Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

This is the RED you should be talking about! On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Jim Leftwich wrote: > I don't think how I and my partners design is anything at all like > whatever the design that's been done (as you characterize broadly) > "in technology design for t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

I don't think how I and my partners design is anything at all like whatever the design that's been done (as you characterize broadly) "in technology design for the past 30 years." I doubt that all of those teams, including the unsuccessful ones you mentioned, approached things from very diverse a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

On Jan 28, 2009, at 6:52 PM, Jim Leftwich wrote: 1) Initial information gathering, stakeholder interviews and discussions, and review and analysis of existing bodies of information and solutions/products/systems/services. In RED, however, this is done very rapidly, and filtered through what's a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Free student registration to Intera ction ´09 from FatDUX

Try here, in Vancouver: http://www.gnwc.ca/ On Jan 28, 2009, at 9:51 PM, Eric Reiss wrote: Friends, FatDUX will be awarding one free registration to a worthy design student (at an accredited school) to Interaction 09 in Vancouver. No food, lodging, or travel, just the registration. There a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

I think my most recent post is about as detailed as I can get to a description of the components of the RED approach to design and development. It's not a reductionist set of processes, such as those promoted by others, so those looking for something akin to how other methodologies are described,

[IxDA Discuss] Free student registration to Intera ction ´09 from FatDUX

Friends, FatDUX will be awarding one free registration to a worthy design student (at an accredited school) to Interaction 09 in Vancouver. No food, lodging, or travel, just the registration. There are absolutely no strings attached. We just want to find someone who wants an opportunity to meet

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Experience Deliverables

To clarify my own post: On Jan 28, 2009, at 6:32 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote: It's not a big stretch. It's apples and oranges. Concept design and pixel-perfect screen mockups simply cannot be clumped together. Add to the end: ...cannot be clumped together to be used for the exact same purp

[IxDA Discuss] Help me categorize UX-related conferences/workshops

I've been asked numerous times to recommend conferences and workshops to designers and usability professionals. I've decided to create a matrix to categorize the various events on two axis - 1) practical to theoretical 2) non-visual to visual If you have 5min, please take the following survey and

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Experience Deliverables

I've been creating complete implementable specs (along with implementable resources) for software of many types since the 1980s. Many projects exist at increasingly higher and higher fidelity thumbnails until complete pixel-perfect (or whatever format the deliverable will be in) specs are complete

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

> > Rather than spending so much time dissecting the "nature" of discussions on > this list, your efforts would be > better served by putting on the old marketing hat and crafting a > definition of RED that might be used as a doorway into what you consider a > more productive conversation. > Cheer

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

Jim, In all due respect, I think people on this list are trying very hard to elicit a definition of RED that can be considered within a thoughtful discussion. As Dave Malouf said, you can't expect to put an idea out there without taking a swipe or two, but that doesn't mean that this community ha

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Experience Deliverables

On Jan 28, 2009, at 8:14 PM, Andrew Boyd wrote: I'm not sure where you pulled these absolutes from, and I'm not sure that I care - as someone who has used pixel-perfect mockups in conceptual design on multiple occasions to good effect I can say that you are not making a lot of sense to me

Re: [IxDA Discuss] (was R.E.D.) Experience

Recently in my Interactive product design class here at SCAD I engaged with my students in an exercise to deconstruct Jesse James Garrett's "Elements of User Experience" (the diagram, not the book). What was interesting was the formation of a process that had a new beginning that I have not seen pr

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

oh - and I'll dig out the WIL etc refs and post too. it'll take me a few days though : 43C/110F here all week and there's s much to get through before flying to YVR in .. 5 days.. omg! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

@Dave and others asking for deeper analysis etc, a lot of this is reminding me of some things I read for my PhD last year, particularly around work integrated learning (WIL) particularly in the health (nursing for example) and education sectors ...and Donald Schön's stuff around how reflective pra

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Experience Deliverables

> All design professions -- from fashion to industrial to architecture to > graphic -- have some functional equivalent of a blueprint. Yes, this is fotal important, especially for demo design ideas to stakeholders as well as communicate with the engineering team. it "sketches the affordable interac

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Experience Deliverables

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Peter Morville < morvi...@semanticstudios.com> wrote: > > what is a good broader category that could include design comps > AND their equivalents in domains beyond web/print design (e.g., physical > buildings and spaces and products)? > prototypes? -x- -- Chri

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

To address Gabby's question, a very small web-sized selection of bits of my own projects can be found at my site: http://www.orbitnet.com/ And though it's from 2005, a slideshow and accompanying set of slides giving very high-level overviews of a selection of projects can be found at: Text: http

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Experience Deliverables

On Jan 28, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Peter Morville wrote: I lumped pixel-perfect mockups or design comps under the broader category of concept designs, but I recognize that's a (big) stretch. That leads me to a question: what is a good broader category that could include design comps AND their eq

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

Despite repeated mention of examples and/or documentation about this magical unicorn of a. . . thing/process/ideology/methodoolgy, Mr. Leftwich has yet to provide a link to any of it. My kingdom for useful examples, sir! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted f

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Experience Deliverables

On Jan 28, 2009, at 4:08 PM, Sebi Tauciuc wrote: Depends on what you mean by deliverable. I would see pen, paper & sketching as tools, not deliverables. Of course, you can still show sketches to people, but just to ask questions and promote discussion, not as a final result. As a design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Experience Deliverables

On Jan 28, 2009, at 7:08 PM, Sebi Tauciuc wrote: Depends on what you mean by deliverable. I would see pen, paper & sketching as tools, not deliverables. Of course, you can still show sketches to people, but just to ask questions and promote discussion, not as a final result. Guiding Prin

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

On Jan 28, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Yury Frolov|Studio Asterisk* wrote: ... But is there anything wrong with RED being 'just' an "approach" or "mode of operation"? Like Special Ops tactics and tools (i am not crazy about this analogy - but for the lack of a better one..) i suspect certain RED pra

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

On Jan 28, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Jared Spool wrote: I've read through your comments multiple times and others have said they've done the same. Yet, there's still confusion over how this is more than just really-smart-and-experience-people-doing-good-work. You, yourself, said it isn't as much a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Experience Deliverables

I see the pixel-perfect design comps as serving one of two purposes: i) As a conceptual exploration of the visual design. That is, a stage of visual design iteration; and ii) As a final pre-production stage in the overall process. So in one sense I'd happily include these into the broader category

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

On Jan 28, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Jared Spool wrote: Yet, there's still confusion over how this is more than just really- smart-and-experience-people-doing-good-work. You, yourself, said it isn't as much a method as it is a "philosophy" or "approach". Other than a label you've put on your own wor

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

Robert Hoekman states: "Boy, are you in the wrong place. On this list, one cannot have a dialog without the inclusion of naysayers and skeptics. : ) " I think this dynamic is familiar to anyone that's participated in online forums over the past two decades. My approach is not to engage with bait

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Experience Deliverables

Thanks for the positive feedback, the constructive criticism, and the questions. The map is intended as a tool to help folks (myself included) think about the mix of deliverables they might use in any given project. It's not intended to be comprehensive (or prescriptive) but rather to reflect the d

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Experience Deliverables

> > http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000228.php For clarification's sake, are you simply presenting these as deliverables you've seen, or are you advocating their use? -r- Welcome to the Interaction Design Associat

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

You've still done pretty much everything but actually define R.E.D. If you can't explain what it is (instead of what it is not) in a clear manner, it's going to be very difficult to get anyone else to understand it, hence all the confusion in this thread. My goal, which I stated earlier, is not to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Experience Deliverables

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Andrei Herasimchuk < aherasimc...@involutionstudios.com> wrote: > > On Jan 28, 2009, at 6:24 AM, Peter Morville wrote: > > Jeffery Callender and I collaborated on this article... >> http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000228.php >> >> ...and on a co

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Experience Deliverables

On Jan 28, 2009, at 6:24 AM, Peter Morville wrote: Jeffery Callender and I collaborated on this article... http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000228.php ...and on a collection of icons and images... http://flickr.com/photos/morville/sets/72157612907604234/ ...and we'd love feed

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

I feel an opportunity for a 'lunch and discuss' in Vancouver, don't you? > > It's unrealistic to expect that all of that vast set of issues be > laid out here for easy digestion in just a few days. In a text forum > no less! > > We

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Testing- Remote Focus Group

Shima, I've conducted a number of remote focus groups over the last year. Here are a few things that worked for me: Put in lots of advance preparation. With so many folks on the phone, and with their attention already at risk, it's important not to waste any time rummaging for mockups or verba

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

Jared Spool states: "In my opinion, Jim, the reason why you're seeing these "caricatured oversimplifications" is that we're all struggling here trying to understand the essence of what you're talking about." Well, I would say that any understanding and desire for dialog must start first with some

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Experience Deliverables

I think this is a very potent introduction and reminder of what user experience people do. I think it's also useful as a rough sketch and not as a formal framework, since there's usually not a one-size fits all approach. It's on my list of important bookmarks. Good job!

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

I think Robert Hoekman's observation is generally correct. Many situations where RED is useful, if not necessary in order to produce the most thorough, integrated, and successful solution in the shortest period of time or also possibly under additional constraints, result in clients who are recept

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

On Jan 28, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Jim Leftwich wrote: Peter Boersma puts forward another caricatured oversimplification of what actually occurs. It's difficult to respond to it without being drawn into unproductive and uninteresting argumentation, so I'll just let his comment stand for what it is.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

On Jan 28, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Jared Spool wrote: Once the team starts to get multiple experts, they naturally will not agree on important decisions. At that point, they'll require new research to resolve conflicts and further inform the design decisions. This moves them into a different clas

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

Peter Boersma puts forward another caricatured oversimplification of what actually occurs. It's difficult to respond to it without being drawn into unproductive and uninteresting argumentation, so I'll just let his comment stand for what it is. None of the projects of which I'm familiar with woul

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

> > Jim's medium-length answer: "My team and I will listen, leaf through > existing documentation, do some minimal research, (paper)prototype, discuss > documents, and document for implementation. We've done that before, and it > worked then so it will work for you too." > > My guess is that most c

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

On Jan 28, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Jim Leftwich wrote: The term "genius" is [...] a sort of "throw up one's hands" effort at slapping a label on a complex reality. Or maybe, just maybe, the term "R.E.D." is an attempt to add complexity to something that is inherently simple. Just sayin'. Jar

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

My summary of this thread, so far: JarEd wants to know Jim's answer to the client's question: "what are you going to do for me, and how?" Jim's short answer: "Trust me, I'm experienced!" Jim's medium-length answer: "My team and I will listen, leaf through existing documentation, do some minimal

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

The term "genius" is so problematically loaded, that it will never function to effectively describe what is occurring in the situations it purports to label. It is, rather, a sort of "throw up one's hands" effort at slapping a label on a complex reality. It also carries a high propensity to be pe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Information through sound.

Hey Leonardo,Do read it, it is very good. It is only one page; but, everything on that one page is right on. I could ramble on for days about how I would use sound in exactly the manner you described. I will give you this. It should be a subtle embellishment that complements the design. I wish I

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What to do in an environment run by engineers??

> Ali wrote: > > As a User Centered Design graduate I find it quite irritating to > be working in an environment where engineers run everything. > My position does not allow me to say much yet as a Tech Writer/Project > Manager assisting the engineers on usability issues I have had it! All the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Telling Interactive Stories - At NYCUPA Event

I'm curious what everyone has to say about last night event at Bloomberg with Andrew DeVigal. Was everyone aware of this stories on the The New York Times? Do you think newspapers readers understand how and what to click in order to view and comprehend the stories as they are told? I told my

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

On Jan 28, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Jared Spool wrote: I'm not sure that's true. In the studies we've done of folks employing Genius Design (still stickin' with the label!), it's almost always been solo designers. - Jared, I don't think we disagree. Many cooks in one kitchen - not go

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

Jared Spool states: "Once the team starts to get multiple experts, they naturally will not agree on important decisions." That certainly doesn't match the experiences I've observed, in both cases of multiple interaction experts or in cases where there was one or more interaction design experts an

Re: [IxDA Discuss] (was R.E.D.) Experience

Mark Schraad states: "The practice of assuming that you, as the designer, know enough to move forward without the important touch points that research can bring is arrogant and unprofessional." Well, it certainly is as you've framed it here. However, most experienced designers aren't approaching

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

On Jan 28, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Yury Frolov|Studio Asterisk* wrote: It seems like one aspect is missing in this discussion. I'd argue that typical RED project involves a small TEAM of experts who address various aspects of design challenge and may include a lead designer, researcher, usabili

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Web Directions North - and other web conferences

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Mike Caskey wrote: > Are there any other good webby or general IxD get togethers in the area? Refresh Denver[1] is a good bet. They are also holding a get together[2] for the Web Directions folks and locals. There is also a local IxD group but I can't remembe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

Todd Zaki Warfel: So, is the emphasis here on the Rapid or on the Expert part? And frankly, I don't see what all the fuss is about. Good question:) ... I think In the course of the RED project the emphasis changes constantly between "Rapid", "Expert" and even "Design"

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Web Directions North - and other web conferences

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:12 AM, Mike Caskey wrote: > This looks like a really great conference in Denver on Feb 2. > > https://secure.webdirections.org/wdn09/aff/WDN09MC > > I hope to go! > > Are there any other good webby or general IxD get togethers in the area? > > Mike Caskey > > Mike, go i

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

Gloria asks the question, "How does a person measure the depth of their experience, and market it appropriately". I would say that for RED practitioners this is almost always measured in terms of past experience and outcomes. Has the designer/team worked in this domain/specific situation before?

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Web Directions North - and other web conferences

I'm speaking at this conference and teaching a workshop there. The Web Directions conferences are always great, especially for combination designer-developers. Use my speaker code WDN09DSa and get $50 off! Dan Dan Saffer Principal, Kicker Studio http://www.kickerstudio.com http://www.odanny

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

In *Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions*, Gary Klein offers a case study about a baby who almost died in a neonatal intensive care unit. There were two nurses on duty: a shift leader with years of experience (I'll call her Mary), and a trainee (Jill). One night while they were both on duty,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

Thanks Jared (and yes I got the spelling wrong in my post). I understand and concur with the matrix you've presented, and where the greatest risk lies. That's essentially why I point out the importance of gaining RED experience (when a designer is inexperienced) by working closely with more exper

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Information through sound.

So, if I said music theory tells me that major chords induce a happy state and minor chords the opposite. Are you saying that is not a must know in progressive menu system? I agree with you though. Someone does not have to know it has been labeled and studied with these traits to convey their emoti

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Information through sound.

You might want to contact Graeme Coleman ( http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/acstaff/gcoleman/ )at the University of Dundee in the UK who recently successfully defended a PhD thesis on exactly this topic - tools to help designers understand soundscapes in order to inform the sound elements of

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Information through sound.

Well, I'm not thinking of the interface, what I'm trying to do is to find a way to look at sound from a design perspective, as a non- musician and non-sound expert, I find extremely complicated to look at sound, and think of it as a useful medium in design, even though in some cases sound

[IxDA Discuss] Web Directions North - and other web conferences

This looks like a really great conference in Denver on Feb 2. https://secure.webdirections.org/wdn09/aff/WDN09MC I hope to go! Are there any other good webby or general IxD get togethers in the area? Mike Caskey Jared Spool wrote: On Jan 27, 2009, at 11:22 PM, Jim Leftwich wrote: I'm in

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

To those, including Dave, clamoring for an in-depth presentation of the structured approach (or as I'd put it, patterned approach) used by designers doing work in this manner, I would first respond that these do exist. Over many projects, and particularly documented projects, there are a number of

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

On Jan 27, 2009, at 11:22 PM, Jim Leftwich wrote: I'm in extremely strong disagreement with Jarod in a number of things he states. I'm assuming you're talking about me (JarEd). There's another JarOd on this list, who often has interesting things to say, but he hasn't participated in this

Re: [IxDA Discuss] URL Guidelines

Sushil, I would use cityname.foundation.org cause I think it's easier to remember when you come back to website several times. -- Maxim Soloviev Director of Product Development www.nakea.net On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Sushil wrote: > I have a question along similar lines...(I joined th

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

Nobody who wins the 100m at the Olympics does it on their first race. They've spent years practicing and preparing. Similarly, most people who practice running every day will never qualify for the Olympics. To be top of your game, you've got to have a combination of talent, experience, sk

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

I'm thinking about promoting a new methodology called R.A.D. (stands for Really Awesome Design). (i kid, , i kid!) -x- On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:51 AM, mark schraad wrote: > That is exactly how I read it. RED = RGD = really good designer -- Christian Crumlish I'm writing a book so please for

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

> > Regardless, on any given day, or any given project, a vastly experienced >> designer can be wrong a hundred times and an inexperienced designer can be >> right a hundred times. Experience matters far less than judgment. >> > > This comment is totally obscure to me. > > In my view, judgment in a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

> > I'm in extremely strong disagreement with Jarod in a number of things > he states. I disagree with his statement that one does not know where > a RED design will end until after it's finished. > > This is flatly untrue. It's a matter of experience. One has to > have confidence of where a de

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

For the record, I was being serious and not flippant. I meant no disrespect to Jim or to his presentation of RED. I know how these posts can sometimes be seen as charged and misinterpreted. When I read Jim's description (which I have done several times), I think of nearly every great design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

> > "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgments." > But some people can attain great judgment through just a little experience, while others can have a ton of experience and never attain great judgment. Ooh! Gotta run—someone needs my help transferring $2.5 million f

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

doesn't research tend to show that, regardless of inborn aptitude, that "talent" tends to correspond with incredible commitment to practice and experience? (Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 hours concept, etc.). -xian- On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Jared Spool wrote: > > On Jan 27, 2009, at 7:57 PM

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

Jim, I'm not so much dismissing as begging for more. I haven't seen enough in your explanation or others to take RED as anything other than hubris, so here is what I'm missing: A framework. A deconstruction of methods and practice. a codification that can be compared and contrasted to other methods

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What to do in an environment run by engineers??

[Jared wrote: I have yet to meet anyone on the development or engineering side of the operation who doesn't understand that a usable design is better. However, not all designs need to be usable to be successful, and since making something usable is often an added expense, it's hard to justify.] I'

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Selenium (or similar) for Usability Testing?

Jon and Andrew have made some very good points - I can see my comment about Selenium being "entirely inappropriate" was a sweeping generalisation. So - while a tool like Selenium would never be appropriate as your "one stop shop" for UX research, it clearly can be useful in certain situations, as

[IxDA Discuss] User Experience Deliverables

Jeffery Callender and I collaborated on this article... http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000228.php ...and on a collection of icons and images... http://flickr.com/photos/morville/sets/72157612907604234/ ...and we'd love feedback and suggestions. Thanks! Peter Morville Presid

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Selenium (or similar) for Usability Testing?

Selenium really helps me in my work -- it eliminates a lot of the tedium that gets in the way of usability testing. For example, I can write a script that will register a new account, login, and navigate to a particular section. This is very helpful when our applications are being redeployed freq

Re: [IxDA Discuss] (was R.E.D.) Experience

I hope you don't mind Jonas, but I thought your framing of experience was a worthy topic all on its own... The notion of experience and domain expertise is something that hiring managers are almost always interested in. It leverages years of work and countless failures without enduring the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Information through sound.

Here's a list of postings related to sound in product design - scroll to the bottom for basic information on acoustics and sound - http://tinyurl.com/c2r65g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=37669

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

Great quote... where/who is that from? On Jan 28, 2009, at 1:46 AM, Jared Spool wrote: "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgments." Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

I completely agree. The conversations that spawned this were all about methods, perspectives, tools, and how a designer approaches a problem. RED does not seem to fit in any of those buckets. It is most certainly an admirable level to aspire to, but I am not sure it does much for aspiring d

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

That is exactly how I read it. RED = RGD = really good designer On Jan 27, 2009, at 10:57 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr wrote: Are we sure that RED isn't just a fancy term for "talent"? ;) Welcome to the Interaction Design Association

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

So, is the emphasis here on the Rapid or on the Expert part? Is it a RAPID Expert Designer or a Rapid EXPERT Designer? Is it rapid design done by an expert, or quickly producing what could be defined as an amazing expert design? I guess I'm asking if Expert is being used as noun or adjectiv

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

On Jan 27, 2009, at 11:05 PM, Dave Malouf wrote: hmm? I think I'm still a believer in rigorous methods for making up for the unpredictability of "talent" and "judgment". Actually, Robert's point about experienced and inexperienced designers goes hand in hand with yours. Using great metho

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Selenium (or similar) for Usability Testing?

We use Selenium for Functionality Testing, and have tried it for Usability work. The main way that we have tried to use for Usability is to record and playback user interactions with a site. The challenge is often the script needs some editing. So I don't think it is ready out of the box. I have a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Selenium (or similar) for Usability Testing?

Hi Harry, Thanks for your reply. I was really just trying to establish whether anyone had found a use for Selenium within a user-experience field. As you said, it does look entirely inappropriate, far more relevant for testing errors in the functionality than any aspect of usability.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What to do in an environment run by engineers??

Michael Micheletti makes some astoundingly insightful points above. All very good and effective advice for the situation being discussed here. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=37605 ___

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Selenium (or similar) for Usability Testing?

Hi Nik Your question sounds interesting, but it's hard to make out exactly what you're asking. The idea of having a piece of software that can test UX / usability by pushing a button - this is a wonderful idea, but a complete fantasy. User experience can only be understood by observing the behavi

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Selenium (or similar) for Usability Testing?

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Nik Lazell wrote: > Hi all, > > > > Does anyone have any experience of using Selenium for testing > (http://seleniumhq.org/)? I have been asked to research it's potential > for UX testing. I have used it briefly as a developer, but it seems to > be more suited to t

[IxDA Discuss] Selenium (or similar) for Usability Testing?

Hi all, Does anyone have any experience of using Selenium for testing (http://seleniumhq.org/)? I have been asked to research it's potential for UX testing. I have used it briefly as a developer, but it seems to be more suited to testing the functionality of a site rather than from a usability

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What to do in an environment run by engineers??

Again, thank you for contributing to this topic. My kickoff went really well and I was able to convince the "brain" behind the project. (An engineer) User tests will be conducted and I might be able to do them much earlier than planned. (These people have already created much of the HW/SF products

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

I have been following the RED thread with great interest and pleasure, deciding not to step in this time -- but now I have to. Regardless, on any given day, or any given project, a vastly experienced designer can be wrong a hundred times and an inexperienced designer can be right a hundred

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [JOB] Senior Interaction Designer / Information Architect / UX - 2595, Los Gatos- CA, NETFLIX, Full Time

Dear Netflix Staffing Operations Team, I can see that you are in need of a good interaction designer/IA - there seems to be a disconnect between the corporate understanding of "site" and "mailing list", although granted there is no doubt an archive site where this message will eventually reside. E

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

In response to the many great observations that Yury Frolov made, I immediately recognize many of those same dynamics and challenges. There are indeed circumstances and situations that are better suited for RED approaches, and you outlined them nicely. I and my network and colleagues have designe