home?
Place a help icon or link for more info. Next to the question, emgm,
what's this
On 10/23/08, AJKock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am in the Travel industry and
Niklas,
I hear this argument a lot about many social networks that are
started in the US or UK, but I've noticed a trend.
Brazilians Portuguese just don't give a sh*t. ;-)
Nor do Israelis, Japanese and many other non-Europeans and well
Europeans. ;-)
Open up Twittervision and not only will you
To do this, we foster a community of people that choose to come
together to support this intention. IxDA relies on individual
initiative, contribution, sharing and self-organization as the
primary means for us to achieve our goals.
That's the key to its success - the whole grassroots movement.
That's exactly it.
When somebody in Toronto (inevitably) asks me What's the different
between the IxDA and [insert other group]? I always answer We give
anybody interested a voice and platform to talk about design with
their peers.
So many other groups will only let you speak at events if you
I am also very skeptical of the need for something like this.
Not everything is designed to meet a need.
I just had a conversation like this with some engineering students
whom I am teaching interactive media. My response was what's the
point of text messaging when you can just call
Text messaging is task-based and less intrusive. You text me, I'll text you
back when I can. Not as cumbersome as email, not as annoying as answering
the phone.
I wouldn't text someone in an emergency though.
--
Mario Bourque
Web: www.mariobourque.com
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Twitter:
Not to get too philosophical, but I have been thinking a lot about
'needs' lately. I never really 'needed' a mobile phone or an ipod, but
once I had them I realized great utility and benefit from both.
Also... the need in this case is only partially a product or
technology thing, but weighted more
Then just use In which country do you live?
Best,
Andy
Andy Polaine
Research | Writing | Strategy
Interaction Concept Design
Education Futures
Twitter: apolaine
Skype: apolaine
http://playpen.polaine.com
I always assumed that people did it either with a DMG making tool, or
just went to View Options (Apple J) on a folder and chose a picture
for the folder background before they made the disk image.
Welcome to the Interaction
Just in case it sounded like I couldn't see the point of text
messaging, I meant that question as a rhetorical one, or at least one
to get him thinking about needs/function/purpose and design. Plenty of
people never thought computers would be useful. Or a phone with a
touchscreen instead
Good answer. It feels a lot to me like a good conference where you get
to see everyone speak and meet up with them in the bar afterwards and
without the expensive fees and airfare. Plus you can ask the hard
questions.
Andy
On 23 Oct 2008, at 14:16, Matthew Nish-Lapidus wrote:
That's
I knew you did!
Computers are not useful; they cause me all sorts of grief!
We see these things as being useful because they complement our own lives in
some way. Those that don't understand, and there are a lot of them, can't
see the value.
A lot of companies are going through this
This is the follow up to the original post on metrics for managing UI design
(what we
finally chose to use based on feedback from IxDA members and team members):
http://www.dexodesign.com/2008/10/22/3-not-6-metrics-for-managing-ui-design/
I received some fantastic comments on that post and I
I'm an on/off twitter.com user.. however.. a colleague in our 35
strong UX team hand-rolled a Twitter 'Clone' for internal use.
Essentially its a hacked WP blog open to the team to make short
status question posts.
With the team spread across 4 buildings and 80 product sets its
proving
CityWall is a large multi-touch display installed in central down town
Helsinki which acts as a collaborative and playful interface for its
urban surroundings. The new 3D interface launched 8 October 2008
allows interacting with 3D worlds of related information and enables
multiple content,
Been looking at this for a while because of a friend of mine, John
Evans, from 3Eyes who was involved in it. This was the piece that my
engineering student said what's the point of it, if you were
following the other discussion about Twitter.
You should take a look at their Multi Touch
Hi Andy,
I've found this screenshot in Flickr in the .DMG group, and as you can see it
is possible to customize a window containing a PKMG:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioupioum/2064574906/in/pool-dmg/
How do we do this? Simple. The PKMG - or whatever other files we want to share
- must
We used to do a similar thing in the old days with CD-ROMs. You'd
burn the image laid out exactly how you wanted it to mount. There used
to be an app that made a background image by taking an image, tiling
it and making hundreds of icons out of it and laying them out as a grid.
A
On 23 Oct
Deadline for submission has been extended to Oct 31, 2008.
More details on: http://longitudinalusability.wikispaces.com/CHI 2009
Workshop
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Posted from the new ixda.org
http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=34581
It's been rather nice thing to try out and play with when you have a
few moments to kill. It also helps that it's located at one of the
very central places in Helsinki.
-Janne Kaasalainen
Welcome to the Interaction Design
In the blog entry titled A fine wensleydale?
(http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/10/fine-wensleydale.html) Neil
Gaiman relates his experiences attemping to buy a G1 phone from
T-Mobile. I'm tempted to give this as a sample case to my first-year
students and ask them to enumerate all the things
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Jared Spool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wow. If only my travels made *me* feel warm inside.
@jmspool
Try the equator somewhere, or Arizona
@lorenbaxter
Welcome to the Interaction Design
Riffin' on Bill Maher's New Rules - UX/IA/IxD conferences can no longer be
held north of 30 degrees latitude
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Loren Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Jared Spool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wow. If only my travels made *me* feel
At UI13 Jared talked about how many usability problems are rooted in lack
of
foreknowledge. I wonder who didn't know what in this example.
This story strikes me as a tale of the mathematics of bureaucracy. One
imagined explanation is this: whoever at corporate headquarters who decides
what
Hi Billie,
I can testify that there ARE Ix Designers in France. Actually,the
company I work in (www.intuilab.com) is specialized in Ix Design and
regroups skilled people like Iteraction Designers, Visual Designers,
Usability Engineers (or Ergonomes), Developpers ...
L'ergonomie is a part of
Professionals in our field would also do well to study Twitter's meta-UI:
its open architecture that facilitates so many innovative I/O add-ons.
Also, it's an experience that each user can fine tune to their own benefit.
This is something that can make the benefits hard to discern from the
I was blown away by the recent MoveOn.org customized video. Whether you are
for Obama or McCain, it seemed like a new level of sophistication in viral
marketing that is worth a serious look.
For those not in the US, MoveOn is a liberal organization that is supporting
Obama in the election.
In
Just a quick note on that: when it comes to online social interaction,
I'd like to recommend this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Design-Community-Derek-Powazek/dp/0735710759
It's old, SxD is called online community design in there, and
(of course) no mention of web 2.0 - but the design principles
These 'personalized' vids have been going on for awhile now.
They're humourous, to a point.
It's a good use of the technology to make Get out The Vote kind of
videos, though.
Good for them.
-Sharon
On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Charles B. Kreitzberg wrote:
I was blown away by the recent
On Oct 23, 2008, at 10:05 AM, Russell Wilson wrote:
This is the follow up to the original post on metrics for managing
UI design
(what we
finally chose to use based on feedback from IxDA members and team
members):
Country of Origin is ambiguous. Does it mean where you were born,
where you live, or where you are travelling from?
(I get that confusion when some asks where I am from. What does that
mean? Where were you born, they ask. We moved cross-country two weeks
later, and back two years after
Can I see the form?
best,
Mitch
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Jim Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Country of Origin is ambiguous. Does it mean where you were born, where
you live, or where you are travelling from?
(I get that confusion when some asks where I am from. What does that mean?
Hi folks,
Back in July, I presented a webinar thru Catalyze called Death to
Personas! Long Live Personas! It recently came to my attention that
the QA material never got posted, and also my co-author Steve Calde
and I wanted to make the presentation more generally available.
So, I have
What a giant question, David. (And thanks for the blanket
compliments.) I was part of the founding class, and I'd say the
things that made it the thing what it was for me are:
1. A spirit of entrepreneurship. They were still making it up when we
walked in the door. The constraints and pressures
Hi all
I work every day with multi-talented designers who are the whole package and
more. They take our designs from concept to finished art. They are masters of
both interaction and visual design (and no you can't have them :)).
That said, I have worked on both sides of this argument. I have
I don't know if this is a different tack on this topic or not, but I'll
throw it out here.
I think it is one thing to have visual design skills, and another thing to
be current in the field of visual design. I have been a visual designer,
going back to the time of print-only publication design
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