Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the "Program Manager" role does UI design... ????

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Russell Wilson wrote: > "Lacking a program manager, your garden-variety super-smart programmer is > going to come up with a completely baffling user interface that makes > perfect sense IF YOU'RE A VULCAN (cf. git). The best programmers are > notoriously brilliant,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA selects Drupal

I used both Drupal and Joomla and decided that Joomla is ten folds better. I'm just curious why Drupal over Joomla? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39726 ___

[IxDA Discuss] IxDA selects Drupal

Hi folks, I want to share the news that our IxDA infrastructure initiative has selected Drupal to provide the technical platform for our website redesign project. For more on this decision, please see: http://board.ixda.org/node/11 Cheers, Liz __

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the "Program Manager" role does UI design... ????

I thought his comment about specs was heartening in a world where I'm seeing more developers perceiving design and planning as anti-agile: Functional specifications are so important one of the few hard and fast rules at Fog Creek is %u201CNo Code Without Spec.%u201D If spec=design, as it seems to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the "Program Manager" role does UI design... ????

Since you asked, this is how I see it as an opportunity (pretty much the best once since the invention of sliced bread): While we're all trying to figure out what our titles are (and that's our damn fault, politics and posturing in our community be damned), Joel defined an ADDITIONAL position for

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the "Program Manager" role does UI design... ????

@Dan - I completely agree. Very frustrating for someone who spends a lot of time evangelizing the value of good design. @Patrick - I'm not threatened at all, and I started out as a programmer (BS and MS) - and still code when I can - just wrote some javascript as a matter of fact. But what Joel

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Heuristic Evaluations - A Personal Approach

Liam, I think this is an absolutely awesome approach to what you're calling a heuristic review. It transforms the Nielsen heuristics from a checklist that just looks at the elements of the user interface in a sort of localized way to looking at the whole experience of using an interfac

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the "Program Manager" role does UI design... ????

"Well, if you've seen the UI for FogBugz, then I guess that shows you what kind of a UI a Program Manager can design. " You mean a profitable product? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39701 ___

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the "Program Manager" role does UI design... ????

Well, if you've seen the UI for FogBugz, then I guess that shows you what kind of a UI a Program Manager can design. Cheers! Todd Zaki Warfel President, Design Researcher Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully. -- Contact Info Voice: (215) 825-7423

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Persona skeptics

How do you communicate your research findings to your clients? On Mar 9, 2009, at 11:11 AM, James Page wrote: We just cut the personas, and the time saved spend it on user research. Cheers! Todd Zaki Warfel President, Design Researcher Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully. ---

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Persona skeptics

On Mar 9, 2009, at 10:22 AM, James Page wrote: What we use is real people, not personas. We jot notes on each person. Collect and cross reference their needs, and wants. That's how you create personas. If there is a question that needs answering all we have to do is ask the person, on t

[IxDA Discuss] Seattle: UW HCI Project Fair, Monday 3/16

For Seattle-area IxDAers: HCI Project Fair - Student Presentations Each fall, students in UW CSE's Human-Computer Interaction courses organize into teams and spend a quarter designing, prototyping, and most importantly evaluating a user interface. CSE 441 is our second quarter, advanced HCI course

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the "Program Manager" role does UI design... ????

That's what I understood his point to be Sent from my iPhone On Mar 9, 2009, at 6:47 PM, mark schraad wrote: So the theory is to cloak the designer as a program manager? Or did I twist that a bit? On Mar 9, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Russell Wilson wrote: "Lacking a program manager, your garden-v

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the "Program Manager" role does UI design... ????

I've been a program manager. Why do you see this as a threat? I see this as another opportunity. And UX people should know a bit about programming, so they know what they're designing into. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://w

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the "Program Manager" role does UI design... ????

Perhaps Don Norman will set him straight? I see Spolsky is based in NYC. It's an attitude I've run into here more than once during my cultural transition of moving from the silicon valley 1.5 years ago. Yet our discipline is somehow still "hot" here and there are never enough qualified senior peop

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the "Program Manager" role does UI design... ????

So the theory is to cloak the designer as a program manager? Or did I twist that a bit? On Mar 9, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Russell Wilson wrote: "Lacking a program manager, your garden-variety super-smart programmer is going to come up with a completely baffling user interface that makes perfect

[IxDA Discuss] IxDA Education Initiatives - Update

Hi, I wanted to post a brief update on the status of the IxDA Education Initiatives, and invite you to get involved with our work. We've targeted three main areas for progressive development this year. Within each area, we have groups investigating a number of sub-initiatives, with the intention

Re: [IxDA Discuss] alternate to Basecamp?

ProjectPier is an open-source branch of the now-commercialized activeCollab, originally conceived as a Basecamp alternative. I'm trying out installations of ProjectPier for IxDA's project management and for another project as well. It's only been a few weeks, but the initial experience has been goo

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the "Program Manager" role does UI design... ????

This is actually a pretty dangerous essay to our profession. To have us cut out of the software development process by an influential figure is really unfortunate. We should have some sort of response to this. Dan Welcome to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Is social networking doomed to frivolity?

I agree with many of the posts in this thread, particularly Joshua's, that interaction in social media can be far from frivolous. For those interested in learning about the very real communication that happens in SNS sites, I would encourage you to read some of the following super smart people:

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Knowledge and Skill Requirements of the Industry

On 8 Mar 2009, at 17:15, Michael Micheletti wrote: [snip] A few months ago, when the IxDA meetup happened at the UW, I was impressed that students from the Technical Communications/UX path, students in the Industrial Design curriculum, and Computer Science students were all present. And they

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Prototyping tools resources

On 6 Mar 2009, at 06:41, David Malouf wrote: I really feel you folks are confusing mock-up with prototype. IMHO, if I can't use it, it ain't a prototype. Maybe, human as computer paper-prototypes fit the bill, but otherwise, a series of screens, are mock-ups and an interactive click-through is

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Knowledge and Skill Requirements of the Industry

On 8 Mar 2009, at 17:15, Michael Micheletti wrote: [snip] A few months ago, when the IxDA meetup happened at the UW, I was impressed that students from the Technical Communications/UX path, students in the Industrial Design curriculum, and Computer Science students were all present. And they

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the "Program Manager" role does UI design... ????

First, I agree with Dave that you have to take Joel's lingo with a pinch of MS salt from the 90s. However, I have to say his comment that PMs (read designers) must keep the developers happy lest they go off and do WTF they feel like made me shudder. I've spent a lot of my career trying to help dev

Re: [IxDA Discuss] alternate to Basecamp?

I second 'votes for Google Sites my only warning, there is a file storage limit for individual accounts of 100MB (if you have Gmail/Google Enterprise, I think you get a bit more space). I have used Basecamp many times and it usually became a gloried file-storage system, not much information sh

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the "Program Manager" role does UI design... ????

Russell, Joel was trained in teh land of Redmond. In Redmond this was totally true. the Program Manager was the UI designer, like in NYC the Producer often has the role of UI Design or at least IA. I don't think you should or can interpret Joel's words as saying that the PM replaces the IxD or more

Re: [IxDA Discuss] alternate to Basecamp?

Try google sites. Also, Backpack, which is also made by 37signals, is more along the lines of what you're looking for. -eva On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Heather Anderson < heather.ander...@disney.com> wrote: > www.actionmethod.com is similar to basecamp, but with more designer > feel to it

[IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the "Program Manager" role does UI design... ????

"Lacking a program manager, your garden-variety super-smart programmer is going to come up with a completely baffling user interface that makes perfect sense IF YOU'RE A VULCAN (cf. git). The best programmers are notoriously brilliant, and have some trouble imagining what it must be like not to be

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fun with comics (or storyboards!)

Very useful, thanks Adrian. I love that they have Vector versions available too - these will prove quite useful. Pixton looks to be quite interesting too, thank you Pat - checking it out this afternoon. Candy: Bitstrips is interesting. The interface is a bit more daunting for the first ti

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Your First UX / ID Job -- Q from the HCI Class of \'09.

Jen -- Just FYI: "Entry level" is generally understood to be "immediately post-degree" and a couple years after that and your education is understood to include applicable experience. Asking for the compensation of a mid-level designer is a bit pushy and unlikely, generally, to meet with

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Persona skeptics

Following up on Peter's note, I think that part of the persona planning process is to develop a "Public Relations" or "Advertising Plan" for your personas. That should be an explicit part of the persona process. This could mean that: 1. Personas are displayed in the work area 2. Personas are r

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Persona skeptics

At 09:18 AM 3/9/2009, Todd Zaki Warfel wrote: We still lack good methodology and educational practice when it comes to creating personas. And no, the Personas Lifecycle book didn't really help...Personas should be based on behaviors and activities, not demographics. And they need to be data-dri

[IxDA Discuss] IA Available: Seattle-based

I am unexpectedly available immediately for contract information architecting or usability research work. If you are Seattle-based, I can work on-site. If you are not, I am comfortable with telecommuting and have all the necessary equipment to conduct both remote- and lab-based usability research.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Is social networking doomed to frivolity?

Thanks for the thoughtful responses. I'm happy to see that so many of you chimed in. For the record, I don't believe frivolity is an entirely negative thing. It has a natural place in our lives and is a useful component of our social structure. Mike Myles, I certainly never said that the entire hi

Re: [IxDA Discuss] alternate to Basecamp?

www.actionmethod.com is similar to basecamp, but with more designer feel to it and greater functionality. The other one, which I think might suit you best, is Google Sites: http://sites.google.com/ Here you can insert docs, presentations, spreadsheets, images, photo slide shows, forms, etc... an

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Persona skeptics

Right. That whole argument (the 1, 2, and therefore...) I put below is the weird logic that I see people using many times when personas are being questioned. A persona and its related process is just a vehicle for user research, and the communication of its (ongoing) results. Just like Powerpoint

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Your First UX / ID Job -- Q from the HCI Class of \'09.

Class of '08 here, so while I don't have loads of experience to draw from, I can speak about some of the things I've noticed going on in the field right now, in terms of finding work. I second Scott's suggestion to "Pick the company, not the project." My first job (actually an internship) was at a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] alternate to Basecamp?

On 9 Mar 2009, at 15:20, Hope Turner wrote: My company is looking for an alternate solution for posting files to share with our clients. Currently we're using Basecamp and it is good, but has it’s limitations. We like the ‘forum’ nature of it but it good do with some tweaks. I think the bigges

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fun with comics (or storyboards!)

On 9 Mar 2009, at 09:31, Candy wrote: Also, heard great things about Comic Life by plasq. It is mainly for mac, but there is a windows version here: http://plasq.com/comiclife-win In addition to balloon thoughts, it has a great tool you can use with real images that applies a filter to make it

Re: [IxDA Discuss] alternate to Basecamp?

We have been evaluating Redmine, http://www.redmine.org/ It can integrate with e-mail and SVN and has a similar interface as Basecamp. So far it is a good project management tool and issue tracker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org

Re: [IxDA Discuss] alternate to Basecamp?

Have you tried Huddle? You can find it at http://www.huddle.net. I'm trialing it now. Can't vouch just yet, but it came highly recommended and I like it so far. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39672

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Favorite tool for sitemapping?

Hi Tom, I'm an Information Designer and I use Cmap Tools for sitemapping and all my other ontology/taxonomy tasks. Plus: - It's very easy to use - Ontology version boasts OWL/XML export - Cross-platform, 17 languages - Free for commercial and non-commercial use - Great documentation Minus: - Fa

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Post-graduate degree advice (London, UK)

On 9 Mar 2009, at 15:48, James Page wrote: If they don't there is an issue. Academic research is about finding evidence for or against a theory. I would hope that somebody teaching interaction design would have enough evidence to convince the powers that be that the departments website sh

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Anybody going to SXSWi?

Hi all, I'll throw my hat into the ring too. I'll be a SXSWi too; my twitter handle is @oombrella. And now for the shameless : I'm presenting a core conversation on 3/16 @ 11:30am titled "Love in the Cloud: online-only marriages." My coworker, John Romano, is presenting one on 3/17 @ 5:00pm titled

[IxDA Discuss] [JOB] UI Design Position at iContact

Hello All, iContact has an immediate opening for a User Interface Design position. Please visit http://www.icontact.com/about/careers#job4 for the full job description. Responsibilities - Work collaboratively in an interdisciplinary team, including Designers, Product Management, Engineering

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Persona skeptics

>From Dan's article... "The best personas are really conceptual models, which help you to digest the user research in a coherent way. They put a name and face to an observed pattern of behavior." I'm working with a few startups, and the hardest question for them to answer other than how they are

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design/UX goals in your company

On Mar 6, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Alan Cox wrote: I'm curious: what type of goals and metrics exist in your company that are related to good user experience and good design? Do you have goals & metrics that are company-wide, team-wide and individual? I actually think this is really, startlingly, s

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Persona skeptics

I just wrote about field research and personas for HarvardBusiness.org http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/merholz/2009/03/the-best-way-to-understand-you.html The heart of my message there is that the best way to understand your customers is to Go To Them. The follow on is that not everyone in

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Persona skeptics

> > It seems like every time this topic comes up, weird logic is used to > conclude that personas have little value, e.g.: > > 1. Personas done with little to none or poor research (i.e. marketing > demographics and segments) result in bad personas. > > 2. Many people create personas this way. > >

[IxDA Discuss] Inaugural IxDA Phoenix Meet Up

I am pleased to announce that Phoenix's local IxDA group will hold it's inaugural meet up this Tuesday, March 10th at 6pm. Gangplank (http://www.gangplankhq.com) in Chandler has graciously allowed us to use their space for this event. Gangplank is a collaborative workspace so laptops, cameras, and

[IxDA Discuss] Inaugural IxDA Phoenix Meet Up

I am pleased to announce that Phoenix's local IxDA group will hold it's inaugural meet up this Tuesday, March 10th at 6pm. Gangplank (http://www.gangplankhq.com) in Chandler has graciously allowed us to use their space for this event. Gangplank is a collaborative workspace so laptops, cameras, and

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fun with comics (or storyboards!)

Check out bitstrips.com (http://bitstrips.com/)! It has robust facial features, ability to 3d rotate and pose the person, background scenes, props, etc. I had suggested to our internal team to use it for storyboards and it got some good internal reviews. Also, heard great things about Comic Lif

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Persona skeptics

This is quite an excellent point. Good marketers segment by desired attributes... the hacks use demo, socio and psycho graphics. Those later things are useful in determining how to reach, speak and market to the segments once they have been identified. Its exactly the same with design research. O

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Favorite tool for sitemapping?

I have to agree that Omnigraffle is much preferable to Visio, though I spend a fair bit of time going between platforms and end up using Visio about as much as I am using Omnigraffle at the moment. Just depends on what the clients want. Omnigraffle is, in my opinion, easier and has a slicker final

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design/UX goals in your company

Thanks all. That's given me a good bit to think about. I'll update this thread when I've drafted the goals for my group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39589

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Favorite tool for sitemapping?

I personally use MindJet Mindmanager (http://www.mindjet.com/) for handling sitemaps. This software runs on both PC's and Mac's (I am using the Mac version) and allows the creation organizational structures in a mind map style. I prefer this style over linear based site maps due to the fact that

[IxDA Discuss] alternate to Basecamp?

My company is looking for an alternate solution for posting files to share with our clients. Currently we're using Basecamp and it is good, but has it’s limitations. We like the ‘forum’ nature of it but it good do with some tweaks. I think the biggest downfall (forgive me if I’m wrong, I have only

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fun with comics (or storyboards!)

Here's one I use for creating scenarios. Designed for schools, they're also working on a business version. www.pixton.com cheers, pat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39639 __

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Post-graduate degree advice (London, UK)

Hello and thanks to everyone has taken a moment to reply. Thanks to David for the link to the past discussion [1]. If anyone else is following this thread and thinking about a further degree I'd recommend reading that. It's certainly stoked my interest. >From my (web)site visits so far, Kingston

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Persona skeptics

Hello, Long-time persona skeptic here. IMHO, understanding the people whose lives you are going to affect with your decisions is non-negotiable. If you're not doing that, you can't say you're "designing." But any particular method IS negotiable and probably expendable or at least flexible. Which le

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Persona skeptics

It seems like every time this topic comes up, weird logic is used to conclude that personas have little value, e.g.: 1. Personas done with little to none or poor research (i.e. marketing demographics and segments) result in bad personas. 2. Many people create personas this way. Therefore...based

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Persona skeptics

On Mar 9, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Dan Saffer wrote: "The greatest pitfall with personas is that most of them focus on the wrong things. Differences between personas are often chosen based on demographics and preferences, not the things that really matter, like goals, motivations, and behaviors."

[IxDA Discuss] JOB: Mid to Sr-level Information Architect, Comedy Central, New York City

The Product Development team at Comedy Central Digital Media is looking for a mid- to sr-level Information Architect. This position is full-time freelance, to permanent staff for the right candidate. As part of the IA group, you will be a strong user advocate and collaborate closely with a team to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Favorite tool for sitemapping?

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Catriona Lohan-Conway wrote: > Mac or pc? I use Omnigraffle on my mac and I much prefer it to Visio!!! > http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/ > > Not to mention it's so much cheaper than Visio... > > Axure is nice and $ but you should be able to get

[IxDA Discuss] PLUG: Nathan Shedroff's webinar and book on sustainable design

(apologies for duplicate postings) Hi all, I'm happy to report that *Nathan Shedroff's* *Design Is the Problem: The Future of Design Must Be Sustainable *will go on sale approximately *March 20.* Much that's been written about the topic pertains to "green" construction; in this book, Nathan has

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fun with comics (or storyboards!)

On 9 Mar 2009, at 07:07, dnp607 wrote: Hi Troy, I was thinking it would be great to have a palette of images including (though just off the top of my head): [snip] You might want to lake at these: http://designcomics.org/ A bunch of trez useful assets for exactly that sort of th

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Persona skeptics

On Mar 9, 2009, at 6:25 AM, Megan Grocki wrote: What do you think, has an inherent gap been revealed in the usefulness of personas as we know them? Has anyone else gotten this sense, and if so, can personas be redeemed? I'm skeptical myself. Which is why I wrote this a few years ago:

[IxDA Discuss] Favorite tool for sitemapping?

Morning, It's been quite awhile since I've had to actually do any sitemaps. I'm wondering what your tool of choice is these days. I've got one to create myself and I'm faced with a myriad of tools at my disposal: Axure, Illustrator, InDesign and even Visio (ugh) to name four. I like Axure, but I

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Post-graduate degree advice (London, UK)

Caroline, > That presupposes that the interaction design academic team has influence > over the design of the web site. May be true, may not be If they don't there is an issue. Academic research is about finding evidence for or against a theory. I would hope that somebody teaching interaction des

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Your First UX / ID Job -- Q from the HCI Class of \'09.

When I finished grad school, I chose to work on a commercial software product as both designer and researcher. I was hesitant about the company but really thought the application was a good fit and I'd get a chance to do a little bit of everything. But it really is like Scott says - you should pick

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Knowledge and Skill Requirements of the Industry

Open University course M364 ( http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C01M364) is an undergraduate course in Fundamentals of Interaction Design. I think it's good for someone who wants to get the basics right, maybe not so good if you're looking for state of the art technology - in fact we get m

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Anybody going to SXSWi?

Hey Michael, I'm going and would love to meet up. I'm @maryspecht on Twitter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39650 Welcome to the I

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Persona skeptics

> > So for personas... that means doing personas without the research... and in > my book that is often worse than having no personas at all. We just cut the personas, and the time saved spend it on user research. User research can be done quite cheaply especially if you can integrate yourself w

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fun with comics (or storyboards!)

Check out Pippo Lionni's "Facts of Life" font from Linotype. He's one of my personal design heros. It's really fun to play with these images. http://www.linotype.com/275/linotypefactsoflife.html Michael Micheletti On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:07 AM, dnp607 wrote: > > Hi Troy, > > I was thinking it

Re: [IxDA Discuss] This Thursday: UX Irregulars + IxDA Toronto -Interaction '09 Conference Redux

I don't know why my posts to this list always have excessive "enters"! Anyway, my apologies, the RSVP URL was wrong in this. Here's the correct one: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2121845/ Hope to see you Thursday! Meredith > -Original Message- > From: discuss-boun...@lists.interactio

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Persona skeptics

Hi Megan... Talking with folks that I have know and have worked with across the country there seems to be less and less tolerance for 'ramping up' user research. Particularly in the online market, they need to react quickly... launch something and iterate based upon site (and other) metrics. I thin

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Persona skeptics

Hi Megan - I worked with a client that used their newly created personas throughout the site redesign and development cycle. Marketing and development were constantly referring to them. They found the persona info very valuable. In fact, the company had posters made of the persona sheets and hung

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Post-graduate degree advice (London, UK)

James Page > I would look at Sussex as well as City, UCL, Middlesex, and the > interaction course at the Royal College of Art. > It may be worth asking the question is do they practice what they > teach? How good is their web sites? That presupposes that the interaction design academic team has in

[IxDA Discuss] Anybody going to SXSWi?

I'm preparing for my trip to Austin for this year's SXSWi, and was wondering if anybody else on the list was going to be there. Any interest in a meet-up? -MIKE D Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this l

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Knowledge and Skill Requirements of the Industry

Hi Francis. Sorry what is M364 stands for? I have taken some classes in order to improve my knowledge in interactivity, but I would like to hear some suggestions for development and maybe touch screen state of the art tech. cheers, Gio Montoya Please consider the environment before printing

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Persona skeptics

What we use is real people, not personas. We jot notes on each person. Collect and cross reference their needs, and wants. If there is a question that needs answering all we have to do is ask the person, on the other hand Personas can't talk. We can come up with a hypothesis and test against real

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Post-graduate degree advice (London, UK)

I would look at Sussex as well as City, UCL, Middlesex, and the interaction course at the Royal College of Art. It may be worth asking the question is do they practice what they teach? How good is their web sites? I have done a quick scan and most of them fail such basic questions such as :- Do t

[IxDA Discuss] This Thursday: UX Irregulars + IxDA Toronto - Interaction '09 Conference Redux

Hi Everybody, Announcing our next IxDA Toronto event, co-hosted by our good friends the UX Irregulars. Please RSVP at Upcoming.org if you plan to attend: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2119336 Or email us at: toronto-lo...@ixda.org Thursday March 12, 2009 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm Centre

[IxDA Discuss] Persona skeptics

A colleague recently mentioned to me that she has sensed that clients are starting to question the value of personas. What do you think, has an inherent gap been revealed in the usefulness of personas as we know them? Has anyone else gotten this sense, and if so, can personas be redeemed? Also,

[IxDA Discuss] Looking for a Japanese Usability Testing Partner

Hey guys, We have a client who is looking to do some user testing in Japan. We're looking for a usability testing agency to partner up with. Please get in touch off list if you can help. joe -- * joeleech.net +447905 33 4163 Usability,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Knowledge and Skill Requirements of the Industry

Hi Yep, I took it as career development. The course helped me realise that I am very much interested in the field and that I want to learn a great deal more and start building into everything I work on. I very much want to make a move into the field but it's not the best time to find a new job whe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fun with comics (or storyboards!)

Hi Troy, I was thinking it would be great to have a palette of images including (though just off the top of my head): - Generic human forms in different states of standing, sitting, walking etc. - Generic human hands in different states of action - pressing, tapping, etc... - Generic use