Amit, ixd would be most developed in the Americas, Europe and the Far
East.
For studying ixd, tt seems to be more about which university or
design school (rather than which country) has the most advanced
program (or at least have faculty with relevant knowledge and
experience) for a particular
2009/1/12 Harry harr...@gmail.com:
Thanks very much to Fred, James and William for their input.
The CMS I'm working on involves administering users' abilities to use
credits and raise invoices, as well as to draft / publish content in various
areas of the site. It looks like a classic
We have a sign up form with
* A country selector
* A phone number input field
We now have at least two options
Option 1
When the user chooses their language, automatically show the country code in
front of the phone number field.
In that way users don't have to worry if they should put in
Hello folks,
I've been targeting researchers for the development of an online cooperative
tool lately, and discovered how hard it is to find informations on researchers
as users.
It seems like the sacred world of science and research is out of any schema,
any sort of question, anything...
Hi Everyone,
We have five new webinars* in early 2009, including Bill Scott
of Netflix discussing the finer points of what interaction designers
should know about engineering DHTML interfaces...
** User Research Beyond Usability (with Christian Rohrer) **
January 29, 2009
Christian Rohrer will
hello members,
as many of you might know, I have started my first real job after
studies. I am a tech writer here assisting the user centered design team
aswell.
I have been given my first task, which is to make 3 quick start guides
for 3 different products. These quick start guides have to be
I've collected a few here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/interfacedesign/tags/gettingstarted/
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tak!
Ali
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No single book is the definitive source on any topic ever. Different
authors will bring different emphases and their skills and experience
to the same topic, especially a topic as fast-moving as gestural
interfaces.
Just my duty to object to there not being anything out there on this
http://www.scrnshots.com/ is a nice resource, if you're looking for
design inspirations.
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Good Microsoft Surface blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/surface/
I think the most interesting thing about designing for Surface, which
I've only done in sketches in OneNote on my TabletPC :), is that you
design a 360 degree layout. No more header/footer, menu on top,
yadayada. A whole new way of
Hi Maria,
The predecessor of the global internet, the ARPANET, was in part created to
aid government researched in exchanging information/tools/etc. So this would
be a very early resource to look into.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpanet
In the government and corporations, related researchers
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Hi Ali
You might find this presentation interesting:
http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/08/18/my-presentation-on-out-of-box-experience-design/
It's a talk gave on out-of-box experience design for UX Brighton.
Good luck!
Harry
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Jen Randolph j...@jenrandolph.com wrote:
What are some of the ways other IxDers have presented their work?
Hi Jen,
I have a small portfolio book that I bring to interviews. For significant
systems, sites, or software, I'll include a single page from a design or
Scott:
Thanks for your detailed reply! I too feel much better about the
interview when the interviewer has me design something on the spot. I
can talk about my work until I'm blue in the face, but I feel like I
can really *show* the interviewer my strengths if I'm sketching
something out for them.
The simple solution, without really knowing the context:
Start with input fields for phone number and e-mail that are hidden
from view.
Have the user indicate his/her preferred contact method first. Then
show the input fields - on another screen or through the use of
dynamic html - using the
Along these lines, this discussion came up a lot this morning on Twitter -
Imagine a world in which you work full time creating a lot of deliverables,
sketches, wireframes, sitemaps, task flows, user stories, but because of the
NDA and various work product ownership things signed - you can never
Good question. This is one reason it pays to work on projects that ship -
then you can always show the stuff that made it out the door, which makes it
easier to talk about the things that didn't.
By way of perspective, programmers have a similar problem. They can't show
their code, algorithms,
The problem is that you can't always show stuff just because it
shipped. There are still issues with exposing parts of the ui to non-
customers
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On Jan 15, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Scott Berkun i...@scottberkun.com
wrote:
Good question. This is one reason it pays to work
Hello,
thanks alot all of you.
Harry: wonderful stuff!
Ali
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This is particularly true for application design (my focus) versus
website design.
Russell Wilson
Blog: http://www.dexodesign.com
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On Jan 15, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Will Evans wkeva...@gmail.com wrote:
Along these lines, this discussion came up a lot this morning on
In a standard one hour interview I think it is pretty easy to get to the
heart of deliverables such as use cases, process flows, wireframes and even
taxonomies and nav structures. A 30 minute white board session with some
well thought out problem statements or project briefs help.
Complex
http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/best-careers/2008/12/11/best-careers-2009-usability-experience-specialist.html
Needless to say I'm hesitant to bring this up, but 'Usability Experience
Specialist' made me cringe, not to mention they start out by saying that
'This profession has a hard time
This has [mostly] been my situation for most of my career, as
well...especially since I do a lot of work for start-ups, where the
*existance of the company* is also under NDA.
On the one hand, I've been lucky to have a couple of Big Name clients
that I worked for, and, most recently, a
Actually, the stickiest NDA I ever had to sign was for a product that
shipped...it also ran only on a particular form of *nix (that no
longer exists) so I couldn't even carry a laptop that ran the product.
And that doesn't even include the government stuff...
Katie Albers
Founder Principal
I absolutely agree, Mark. In fact, I think one of the major failures
of the whole portfolio model is that human beings react strongly and
vicerally to pictures, even when they're assessing processes. We are
just as guilty as other people of thinking I don't like the blue
when we see a
I love that!
- Russ
When I'm interviewing, I tend to treat requests for a portfolio as an
Employer Intelligence TestA remarkable number fail.
Katie
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There are a few requests that applications and employers ask that are worth
ignoring or sidestepping (IMO)... such as salary range in the first
conversation. These are the sort of filters that you can use to weed out
companies you will have absolutely no interest in working for. For me... the
I had an acquaintance from Northern California contact me about a project
and I said this sounds like an NDA situation.
*Effective Date: *12/22/2008
*Participant: *Angel Marquez
In order to protect certain confidential information that may be disclosed
by Discloser (DISCLOSER) to the
fyi, that is what he sent me.
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There is still room in all of the workshops but they are filling up
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A couple of announcements:
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On Jan 11, 2009, at 5:58 PM, shashank raval wrote:
Could anyone point me to any
studies/books/papers that could be related to this?
Hi Shashank,
Not exactly what you're looking for, but I wrote about this back in
2005:
http://www.uie.com/articles/embraceable_change/
Hope that helps,
hi IxDA,
Getting pretty excited re: coming to DC from Maine for Inauguration
1/17-1/22!
Sunday joining the throngs at the huge free concert at the Lincoln Memorial,
which Barack will be opening. MLK Day doing the day of service. On
Inauguration Night I'll be at the Art Ball, 51st State Ball (as
Hi. I'm looking for a web-based research and writing tool to help me organize
and aggregate news articles, blog posts, links and other web-based resources
for a writing project. I've searched around a bit, EndNote Web from
Thomson-Reuters looks promising but I can't get a straight answer on
i think you wanted to enquire about a culture which understands IxD
better than anyone else, i think the Europeans, japanese ,
Singaporeans, Israelis have that culture embedded in them, i don't
know if u have visited these places or not? but if you do research
you'll find out that usability , user
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Hi Maria,
I don't have anything to contribute to your question, but I'd be
very interested to hear what responses you receive. Could you
possibly keep me in the loop with the responses you receive? I'd
much appreciate it.
Thank you,
Josiah Johnson
University of Washington
MSIM Candidate '10
.
Amit, I understand what you're asking and find it interesting to look
at different countries and cultures in regard to their approach to
design and IxD UXD. However I think it's really easy to draw
generalizations in this discussion that are possibly as far from the
truth as a couple individual
Why not choose option 2 and just add a bit of copy next to the field
to explain that it's not necessary (or that it is) to input your
country code?
Karri Ojanen
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http://www.conceptology.org
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Are there any solo web designers on this list who also produce wireframes
for clients? If so, I'd like to ask you a few questions for an article I'm
writing. If you're willing to share a before-and-after wireframe/home page
design, that would be even better.
Please contact me off-list:
You didn't specify how the user selects a preferred contact method.
Supposing it's a checkbox:
Preferred contact method:
[X] Phone [phone number input]
[ ] Email [email input field]
Suppose the phone input field gets a red outline when the checkbox is
chosen - and stays there until the field
I was a hiring manager at a large agency for more than 10 years, and
in that time I did hundreds of interviews and saw every conceivable
sort of portfolio. A few thoughts on what I expected to see:
- From my experience, there is no standard for interaction
design, as compared to what students in
With Option #1 you may find users will be confused about whether to
drop the first zero from their phone number when entering it into the
number field.
Nicolas.
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I have played the open-source clone Numpty Physics
http://numptyphysics.garage.maemo.org/ on Nokia N810, which at least
was quite fun. Kids also loved it.
Great usage of touch!
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Ikea assembly instructions come as leaflets consisting of images with
VERY VERY little explanatory text.
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Looks like a straight copy of
http://fantasticcontraption.com/Phunhttp://www.phunland.com/wiki/Hometo
me
2009/1/15 Angel Marquez angel.marq...@gmail.com
http://www.crayonphysics.com/
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association
Maria,
It's maybe slightly tangently related, but UCLIC has been doing research
into the use of digital libraries:
http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/uclic/annb/DLUsability/UCIS.html
As many of the users of digital libraries are researchers, you might find
something of use from their publications.
Option 1 may work nicely for dk, se, fi etc but consider Switzerland,
Luxembourg, Belgium etc.
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Hi Karen,
Can I impose on you to describe an example of how this item would be
accomplished? I'm curious if you'd seen this done well, and how it was
achieved.
Thanks for the great description,
-Dan
- I always ask to see more strategic documents, illustrating how
decisions got made
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yea, it initially made me think of soda
constructorhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_constructor
looks like it became:
http://sodaplay.com/
I like the crayon stylus paired with the puzzle factor.
dunno, seemed cool. I think my friend sent it to me because I did a layout
similar with the
oh, wow. that is neat!
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:51 AM, pe...@otto.dreamhost.com wrote:
I have played the open-source clone Numpty Physics
http://numptyphysics.garage.maemo.org/ on Nokia N810, which at least
was quite fun. Kids also loved it.
Great usage of touch!
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Enjoyable reading and bookmarked!
From Andrew Otwell -
Finally and perhaps most importantly: what does a strategy look
like? Is it a diagram? A narrative document? A phrase that the CEO
repeats at every chance? A spreadsheet of numbers?
From mark schraad:
Years later, it is often hard to
And some related pieces to my previous post -
* The Experience Vision -
http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2006/05/31/the-experience-vision/
* SpoolCast: Product Evolution with Adaptive Path%u2019s Peter
Merholz -
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