[IxDA Discuss] Bloomington, Indiana Local User Group Forming

2010-02-21 Thread Jay Steele
If you live in or near Bloomington, Indiana and are interested in helping out with getting a local IxDA group started, please let us know by completing this form - http://bit.ly/bNPTWz We will have our own local section on the ixda.org website in a few weeks and plan to have a "call-out" meeting s

[IxDA Discuss] How do you move from software to hardware UX? Care to share your insights? experience?

2010-02-17 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
ets to the hardware environment etc.. Any course of study to get the background? Any books to recommend? Places where I can get the experience from? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank You. Regards, Jay Kumar Welcome to the I

Re: [IxDA Discuss] 1 Year Masters Course in Interaction Design

2010-01-20 Thread Jay Steele
@himanshu - Like Will said, a master's degree in the US will typically take two years. The HCI/d master's at Indiana University requires 36 credit hours to graduate. Technically, you could do that in about 16 months if you took classes in the summer. For more info on our program, check out the webs

[IxDA Discuss] [JOB] - Software Interaction Design - Sydney Australia

2010-01-13 Thread Jay Rogers
Please direct questions and applications through the link below so we don't clutter the list. Atlassian is looking for a web-based GUI and Collaboration Tool expert... here's the job posting: http://www.atlassian.com/32/listing.jsp?jobID=64 Great Job, Great City.  Relocation & Visa support ava

[IxDA Discuss] JOB : Interaction Designer : Sydney Australia : Atlassian Software

2009-12-07 Thread Jay Rogers
Interaction designers! Sydney-based Atlassian Software is looking for a world class user interface designer to join our Confluence Wiki team. We're looking for someone who will blow us away with sharp interaction design skills and who's a master at concepting and designing rich internet application

[IxDA Discuss] (Job) UI Designer-San Francisco-Recruiter-Contract 6+ Months

2009-11-21 Thread Jay Ambler
Photoshop or Dreamweaver experience. Creativity is a must! You will be working on a new product that the client will be rolling out. Best Regards, Jay Ambler 650 265 2383 Recruiting Manager Project Consulting Specialists j...@emailpcs.com Project Consulting Specialists - Trust us to deliver

Re: [IxDA Discuss] MS in Interaction Design, Usability, User Research, User Experience, Information Architect

2009-11-17 Thread Jay Steele
Sourabh: I do not know if "IND" stands for Indiana University but one of the best programs in the country is the Human-Computer Interaction Design Master's program at the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. I will be getting my degree from this program next spring. For more

[IxDA Discuss] How are you changing the (design) process?

2009-10-20 Thread Jay Morgan
s, norms, limits, constraints and other bureaucratic barriers. In each case, I had to partner with or work with many other players and win the favor of an executive. I think I'll always pursue big projects like this - whether for my employer or our clients - and I

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Are carousels effective?

2009-09-13 Thread Jay Morgan
. Make sure you're asking the right questions, soving the right problems. In this case, it sounds like the primary challenge is validating that the content is important, meaningful, and valuable to the people visiting that site. Hope this helps, Jay On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:29:26, elizabeth

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best practise for adding items to comparison tool

2009-09-09 Thread Jay Morgan
e people land on a product page from a referrer or search engine deep link. Hope this helps. -Jay On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 10:32:43, alison austin wrote: > What's the general view: is it best to limit the number of items you > can add using compare functionality or better to allow an unlim

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UCD vs Design Again? Really?!? [was: We don't blah blah blah]

2009-08-30 Thread Jay Morgan
don't want to work harder, you can stay at the level you're at, but expect to be there until you take initiative. (Groundhog Day?) Thanks for calling this to attention. I love the meta-conversations. - Jay On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:03 PM, J. Ambrose Little wrote: > Jared, Andre

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Eye-Tracker software/hardware recommendations

2009-08-18 Thread Jay
When used together with other user experience research, Eye tracking offers tremendous value for improving products. Eye tracking measures unconscious behavior - and provides data that people simply cannot verbalize in other common user research methods, especially think aloud usability testing pr

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Looking for great company career sites

2009-07-30 Thread Rohn Jay Miller
Courtney: Some friends at Catalyst Studios in Minneapolis did a great job with the Kohl's career site--really re-thought the people and processes and designed a very engaging and usable site: http://www.catalyststudios.com/#/portfolio/108-kohlscareers/307-kohlscareershomepage/ Hope this helps.

[IxDA Discuss] [Job] Visual Designer, San Jose - CA, Recruiter, Contract - 6+ Months

2009-07-08 Thread Jay Ambler
designing user interfaces for applications Bachelors or Master’s degree in graphics Design, Industrial Design, Communication Arts, fine Art or related field Command of leading design software applications, e.g. PhotoShop, Illustrator, and Flash Jay Ambler 650 265 2383 Recruiting Manager

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Biz models and design Shaun Inman's Fever

2009-06-18 Thread Jay Morgan
A project team has to represent, to communicate - explicitly and implicitly - the services and value(s) constituting a business model to potential customers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42957

[IxDA Discuss] Senior Interaction Design Opportunity - Web 2.0 Experience - San Jose, CA - Must be Onsite

2009-06-15 Thread Jay Ambler
are looking for someone that is well versed in Web 2.0. That would include strong social networking background – blogs, forums, etc. Requirements: * Strong in gathering UE specs, and interaction flows * Experience collaborating/personable * Web 2.0 technologies Thanks, Jay Bes

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best Practices in Usability Testing of Search Results Page

2009-05-11 Thread Rohn Jay Miller
If you can afford it I think this is problem than can truly benefit from an eye-tracking quantitative survey--30 candidates. I'm assuming that you're trying to solve for the basic flow and not trying 4X versions of solutions, etc. I don't use quantitative eye-tracking personally but saw an examp

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Recommendations on Remote Unmoderated Usability Test Tools?

2009-04-14 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
Hi Shima, We use Net Meeting for our basic remote usability testing. No special tools, just good internet connection and proper working test system. Regards, Jay Kumar On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Shima wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone used tools to conduct remote unmoderated

[IxDA Discuss] JOB POSTING : Looking for Senior User Experience professionals based in Singapore

2009-03-22 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
s for internal hiring. If you have any queries, please don't hesitate to email me. Thank You. =) Regards, Jay Kumar Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org U

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Dead polar bears (was: UX Challenge organizers must be insane)

2009-02-12 Thread Jay Morgan
So, Robert, you won't be joining us? With the time and analysis you've devoted to it, you're a good candidate for Official Conference Reporter. It's a competition, so a critical voice is welcome. And, maybe there's a discount for the Press. On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr wro

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Dead polar bears (was: UX Challenge organizers must be insane)

2009-02-12 Thread Jay Morgan
27;ve helped the paradigm shift beyond the earlier paradigm you helped construct. I appreciate the discussion and the books, Jay On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Louis Rosenfeld wrote: > Dead polar bears... > > Sure, it's a provocative subject line. And I'm sure it's all

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The UX Challenge organizers might be insane

2009-02-11 Thread Jay Morgan
> Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .. http://ww

[IxDA Discuss] Dead polar bears (was: UX Challenge organizers must be insane)

2009-02-11 Thread Jay Morgan
if you need to make the business case, shine the veneer of your proposal with that. See you there, Jay -- ---- Jay A. Morgan Director, UX at Gage in Minneapolis twitter.com/jayam

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The UX Challenge organizers might be insane

2009-02-11 Thread Jay Morgan
ssociation (IxDA)! > To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help > --

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What to do in an environment run by engineers??

2009-01-25 Thread Jay Morgan
of the products. Roughly quoting Hackos and Redish, "usability is about improving the quality of the product...and improving the quality of the process by which products are made." -Jay On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Ali Amrohvi wrote: > As a User Centered Design graduate I find it qui

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Boost ixd awareness by publishing IxDA recognition badges for design schools programs and their individual courses?

2009-01-18 Thread Jay Steele
What are you proposing to be the basis for the certification? What schools did you look at that you "haven't been too confident with"? How do you propose that these degrees, programs and courses receive IxDA recognition (related to first question)? If you are finding sub-par designs, perhaps you

Re: [IxDA Discuss] ThoughtPile.org

2008-12-09 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
. But as a exploratory tool , it would great Different circumstance, different needs , not applicable for all. Regards, Jay Kumar On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Rob Tannen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recommend taking a look at http://thoughtpile.org/ , Herman Miller's web

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Building UX Teams

2008-11-22 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
? , that is another major differentiator which would lead to what a good team should be made up off. Cost centers & revenues centers in my experience needs different types of experience and skill levels .. Regards, Jay Kumar On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Linda Yoon <

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How long should you run each instance in an introductory Flash piece

2008-10-28 Thread Jay Morgan
l when you walked into a store and explained to you how to shop in their store. That's not help, it's Woolworth's gone wild. I hope this helps. Sincerely. -Jay On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Anthony Zeoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What¹s the recommended time to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Terms and Conditions with a twist

2008-10-27 Thread Jay Morgan
rate culture, not from the urging of a designer. The bottom line seems to be: The company will communicate clearly with customers when they communicate clearly with each other. I agree that it's our responsibility to help them see the value of and accept the responsibility for that task. I ho

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Twitter

2008-10-22 Thread Jay Morgan
ww.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- Jay A. Morgan Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe h

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Twitter

2008-10-22 Thread Jay Morgan
| User Experience Architect > tel: +1.617.281.1281 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > aim: semanticwill | gtalk: wkevans4 > twitter: semanticwill | skype: semanticwill > > - > __

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Twitter

2008-10-22 Thread Jay Morgan
kype: semanticwill > > - > ________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTE

[IxDA Discuss] Peoplesoft 9.0 usability?

2008-10-06 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
Thank You. Much appreciated. Regards, Jay Kumar Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ...

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Good digital voice recorders?

2008-09-10 Thread Jay Morgan
> List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- Jay A. Morgan Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ...

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2008-09-09 Thread Jay Morgan
efore can be > brought up easily when I need them, but it's separate from my *actual* > contact list. And I should be able to move them from the CL to my > address book easily. > > grrr... > > ///eks > > > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To po

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Disability Discrimination Act and AJAX

2008-09-04 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
he site to support its various users. AJax can be compliant or not depending on how you implement it. just an opinion. Regards, Jay Kumar On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Sudhindra Venkatesha Murthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All,Can anyone shed some light on whether using AJAX

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Jazzy point for a UX pitch to a bank

2008-09-03 Thread Jay Morgan
roll. > > :) > > Hope that helps, > > Jared > > Jared M. Spool > User Interface Engineering > 510 Turnpike St., Suite 102, North Andover, MA 01845 > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: +1 978 327 5561 > http://uie.com Blog: http://uie.com/brainsparks > > > > > > Welco

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Activities of Usability team

2008-08-17 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
to provide value to your stakeholders. One more thing, all that stuff you wrote before is in Design / usability /IA speak, you would need to convert it into business speak if your stakeholders / customers are not aware of this field and its value. Aight gotta go, just wanted to point out a couple of it

[IxDA Discuss] how to present UX to the whole agency

2008-08-12 Thread Jay Morgan
: Get involved in more projects. Get involved earlier. Shift from hand-off or check-in with designers and technology teams to a collaborative relationship. I appreciate your thoughts and suggestions. I apologize to those of you who got this on a cross-posting. -- Jay A. Morgan _

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Silverlight pattern library

2008-08-08 Thread Jay Morgan
e new directions. Thanks. On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:12 PM, J. Ambrose Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Jay Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> re: Public pattern library for Silverlight: >> The problem in short: I want to see Silverlight

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Silverlight pattern library

2008-08-08 Thread Jay Morgan
paign. Thanks for the reply. On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:40 PM, J. Ambrose Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Jay, > > I might be able to help you out, but it is not clear to me exactly what you > want. What do you mean by "public pattern library" for Silverlight? T

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Browser tabs as application navigation

2008-08-08 Thread Jay Morgan
; List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- Jay A. Morgan Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing vs. Architecting

2008-08-08 Thread Jay Morgan
sign Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- Jay A. Morgan UX Director at Ga

[IxDA Discuss] Silverlight pattern library

2008-08-08 Thread Jay Morgan
one can point me to an existing one? Thank you for letting me post this request. -- Jay A. Morgan Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe h

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Silverlight/rich image galleries

2008-08-06 Thread Jay Morgan
> Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .. http://w

[IxDA Discuss] Silverlight/rich image galleries

2008-08-05 Thread Jay Morgan
I'm looking for examples of image galleries based on rich technology, especially Silverlight. Can anyone share examples? Thanks. -- Jay A. Morgan Information Architecture & Scenario-based design. Design Patterns &

Re: [IxDA Discuss] filters for a profile search

2008-08-04 Thread Jay Morgan
ir's suggested Pump Audio has a distinct selection for keywords, which suggests a good signal to users that the two methods are not necessarily equivalent. Thanks for the contributions. I'd love to hear more ideas or see more examples. This challenge becomes more frequent, not less. -Jay

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Web interactions and the "old brain"

2008-08-02 Thread Jay Morgan
> topic. > Is there anything you can recommend? > > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscr

[IxDA Discuss] filters for a profile search

2008-07-30 Thread Jay Morgan
x, or else it's a trip planner" mental set. I want to see examples that aren't keyword or trip planner searches, but don't have any in reach. Well, any that are good examples. Can you point me to - or, share a shot of one you like - that starts with filters? Or, offer me advice to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best Practices vs. Patterns

2008-07-01 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
the designer to use. Regards, Jay Kumar On 7/1/08, Matthew Zuckman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > People in my office seem to be obsessed with "best practices" lately - a > notion that seems a bit ethereal to me. After all, splash pages, lead-based > paint, burning witches

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How do people use applications differently from expected?

2008-06-30 Thread Jay Morgan
xperience. I'd rather try it out and learn what direction to take by user behavior than to dictate it myself. I hope this helps. -Jay On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Petra Liverani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I seem to remember that in an earlier post Robert mentioned that

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [off-topic] work for equity

2008-06-25 Thread Jay Morgan
e any other client - you only have a deal when the contract is signed.) I hope this helps. -Jay On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Gabriel Friedman < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi - > > Sorry for the slightly off-topic posting, but the quality of this list > makes it my first c

[IxDA Discuss] JOB: Interaction Design, Austin Texas

2008-06-12 Thread Jay Rogers
ts, Fox News, Martha Stewart, Bank of America, the IRS & Seagate to make amazing web presences. I'm Jay Rogers, manager of the team.  Looking for some inspirational and cool folks to collaborate with.  We've got some amazingly complex problems to solve and make simple. Contact me off th

[IxDA Discuss] JOB: Sydney Australia : User Experience Designer

2008-05-28 Thread Jay Rogers
Hello IxDA-ers.  We're looking for a person of excellence to lead our UI efforts at our Sydney development office.  I just went down there for the first time in April, and it's a pretty groovy place. cross posting to agileusability and experiencedesign, sorry for dupes. Here's the facts about the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Iron Man

2008-05-08 Thread Jay Rogers
again. I can't figure out who did the stuff for Iron Man, haven't seen it yet, so I'll stay for the credits. jay - Original Message From: Jeffrey D. Gimzek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: IXDA list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2008 11:20:09 PM Subject: Re: [Ix

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Spatial reasoning and spatial memory

2008-04-13 Thread Jay Morgan
nd then branching out from there. (I write all this 'cause i studied cognitive science in school and absolutely loved this part of the research and how it informed mental model studies.) I hope this helps. - Jay On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 5:47 AM, Morten Hjerde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UX Design Process

2008-04-05 Thread Jay Morgan
ep at night after doing it.) Scenario-based design: > determine user goals + business goals >> write scenarios (how users accomplish those goals; success and failure criteria) >>> outline/define features + requirements, prioritized by business and/or user goal >>>> iterat

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Recruiters

2008-03-27 Thread Jay Morgan
"Where you innovate, how you innovate, > and what you innovate are design problems" > ____ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] advice on usability testing for complex sites

2008-03-19 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
understanding of your requirements. Hope it helps. Regards, Jay Kumar On 3/20/08, Meredith Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone recommend methods for performing usability tests on large, > complex applications with lots of conceptual dependencies? > > > > We're runn

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Remote usability testing

2008-03-06 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
problem) 3) Before the testing, call the users and get accquainted and put the fears/issues/etc at rest. ( very important). I think these three are important for remote testing, plus all the normal usability testing items . Regards, Jay Kumar On 3/6/08, Kevin Doyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Tim Wong from frog design articulates what it meansto be an designer

2008-02-18 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
ole design depends on the individual intellect. My two cents ;P Regards, Jay Kumar On 2/19/08, Peter Boersma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave, > > Are you referring to this bit: "How good of a designer we are [..] is > directly related to how well we convey our thought p

[IxDA Discuss] IxDA Savannah Videos are up!

2008-02-13 Thread Jay Rogers
http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1416866797&channel=1274129191 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe L

Re: [IxDA Discuss] undergrad education

2008-02-13 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
Hi Terence, You might want to search the IXDA archives, as there were previous discussions on school which have good IXDA curriculums. Regards, Jay Kumar On 2/12/08, Terence Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, i need help in finding a undergrad course whereby

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction|08

2008-02-09 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
presentations could be uploaded for people like me who can't attend this superb event. Thank you. Much appreciated. Regards, Jay Kumar On 2/9/08, Petroff, Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So IxDA's first conference is off and running. You can follow the action > at the cro

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Differnce between user interface and interactio design?

2008-01-25 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
The Solution. Wipe out the entire design colony and start afresh and just name anyone who does work in any of these areas as a Designer. You become a senior as you add the various specialities into your arsenal. You identify yourself by the various specialities you have worked in as well as acad

[IxDA Discuss] Any guidelines/design patterns etc.. on when a downloadable format ( such as pdf/word/ppt) is appropriate compared to creating a webpage?

2008-01-07 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
You. Regards, Jay Kumar *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Masters Thesis & Extent of Realization

2007-12-12 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
ow how your research can help and does solve the questions. But I have read a lot of research papers which are very much theory based without any practical implementations or minimal emphasis on them. Regards, Jay Kumar On 12/13/07, Jack Moffett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I took part

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing for CMS

2007-12-06 Thread Jay Barbarich
I think that the problem of designing for a CMS depends upon the CMS itself. I've been fooling with Drupal for a while and find that I can muddle through the creation of basic app with almost no additional constraints on account of the CMS. Its all open source, so you're working with predominantly

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should analytics be an IA/XP role?

2007-11-27 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
ly tested with two people and those were the wrong test participants even. Tsk...Tsk.. Regards, Jay Kumar On 11/28/07, Katie Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 6:10 PM -0700 11/27/07, Robert Hoekman, Jr. wrote: > > > Do you think analyzing data using tools like Omnit

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Do you change who you are for participants?

2007-11-06 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
e to tweak the process to better align to our organizations and the environment we work in. Hope this helps. Regards, Jay Kumar On 11/6/07, margaret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We ran a recent usability study and it was brought up in the post mortem > that perhaps users would be mor

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The Five Competencies of User Experience Design

2007-11-05 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
orgnization politics, structure etc...etc... Regards, Jay Kumar On 11/6/07, Dmitry Nekrasovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That was precisely my point. Had the author led off by saying that > this was the division of responsibilities that made sense in his mind > and environment, I woul

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The Five Competencies of User Experience Design

2007-11-05 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
thank the little IA. Just my two cents. Regards, Jay Kumaf Information Architecture has the writer has specified tend to be the overall structure, On 11/6/07, Dmitry Nekrasovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just read this. The author's use of the term Information Architecture >

Re: [IxDA Discuss] When those who know little about Usability offer Usability Services

2007-10-31 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
erface design tc...etc...etc... That is not the worst thing, the worst is that, to get the job, they reduce their rates so low and promise their clients the world.its just ridiculous sometimes. I could talk about it, but its just funny...ever heard of usability testing for 49.99? ;P Regards

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fair Hourly Rate for Usability Test

2007-10-30 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
d up for just their expertise , which you could then negotiate if you see that average price across is cheaper than that. Hope this helps. Regards. Jay Kumar On 10/31/07, Bora Ultas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all. I am new to this list, but I wanted to get some people's op

Re: [IxDA Discuss] iPhone and Gmail - Oy Gevalt!

2007-10-18 Thread Jay Rogers
Check out the Yahoo Email iPhone integration. It's the best I've seen on foldering, real-time refoldering, and delete. Sometimes flaky, but I think that's coming more from the yahoo server than from the software implementation. j - Original Message From: William Evans <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should a usability engineer have the knowledge about the professional area related to his products?

2007-10-16 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
es in order to design a proper product that meets both the business as user experience needs. Regards, Melvin Jay Kumar On 10/16/07, bhakti भक्ति <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Friends, > This is an interesting discussion. I would like to share my experience. > > The business

Re: [IxDA Discuss] A badly designed site about bad design

2007-10-16 Thread Melvin Jay Kumar
successful. My two cents. =) Regards, Melvin Jay Kumar On 10/16/07, Jarod Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I guess what I'm trying to say is if the design fails to show people > > where and how to use the product, that is a failure of the design.. if > > it does that and

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Introducing myself

2007-10-05 Thread Jay Rogers
, and they seem really cool. http://groups.google.com/group/UXIrregulars Good luck! Jay Rogers Manager, User Experience Vignette Corporation - Original Message From: Matthew Nish-Lapidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: discuss@lists.interactiondesigners.com Sent: Thursday, October 4, 200