Re: [IxDA Discuss] Toronto educational resources

2009-12-23 Thread Helen Killingbeck
Many many thanks for an excellent summary of educational opportunities here in Toronto and the surrounding area. I truly appreciate the effort made. Helen On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Kivi Shapiro kivi.shap...@qualicom.comwrote: Hi folks, Following up on a post from 2009-02-26, I've

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Axure - Questions...and more questions

2009-02-05 Thread Helen Killingbeck
this same tool to heart and have created prototypes that truly violate principles of design, but they see how quickly they can produce a prototype? How you do you handle it? Thanks in advance! Helen On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Helen Killingbeck 4thmed...@gmail.comwrote: Thinking about

[IxDA Discuss] Axure - Questions...and more questions

2009-01-29 Thread Helen Killingbeck
Thinking about using Axure for prototyping as there are many great benefits from a documentation point of view. However I am wondering about the learning curve and the ability to import previously documented high level page structures (Visio) Questions 1. What would be your estimate regarding

Re: [IxDA Discuss] JOB: Rock Star designer with superb CSS Javascript chops; Andover Ma, Acquia

2009-01-23 Thread Helen Killingbeck
com 2.0... brochure ware won't cut it, rock star. On 22-Jan-09, at 6:15 PM, Helen Killingbeck wrote: This sounds so dot com era! Helen On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Jeff Noyes jeff.no...@acquia.com wrote: We're looking for a top-notch designer, CSS and JQuery guru. The right

Re: [IxDA Discuss] JOB: Rock Star designer with superb CSS Javascript chops; Andover Ma, Acquia

2009-01-22 Thread Helen Killingbeck
This sounds so dot com era! Helen On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Jeff Noyes jeff.no...@acquia.com wrote: We're looking for a top-notch designer, CSS and JQuery guru. The right candidate will be able to show us some award winning design concepts and demonstrate how your CSS, JQuery,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] New Book: Practical Prototyping with Excel

2009-01-22 Thread Helen Killingbeck
Thanks for this Chauncey. It is an interesting concept...especially when trying to communicate with various audiences participating in design within a corporate enterprise. Helen On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Chauncey Wilson chauncey.wil...@gmail.comwrote: Nevin Berger, MIchael Arent,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Tog on Gestures will force the mouse into retirement

2009-01-05 Thread Helen Killingbeck
I would love to expand this discussion to how the use of gestural interaction, instead of the mouse, will allow those users who have been hindered by the mouse. I am thinking of those who use screen readers and other assistive technologies. Before the mouse we had keyboard, and accommodating

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Articles etc on interface structures

2008-12-22 Thread Helen Killingbeck
Hi Chauncey, Donna: I support Chauncey's statement that the topic of high-level structure is not getting much serious discussion. HFI has been including the various high level structures in their software Usability Central (last version was 2007). I still find the high-level structure is of

[IxDA Discuss] Design Documentation in a Web 2.0 world

2008-06-04 Thread Helen Killingbeck
] wrote: Hi Helen, I have a bad headache at the moment so please forgive me if I sound obtuse or condescending :) Do you mean Web 1.0 and Web 2.0? Best regards, Andrew On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Helen Killingbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: For those who have

[IxDA Discuss] Design Documentation in a Web 2.0 world

2008-06-03 Thread Helen Killingbeck
Question: For those who have established GUI design documentation in a Web 1 corporate world, how have you handled implementing Web 2 design elements in your documentation? Thanks Helen Welcome to the Interaction Design

[IxDA Discuss] Web 2 and enterprise strategy with regards to Usability/User Centered Design

2008-01-12 Thread Helen Killingbeck
I've been doing research in order to provide input as to Enterprise Strategy (from an IT infrastruturec perspective) on implementing Web 2 technologies. There is sufficient research on the impact of Web 2 technologies from the perpspective of a company's external facing audience (aka customers)

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples where personas are *not* useful

2007-11-27 Thread Helen Killingbeck
No flames from me Tamara: I think you have very eloquently explained the importance of how implementing the persona process in a company that has not embraced a User Centered design culture can help with the communication process between the various departments and can reduce the us vs them

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA Toronto

2007-10-25 Thread Helen Killingbeck
Hi Parth: I would be interested in getting together...with global warming we could have a number of meetings before winter sets in...sorrycouldn't resist :-) Helen On 10/22/07, Parth Upadhye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Toronto IxD'ers. I would like to organize a series of Face to Face