It's a privilege. You are being idealistic.
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http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39200
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association
On 25 Feb 2009, at 06:12, dnp607 wrote:
Hi All,
I wanted to get a pulse on how you feel about designers who work a
good amount of their time from a home office. I've noticed that
most companies prefer 9-5 onsite employees. The reasoning that most
often comes up is that it's corporate
Thanks to everyone for your input.
A few points/clarifications:
- We are not considering removing the page titles, just determining
whether it should be placed/weighted in such a manner that it is very
much obvious
- Our 'banners' are not ads, really. They are large graphics that
promote
Hi,
This was announced at IxDA in Vancouver, but many of you weren't there or
were too busy enjoying Will Evans' tweets to notice, so I thought I would
repost.
interactions magazine is proud to offer a discount just for IxDA members,
and you are officially a member if you are on this mailing
I wonder how much of it goes back to findability and information architecture
(but I can be a little biased thinking most problems come back to these things).
Placement in search engine isn't really high (and didn't even seem them for
online hci program and the like) and then the description
From what I remember they required some time on-campus for the
degree. that was a dealbreaker for me.
MT
On Feb 25, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Becky Reed wrote:
I wonder how much of it goes back to findability and information
architecture (but I can be a little biased thinking most problems
Interesting, I didn't know online HCI grad programs even existed.
On a related note, I do wish that a premier design school (e.g. RISD, Art
Center, SVA, New School, CMU) would step up and address the need for online /
part-time IxD executive MFA program for practitioners, along the executive
(No research here, just my personal experience/opinion)
I worked my way through college for my first undergrad degree (BA
Journalism/CS, took me 7 years) and tried to work while going to school
for my second degree (BFA ID). I finally gave in and took unpaid leave
to get a Master's, and
Dan -
In some ways I don't see it as a privilege, exactly, but there are
certainly personal lifestyle benefits I enjoy because of it.
I am currently working in a company whose product caters to a pretty
specialized area of specialty. I need to be on-site much of the time
simply to absorb the
Cubicles!! Luckily i never had to deal with them.
In my previous workplace i was seated in the design studio, and we
all know what they are like. :) while the rest of the teams had their
cubicles. Yes i did feel sad for them.
The workplace i am currently working at is a sort of loft, with all
Hi everyone,
A few days back i introduced a new project ITSME : a new
workstation for the knowledge worker based on the concept of Stories
and Venues (find details here http://www.itsme.it/about-us/).
Up till now we have defined the ID Model, released explorations of
Interaction Paradigms and
When I did my MFA in design at Yale, I did freelance work to help with the
bills, etc. I will say, for my personality and way of working, keeping a foot
in the working world during grad school was critical. It provided an
essential perspective school didn't and an outlet to explore what I was
Hi all, since we're all interested in the design for mobile, I thought it
would be interesting to have a list of situations, common activities and
contexts that could related to the mobile design. The list would help us to
reflect upon mobile and would be truly INSPIRATIONAL for all the designers.
Personally, I'm finding that I'm able to apply what I learn in the classroom
(part-time grad business program) directly to my job. My experience with a
full-time grad program in HCI was the same as others (i.e. I loved having time
to really ruminate on things), but there are plenty of full-time
also have a look at enterprise it usage, like the case at dresdner
kleinwort.
this investment bank is heavily using wiki technologies for their
internal knowledge management:
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=606074
(paid content unfortunately)
Dave,
Is it really that different in large corporations and even design firms working
with remote clients? We're not talking about BFA programs / inexperienced
designers but graduate design education for folks already working in the field
(hence executive), which is a different niche /
Does anyone have any best practices links and statistics for
multiple shipping addresses involving the same order?
Thanks.
Cheers.
Patrick
email: p...@usabilitycounts.com | blog: http://www.usabilitycounts.com
cell: (562) 508-1750 | office: (562) 612-3346 | skype: (562) 219-3348
I'm still researching schools that offer an HCI program. The closest
thing i've seen for what you're looking for is the MBA in design
strategy at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
It's not HCI-focused, but they are very open to students crafting
their own program. It could
Break the requests into two parts, the evaluations and then the re-design
(or fix as you stated it). Let them know the extent of the evaluation and
recommendation effort up front. Then, when you report back, weight the
importance and include a scope of effort for the various items. If they buy
I am writing to ask peoples experiences and opinions about using
platforms such as flickr, youtube, blogspot etc for doing user
research, e.g having people create photo or video diaries on these
platforms or participate in remote user research via blogs.
Specifically I am interested in the ethics
Even before that, I'd ask some basic questions to clarify the
objectives for the UI (e.g. who is the audience, what tasks are users
there to complete, how are they measuring the success of the UI, etc.)
and determine why they think it needs fixing.
As for what to be wary of, I've often had
There are plenty of project that I can do at home. In fact there are some
projects that I can do better at home. But by and large I work as part of an
integrated team... and for many things I need to be here. Small details are
important... and many times, my org sometimes operates like the borg...
I work four days a week in a traditional cubical environment and one
day at home. I use that one day at home to avoid meetings and crunch
on data and usually put in more productive hours there. I don't mind
cubes as long as there's also a group space to brainstorm and be
creative. While I do have
This is most certainly NOT a distance learning program.
On Feb 25, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Dan Saffer wrote:
http://www.cca.edu/academics/graduate/designmba
The MBA in Design Strategy equips students to lead organizations
from the unique perspective of design thinking. By uniting the
studies
I'm not sure exactly what would be in an Executive MFA program and you
may be wanting more flexibility, but for HCI or Human Factors, Bentley
University in Waltham, MA, offers a joint MBA/MS HFID (human factors in
information design - some courses include: cog psych (HF), UI design,
user testing,
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Pietro Desiato
pietro.desi...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all, since we're all interested in the design for mobile, I thought it
would be interesting to have a list of situations, common activities and
contexts that could related to the mobile design. The list would
Institute of Design in Chicago has an MDM program (Master of Design Methods)
which can be done part time and DePaul University does offer a Masters in HCI
through its computer design group I think. Would be worth seeing if Georgia
Tech or Carnegie Mellon had tailored programs like this too.
+
On the train/bus
Driving car
Biking
Waiting for bus ...
Travel ( businiess or for enjoyment )
After lunch time ( walk or f2f chat )
...
Ps:
Different country makes difference
On 2/26/09, Barbara Ballard bball...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Pietro Desiato
We got a small office and fot it for design work. I guess that is
affordable for most of the case
--jarod
On 2/25/09, dnp607 dnp...@pacbell.net wrote:
Hi All,
I wanted to get a pulse on how you feel about designers who work a
good amount of their time from a home office. I've noticed that
Since iphone is out for years, it's possible for you to find the
people who use it in daily life. Especially in u.s. or japan.
Or you can offer it to some tagert group, and let them us it
themselves for sometime(two weeks or even longer). And you can keep
your ethnogrphy on that. Nothing new.
Paul,
I guess I don't know what Executive IxD is then. IMHO, once you
hit Director level let alone VP at most corps you really aren't
specializing in any medium or method of design. So what is Executive?
If you want a Masters in IxD, you are going to study DESIGN! and
working in the studio
This one didn't get into this thread, so I thought I'd add it here.
Pratt's Design Management Masters:
http://www.pratt.edu/design_management
Here is the schedule of the course:
The DMP%u2019s academic calendar is modeled after successful
executive M.B.A. programs. Its schedule of alternating
hot tubbubble bath
waterproof...
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Chauncey Wilson
chauncey.wil...@gmail.comwrote:
Common activities, situations, and contexts related to mobile design:
1. Light levels and impact on legibility
2. Cold weather (wearing gloves - not good for iPhone for
@ Boon ChewYes, I experienced the same thing...On the app form it says Special
$40 Annual Subscription Rate for IxDA Members
But when I submit the form it charges me $120
- Smitha Ram
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association
The Institute of Design in Chicago (my alma mater) has Master of
Design Methods which is a nine month executive master's degree.
http://www.id.iit.edu/312/
Snip
The Master of Design Methods (MDM) is a nine month (or 2-3 year part-
time) executive master's degree for exceptional design,
Some hints that might help with improving conversion...
1) Don't make them create an account just to buy something from the
store. Make that part optional.
2) The less pages for the checkout process you have, the better. If
you can get the whole thing to a single page, your conversion should
go
What Keane said, So unless the organisation as a whole has
frameworks in place for remote working, I think it's difficult to
achieve successfully - for the whole organisation.
Two things to address about that: business culture and the law.
First thing: I would go work in the office if it was for
Im investigating unique (aka cool) interface designs that are
future-thinking and present a new way of interacting with digital
content (both as a user and an audience member). Im especially
interested in large interaction surfaces, such as Jeff Hans Magic
Wall and Microsoft Surface.
Imagine you design Websites for software products. Your company's
products are compelling and well designed. What do you put on your
Website homepage? How do you fulfill your mission of distinguishing
your product suite when some of your products are similar?
To add more context, imagine you
how about screen shots of the software
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Sabina S. sabin...@gmail.com wrote:
Imagine you design Websites for software products. Your company's
products are compelling and well designed. What do you put on your
Website homepage? How do you fulfill your mission
Sorry to be so late chiming in on this thread. I thought I'd hear something
from the RPI faculty about the phasing out of HCI distance program, or
clarify what is happened, and I haven't yet.
I am a product (PhD) of the same dept and took many of the core classes that
are part of this program.
Ach, I spoke too soon. RPI is phasing out ALL distance learning graduate
degrees and certificate programs, meaning polymer chemistry, mechanical
engineering, all that (all those courses that I had to upload in that damn
distance catalog).
I'm glad you asked this question. Recently I needed to purchase CD
burning software and did some searching online for a product to suit
my needs. So I have some very recent thoughts relevant to this
question.
Why would users/potential customers want to see an image of the
product box? Especially
Hi Oliver,
I'm making the assumption the UI is 'live'. I think a great starting
point is to enter into discussion harvesting opinions and views so you
can better understand the bigger picture. Here are a few suggestions
for starters:
1. Why is the UI 'broken' in their opinion? (sometimes
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