[IxDA Discuss] Help us develop the next generation of interaction design tools

Hello All, Would you like to help us develop the next generation of interaction design tools? The DUCT project team at University of Michigan's School of information is conducting research on the practices of designers working at the frontiers of new technologies and application types. We are

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What's your favorite memory of Interaction 08?

The way the organizing team drew large arrows and color coded maps on the sidewalks with chalk to help people find their way to the different venues. Cheers! Todd Zaki Warfel President, Design Researcher Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully. --

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Strategy: Archetypes vs. Analytics

Paul Sounds a bit like a hostile colleague to me. In these sorts of cases, it's often best to step aside, and let them proceed straight on at full speed :) As long as his team's failure (and if they really are looking only at numbers, and he isn't just pulling your chain, then they will

[IxDA Discuss] [Event] NYC UPA Jan 27: Andrew DeVigal presents at Bloomberg

The New York City Usability Professionals Association cordially invites local IxDA members to: *Telling Interactive Stories: The New York Times and the Online News Experience* a presentation by *Andrew DeVigal,* multimedia editor for *The New York Times* Tuesday, January 27 at 6:00 pm How do

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Data to support the ROI of an Intranet re-design

Neil, with respect to testimonials on business impact, the Neilsen Norman reports suggested by Angel's earlier post is a good start. With respect to quantitative ROI of community features, however, I would be surprised if there is any decent numbers out there that you could apply to your own

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Reverse colour text and attention blindness

The problem is that some users seem to completely ignore the other tabs in an in-page tab panel - even when the tab headings are clearly relevent to their task. Obviously any tab panel should have some element of foreground and background in the design but if the background is never even used

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[IxDA Discuss] New Book: Practical Prototyping with Excel

Nevin Berger, MIchael Arent, Jonathan Arnowitz, and Fred Sampson have a new book out: Berger, N., Arent, M., Arnowitz, J., Sampson, F. (2009) Effective prototyping with Excel: A practical handbook for developers and designers. Amsterdam: Morgan Kaufmann. Excel is not often mentioned as a

[IxDA Discuss] Academia, Bauhaus, Postmodernism and Games

A great post from the chair of the Interactive Design and Game Development department here at SCAD. She and I were talking about this very topic over lunch just this past Thursday. Her post here is just an amazing representation of that conversation++. BTW, fit Interaction (or Interactive)

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Reverse colour text and attention blindness

Yeah, losing the entire tab navigation would defeat the purpose... Are you finding this true in any particular design more than any other? Where I see tabs get lost when they are underneath a row of primary tabs/buttons and they aren't as prominent as the upper row - the eye, after clicking the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Microsoft Surface and Windows 7

I worked with the Surface team and post an almost daily bit on designing for Surface and multi-touch at: http://www.pointanddo.com Also, buy Dan Saffer's book. It provides a nice overview of UX issues in multi-touch, physical computing and context aware computing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .