On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Thomas Petersen wrote:
> I am not talking about the glossy magazines. I am talking about the
> architects who get taught architecture as if it's art.
Who are those architects?
I went through architecture school, and know other UXers who have as
well. I've been sur
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Thomas Petersen wrote:
> Many architectural schools belong to the art department so they
> create architects who come out thinking they are artist who should
> create masterpieces and push the clients beyond the clients ambitions
> (which most of the times also me
Andy,
This comparison with cinema is very interesting.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Andy Polaine wrote:
> I have often wondered why this hasn't happened in our area and the reason is
> that what our (broader) community suffers from isn't a lack of role
> definition, it's a lack of a single g
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:41 AM, dave malouf wrote:
> I don't care about IAs. I really
> don't. Your work is almost superfluous to me in my world.
Nothing more need be said.
Now, perhaps those of us who /do/ care about constructive dialog
between these fields can move along without paying heed t
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Andy Polaine wrote:
> Most games designers and games design theories I know
> of don't usually refer to themselves in that IA way, but I'm sure it
> is out there.
Absolutely. And I can guarantee there is no book on "information
architecture of games", nor one bein
Dan,
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Dan Saffer wrote:
> That's what the IAI's job is. Complain to them that people don't know what the
> boundaries of their discipline are.
I had a good laugh at this. It's become something of a joke for me to
measure the amount of time that passes between the
Dan,
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Dan Saffer wrote:
> Everything from chess to football to poker. But there is a lot of
> interactivity.
The things that differentiate chess from (say) a pile of random pieces
of wood on a table is _precisely_ its information structures. Chess
has a clear taxo
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:12 AM, dave malouf wrote:
> Dan, thanx for taking the morning charge here. ;-)
I knew it! It's a tag team! ;-)
> Jorge, "meaningfulness"? I think you stretch the lexicon a tad
> here. "understanding" I can take. But meaningful? that is a
> personal value statement that
Dan,
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Dan Saffer wrote:
> There are many products that have limited information architecture, but a
> lot of interaction design: [snip]
I can't think of a single product you list that wouldn't be made
better with a thoughtful approach to the way they convey infor
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Will Evans wrote:
> 5K per person is huge
$5k per person in huge -- if you live/work in the "developed" markets.
For those of us in less developed countries, it is simply unrealistic.
A shame, too -- if the objective really is to "bring forth a web
concept that w
On 8/21/08 9:32 AM, "Shaun Bergmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just wondering if anybody happens to know the basis to the naming of
> 37signals.
It came from outer space:
http://www.thenameinspector.com/37signals/
Cheers,
~ Jorge
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Hi Shahriar,
On May 19, 2008, at 8:13 PM, Shahriar Widjaja wrote:
I'm looking to go a UX-theme conferences, something similar to IA
summit
2008 and Future of Web App 2008.
The IDEA Conference
October 7-8, Chicago IL
http://ideaconference.org/
Cheers,
~ Jorge
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n is design, and we
can find different ways of thinking about some of the problems we're
facing.
Hope this helps...
--
Jorge Arango
home: http://jarango.com
blog: http://jarango.com/en/blog
work: http://bootstudio.com
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On Apr 23, 2008, at 6:23 AM, David Malouf wrote:
> I know that Jorge said that ya gotta play in English today to be a
> part of the world, but I'm not sure "ethically" I'm all for that.
I hope my comments weren't misunderstood -- I didn't mean to imply
that English is the only solution for ever
On Apr 18, 2008, at 7:18 AM, David Malouf wrote:
> Alternatively, should we start creating, not regional lists, but
> language lists?
My dos centavos, FWIW...
Most of the language-specific lists I've been on lag sadly behind the
main English lists. They have some value, but it is limited by s
Not an IxD app per se, but DiskWarrior
[http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/] has saved my hide on numerous
occasions. No Mac should be without it.
Cheers,
--
Jorge Arango
http://www.jarango.com
Welcome to the Interaction Design Associa
On Jan 11, 2008 9:19 PM, Jack Moffett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I want to be
> able to set up multi-columned text blocks that flow from one to
> another and have typographic control that you typically find in the
> likes of InDesign.
OmniGraffle doesn't offer this level of control over text l
Jack:
On Jan 11, 2008 6:59 PM, Jack Moffett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Freehand allowed me free reign in
> my typography and page layout and provided all the tools I needed for
> creating vector objects (lines, arrows, rectangles, etc.).
Have you tried OmniGraffle? It's probably a good fit for
On Nov 26, 2007 2:57 PM, Prachi Sakhardande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If you have a webpage containing information that the reader may be
> interested in saving and using later, would you prefer 'Print' or
> 'Download as PDF' or both?
I was recently faced with this same question in a project.
On Nov 19, 2007 4:02 PM, pauric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Until Amazon offer a device to the developing world (and make it
> 802.11 not evdo) for everyone sold here, as the OLPC project has done,
> then I dont buy the your argument.
Yeah, but we gotta start *somewhere*. The OLPC is at the tai
On Nov 19, 2007 12:26 PM, Jack Moffett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I can't imagine
> enjoying sitting down with it as much as I do a book made of paper,
> but then, once you get into the story, maybe the object you are
> holding doesn't matter so much.
These first (eh, second) generation device
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:49:54, pauric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If it aint super broke, why charge $400 to fix it?
There are some situations in which books are super broken. Moving
information around in heavy blocks of mashed wood pulp is ineffective.
With the rising social, economic, and envi
e the value of your "seal of approval"?
Thanks,
--
Jorge Arango
On Nov 4, 2007, at 4:01 AM, Bruno Figueiredo wrote:
> In Portugal I'm the President of the Usability Professionals
> Association (APPU) and we had this problem in mind since the start.
> Unfortunately it
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