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*Details*
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-- Dan
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(convenient to Metro and parking)
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We're giving away two copies each of Communicating Design by Dan Brow
Just a reminder. If you or someone you know is interested in interning at
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Thanks!
-- Dan
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About EightShapes
EightShapes was established in 2006 by Nathan Curtis and Dan Brown to help
large organizations develop effective online communications tools for
managing information. Dan and Nathan founded the company on the principle
that in order for a we
The "softer" skills of design is something I'd like to explore further, but
this seems like a good opportunity to throw out some initial ideas.
You'll probably get a lot of input from professionals who tell you to bite
back, but if you're anything like me, that's not your style. In the
dictionary u
Hello Interaction Designers!
EightShapes is hiring again! Please see our (now infamous) job description
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Thanks,
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EightShapes, LLC, a user experience consultancy founded by Nathan Curtis and
Dan Brown, wants to hire you. What's the
Jeff,
Funny you mention that... [shameless plug follows]
My partner, Nathan, will be speaking at the IA Summit about this very topic,
especially how it relates to documentation. You can see his abstract here:
http://www.iasummit.org/proceedings/2008/audiences_artifacts
-- Dan, the shameless face
Pankaj,
So, if you're going to struggle to get them to read one book, why select a
book at all? Are there other approaches you've tried to get them to see the
value of interaction design?
One thing you might try (before dropping some rupees on any of these books)
is making one small change on your
A book proposal must do three things:
1. Prove that there's a market for the book. I went into my proposal
assuming that my publisher had tons of data on their readers. No such luck.
They looked to me to define the audience and prove that there was demand for
a book about documentation.
2. Prove t
Mark,
Not sure if this addresses your question... These days, we're making
modular wireframes: creating individual screen components and
assembling wireframes from those "lego bricks". As part of that
process, we usually generate a spreadsheet of all the components we
want to create. This allows us
Callie,
DC has a rich and active design community. You can sign up to DC-IA
(www.dc-ia.com), an informal announce-only mailing list for events and
jobs in the DC/Baltimore area. UPA's DC chapter is also extremely
active and puts on regular events.
There's plenty of work in Washington, and it's ide
I *could* argue that 37Signals *does* use personas, though it would be
a semantic argument. Jason refers to "our problems", which suggests to
me a summary of a collection of users. He just happens to know all the
users who make up that summary representation. Maybe he doesn't like
to call that a pe
We're doing work for a client who offers similar functionality. Our
initial research offers two possible critiques for Songza (which I
otherwise think is very cool):
1. On the interface side, people think a song will start playing when
you click on it. Exposing the navigation over a song is ingeni
I can't help but plug my book here, Communicating Design. It covers 10
different UX documents, and is written in part from the perspective
mentioned earlier in this thread: we need to apply user-centered
design techniques to our own artifacts.
More info at: www.communicatingdesign.com
We now retu
To expand on Jeff's advice, surround yourself with good designers, not just
good design examples. Perhaps your organization has a good art director, or
you have one in your professional network. Bounce ideas off them or show
them your work and ask how they would improve it. A class might provide so
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