Re: [IxDA Discuss] Boost ixd awareness by publishing IxDA recognition badges for design schools programs and their individual courses?

Hi Dave, I find the Bauhaus model quite interesting for solo or small team projects. I'll re-consider NID's post graduate program. http://www.nid.edu/study_pg_iid.htm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?pos

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Quality standard of interaction design

Hi Stephan, Jarod is spot on in terms of designers never agreeing on what's the correct interaction but in my opinion a good design critique can lead you to some conclusions. Here are couple of resources about design critique: http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/23-how-to-run-a-design-critique/ ht

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Quality standard of interaction design

I guess it could help to define the quality of what exactly are you looking to evaluate. I can't think of valid examples, but they'll be close to User Satisfaction, Task Accomplishment Time, or so, I guess. When it comes to design patterns, it seems futile to evaluate anything to them. To give an

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Site Map Design - Best Practices

On Jan 19, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Cindy Lu wrote: A practical issue is you don't know if you have designed a great site unless the site is put into use and feedback is collected. Isn't that true of anything? You don't know if you've cooked a good dinner until you "put it into use" and collect

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Quality standard of interaction design

Hi Stephen, Maybe you ask a interesting but never will get result question. As designers seems never agreed (and this will continue for years) on what's good interaction design until now. If there's some, it might list as, > Good design should fit into end user's life > Good design should improve

[IxDA Discuss] IxDA Phoenix - First Meeting Date and Time Announced

I am please to announce that Phoenix's local IxDA group has a date and location for its first event. The first IxDA Phoenix meetup will be held on Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 at 6pm. The location will be Gangplank in Chandler, AZ. More information will be available soon. Please pass this along to w

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Quality standard of interaction design

Hi, Stephen! If you'd ask me, quality of the web-service based on the use of patterns will be only as good as the patterns are; but better use some kind of "standard" than no standard at all! If you really want to stick the word "standard", the only one that comes to my mind now is the ISO 13 407

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How many alternatives, concepts, or sketches are enough?

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Jakub Linowski wrote: > > > The question which I am wondering about then is how do we know how many > alternatives are enough? How do we know we have enough sketch

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How many alternatives, concepts, or sketches are enough?

Hi Ian - thanks for speaking up. I agree with the point you made in your talk, regardless of how much I may have butchered it in this thread :) Although I worry more about this: who are these sketches being shown to? And why are the viewers of these sketches deciding the design direction? I'm n

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Site Map Design - Best Practices

imho the term 'sitemap' is best used to refer to the protocol supported by Google, Yahoo! et al to enable better crawling of resources by spiders thought the use of an xml file. http://www.sitemaps.org/faq.php . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How many alternatives, concepts, or sketches are enough?

As the person that created the slides Harry referred to, the key point I was trying to make is that reaction to initial design sketches often sets the design direction and constrains the design space within which we explore potential solutions. My intention with the slides was to warn practitioner

[IxDA Discuss] Quality standard of interaction design

For most proceeding projects in our organization, we all meet the same problem -- how to evaluate the quality of interaction design results of a specific web-based service. Are there any standards existing in this field? Or we have to do many usability testing to any interaction modules in any iter

[IxDA Discuss] New IxDA Board Officers for 2009

Hello All, I'm very pleased to be able to announce your new Board of Directors Officers for 2009. Last week, the newly appointed Board of directors of the Association met to select officers for the coming year. According to our bylaws, our Board is required to seat four officers: President, Vice-

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Site Map Design - Best Practices

On 19 Jan 2009, at 14:58, Maria Cordell wrote: [snip] On a related note, SEO companies I've dealt with always want a site map and advocate for listing every single thing you can possibly reference on the site, and then some. [snip] I think you need to find some better SEO companies :-) The on

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Masters Programs in Interaction Design and Design Management at University of Kansas

Michael, It's super to hear that an IX program is getting started in the center of the country. As a Dad who's we established in Colorado, are there any plans for distance learning? If so, I would definitely be interested in your program. Thanks for pushing IxD. Regards, Ben Vaughan On Sun, Ja

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How many alternatives, concepts, or sketches are enough?

One less than the one that starts to hold up the development process. MT Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscrib

[IxDA Discuss] Company Index/Directory Examples

I am starting to research the best design for an online company directory/index. Each of the companies and organizations included will fall into one over-arching market. Within this market companies or organizations might fall into sub categories–so perhaps the use of tags would be helpful. Search

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How many alternatives, concepts, or sketches are enough?

In answer to the original question -- "How many ideas qare enough?" -- I'd say it can be reassuring to have a number, as a guideline. Here's a number, based on my experience: if you ask three to four people to separately prepare come up with substantially different ideas, then you'll typically hav

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How many alternatives, concepts, or sketches are enough?

Persuasion and passion are important and I'm seeing more references to principles of persuasion in design discussions (for example the work of Cialdini). In fact, a solid grounding in persuasion principles should be part of our professional training. I wrote an essay on the use of persuasive techn

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How many alternatives, concepts, or sketches are enough?

Here's the thing, though - this is a great start but I still don't see it linked to risk assessment and ultimately the bottom line...I know, what every designer/design researcher/innovator hates to hear... But, once again, I'm in the position of having to show, to the board of directors of a large

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How many alternatives, concepts, or sketches are enough?

True - you didn't - Sorry for criticizing you for something you did not say :) My bias is against teams pretending to quantify the unquantifiable. I like opinions. I like things that designers believe but can not prove mathematically, but can explain through argument. Any decision making process

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How many alternatives, concepts, or sketches are enough?

You make a good point though I didn't specifically mention equal voting at all. You could have a small group who, as you say, have their necks on the line or you could have private voting of the 10 top designers in the country using polling software or you could generate criteria and have your sma

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How many alternatives, concepts, or sketches are enough?

All of these methods you listed strike me as limiting in they emphasize equal voting - often I don't believe everyone deserves an equal vote. Heretical perhaps, but I'd much rather let a small number of people who will be held accountable for the final design entirely drive these explorations. It

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Site Map Design - Best Practices

Jared, Thanks for sharing your insights, very thought provoking. I read your article and agree your point of treating symptom vs. solving the root cause. The message from that article (to me) is: don't put energy to improve the site map. It does not say: let's not to design a site map at all. A

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How many alternatives, concepts, or sketches are enough?

Yes, these are methods I've used in the past and in addition K/J sorting as part of the Six Sigma process...and more recently, prioritization at various "phase gates" has run parallel to the development of business models (in the case of platforms) and business cases (in the case of concepts. But I

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How many alternatives, concepts, or sketches are enough?

More than the issue of "how many ideas", I always end up without adequate prioritization mechanisms/tools by which to decide alternatives to choose for inclusion in the iteration process. This is exactly what is hard about design. Ideation can be learnt and performed somewhat mechanically (

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How many alternatives, concepts, or sketches are enough?

I would be curious to hear what tools colleagues do use for prioritization of ideas. The key issue here is what the criteria are for choosing ideas. In the early stages of ideation, the criteria might be different for choosing what to consider further (the 10 ideas out of 300) versus what to consi

[IxDA Discuss] [Event] New Mexico IxDA Lunch and Learn - January 20

Bring your sack lunch and join us for a Lunch & Learn. Topic: How to strategically implement user experience into your organization Presenter: Bill Fernandez, User Interface Architect, Bill Fernandez Design Location: Intel, Rio Rancho, Building RR7, Room 108 For More Information and a Map: h

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Site Map Design - Best Practices

Maria referred to my article on how site maps are a design cop-out. A more reliable link is here: http://www.uie.com/articles/Sitemap/ As for Cindy's points, here's my opinions: On Jan 19, 2009, at 8:25 AM, Cindy Lu wrote: Thanks all for the reply to my question about site map. From the me

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How many alternatives, concepts, or sketches are enough?

More than the issue of "how many ideas", I always end up without adequate prioritization mechanisms/tools by which to decide alternatives to choose for inclusion in the iteration process. On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Dave Malouf wrote: > I take the pop-corn in the microwave approach to this.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How many alternatives, concepts, or sketches are enough?

I recommend that you test your alternate designs by having users use prototypes of them. Teams I've worked with have processes for developing radically different alternatives or approaches to design problems. Then they have people who are users, or like the real users, try out one of the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Site Map Design - Best Practices

Thanks all for the reply to my question about site map. From the messages and articles I have read so far, the site map can be used in the following ways: 1. Some people are used to using a site map to find things 2. Some people may use the site map to find things if anything else is failed 3. The

[IxDA Discuss] JOB: Senior Mobile UI Graphic/Visual Designer; Finland; Recruiter; Contract/Freelance

To £500 per day Note: Candidates must have an EU passport OR a UK work visa. Ideal Profile: UX (User Experience) / Interaction Design, graphic design, visual design, mobile interfaces My client has extensive experience and recognition for working on some of the world's most famous a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Site Map Design - Best Practices

You may already be aware, but just in case you don't, I would just say keep the markup semantic and standard. No guarantees that JAWS (or any screen reader) is going to convey the same meaning to a vision-impaired user, that plain visual IE7 will carry to your 20/20 user. For example, IE7 may

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Site Map Design - Best Practices

When reviewing site analytics I see that site map pages get used, but I don't know *why* people are using the page in most cases. I do know (from direct questioning) that in some instances certain users report going to the site map page because they're unable to find what they're looking for by oth

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Boost ixd awareness by publishing IxDA recognition badges for design schools programs and their individual courses?

Taking on your original problem, what is wrong w/ National Institute of Design (NID) in India. They have industrial design and from what I've heard from others here some serious interest in IxD? I'm sure there might be some visa issues you are alluding to that makes Dubai better, but Dubai has no m

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How many alternatives, concepts, or sketches are enough?

I take the pop-corn in the microwave approach to this. take it out when the pops start to happen infrequently. But as Jonas says usually other factors create limitations before this. BTW, sketching/exploration, is not to create "alternatives" and "iterations" but is a ideation generation process.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How many alternatives, concepts, or sketches are enough?

I guess design sometimes deals with problems that are wicked in Rittel's original sense of the word, and sometimes not. A related way to think, which has proven more generative to me in terms of process management, is to say that design is about learning. What you do as a designer, and part

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Site Map Design - Best Practices

All, c.f some interesting discussion about Sitemaps as/in footers in this discussion [1] from October 2008. J. [1] http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33722&search=footer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discu

[IxDA Discuss] Test - please ignore

-- Jonas Söderström senior information architect Sweden For the lesson lies in learning and by teaching I'll be taught for there's nothing hidden anywhere, it's all there to be sought - Keith Reid

[IxDA Discuss] How many alternatives, concepts, or sketches are enough?

http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2009/01/14/why-you-shouldnt-rush-into-a-solution-too-quickly/ Harry posted an interesting post on "90 percent of everything" about not rushing to design solutions too quickly. Designers should cover the design space with divergent approaches first and identify

Re: [IxDA Discuss] usability testing equipment for mobile devices

Hi, Without knowing much about what you do and why, but since you seem to be after lab tests: Over here we at times use a small, custom video camera about the size of a rubber eraser and have it fixed to view the mobile screen. With this setup the mobile is not fixed itself, it only has a wire or

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Site Map Design - Best Practices

Hi Michael, we are working much with windows screenreaders ( just because you always have to know possibilities and limits of the technologies given to you by default) and Jaws, which is a powerful tool that gives blind users the possibility to explore web pages in multiple ways... Didn't ask abo

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Site Map Design - Best Practices

I'm very interested in learning more about this user's experience. Which screen reader/s are they using? What markup structure is used for the sitemap they enjoy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=37

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

Thanks for the Apple example Den. I hadn't seen this yet. This type of slider mechanism could work well as an alternative to tabs - especially if there tabs represent some sort of continuous journey. I'd probably keep it persistent though. It disappears once you click through on the Apple site.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Site Map Design - Best Practices

Hello there, talking with a blind user about the development of a site with multiple layer, I discovered site maps are their best way to jump from one thing to another without having to listen to the whole page before getting what they need, expecially after being confident with it. This was so sim

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Boost ixd awareness by publishing IxDA recognition badges for design schools programs and their individual courses?

I'm in India right now and I have the option of studying in Dubai. Its actually easier for me to study in Dubai however there are very few HCI courses and industrial design courses (if any) much less any courses related to ixd in Dubai so I've focused on looking at schools in the India region. Per