Re: [IxDA Discuss] Distinguishing between UCD, UX, and usability

Splitting hairs between usability and user-experience design (and information architecture and interaction design and so on) isn't helpful if it divides us. United we stand a much better chance of accomplishing something. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UX for video

I hadn't thought about interactive TV research, but sounds like a good thing to look at as well. So far I haven't received any info from anyone... If I do I will definitely send your way! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.i

[IxDA Discuss] 2 Job Openings at IDEO Boston

You can apply online at www.ideo.com or e-mail Maria at mnore...@ideo.com directly. Cheers! Boston IxDA -- *Visual Interaction Designer - Boston* *Position Summary:* International design consultancy IDEO is seeking a Visual Interaction Designer for our Bosto

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Forms, Contact and Customer Support Best Practices

Beyond the forms, does anyone have input about corporate contact pages? I too am in need of some best practices. E.g., phone numbers or online self-service or both? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46

[IxDA Discuss] Student Design Competition @ Interaction 10 | Savannah

IxDA has launched today its first Interaction Design Student Competition. All the information about the competition can be found at the conference web site: http://interaction.ixda.org/student-competition/ The exciting bullet points: 1) Submissions are of previous work by individual students or re

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UX trends for big corporations

How about the reach versus rich argument coming to the mobile platform. On the desktop we're developing more web based apps to access them anywhere. But on the mobile smart phone platform there's a native (rich) apps for a better experience or to take advantage of special features, like multi-touc

[IxDA Discuss] Strong Hands on User Experience Group Manager for our new Healthcare Product. Please send to your contacts. Thank you

Intuit is a leading software provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, consumers and accounting professionals. You probably know us by our flagship products, QuickBooks®, Quicken® and QuickTax®/TurboTax®, but that's just the start. We are currently

[IxDA Discuss] We are still on the hunt for a Mobile Design Leader. If you know of anyone interested, please send along the description below.

Intuit is a leading software provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, consumers and accounting professionals. You probably know us by our flagship products, QuickBooks®, Quicken® and QuickTax®/TurboTax®, but that's just the start. We are currently

[IxDA Discuss] Intuit is still interviewing for our Staff Interaction Design Expert. Know anyone that would be a fit? Please share the description below. Much thanks, Chris Cox Intuit

Intuit is a leading software provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, consumers and accounting professionals. You probably know us by our flagship products, QuickBooks®, Quicken® and QuickTax®/TurboTax®, but that's just the start. We are currently

[IxDA Discuss] Job: Sr. eCommerce Information Architect - temp to perm - Onsite in NYC!

We're actively seeking a Lead eCommerce Information Architect for our client, a major publishing company in NYC. The ideal candidate should have 5-7+ years of experience as an Info Architect with deep eCommerce as well as team management experience come from an interactive agency or an in-hous

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UX trends for big corporations

The big trend in my company is in blogs: we have blogs popping up like crazy, and thus, I'm tasked with working on a blog landing page to access them all. Shocking, right? (Yeah, we're a bit slow.) The only other 'big' thing I see here is actually a negative trend: decentralized web design and dev

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Distinguishing between UCD, UX, and usability

I believe that UCD is not mainly focused on the web area. I believe any interface should speak the language of the user and not the organization's language or technical language. UCD to me is taking the target group(s) of users and with main focus on their profile of skills, needs, requirements etc

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UX trends for big corporations

There's a move (certainly within our company ~5,000) to offer its employees iPhones (a move away from BB or as well as) as its standard mobile device. How that changes the internal UX landscape is probably a little too soon to say. Further to that our internal wiki vendor will be offering dedicated

[IxDA Discuss] Distinguishing between UCD, UX, and usability

A friend and sometimes client told me over lunch this week, "I think of you as the usability guy." I didn't much care for this, because I think of usability in terms of activities rather than an identity to aspire to. It got me thinking about related terms, like "user experience" (UX), and its cous

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UX trends for big corporations

Yeah this is something that we are all waiting for but unfortunately still not a reality. Services have been build to work on IE6 in the past and upgrading to higher IE or other browsers means changing the services that barely run on IE6. I can't wait to get rid of the IE6 monster but here in Finla

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UX trends for big corporations

Here's a big shock on the horizon: some big companies will move from Internet Explorer 6 internally. (I've benchmarked almost 300 intranets including large multinationals like Shell and BP - I never saw anything other than IE6, with the possible exception of the odd IE5 a couple of years ago). Reg

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] UPA's User Friendly 2009, November 13th to 15th, 2009, Shanghai, China

Hi, There! This is to invite you to attend the 6th UPA's User Friendly 2009 on Nov 13th, 14th and 15th, 2009 in Shanghai: UPA's User Friendly 2009 (http://www.upachina.org/userfriendly2009/en/index/index.aspx?MeetingID=1) will be held in Shanghai from November 13th to 15th, and UPA China has been

[IxDA Discuss] UX trends for big corporations

Hello all IxD'ers I'm working on a new presentation on the area of UX trends for the near and not so near future. I did some research online and read many of the UX blogs to find out what is upcoming. I would love to have it more focused on bigger corporations who are not as flexible and able to qu

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best practices for global corporate site

Mary - A UK company called Bowen Craggs benchmarks corporate web sites internationally. I am sure you can get some ideas of what best practices look like from their reports and the web sites they mention. See http://www.bowencraggs.com/ftindex Regards, William Hudson Syntagm Ltd Design for Usab

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] IxDA Munich. Meeting Coming.

Hey all, The 2nd IxDA meeting in Munich is going to happen on November 23, 2009 at 7 PM at the IDEO offices: Hochbrückenstrasse 6, 80331 Munich. We would like to ask you for active participation: that evening there are gonna be 3 presentations, each showing 20 pictures at 20 seconds each, followi

[IxDA Discuss] [jobs] Boston area design jobs.

We've been asked to forward these offerings to the community. More details available at http://bostonixda.org/ Web UI Designer, 5-6 month contract, Greater Boston Lead User Experience Designer and Developer

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Working with more than one project at a time?

*Hello,* * * *Though many a times, I work on a single project but there are always secondary issues to attend. The best thing that keeps the entire process alive is the fact that different project happen to be at different stages. It would have been a real fight if two or more project are in the sa

Re: [IxDA Discuss] History of Interaction Design training?

I agree with Dave. I work in both software and architectural. When working in software, I am a 'Usability Engineer'. I am not a developer - I work with developers. I don't work with code. This has been some what of a tripping point at times. I have seen more than one company desperate to so

[IxDA Discuss] Best practices for global corporate site

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone knows any research/paper that talks about best practices for how to build a global corporate site. Any information is appreciated! Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this lis

[IxDA Discuss] UXconference: programme and early bird

Dear all, i am writing to inform you we have the definitive programme for UXconference: http://www.uxcon.com/programma/ and, above all, you have just 6 days to buy the ticket in Early Bird: http://www.amiando.com/UXcon.html! If you are an IWA associate you can use the discount code IWAuxCH (10% l