Hi!
I have been working to get the role Interaction designer into the
webprojects at my office.
I know it´s importance and effects, but my boss and coworkers don´t.
They want to keep on working as they always have. With a visual
designer and a HTML CSS people.
They want me to give them some
Has anyone been to the PET design class offered through Human Factors
International? http://www.humanfactors.com/training/PET.asp
Is it any good? What do you think about the topic? Any alternatives?
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AJKock wrote:
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
Entering a password that complies to a lot of conditions can be quite
cumbersome for unexperienced users. It usually helps to implement
some javascript checking the password on while typing. The output
should be updated after every type and give feedback on the strength
and optionally some
Hi David,
Thanks for writing. Not trying to indulge in hubris. Just trying to find an
open-ended way to put people at the heart of what we are doing. As an
organization, interaction design is at our core, but we are trying to
acknowledge that IxD does little good unless it is in the service of
Hello all,
the first ever IxDA Helsinki get-together is happening!
We will start off light - the first evening will include no
formalities or presentations. Instead we'll have an relaxing evening
of meet greet, some drinks and socializing with like-minded people.
Welcome!
When:
Melissa, people often ask me why and how I use Twitter, so I wrote
this blog post to help explain: How Twitter has changed my life
http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2008/07/how-twitter-has-changed-my-life/
I hope you find it useful. The best way to understand the value that
Twitter can provide is to
Hi Fireworksers!
I'm newcomer in the Adobe Fireworks prototyping and have one question.
In this product we have the powerfull pages, layers and states
(formerly frames) model -- I can prepare an interactive prototype in
various formats - html, pdf, Air, Flex and I can put hotspotes on
prototype
@ William Brail: Twitter is fun when your friends are using it. I was on
Twitter for about a year before my colleagues and friends got in, and it's
gotten a lot more fun after that. I like having a balance of colleagues,
friends and IXDA'ers on my list.
@Niklas: lots of languages are spoken on
Just call the field Zip code and make it mandatory.
No! Don't do that. Most of the world doesn't call it a Zip code and
every country has different formats. I hate it when I get funnelled
into a form using one country's terminology only. It's a Postcode in
the UK and Australia (both
If IxDA is a community-driven organization, how do the various parts
fit together? And what is our governance model?
At our recent retreat, the Board spent some time working on these
questions. The result is a model that we're calling IxDA Network.
This model, which builds on the
My short answer is yes. I think they're different but related skills.
I'm not saying I'm a great interaction designer, but I do feel more of
an interaction designer than a graphic designer. I can do graphic
design, but it doesn't interest me as much. I can creatively direct
much better
Another way is to generate memorable passwords for
them:http://www.ultradesign.com/support/passwordgenerator.lasso
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Making things better is the job of design. Nobody deliberately designs
stuff to make it worse. I don't think it's too lofty a goal,
especially not in this day and age of climate change, hunger, poverty,
economic crisis, etc., etc. If we're not making people's lives better
we need to stop
Hi,
I totally agree with Christine and I think it's right on topic. Like her, I
wasn't formally trained in visual design and like many in our line of work, I
sort of fell into this thing when there were no accepted qualifications and
the technology was still open doors to everyone.
I really
Come to Europe - and make it your home!
http://www.frogdesign.com/about/careers/stuttgart.html
Do you ever vacation in Berlin (or Munich, Rome, London, Paris,
Amsterdam) for just two weeks and wish you could see more?
Are you inspired by the proximity of the many and varied cultures of
I haven't taken the HFI course, but did attend the presentation on
Persuasion at the last UPA conference and thought that they did a good job
discussing the issues. For a solid overview of the role of persuasion in
design, you might want to get B.J. Fogg's book on persuasive technologies
which
Rein,
IMHO, you're on the right track. I find it so irritating when sites
don't tell the rules (and they're all different) until after your
first or second attempt violates them! Yes, by all means, explain the
rules in text, either laid out for all to see, or under a prompt like
a ? or rules.
On Oct 24, 2008, at 8:36 AM, JimH wrote:
.. I find it so irritating when sites don't tell the rules (and
they're all different) until after your first or second attempt
violates them!
I'd like to add an appeal for password requirements to appear after a
failed logon attempt, not just
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Master in Interaction Design launches the third edition of its
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Just to build on this discussion which I think is an excellent idea and
something that should have been done a long time ago...perhaps we could
have come up with economic stimulus concepts that worked better and had
the desired effect. The majority of the last stimulus checks went to
paying down
Do you understand how branding affects interaction and communication?
Do you strive to create and build designs that are not only aesthetically
attractive but also usable and accessible?
Do you believe one can balance the needs of the business (high-conversion) and
the customer (meeting
Zaah Technologies is a full service multimedia agency located in NYC and
Farmingdale, NY.
We're seeking a Senior Information Architect with complimentary skills in
User Experience Design. The project is full time working with one of our
clients developing touch screen technology in the
To me, Twitter is like sitting down at a big table full of other IxD types
and a few regular friends, doing the work we need to do, and chatting all
the while.
On 10/22/08, Melissa Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interested in finding out who's using Twitter and what for –
(Personal updates?
HI peeps,
There are still spots open for my Sketching for Interaction Design workshop
happening in NYC on Wed. 10/29.
Come and learn how to apply the skill of sketching (not drawing) to your
interaction design practice.
* Learn what sketching really is.
* Learn how to sketch interaction design
I want to see the death of superfluous passwords.
OpenID is getting close
Here is the thing, unless you are making bank software or software
for the government that requires lots of BS, (In which case you
should partner with another password provider and authenticate
through them, like the
I don't think this is possible.
If this is for a presentation, you could fake it by setting up key
commands for going to the next state. Details on doing that are at
the end of this article I wrote.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/top_features_fwcs4.html
I think it's a good
Title: Senior Interaction Designer - An opportunity to redesign a
leading consumer site
Location: San Francisco
Compensation: $100K - $120K base DOE + bonus + excellent benefits +
regular telecommuting opportunities
A large, well known, leading consumer site is seeking a talented Senior
I rather like the reminder question and answer that users write
themselves as a first measure after the first failed login attempt...
I also like, in the event of a subsequent failure, the we'll email
you a link to reset your password approach, which, combined with IP
logging and the
Love that Fred! As the lone IxD'er where I work it's nice to know
others like me are out there.
I've been following more than chatting but I'm working on balancing that out.
- Carrie
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Fred Beecher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To me, Twitter is like sitting down at a
Apropo Twitter, I've been studying it and other lifestreaming apps
(swurl, friendfeed, tumblr, dipity, soup, etc) recently and I'm really
curious about how people use it over time.
Of all the social media apps out there, twitter more than most seems
to have hit a certain nerve. A lot of
To follow up on Christian's comment about twitter's open
architecture...here's a post that covers nearly every twitter tool out
there, and the multitude of ways folks are using it. (I came upon the link
via Twitter, naturally. )
This past Wednesday, IxDA Los Angeles partnered with local design shop
Almer/Blank (http://www.almerblank.com) to host a fun Halloween party! We
invited guests to come dressed as their favorite website, application or
device and we were impressed with some really great costumes. Some were
simple
UI Designers, Web UI Designers, Interactive Designers and Visual Designers
needed to create the future of mobile and web media in the Boston area.
Positions are available as permanent, contract or contract-to-hire.
Revelation Partners is currently searching on behalf of a leader in mobile
Courtney,
Australia's stimulus package will work if those low- and middle-income
households don't do the exact same thing as the US and use it to pay down
their credit card debt (which is high in Australia per capita) or save it
instead. This is, as you say, the piece missing from the public
What a great event! Congrats to all of you!
JS
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