Re: [IxDA Discuss] ThoughtPile.org

2008-12-11 Thread Jonas Löwgren
Thoughtpile is a promotional site, designed to provide fun, a sense of engagement and participation, and perhaps even social utility. Not the worst thought in the world, and a refreshing break from banner ad promos for office furniture. Take what you find useful to your purpose, and leave

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [Event] DETAILS: Wed. December 10 -- IxDA NYC's David Malouf and guests discuss The State of IxD Today -- hosted by Bloomberg

2008-12-11 Thread Steve Baty
Nasir, Thank you for setting up the stream tonight - it was great to be able to log in and follow events. My feedback as a remote observer is as follows: * the quality of the video tonight was not as good as the stream from Will's presentation last month; * The video was very pixelated and

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best practice for touchscreen interfaces in airplanes

2008-12-11 Thread Karl Proctor
I suggest having a look at the ICE (Information Communication Entertainment) system used by Emirates. Really simple easy to use, but the screens themselves are sometimes not that responsive, needing to be touched 2 or 3 times in some cases (sometimes a surprisingly hard push is needed)... Karl

Re: [IxDA Discuss] ffffound invite?

2008-12-11 Thread Gabe
Check out http://imgfave.com It's an image bookmarking site I built, similar to ound, but open to everyone. Has a pretty decent community going. In case your interested, it was built using the open source laconi.ca microblogging platform. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] getting feedback and improving collaboration

2008-12-11 Thread Mat Atkinson
I'm one of the founders of ProofHQ and a long-time lurker on IxDA forums. ProofHQ is a web app built specifically for designers to get feedback and approval from their teams. I have hesitated to mention what we do in other threads, but this question relates so directly to what we do that I

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UK based user experience freelancers?

2008-12-11 Thread Mike Padgett
Hi Sam, Great question, hope I can do it justice! I *was* a UK-based UX consultant but in May 2008 I upped sticks with my other half. There were a number of reasons, but certainly future prospects and availability of work were two of them. At the risk of sounding a bit big-headed in a oh, I

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best practice for touchscreen interfaces in airplanes

2008-12-11 Thread Mark
It is a good book, although I think he goes a bit overboard against engineers IMHO. 'mark Sent from my iPhone On Dec 10, 2008, at 6:30 AM, Leon Barnard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He (Alan Cooper) talks about his IFE design in 'The Inmates are Running the Asylum', so I recommend picking up

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best practice for touchscreen interfaces in airplanes

2008-12-11 Thread Bruce Esrig
Yes, he seems to be thinking differently now ... in Cooper's keynote at Interaction08, he talks about engineers as fellow craftsmen. Ben Galbraith has a good summary in his blog post: http://benzilla.galbraiths.org/2008/02/09/interaction08-friday-keynote-alan-cooper/ Bruce Esrig On Thu, Dec 11,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best practice for touchscreen interfaces in airplanes

2008-12-11 Thread Mark Ahlenius
Yes, that's funny. I've been an engineer and for many years (28+) I did see how we designed and developed UI's, some were pretty bad, and some pretty decent. Often we accused of putting everything and the kitchen sink in the UI, cause that's what we as engineers would want. Then I started

[IxDA Discuss] The Whole Schedule of Interaction'09|Vancouver

2008-12-11 Thread Petroff, Greg
Hi Everyone, I'm posting the entire schedule for the conference. It is an impressive list of speakers, workshops and events. Links will take you to the crowdvine conference site. Thursday, February 5 9:00 - 1:00PM http://interaction09.crowdvine.com/talk/bookmark/2565?sidebar=

[IxDA Discuss] JOB: Senior Interaction Designer, San Francisco, Recruiter, Full Time

2008-12-11 Thread Brook Vanderford
Title: Senior Interaction Designer Location: San Francisco Compensation: To low 100's base + bonus + excellent benefits + regular telecommuting opportunities A large, well-known, leading consumer site is seeking a talented Senior Interaction Designer to lead the design of new applications

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] RE-CAP: IxDA Los Angeles DDB Agency present Storytelling: The Art of Communicating Design

2008-12-11 Thread Los Angeles IxDA
Last nigth's IxDA Los Angeles Storytelling Salon was a success with two great presentations delivered to a full house of 70 people! IxDA Los Angeles would like to thank our great community for attending. Thank you Jay Bushman, Michael Blakely Anna-Marie White for such engaging and educational

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design for impulse Behavior Economics

2008-12-11 Thread allison
The article does not pay enough respect to other fields that focus specifically on behavior change management - i.e., public health, change managment, psychology, etc. I also agree that supporting arguments are too scarce to support the author's main argument, that Interaction design can solve the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design for impulse Behavior Economics

2008-12-11 Thread Joe Sokohl
I guess I'm in the minority on this and design for sustainability. I think interaction designers should design interactions that meet the goals and needs of the users for whom the interaction is designed. Somehow, there's an imperious political bent that seems to come out in some

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design for impulse Behavior Economics

2008-12-11 Thread Dan Lockton
Joe - I know what you're saying, and it's something I've considered quite a lot. But what do you think in cases where users' goals/needs really *could* align with an environmentally beneficial perspective, assuming they realise it? E.g. no user wants to spend more on energy, but the design of

[IxDA Discuss] determining reasons for user dropout

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Stiso
Hello. I'm curious about methods for finding out why subscribers to a site stop visiting that site. For example, imagine that I have some social networking site, and I notice that some subscribers (some of them new members, some old) simply stop visiting it. They don't cancel their accounts, they

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UXbook club: the valley edition

2008-12-11 Thread Cindy Alvarez
Thanks Christina! I'm looking forward to the first meeting next week. I've created a Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=40506506028 for people to join and figure out how to go from here. Cindy On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Christina Wodtke cwod...@eleganthack.comwrote: