I, along with many others who have played Monopoly, have never heard
or looked up a board game before I buy it. IMDB has a much bigger
recognition, and doesn't seem as nerdy/geeky to the common person.
That aside, games with dice, like Monopoly and Risk, are a lot of
fun, because people realize
Sorry, typing it on a blackberry meant the input box scrolls off into
oblivion. I meant to say that I have never looked up a single game
on Board Game Geek, and a lot is done by word of mouth. That is how I
discovered Boggle, Stratego, and Rook. The tangible/tactile elements
of Monopoly were
Here's instructions for building an interactive prototype in
Illustrator and Flash Catalyst.
http://www.creativepro.com/article/mobile-design-how-use-vector-iphone-skin
LiveView lets you broadcast a prototype on your desktop to a
phone for testing touch interactions.
://www.designingforinteraction.com/D4I_ch5.pdf
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based on what is known from research, plus the best
ideas from concepting
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On Feb 1, 2010, at 5:25 AM, Lisa M. Zinninger wrote:
I keep seeing all these wonderful jobs on this list, and yes I'd love to come
to China for an adventure but I
organizations or resources there to solve them.
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trouble
reading these articles, especially because of the proximity of the
photo to the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/opinion/24friedman.html
(Disclaimer: I'm not an expert, just a student, and I've never done
any research on this type of thing.)
Dan
Grady,
I was in your spot a couple years back. Welcome to the Mac family,
you'll love it!
Don't rush into a Parallels or Fusion install. I thought I'd bounce
back and forth between the Windows apps I know and the core Mac OS,
but find that I only use Parallels for browser testing. Likely you
can
Have you seen this presentation from Joshua Porter? It seems to be
aimed towards online software, but many of the same principles would
apply.
http://www.slideshare.net/bokardo/designing-for-sign-up
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I think the chart is clear, except that it doesn't specify whether
the numbers represent days, months, years, etc.
Also, is there any reason why someone would want to look at the chart
in order to track a particular character? The text expains everything,
but there are no visual clues as to the
My organization is in the middle of a shift towards agile; some
projects are there others have not fully made the jump yet.
I would agree with others that the best role for a UX person is not
the product owner, but a dedicated role on the team. POs really have
to have many faces: they're
dictionary and maintain related wikipedia
articles about us
- IxDA Twitter account for announcements/news of interest and perhaps even
tying this to the email list/web site to announce when a new thread starts
- Mini one-day local conferences
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Dan: IxDA Twitter account for announcements/news of interest and
perhaps even tying this to the email list/web site to announce when a
new thread starts
Is this what you're looking for or are you thinking of something
different? http://twitter.com
product.
We shouldn't forget that we're not the ones who create the product: developers,
engineers, and manufacturers are. We're just making the plans. We rely on their
skills to execute and hopefully improve upon our ideas.
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I would also look into terms such as 'experience sampling' or
'tehnology probe.' The idea behind these being that if you can
build a technology (either something novel, or, ideally, something
that piggybacks on technology which already figures prominently into
the person's daily routine) to
. And
some companies won't even look at you without one. But your career path is your
career path. Weigh the pros and cons and decide where you want to be in five or
ten years, and then figure out how to get the skills you'll need to get there
(or once you're there).
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to school with are almost as important as the faculty, as is
the alumni community afterwards.
Dan
Carnegie Mellon '05
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Of course Dave, JET, and Dan encourage you to attend grad school.
It's what they've done/do. It's what has worked for them. It's
what worked for me, too.
Not saying it's for everyone. I've worked with great designers who have nothing
more
On Dec 31, 2009, at 8:44 AM, Jared Spool wrote:
My math says you only get 10,000 combinations from a 4 digit PIN, which I
would imagine is even less secure.
Math was never my strong suit. Stupid zeros!
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human need has driven a technological breakthrough. I think this is
what Don has been saying, and since I can't come up with a set of reasonable
counter-examples, I'm thinking he might be right.
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Microsoft teams have blogged about Office 2007 and now 2010.
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/
http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/
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the whole article:
http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/dimensions-of-design/
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(columns).
I don't know whether you're mostly dealing with sets of predefined
options or with text entry, but at least for the former, MediaMonkey
does a great job with configuring large sets of options that have
diverse structures.
Dan
A few years ago, I wrote an article (building off Robert Reimann's classic)
called So You Want To Be an Interaction Designer 2006. The advice is still
relevant today, I think:
http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/essays/archives/000656.php
Good luck!
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Big surprise!
Though it's last-minute, I'll enjoy the extra time. I'll try to
get some other RPI students to enter, too.
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a
collection of JavaScript behaviors that you can literally drag onto a
web page. Try exporting HTML from Fireworks or Axure and then using
protoscript to add behaviors.
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itself. However, I can't think of any
examples where lighted buttons reflect availability rather than
state.
Of course, there are pitfalls in designing this to communicate the
right things, but I'm hoping to find some reference points.
Thanks!
Dan
in school),
so the above outline is based on my generic approach rather than
experience doing this for IxD...I don't know what other interaction
designers would do. But, I think that'll fit my particular process.
I could be completely off the mark, so I'm curious to see what
others say.
Dan
Those look interesting. Thanks for the links.
The CMU page seems to refer to design notebooks rather than
deliverables. The others appear to have a strong focus on layout and
graphic/information design, but they have the same types of content
that I'd put in a design report.
I also found
role is to test
for the ease of use of a product, or determine best practices for
types of products.
Hope this helps. IxDA, where's our wiki glossary?
Dan
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Users are increasingly more comfortable with using their email address
as a credential. In fact, web citizens who prefer anonymity would
rather offer their email than their legal name. An email also is
unique, a huge advantage over using legal names on forms. I would
suggest that users in general
is dissimilar) and then
go with what's ubiquitous.
Regards,
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The tick marks/spark lines are not the filter but rather a result
set hint for existing filters; sometimes an enhancement, sometimes
critical to the filtering interaction. Result set hinting can be
applied to ANY filter mechanism as long as the control doesn't
create a performance hint. It's
Not sure if anyone else has run into this but a culture of exhaustive
specifications for me is usually the result of a very unhealthy
relationship between product management, design, and engineering.
I've seen PM's try to out-document each other in order to impress
management, as well as
This topic has been covered extensively over the years.
http://www.ixda.org/search.php?tag=education
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Tomorrow (Wednesday) night the 21st is also the Masters of Design
exhibit at the Chelsea Art Museum, if you want to try to crash. :)
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This is a great concept.
I'm confused about one thing, though that might only be because I
can't try it out. Resizing a window (to allow more content to fit
onto the screen) is different than zooming. Does this system allow
for both actions?
Also, this does a lot for the interaction on the OS
I did a presentation a few years ago called New Sources of Inspiration
for Interaction Design that deals with this (very broad) topic:
http://www.slideshare.net/dansaffer/new-sources-of-inspiration-for-interaction-designers
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still talk to us?
Nonetheless, good luck on the new adventure.
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it difficult to create a web site that allows access to the
data. But that said, we do have some tricks up our sleeves, and we
wouldn't want you to feel constrained by that problem. Go ahead and
assume that you will have readily available access to the data stored
on the Weave cloud :-)
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Were looking for a User Interface Designer to join the team that
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the design of sites and applications at comScore. You will also help
drive the long-term
It sounds like you are mostly worried about getting good feedback from
users when they are using clicks instead of touches. This is an
understandable concern as touch experiences can be quite different.
Without shipping touchscreen hardware to users, you will need to find
some sort of proxy for
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of interaction design to influence
(rather than simply *support*) what users do is realised explicitly by more
companies (and governments).
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I was just reading the manual for a program (TortoiseSVN, a client for
a particular version control system): middle-clicking on the maximize
button vertically maximizes the window; right-click does the
horizontal maximize.
specifications based on Change Requests, all the way to specifying
the entire user experience for a mobile device platform from which a
multitude of handsets were ultimately developed and sold.
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I think that Stephen is on the right track. The person who suggested
to you that colors not be hard coded is likely trying to ensure that
the swapping of one or more colors throughout the system is as
painless as possible. Minimize the amount of find and replace.
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there will be user tests in the near future).
Are there anyone who have worked on this before? Or anyone have any
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the ordinary extraordinary*.”
Except when it is about making the extraordinary ordinary, which is
more frequently the case. It's easy for us to forget how magical most
of our digital devices and software really are.
Dan
I agree. The key problem for me is that Amazon is the only site where
I have to click on My Account before signing in rather than
after. Until I got used to that, I would look around the page for a
sign in link, confused about whether or not I was authenticated.
Another problem I had, which came
I'd also check out a magazine called 'Good' (http://www.good.is).
They do a lot of those kinds of infographics:
http://www.good.is/post/transparency-the-tree-of-sports-mascots/
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. The end result is a shipping product in the iTunes
App Store.
We're blogging all about it over here:
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Stackoverflow is an example of allowing (almost) full access to an
application's feature set without requiring login. From their FAQ:
Do I have to log in or create an account?
Nope. You can answer and ask questions to your heart's content as an
anonymous user, much like Wikipedia. However, there
You're still here?
Seriously, list admin and IxDA Board? We allow this kind of abuse? Of
Jared? From someone whose only contribution to the list has been
pointless noise?
Someone is asleep at the switch.
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Whatever makes you feel better
buttons conform to these dimensions. Yes, you can go smaller
(keys on a Blackberry for instance are about 8mm) and larger, of
course, but 1cm is a good round number that I'm confident will prove
valid in most instances.
Dan
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, the icons on an iPhone are each roughly a cm
square.
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Would you prefer a change in position (considering drag and
drop) , like
top left hand (like in windows 7)?
That's probably the 2nd most difficult place to access for the right
handed (93% of the population) because of the reach. (Top left #1.)
Fitts' Law still applies.
Dan
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to Avoid
http://www.uie.com/articles/account_design_mistakes/
I'm sure Josh Porter has written about this too, I just can't find it.
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Insanely Great, Or Just Good Enough?, Dan Hill
http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2004/02/insanely_great_.html
This is My Process, Michael Bierut
http://www.designobserver.com/archives/entry.html?id=17485
The Tug of the Newfangled Slot
I recently dove into the support section of Twitter's site to deal
with a problem. It's quite effective.
http://help.twitter.com/portal
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Nice work! I like that it gets you to a ticket value that's exactly
what you need for a trip. That's probably the biggest improvement.
The hardest screen for me to understand was the system map. It took a
bit to realize that the hard keys were mapped to colors which mapped
to regions of the map.
Speaking of Bill, anyone notice he just won Cooper-Hewitt's Lifetime
Achievement Award?
http://www.nationaldesignawards.org/2009/category/Lifetime-
Achievement/
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Check out SketchFlow for Expression Blend. It's going to be included
in the next release of Blend and was demo'd at MIX09.
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interaction design. Obviously, they have been built for decades now
with very little input from our field.
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there is no information architecture involved at all because there
is no content to find or navigate through.
These are extreme examples, sure. But there are plenty of others like
them.
Dan
a button to
trigger a behavior has nothing to do with IA. Labeling the button
perhaps I'll give you, but even that is a stretch.
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less about what information
architecture *is* than it is about what IAs do. Don't think it weakens
my case much, if at all.
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), a mobile device (laptop, phone), an interactive
environment.
Might end most of this discussion if we all had concrete examples to
point to.
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with
IxD, but not necessarily the opposite. A digital toy or game can have
a lot of interactivity but no content to be structured. But you
cannot have a content structure (an information architecture) without
some means of navigating through it (interaction).
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would say is at least related to, if not directly a
part of, the field of interaction design. So only 16 out of 196 (8%)
were off topic.
It would be interesting to do the same tally with a month of SIG-IA.
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a small percent of their time doing information
architecture (the organization and structuring of information systems).
Flame on,
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products which were previously only the realm of
industrial designers, architects, city planners, etc. I guarantee it
wasn't only industrial designers working on the iPhone or MS Surface
or BodyMedia's wearables, etc. etc.
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the implication of
the controls appearing at first, then fading?
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Same deal with the workshops. Same deal with the keynotes.
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time someone started
doing that.
Another piece of what I would consider bad PR for our profession.
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web-centric POV. The farther away from the web you go,
the less information architecture work you are likely to do. It's
easily less than 1 percent of my work. There's a reason no one at frog
or IDEO has the title Information Architect.
Dan
I don't think traditional education paradigms should or would work
with IxD. One could even argue that barring some large-scale
reorientation, there are some people who just will not think in these
paradigms. Others just will.
Also, one could consider that IxD may always need to operate within
need mission statements; we need a
communications strategy.
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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
to the notification message?
5) Should the on-site message inbox look like an email inbox?
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at Google couldn’t decide between two
blues, so they’re testing 41 shades between each blue to see which one
performs better. I had a recent debate over whether a border should be
3, 4 or 5 pixels wide, and was asked to prove my case.
Seems like reason enough for me.
Dan
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Can anyone see any downsides fading out the controls of your content?
One problem would be if the user wasn't made aware that the controls were
there in the
, vocals ended up being distracting - unless they
were in a language I didn't understand.
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