Re: [IxDA Discuss] Google Wave

2009-07-26 Thread Sachendra Yadav
Thank God someone solved the See comments inline problem -- Sachendra Yadav http://sachendra.wordpress.com Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Are We The Puppet Masters? The Ethics of IxD.

2009-07-26 Thread j. eric townsend
Jared Spool wrote: Then Dr. John's Products released a line of children's power toothbrushes. (Subsequently acquired by Proctor Gamble.) The battery powered devices only have an On switch and automatically turn off after 3 minutes. The 3 minute run time forces the child to brush the entire

[IxDA Discuss] game timers (was Re: Are We The Puppet Masters? The Ethics of IxD.

2009-07-26 Thread j. eric townsend
Brian Mila wrote: Civilization would display a message saying You've been playing for 3 hours, take a break. Naturally, I dismissed the dialog and I think Everquest was the first commercial MMORPG with the /played option that told you how long you'd been playing. I knew people who had

Re: [IxDA Discuss] His/Her vs. Their in website copy

2009-07-26 Thread Chauncey Wilson
The New York Times Magazine has an article on the debate about they as singular versus plural. I have a NY Times account, but I think that you can access this for a limited time. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/magazine/26FOB-onlanguage-t.html?_r=1ref=magazine They state as some have here

[IxDA Discuss] Middle weight Interaction Designer , Borehamwood, UK (Cyber-Duck Ltd)

2009-07-26 Thread Danny Bluestone
Cyber-Duck (http://www.cyber-duck.co.uk http://www.cyber-duck.co.uk ) are looking for a highly motivated Interaction Designer (IxD, UxD) with a strong ability to distill user research and business requirements into functional wireframes and interface specifications to join our award-winning

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Are We The Puppet Masters? The Ethics of IxD.

2009-07-26 Thread Fredrik Matheson
I'm pretty sure the puppet masters know who they are. However, I am glad to see us take our responsibilities as designers seriously, as John Thackara discusses in his book *In the bubble* http://bit.ly/29AmwK If you'd like a more thoroughly researched exploration of how people take care of

[IxDA Discuss] Fwd: Usability of pre-filled versus empty in content capture software

2009-07-26 Thread Juan Lanus
Hi Phillip, I'm working in a project with lots of forms full of pre-filled fields, with information from a database that contains reliable data. The client has requested that every known field be filled and protected so the user couldn't change it. IMO this will lead to conflict, and it's totally

[IxDA Discuss] IxDA Phoenix - Event Reminder - Product Prototyping - July 28th 6pm.

2009-07-26 Thread Tonia M . Bartz
This is a reminder that our next event, which is guaranteed to be even more fun than the last, is a few days away. Please join us on Tuesday, July 28th at 6pm at Gangplank in Chandler. During this event, we will be merging product and interaction design for a night of playing with boxes. If you

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Are We The Puppet Masters? The Ethics of IxD.

2009-07-26 Thread Jared Spool
On Jul 26, 2009, at 11:00 AM, j. eric townsend wrote: Jared Spool wrote: Then Dr. John's Products released a line of children's power toothbrushes. (Subsequently acquired by Proctor Gamble.) The battery powered devices only have an On switch and automatically turn off after 3 minutes.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Are We The Puppet Masters? The Ethics of IxD.

2009-07-26 Thread j. eric townsend
Jared Spool wrote: Over the past 20+ years, the ADA has tried a variety of solutions. Nothing has been as successful as the introduction of children's powered toothbrushes. Now, you can debate whether they missed something or the resulting design is somehow suboptimal. However, that misses