Re: [IxDA Discuss] White text on dark background?

2009-03-14 Thread yonghwa
My company UI team just had similar discussion not long ago. Yes, in human factors there's the logic of luminance and illuminance. Personally, i will go for black text on off-white (light grey) background if the task involves lots of text and user are required to read it. The font type, leading, sp

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

2009-03-14 Thread JeromeR
I definitely see the storyboarding potential, here! My wish list: you can't look at things from any other perspective than full on. I wish it was possible to change the colour of objects from black to grey objects, where grey denotes things that are receded into the background. Goats? Pigs? A few

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How to hire an interaction designer?

2009-03-14 Thread dnp607
Hey Jared, Totally agreed - considering a candidate who has little UX experience is just asking for trouble, unless a company is willing to invest serious resources and time to educate. This work is deceptively hard and just as candidates are often underestimated for their skills, so the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How to hire an interaction designer?

2009-03-14 Thread Jared Spool
On Mar 14, 2009, at 1:51 AM, dnp607 wrote: I often come across design managers who use the approach of assessing "demonstrated and comparable work" as a major hiring criteria. Jared nailed an important piece of the hiring puzzle with his comments and I agree completely - but, for balance,

[IxDA Discuss] IxDA NYC Presents: Marc Rettig - How to Change Complicated Stuff (e.g., the World) -- RSVP URL

2009-03-14 Thread NYC IxDA
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[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] IxDA NYC – Tuesday March 31 – Marc Rettig - How to Change Complica ted Stuff (e.g., the World)

2009-03-14 Thread NYC IxDA
In the midst of a global conversation about change, many designers are pondering their own impact in the world. How does our experience in software interfaces, web sites, and physical products prepare us to address the profound issues humanity is facing? These issues involve many complex systems, s

Re: [IxDA Discuss] "Design the design process" - anyone have programmer, business executive personas?

2009-03-14 Thread Liam Greig
Check out Tom Kelley's book the Ten Faces of innovation: http://www.tenfacesofinnovation.com/thebook/index.htm For a unique take on the organizational persona, this is a really great read Cheers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org ht

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Persona skeptics

2009-03-14 Thread Jeroen van Geel
It's really interesting to see this discussion (even though it has become a yearly event :). A few weeks ago I asked myself the question: why shouldn't I kill personas? Which resulted in an interesting discussion with Steve Baty, Will Evans, Adrian Chan and Dennis Koks. I translated this in an art

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UPA Website Usability Study Seeking Paid Participants

2009-03-14 Thread Caroline Jarrett
>From James Page: >Study after study has found massive variations > in the Usability issues found by different evaluators. > If you where right usability studies would be replicable, > which current research shows they are not.  So what? I've never claimed that my beginner usability testers do br

[IxDA Discuss] Using FB, MySpace,.. for persona development

2009-03-14 Thread Seema Gururaj
Taking the persona discussion in a different direction. I have been thinking lately, along the lines of how we can take advantage of the social networking sites to develop a more realistic persona. While this is not intended to replace the one-on-one interview to observe and gather goals, it can be

Re: [IxDA Discuss] White text on dark background?

2009-03-14 Thread Ryan Lum
I definitely agree. My eyes are still burning! --wasn't painful but still lingering..however I am likely to remember it -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of Tiffany Michelon Sent

[IxDA Discuss] Job User Experience Designer, Vancouver, Canada, ACL Services Ltd, 6 months contract

2009-03-14 Thread Marian Hakze
Are you passionate about creating the best possible user experience? If so, we are currently recruiting for a User Experience Designer/Interaction Designer to join our team. The ideal candidate for this role will have a strong sense of both the aesthetic and functional aspects of interaction and in

[IxDA Discuss] Represented (designer\'s) Model

2009-03-14 Thread Dave Wood
Hi, I am currently engaged in doctorate research enquiring deeper into what Alan Cooper et al describe as 'represented models', and what Don Norman describes as a 'designer's model' for a PhD practical project. Could the community suggest some seminal books, journal articles and papers I should r

[IxDA Discuss] Anyone interested in Dallas Conference on May 30th

2009-03-14 Thread Brian Sullivan
On May 30th, the Dallas chapters of IxDA, UPA, and Refresh are hosting a one-day conference that brings in experts from social media, UX design, development, and strategy. The conference is at the Art Institute of Dallas. They have a great set of speakers already lined up and it is only $50. Che

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UI Design Review Methodologies: The Rubber Duck

2009-03-14 Thread pedromarqueslx
Bravo! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39996 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Looking for a Japanese Usability Testing Partner

2009-03-14 Thread Daniel Szuc
Hi Joe: Pleased to help. rgds, Dan - ds...@apogeehk.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39644 Welcome to the Interaction Design As

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Persona skeptics

2009-03-14 Thread Jarod Tang
I'm the hard-core persona lover months ago for some projects. And I should say persona is a candidate design communication method, which is not the must for design.and the problem lies "if we use it properly...", so we can easily comes up with local home-made path to fake security. And the problem