On Mar 19, 2009, at 9:09 AM, Jake Trimble wrote:
Has anyone seen any attempts to replace the standard floppy disk Save
icon? Seeing as most people haven't touched a 3.5 floppy in a decade,
is anyone addressing this archaic icon and how we can replace the
current mental model associated with
Suggest one of the hardest components of a strategy is
implementation and getting people in an organization to embrace
it, live it and play it out across all the channels (especially in
larger organizations)
Maybe its better to start on asmaller piece first and let the
strategy blossom from there
I'm considering two different options in grad schools right now. I'm
currently a User Experience Designer working mostly in research
(discoveries and analytics), usability testing, information
architecture and wireframing for websites and web based applications.
I'm interested in developing mobile
Hi folks,
What the opinion of you about the true focus of interaction design?
I have seen several projects in the Master's programs that focus
only on the interaction between man and computer. Touch projects are
an example.
And a lot of discussions is about the interaction between human and
When you view a digital product or service do you have a mental
protocol that you follow to judge the quality of the design? Is this
a conscious act? Is it something you've developed over time? Do you
actively seek to improve your judgemental process?
Sounds like you're starting on the right track. A few years back I
helped design a social networking site within an online university
platform. To get my head around what concepts were possible I started
exactly as you are, by surveying the social networking landscape. From
there, I developed a
Some authors rightly show that the difference in interaction design
is beyond this concept and the focus is about the interaction between
human and human through computerized systems.
That's whats called 'Social Interaction Design.'
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Cloud 360 degree looking for avante-garde User Interface Designers.
Cloud360 is looking for User Interface Designers with an attitude bent
towards out-of-the-box thinking and if you think you are smitten by the bug
of perfection, you just could be the perfect fit for the role. We are on
the
Over time, the original literal meaning of a symbol can be quite
forgotten, provided that eveyone knows its symbolic meaning. It's
normal.
We can see this in our own alphabet. For example, most of us are
oblivious to the fact that the letter K was originally a picture
of a hand, or that N was a
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Robert Hoekman Jr rob...@rhjr.net wrote:
The most important thing a company can have is a vision. And to me, the
strategy comes out of the vision, but many companies fail to communicate any
sort of vision to its staff (or perhaps even define one in the first
Robert Fabricant's excellent keynote at Interaction 09 this past
February argued that Behavior is our Medium.
I recommend spending an hour with the video, which is now available
here: http://vimeo.com/3730382
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Certainly I think everyone will have some subconscious protocol they
use to judge design. A lot of creativity comes from subjective
assessments, and first impressions are also an important aspect to
end-user empathy.
However, to be practical it's important to have some
Call for Participation: UXcamp Berlin 2009
Bringing together: User Experience Designers, Interaction Designers,
Information-Architects, Prototype Engineers, Product Managers, Visual
Designers, Usability Professionals
This is the goal we set in organizing the UXcamp 2009 in Berlin on may
Is it anticipated that most talks, workshops, etc. would be in German?
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Posted from the new ixda.org
http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40220
Welcome to the
2009/3/20 James Haliburton james.halibur...@gmail.com
Is it anticipated that most talks, workshops, etc. would be in German?
http://uxcamp.mixxt.de/
Sprache: Deutsch
The answer is yes, unfortunatelly.
Greetings,
KPK
Welcome to
After years as a UI designer, IA and IxD practitioner, I've begun to
change my focus by doing an MA in Learning and Technology. I work in
post-sec now and like the notion of applying design to deeper
cognitive things than just selling stuff.
Anyway, good learning is about primarily three things,
I'm considering two different options in grad schools right now.
I'm currently a User Experience Designer working mostly in research
(discoveries and analytics), usability testing, information
architecture and wireframing for websites and web based applications.
I'm interested in developing
Eduardo,
I don't believe there is a single focus for IxD at this time in
history. I think for some their practice does point to the moment of
interfacing between digitally enhanced systems and human beings and
there is no denying that. For others the focus might be more broadly
associated with the
Not to mention all the tacit thoughts and emotions that,
ideally, precede behavior-as-medium (and arguably the differentiator between
a good and a great product or service). Guess I hope there are just a few
selected siloed actions that are warranted in this world, sans cognitive and
affective
Hi everyone,
I joined the ixda mailing list 3 years ago and it has contributed
immensely to my personal growth as an ixd practitioner. The in-depth
design discussions in this community are a true treasure trove.
However, even with 10'000 members, I consider it still somewhat one of
the
I hear what you're saying and, no doubt, Drupal does some things very
well. Where I work, we've built a few standalone projects with it.
However, it also has some huge drawbacks when compared with something
like Wordpress for medium sized, discussion-based sites (blogs on
steroids, or even
One way to handle this would be to remove the icon along with the need to
save. If that could be done, I bet that would unnerve many users, though.
--
Jerome Ryckborst, CUA | UPA member | AIA member | http://FiveSketches.com
--
Both Flickr and Facebook include the message in the body of the email
in addition to the site's inbox. I for one rarely do anything more
than note the message in my email and hit delete.
A secure site like a bank or PayPal has a very different flow as the
user is REQUIRED to click a link and
It's a sign that experts would choose drupal over wordpress.
Wordpress is far superior on to many fronts to even waste time
discussing.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 20, 2009, at 12:48 PM, James Wanless ja...@wanless.info wrote:
I hear what you're saying and, no doubt, Drupal does some
I seem to remember some software that had the metaphor of a
'snapshot', with a camera icon, that would save these reference
versions (although I don't think it was replacing save, but rather
providing another option. The concept of a snapshot in time is not
that big a stretch.
--
David
I have recently joined the IxDA Basecamp and made the following
announcement. Jeremy Yuille has convinced me to post it in the main
discussion list too for a wider input from the IxD community:
Hi IxD community,
Im Dave Wood a lecturer in Interaction Design from the UK. Im based
in Liverpool
The Interaction Designer will work in cross-functional teams to create
interactive designs for high-traffic web applications aimed at parents
of K-12 students. Experience with interface design, information
architecture, and interactive content design is required. A passion
for user-centered design
Hi There,
I'm pleased to announce the launch of the IxDA Media Library, a place for
video and audio of IxDA events around the world, including the Interaction
conference and local events.
A few caveats: We haven't migrated your IxDA.org accounts to this system, so
to comment, you'll need to use
Posted without comment, even though I very much feel Google just lost
an amazing talent for no good reason:
http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html
--
Andrei Herasimchuk
Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios
innovating the digital world
e. and...@involutionstudios.com
The need to do an explicit save remains, to create checkpoint
versions. There us mental training to do with that, but not as much
as with no saving needed. Something other than the current imagery
is needed for that though.
-- Jim
Via my iPhone
On Mar 20, 2009, at 12:48 PM, Jerome
On Mar 20, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote:
Google just lost an amazing talent for no good reason:
No good reason?
When a company is filled with engineers, it turns to engineering to
solve problems. Reduce each decision to a simple logic problem. Remove
all subjectivity and
On Mar 20, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Dan Saffer wrote:
Seems like reason enough for me.
So you think that testing 41 shades of blue or arguing about borders
being 2 to 4 pixels to the point of being asked to prove 2 is better
than 4 is a good thing? That all design decisions should be driven by
So you think that testing 41 shades of blue or arguing about borders being
2 to 4 pixels to the point of being asked to prove 2 is better than 4 is a
good thing? That all design decisions should be driven by Google's
insistence on data driven design by committee?
I'm gonna go out on a limb
Hi Andrei,
I'm not sure that this is about wrong or right. I think it is about cultural
fit. I am not sure that I could work easily with people prepared to die in a
ditch over a single pixel either. But then again, I'd be happy to offer my
best advice and then see how the result worked in
Definitely what I saw too. A slight misinterpretation.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 20, 2009, at 6:36 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr rob...@rhjr.net wrote:
So you think that testing 41 shades of blue or arguing about
borders being
2 to 4 pixels to the point of being asked to prove 2 is better than
Hi Andrew,
There is a bit of religion here, so be fore-warned. In my temple, I
want design to acknowledge the power of soul. My atheist
interpretation of said soul is connectedness.
What I see in the Google-way is dispassionate and thus souless. Is it
successful? can't deny they have success.
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:37 AM, dave malouf dave@gmail.com wrote:
So if you want to research and derive
inspiration from research, or research and live by the data, that is
a choice, but I would argue that one is design and the other is not.
Dave, I think I agree. The problem with data
On Mar 20, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote:
On Mar 20, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Dan Saffer wrote:
Seems like reason enough for me.
So you think that testing 41 shades of blue or arguing about borders
being 2 to 4 pixels to the point of being asked to prove 2 is better
than 4 is a
On Mar 20, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Jared Spool wrote:
I read Dan's response as he thinks that *is* a good reason to leave.
(You had originally stated that they scared Doug away for no good
reason.)
Yes, as noted by you and robert, I think that is the case as well. I
phrased my initial post a
I had to make a choice between Berkeley iSchool and Carnegie Mellon
HCI. (Not IxD, is a bit more more engineering-oriented since it is in
Computer Science school, but shares a lot of the philosophy with IxD
and design school, and you can take many of the same classes.) I
chose Carnegie Mellon
the floppy icon is a metaphor like the email inbox. I doubt many
people who use email know it is a metaphor. The 'in box' has all
but vanished.
To the point where I've considered not calling things that resemble
a REAL in box in my applications an in box. In Pile, or various other
names are
IxD is a kind of blanket term. It is really more of a philosophical /
psychological movement than it is a real design field.
IxD is the idea that interaction, between anything, can not only be
quantified in meaningful ways, but can be manipulated to produce
desired results in a controlled and
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