There's a presentation "Death To Personas! Long Live Personas!" to
(partially) answer the "Personas are User Centered "
http://www.slideshare.net/ebacon/death-to-personas-long-live-personas-presentation
It's a well done.
Regards,
Jarod
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Jon [ GMAIL ] <[EMAIL PROT
Another fun IxDA Los Angeles event! This time we'll be talking about the art
of Storytelling. As interaction designers, we should always be honing our
storytelling skills. Steve Portigal spoke about this need in his article on
Core77 called "Design Research: Practice noticing stuff and telling
stor
You can preview the book above mentioned *Information Dashboard Design ** By
Stephen Few *in Google Book Search at this link
http://books.google.com/books?id=NomqOzZfHqoC
You might want to search some examples from the industrial control. The
industry uses a lot of dashboard design to display the
Big Fish is looking for a confident User Experience Copywriter to join a
growing internal team in Bellevue. A strong writer is needed to help
with ongoing needs including instructional copy, error message copy as
well as functional specs, and documentation of user interface
requirements. This role
Thanks for the link! Being a MacOS user, I was unaware of Leopard's
Finder supporting of boolean logic. A manual -or arstechnica article-
is required to know that things can happen when option-clicking on a
widget...
In the aforementioned thread, I posted a demo that works in roughly
the same way
For what class of users can we assume that? I ask because I'm around a
few 60+ people who have trouble with many sites on the web and the
feeling they have to re-learn how to "use the bank website" because it
changed.
Can you better define the people who are going to be using this? It
would
One implementation I didn't see mentioned is the OS X 10.5 addition of
boolean logic using the more friendly "any of" or "all of" terminology.
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/12
Welcome to the Interaction Design A
Mazel tov to the new board of directors, and thanks to Josh and Greg
for all their amazing work.
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Congratulations to the incoming board members!
It's really nice to a Brazilian in the board.
Hope to see you guys in Vancouver!
:-D
Gawry
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Ali Naqvi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> `She completed her Ph.D. by studying cell phone game playability, part
> of which was
A recet thread about interfaces for advanced search queries, with
examples and demos:
http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=32274
--
Santiago Bustelo // icograma
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Google's search Hoffman codes for the most common case: ANDing. Every search
term you type in a box is automatically ANDed together. Only ORs are
explicit and bind tightly like a binary operator.
Consider that your search capabilities need not be expressively complete due
to the potential lack of n
Over the past year and a half, IxDA SF has brought you quality monthly
programming, featuring topics and speakers to challenge your thinking
and promote professional growth.
You’ve learned enough for the year. It’s time to burn off a few brain
cells.
Our celebratory experience at the worl
This is a part Computer Science question, part Design question (apologies if
some of the logic doesn't make sense)
So, I need to design a search interface that would eventually spit out a
boolean query without typing it out.
For Eg:
D= Data Field
D1 AND D2 OR D3 AND D4
(D1 OR D2) AND (D3 OR D4)
D1
Congrats to the new Directors! What an outstanding group of talented
people.
Looking forward,
Russ
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Congrats, gang! Looking forward to another two exciting years of IxD.
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Welcome to the Interacti
`She completed her Ph.D. by studying cell phone game playability, part
of which was pursued at the Information Technology at Copenhagen,
Denmark.`
HEY I completed my MSc from there! nice to see a former ITU person
here!!
Ali
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Wow... sounds like a pretty powerful tool. Now if only the windows beta
were available. Then I could see where this would fit in with our design
and development process. I love the roundtrip capability, but unfortunately
I happen to be stuck in a .NET shop. :(
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:33 AM,
Congratulations! A great group of people that I am convinced will
guide IxDA to become an even stronger entity for interaction
designers all over the planet.
Hope to see you all in Vancouver!
Niklas Wolkert
Interaction designer
http://ergonomidesign.com
Stockholm, Sweden
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Woot!!!
What a great group of peeps!!! I'm so very excited! as we move
towards another HUGE milestone in this organization.
I really look forward to see what these new energized players do
for/with IxDA in the coming years.
Exciting times.
-- dave
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Congrats, but more importantly, thanks for volunteering! It's great
to see this organization not just functioning, but flourishing. I'm
quite excited about where this ship is heading.
Best,
Jack
Jack L. Moffett
Interaction Designer
inmedius
412.459.0310 x219
http://www.inmedius.com
Some
Great lineup! Very nice to see the IxDA grow.
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Congratulations to all who were chosen for boardship. Thanks for being
willing to put yourself out there.
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Congratulations to the incoming (and continuing) board members!
And to the founders, for steering their baby through this exciting
transition.
-x-
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Elizabeth Bacon
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> Amyris Fernandez
> Jon Kolko
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> Amyris, Jon and Kev
Dear IxDA Members,
We are very happy to announce the IxDA Board of Directors for 2009
with the addition of three new Directors. Please welcome Amyris
Fernandez, Jon Kolko and Kevin Silver. We look forward to their
contributions to the Board and the efforts they will catalyze for our
entir
Citrix Online is growing and we're looking for UX Designers for our User
Experience team! We're passionate about our "simpler is better" design
philosophy, so we're looking for someone with a knack for creating clean,
intuitive, and usable interfaces to join our team of talented and highly
coll
Just came across this, thought it might be of use to practitioners
putting forward a UX agenda in their organisation. The target reader
appears to be non-practitioners, the language used is open and should
be generally comprehendible. That said, the breadth of practices &
methodologies covered is
Job Title: Head of User Experience
Location: San Francisco - Relocation assistance provided
Duration: Full Time/Permanent
Salary: 150-190k
Our client is home to a new type of search that makes it easy to find
subjective information. Starting in early 2008 the company raised seed
financing fro
Not to beat a dead (or dying?) horse, but you might enjoy Steve
Portigal's article in interactions, "Persona Non Grata" [the piece
mirrors his presentation content of "Personas are User Centered
Bullshit"] - http://interactions.acm.org/content/?p=262 for more
details.
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Hi Allison,
I'm guessing that the generalist path occurs most easily in a small shop,
perhaps where the entire design department numbers 1 (like where I am).
Opportunities present for graphic design, application design, coding,
writing, prototyping, testing, giving presentations, and some research
Hi Jon,
In this case, I'd say it doesn't depend. It used to be that we couldn't assume
users had this basic understanding of how to use Web sites, but these days,
this sort of "helpful" text really does nothing but increase visual noise, page
complexity, and cognitive load by adding elements th
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