Re: [IxDA Discuss] Countrywise understanding of IxD

2008-10-26 Thread Cone Trees
Regarding the pay bit, this might help: http://www.coroflot.com/community/results.asp Filter the results by selecting 'Interaction/ Web Design' from the 'Area of Concentration' dropdown. With a sample size of around 400, it's not a very good source, especially since what you get is a mix of

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Twitter

2008-10-26 Thread Andy Polaine
Twitter reminds me a great deal of MOOs in the early days of the interweb, except without the high-school kids running around barfing on everyone. Blogs and personal websites are much like the personal spaces people used to build for themselves within MOOs too. The open chat is very much

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Research: Practice noticing stuff and telling stories

2008-10-26 Thread Andy Polaine
I have 33 notebooks going all the way back to my university days when I first started numbering them - these days they're mostly Moleskines or Miquel Rius ones (if I can my hands on them). It's not a terribly formal process though. They switch from being notebooks to journals to sketches

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Research: Practice noticing stuff and telling stories

2008-10-26 Thread Steve Baty
Will, I use a combination of delicious, evernote, and Moleskin notebooks. There's nothing formal or disciplined about it; and I've only really started doing it consistently in the past couple of years. Cheers Steve 2008/10/25 Will Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone have a 'suitcase' where

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Twitter

2008-10-26 Thread Martin
Other people are still the most interesting content period. -- Martin Polley Technical writer, interaction designer +972 52 3864280 Twitter: martinpolley http://capcloud.com/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Research: Practice noticing stuff and telling stories

2008-10-26 Thread Will Evans
Thanks for the great ideas and contributions so far. I actually have a point is asking this of the community - so I would love to get more input from others - Is there a need/desire for an online, shared portfolio service: semi-private with granular control over who sees what - where you can

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Research: Practice noticing stuff and telling stories

2008-10-26 Thread Pieter Jansegers
I'm mainly using Twitter, Tumblr and babl.nl at this moment. Next to a paper notebook for more fuzzy ideas. I've learned not to keep all of my notes and urls in just one single place... FavoritesAnywhere.com's disappearance, Murl.com's crash and mybookmarks.com's reset have learned me this

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Research: Practice noticing stuff and telling stories

2008-10-26 Thread Andy Polaine
Is there a need/desire for an online, shared portfolio service: semi- private with granular control over who sees what - where you can store ideas/articles/inspirations/notes/sketches/portfolio and allow access to only certain parts. this would be located in the cloud or in the context of

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Research: Practice noticing stuff and telling stories

2008-10-26 Thread Steve Baty
I would make mention of two points by way of requirements for such a system: * it should be as immediate as flipping open a sketchbook; or that should at least be your aim. So MMS integration; twitter integration; photo-blogging etc * it should replicate down to my local machine a la MobileMe.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Research: Practice noticing stuff and telling stories

2008-10-26 Thread Will Evans
Looks like we are tribe-sourcing a requirements document, doesn't it :-) On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Steve Baty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would make mention of two points by way of requirements for such a system: * it should be as immediate as flipping open a sketchbook; or that should

[IxDA Discuss] Fwd: Dilbert showcases a reaction to design

2008-10-26 Thread Juan Lanus
It also showcases a hardcore developer´s reaction. Dilbert reaction to the harsh critic on his design is to diminish it: his reply is almost a so what? In this stripe the author depicts Dilbert as a standard old fashioned IT engineer, for whom the design issues are worthless. -- Juan Lanus On

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Research: Practice noticing stuff and telling stories

2008-10-26 Thread Will Evans
Also - Is anyone using http://www.coroflot.com/ for their portfolios? Do they find it actually works for them? Just wondering. On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Will Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Thanks for the great ideas and contributions so far. I actually have a point is asking this of

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Whistler Trip after IxDA

2008-10-26 Thread Will Evans
Any update on Skiing at Interactions|09 On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:47 PM, greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We should have the package this week. The two conference hotels also have sister hotels at Whistler and we are asking them to get us preferred pricing. Stay tuned! . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Research: Practice noticing stuff and telling stories

2008-10-26 Thread Matthew Nish-Lapidus
i tend to use a soft cover moleskine (one of the thin ones) because it's easy to carry everywhere. i alternate between blank paper and grid paper versions... that's where i write all my ideas, sketch, make to-do lists.. all sorts of stuff. then, when i have an idea that i want to easily

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Research: Practice noticing stuff and telling stories

2008-10-26 Thread Matthew Nish-Lapidus
One thing I really don't like about coroflot is how the term interaction design just means anything interactive.. most people who tag themselves with interaction design there have done a few websites or flash.. kind of misleading if you're actually looking for IxD work On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at

[IxDA Discuss] New thread notifications for IxDA Discuss

2008-10-26 Thread Jeff Howard
There's a new e-mail option for discussion list subscribers that some of you may be interested in. Members can now subscribe to new thread notifications in order to receive only the first post of each new thread. This option will result in much less e-mail than the full subscription.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Research: Practice noticing stuff and telling stories

2008-10-26 Thread Jeff Howard
I keep notes in a small gridded Moleskin notebook. But more important is simply having something to write with. Always. In a pinch I'll jot down observations on the back of my hand between the thumb and index finger. I never knew you could write there until I saw the movie Memento, but it's a

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] IA Paris - Nov. 2, 2008

2008-10-26 Thread Sylvie Daumal
-- sorry for cross-posting -- Hello everyone, Please join Paris IA informal meeting. Goals : Find new friends, drink a glass, discuss, have fun and create an IA/UCD community in Paris. Date: Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008 Time: from 7PM Place: Barlotti, Lounge Bar (upstairs) 35 Place du Marché

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What to teach interaction design students

2008-10-26 Thread Ali Naqvi
Hello, -target group analysis, where you focus on qualitative research methods. Focus group interviews etc. -introduction to Interaction Design and ethnography. (field observation, empatic design, service design etc) -Concept development -Usability and User Interface Design -Cultural differences

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Twitter

2008-10-26 Thread Lucilla Madamba
Thanks for the post. This whole Twitter thread has certainly got me thinking on viewing Twitter as a tool for doing user research among a particular type of research participants, i.e. ones who are comfortable with SMS and IM either on the mobile or PC platform. I doubt if Twitter itself on its

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Twitter

2008-10-26 Thread Will Evans
Although some have argued that Twitter may be an effective tool for user research, I think anyone who thinks it can be the *only* tool is delusional. It can, at best, provide some data for user research, but I would be negligent to argue that you could use that and some other similar tools to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Research: Practice noticing stuff and telling stories

2008-10-26 Thread Robert Racadio
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 5:10 AM, Will Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: http://www.core77.com/hack2school/portigal.asp Put your observations on the Internet. Maybe no one will see them, but the discipline of taking your observations out of your own head and publishing them in a sharable form will