[IxDA Discuss] JOB: Interactive Partners (NYC) is ISO Mid-level User Experience Designer w/ IA/IxD focus - Contract/Fulltime

2010-02-22 Thread Fritz Desir
Interactive Partners, a SoHo-based interactive agency, is seeking a passionate, detail-oriented User Experience Designer with 2-3 years experience (emphasis in Information Architecture and Interaction Design) to join our growing Experience design team. Candidates should have a solid

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Nonprofit vs. for Profit for the UX Designer

2009-10-27 Thread Fritz Desir
Just to chime in a bit here... since 90% of the work we do at fluency has been in the non-profit area I figured I'd share what I've learned. The one thing we often lose sight of which I think is true for for-profit or non-profit organizations is the inability of us as designers (myself

Re: [IxDA Discuss] DISCUSS: Electronic medical records: bad, ugly, and dangerous?

2009-10-27 Thread Fritz Desir
Thanks Kim for broaching this subject, it's such an extremely important issue. The things I think about the most is access workflow. As it stands we have ZERO access (at least conveniently) to the medical of children, or family or ourselves. Also regarding workflow (or work modeling) this is

Re: [IxDA Discuss] DISCUSS: Electronic medical records: bad, ugly, and dangerous?

2009-10-27 Thread Fritz Desir
The CBS/Pogue video link got screwed up it's: http://j.mp/4n3yIu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=47008 Welcome to the Interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] National Design Week in NYC is October 18-24, Objectified Film screenings The Biz of Design w/ Bill Moggridge (FREE), who's in?

2009-10-20 Thread Fritz Desir
Yep you're right. There's still work to do there for sure. The event this morning with Moggridge Sam Lucente was GREAT btw. Lots of good takeaways. Objectified screens (for FREE) t'mrrw at 1:30 3:30, I know crappy hrs but I'll try to swing through for the 3:30. Hopefully someone else can as

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] National Design Week in NYC is October 18-24, Objectified Film screenings The Biz of Design w/ Bill Moggridge (FREE), who\'s in?

2009-10-02 Thread Fritz Desir
Just received this in email newsletter and it looks quite interesting. I'd like to rally up some IxDA'ers to go not necessarily as an official meeting but to represent and possibly chat afterwards. THE BUSINESS OF DESIGN October 20, 2009, 8:30 – 10:00am FREE EVENT Business leaders discuss

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA Mentorship Program - We Need Mentors!

2009-09-21 Thread Fritz Desir
Hey Jon, just briefly is there anyway to define a bit more (bullet points) what the requirements to a) be a mentor are as in years of experience, project types handled, project sizes handled, education, etc. and b) what would the time commitment look like? Speaking personally (although I don't

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What are your principles for making digital products/services

2009-09-17 Thread Fritz Desir
Hear, hear Jared. Very well put. The post to me almost seemed like it was made to raise ire or to purposefully be controversial for the sake of being so. This is why (with real work to tend to) IMHO it warranted no real response as it seemed discourse was never the true goal of the author and his

Re: [IxDA Discuss] New Issue: Interactions Magazine

2009-09-08 Thread Fritz Desir
Hey Jon, didn't see it mentioned here but Thanks for the link and for the work you guys are putting into the mag. In this age of pixels it's good to have a periodic, tactile resource on IxD to turn to (and collect). - F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted

Re: [IxDA Discuss] We don't make consumer products, hence no need for a User Centered Design development process.

2009-08-30 Thread Fritz Desir
As someone who's been strangely drawn to reading the posts around this topic, very well put Andrew. To me, much of this comes down the problem you're solving and its context both of which can suggest a methodology or technique neither of which can guarantee success and they're countless examples

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UCD vs Design Again? Really?!?

2009-08-30 Thread Fritz Desir
Yep Andrei this reminds me of the oft-mentioned Henry Ford quote (paraphrased) regarding the production of the automobile... If I would've asked people what they wanted they would've said faster horses... I agree Apple may not follow UCD approaches to the letter (as we might recognize) but they

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Objectified Screening in Seoul

2009-07-19 Thread Fritz Desir
Do it, guys! We're working to get another screening here in NYC. Wish I could be there but the private jet is being cleaned this weekend, damn. Seriously though enjoy it, post any photos/vids if possible from the QA.- Fritz - Original Message - From:

[IxDA Discuss] Exploring mobile gesture design at Nokia--In the wild

2009-07-14 Thread Fritz Desir
Just saw this across the Twitter stream. It’s a video of Nokia design team doing gestural design research for a new device. While I’m not sure if it’s an ad or an attempt at a B2B viral video it’s still somewhat interesting nonetheless. As a super-proponent of design through user research it

[IxDA Discuss] What are the elements of a useful APP experience?

2009-07-14 Thread Fritz Desir
Ok so now that Verizon just announced their app store (http://bit.ly/jAC6p) and Nokia (Ovi store - http://bit.ly/4l41aM), Blackberry (http://bit.ly/iz9kK), Windows (http://bit.ly/uDgO1), Google Android (http://bit.ly/rXTXc) and of course Apple all have their app stores can we agree that the APP

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What are the elements of a useful APP experience?

2009-07-14 Thread Fritz Desir
UPDATE: As per a recent IAI e-mail I just received re: John Ferrara who Victor Lombardi notes... saw give an earlier version of this (on game design) presentation in Amsterdam last year and he blew me away. Everyone I talked to wanted to learn game design after seeing him, and I knew we had to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Layar app - What do you all think this portends for IxD?

2009-07-14 Thread Fritz Desir
Thanks James for the links! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43513 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Layar app - What do you all think this portends for IxD?

2009-07-14 Thread Fritz Desir
and Martin! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43513 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] DELVE:UI 2-Day Masterclass on Web Interface Design - NYC - 8/5 8/6

2009-07-14 Thread Fritz Desir
Just wanted to let everyone we plan to put tickets on sale t'mrrw. Please RSVP or comment here if you're interested in attending our DELVE:UI event. We just received a promo write up on Konigi.com (if anyone's a fan--which you should be) also:

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] Agile Experience Design Round Table in NYC

2009-07-14 Thread Fritz Desir
Thanks again for getting this going Anders. I'm there. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43720 Welcome to the Interaction Design

[IxDA Discuss] IxD event at 10th National Design Awards

2009-07-13 Thread Fritz Desir
Just received information on this event but it looks interesting hosted the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and a part of the 10th Annual National Design Awards. Perceptive Pixel won the Interaction Design award (http://bit.ly/2HtFFh). There seems to be several other FREE public programs

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] DELVE:UI 2-Day Masterclass on Web Interface Design - NYC - 8/5 8/6

2009-07-09 Thread Fritz Desir
Hello guys - We’ve been working with Adobe, AIGA/NY the Freelancers Union to put together a “pop-up” event of sorts. Basically it will be a 2-day series of workshops and masterclasses all focused on web interface design---called DELVE:UI (http://www.delvenyc.com). The goal is to take a sort

[IxDA Discuss] Layar app - What do you all think this portends for IxD?

2009-07-08 Thread Fritz Desir
Hey all - Saw a very brief demo of a *reality* browser on TV last week via Brink on the Science Channel (which btw also had an excellent demo by Bill Buxton the MS Office Labs 2019 vision--posted elsewhere on this forum). Basically it seems to be mobile browser (served as an app) which in

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Research methods when you only have 2-3 hours or 2-3 days

2009-07-08 Thread Fritz Desir
I'm with Marc, we work introduce clients to the process and the benefits therein and if we disagree too deeply we walk away---Otherwise you're being setup for failure (even clients are ignorant that they're causing this) at least for large, complex projects ( . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Layar app - What do you all think this portends for IxD?

2009-07-08 Thread Fritz Desir
True that would be pretty interesting. From what I can see though tying devices to help add meaning to the physical world is where (smart) mobile pretty much has to be headed--as in location aware apps now coming to market for the iPhone. Not to mention something as simple as Google Maps which

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] DELVE:UI 2-Day Masterclass on Web Interface Design - NYC - 8/5 8/6

2009-07-07 Thread Fritz Desir
Hello all - We’ve been working with Adobe, AIGA/NY the Freelancers Union to put together a “pop-up” event of sorts. Basically it will be a 2-day series of workshops and masterclasses all focused on web interface design---called DELVE:UI (http://www.delvenyc.com). The goal is to take a sort of