Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA Special Offer: interactions magazine discount

2009-02-27 Thread Andy Polaine
I'll give it a shot. I agree about the previously decline in design and article numbers, but I've often used articles in their for some of my PhD research. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39209

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Do you work from a home office?

2009-02-27 Thread Andy Polaine
Interesting research, though I'm not entirely sure the results are due to the distance per se or whether this is an apples and apples comparison. The culture and organisation of a project team make a big difference to their success, co-located or not. It also ignores the fact that some projects

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Do business objectives belong in personas?

2009-02-27 Thread Tom Dell'Aringa
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Jared Spool jsp...@uie.com wrote: Hi Tom, Excellent question. Here's my take: First, I want to ask: are we talking about whether the business objectives are in the persona or with the persona description document? [snip] I was mainly speaking to the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Do business objectives belong in personas?

2009-02-27 Thread mark schraad
I usually work with specifically grouped information in separate docs. Market research (competitive analysis etc), User needs and behaviors (including personas), and Biz requirements (sometimes including technical constraints, but sometimes its better as a fourth bucket). The reason I keep these

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Open source user experience

2009-02-27 Thread Pascal Finette
Hi, I'm a little late to the discussion (and new to IxDA)... Nasir was so kind to point me to this thread - I'm working with Mozilla Labs, spearheading our efforts to build a global Open Innovation program under the roof of the Labs Concept Series

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Looking for examples of Gui\'s for persons who never seen/used a computer. For example the GUI of the one laptop per child project

2009-02-27 Thread Kim Bieler
I can't find it but I remember reading an article about a touchscreen UI that was used for intake at a pediatrician's office. Kids were MUCH more likely to respond honestly to mental health questions (e.g., do you ever think about suicide?) on a computer than they were if a doctor or nurse asked

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Looking for examples of Gui\'s for persons who never seen/used a computer. For example the GUI of the one laptop per child project

2009-02-27 Thread Praneet Koppula
Hello Bas, The work done at Microsoft Research Bangalore (Text Free UI for Illertate Users) might be of some help/inspiration to you. Here are some links to their work/papers: *http://research*.*microsoft* .com/en-us/um/india/groups/tem/presentations/text-freeui.ppt

[IxDA Discuss] Mayo Clinic internship posting closed...

2009-02-27 Thread christine chastain
Hi there, Thanks to all who applied - we have an impressive number of very qualified candidates! Kind regards, Christine Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Software Websites: Box Shots?

2009-02-27 Thread Elana Glazer
IMHO, mint.com's homepage does a few things that make it a compelling and convincing screen: - Tabs allow users to learn more about various site features without leaving the page - Features and benefits are displayed visually, showing the actual product - The Sign Up CTA remains consistent in

[IxDA Discuss] IxDA Infrastructure Initiative: Survey results

2009-02-27 Thread Elizabeth Bacon
Hello IxDA Members, This message is a progress report from the IxDA Conan infrastructure team to share the results from our recent survey about IxDA.org which we conducted at the start of February. Please visit the IxDA Board Blog at: http://board.ixda.org/node/9 for more information and

Re: [IxDA Discuss] A list of mobile situations

2009-02-27 Thread James Page
When the user is wasting time! We found in a study of over 1,000 users that they used the internet on their phone when they had nothing else to do, which breaks the misconception that the user is using the phone to save time. This research was done in the UK, where many people do long train

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Looking for examples of Gui\'s for persons who never seen/used a computer. For example the GUI of the one laptop per child project

2009-02-27 Thread Bas Hoppe
Thnx again for all your thoughts and idea's @Vicky Teinaki I haven't had the time to read the paper, but i think the insight of Paul Dourish can help me thinking of my problem a different way. @Praneet Koppula Thnx for that paper @Kim Bieler Spoken language is one of the things we used in the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA Infrastructure Initiative: Survey results

2009-02-27 Thread Angel Marquez
Interesting. I noticed you pulled some quotes from the survey and used them as examples. What criteria was met for the ones that were picked? I was 1 of the 200 who took the survey. Kindest Regards, Angel On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Elizabeth Bacon li...@elizabethbacon.comwrote: Hello

[IxDA Discuss] Prototyping tools + resources

2009-02-27 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
I'm interested in fleshing out some more detail for the following: http://make.involutionstudios.com/conceptcar/ I'm looking to add more tools + resources links and am seeking out things I've missed in the process to make sure the list is as thorough as possible. For example I know

Re: [IxDA Discuss] A list of mobile situations

2009-02-27 Thread Pietro Desiato
@Barbara: I think it's a good idea and I'd like to share the results with you and put them in the wiki @Jarod, Chauncey, Angel: I am going to update the doc with your suggestions but if you have more, please write them there ;) @James: this is really interesting. Do you think that the perception

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Prototyping tools + resources

2009-02-27 Thread Angel Marquez
Superb. Professional elegant. Very clean. Excellent use of technology to convey the message. The layout is solid as well as the code. I really like the use of color and the sketched icons. I like how the dots fall to marginal for flash and silverlight, lol. Good job. iRise, I just evaluated