On 1 Mar 2009, at 05:16, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote:
[snip]
Now, are those methods bad or wrong. No. They are merely
acceptable. I use them all of the time.
Why? According to your scale paper prototypes - for example - are
_always_ worse than HTML/JS. alternatives. Are there other
On 28 Feb 2009, at 19:17, Leonardo Parra Agudelo wrote:
Hi all,
I have been teaching how to program to non-engineers, mostly
designers, artists and a few musicians, and it all goes well until
we hit the arrays.
[snip]
Is there any particular aspect that they're finding hard?
Adrian
Anybody out there not listen to anything?
(coz that's what I do :-)
Adrian -
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I always use shopping lists as an example. Once they have got their
heads around variables (which might be the underlying problem), the
idea of something representing a list of 'things' usually works well.
You don't go shopping with a separate post-it note for each item,
you make a list
On 27 Feb 2009, at 00:10, Andy Polaine wrote:
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
I put my headphones on and don't listen to anything when I am doing
something high level / conceptual. The main idea is to not let others bother
/ disturb you. If there's noise around or any distracting conversations or
something, I turn on trip hop / lounge - anything with slow bpm and calm,
Hi,
To the original question. I tend to have an opportunity to work at
least partially from a home office, and I have a decent one for that
too. However, I tend to prefer not to, for the sake of my own
productivity (office 'forces' to get things done) as well as liking
the place and
Another thing that's not being considered here is that prototyping
happens with or without an Interaction Designer. There are Product
Managers, Business Analysts, Visual Designers, Usability Engineers,
etc that are prototyping and doing it very effectively without writing
a single line of
On Mar 1, 2009, at 12:16 AM, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote:
Are you suggesting that testing the behavior of a slider control
with a paper prototype is better than a fully interactive one done
on JavaScript?
More effective? That depends. I can build an interactive slider
control with less
When I was a programmer I used to listen to music. Everyday.
Now, as Interaction Designer I do have some problems with music.
When you make code (every given day) you are all the time alone with
your screen, so you put your headphones on, and go.
Now at work I always has to talk with someone, have
Adrian, well said.
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On Mar 1, 2009, at 8:17 AM, Todd Zaki Warfel wrote:
On Mar 1, 2009, at 12:21 AM, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote:
The tools these days by and large are still crap. Further, so many
people in this field refuse to learn how to draw or spec type, so
I'm not sure how well a survey of the field is
On 1 Mar 2009, at 10:23, Janne Kaasalainen wrote:
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On Mar 1, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Adrian Howard wrote:
Nobody is saying that distributed teams can't do good work. Just
that - compared to co-located teams in good working environments -
they're under a disadvantage.
That's some major
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In most cities with a 'young' metro (underground) system it is
possible to use your mobile whilst travelling in the tunnels. For
example here in Shanghai it is common to see people chatting away on
their mobiles while on the train. I found this lack of communication
frustrating last year when I
On 1 Mar 2009, at 11:07, stefo wrote:
When I was a programmer I used to listen to music. Everyday.
Now, as Interaction Designer I do have some problems with music.
When you make code (every given day) you are all the time alone with
your screen, so you put your headphones on, and go.
Now at
Hello, friends.
What if the music were chosen in order to meet the project's
theme/concept? Would that be part of a criative methodology...
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On Mar 1, 2009, at 1:54 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote:
Sorry... I'm just going to have to disagree. The skills are
specifically hand coding HTML/CSS/JavaScript and if not C++, then
things like ActionScript.
Then in your opinion, no prototype other than one that involves coding
should be
I think one of they keys here is that Andrei's perspective on
prototyping is very different from the majority. That's not to say
it's strictly right or wrong, but I find it a bit myopic, narrow, and
shortsighted. It seems to be very 37signals—this is the way we do it
and it's really the
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Pietro Desiato
pietro.desi...@gmail.com wrote:
What kind of music do you listen (when you can) while brainstorming,
analysing, designing interactions?
Are there any songs that would make our design flow better?
Let's make a playlist :)
Hi Pietro,
When
There are a couple ways to approach contract design work ( a studio
or agency working from the outside of the firm or client) and thus
protoyping.
In the first, you actually put the client, or someone from the client
firm on the design team as a product manager and as a proxie
In early February, more than 450 interaction designers from around the world
converged in Vancouver to discuss, debate, and share a spectrum of topics
that are important to our community of practice. The Interaction 09 |
Vancouver conference featured three days of tactical workshops, smart
the neck's 'aether' has been my longtime trusty companion for
writing reading and creative tasks. especially in noisy surroundings.
Other Necks albums work well for me, but none come close to getting
me into the zone like aether...
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uhmmm silence is a form of music...this has worked for me...
MORNING
Iron Wine with calexico-Live on NPR (free to download from NPR)
My Morning Jacket -It Still Moves
M.Ward-Transistor Radio
AFTERNOON
AIR-The Virgin Suicides Soundtrack
Sasha-Air Drawn Dagger
Digweed
Global Underground
MID DAY
I'm staying out of the fray of this really stupid thread and sticking
with the first question.
Andrei, for embedded computing please also consider adding arduino
and similar board-level prototyping methods. But often embedded
software interacts with non software interfaces. So being able to
I wish I had a link to the study, but I remember reading the following:
The best music for doing work by has very little to do with the music
itself, however, there are a few guidelines that seem to help you avoid
distraction and get into a the flow. These include the following -
1. The music
A timely piece by David Cronin of Cooper for Adobe:
http://tr.im/gUM6
(Shhh! its on prototyping!)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5cWWV0KNDg
The above I think really hits the nail on the head.
Oh yea, Love Spirals Downward (LSD) and Pendulum are nice rides too.
I think the tempo of the music and your heart rate might be
the respiratory correlate.
Hi Pietro,
+ Link
http://weblog.cenriqueortiz.com/mobile-context/
*An Introduction to the mobile context and mobile social software*, which
explores the topics of the mobile context and its role on what I referred to
as People-centric mobile computing.
Cheers,
Jarod
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at
Interesting.
Seems as if I were a traveling salesman and the design was in place my rooms
would be able to detect and adapt to my preferences based on some setting in
my mobile device.
Nah...
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